Bangkok--4 Aug--PC & Associates Consulting
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that industry-veteran Mr. Tomo Kamiya has been appointed regional vice president, Sales and Marketing for South Asia. Under this designation, Tomo will oversee all sales and marketing activities for Australia, New Zealand and the ASEAN countries.
Tomo will also continue to drive AMD’s regional business forward through the engagement of the various business partners and stakeholders towards closer collaboration to meet the technology needs of the end-user. This is in line with the company’s unique proposition of delivering unparalleled, industry-leading GPU and CPU technology to meet the technological demands of today’s end-users.
Prior to his current appointment, Tomo was sales development director for Asia Pacific and Japan at AMD, where he managed the company’s business engagement with Dell across Asia Pacific and Japan. During this time, he successfully led the charge of rolling out commercial product launches in the various regional markets, including the launch of AMD's first 45-nanometer processor, Shanghai, in late 2008 and most recently, Istanbul, the company’s six-core AMD Opteron? processor. Tomo expanded his responsibilities in January 2009 to include managing relationships with many of AMD’s strategic OEM customer accounts. He supported the overall business development efforts undertaken by the respective teams throughout the Asia Pacific region, as well as developed key solutions and partnerships that enabled customers to position their AMD platforms competitively in the market, including strategic account wins in China.
Tomo began his career at AMD at its Japan office in 2005, where he headed the marketing group consisting of product marketing and key go-to-market elements. Prior to joining AMD, Tomo held a number of positions in sales, business consulting and marketing management positions in IT, which included leading the Server Product and Alliance Solutions group at Dell Japan.
For his latest appointment, he will continue to be based at AMD’s office in Singapore.