Experienced technology executive with a strong background of leadership roles in Marketing, Product Management, and General Management built upon a solid technical foundation. Passionate about building and driving successful businesses from defining customer-driven solutions to developing effective go-to-market strategies. Track record of creating industry-leading solutions - starting with little or nothing and developing core strategies, winning products, and building strong teams to achieve success. Extensive experience defining and marketing solutions to data center storage, networking, and server OEMs as well as IT organizations creating the foundation powering next generation Cloud SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings. Strengths: • Leadership: Work across organizations and geographies to build consensus and achieve results • Analysis: Rapidly synthesize data to develop a full picture, view it from multiple perspectives, and develop executable strategies • Communication: Effectively communicate technical concepts to business professionals and business concepts to technical professionals

Vice President - Cluster Products @ Responsible for leading the CS cluster platform product management team. From November 2015 to Present (2 months) Vice President of Marketing & Product Management @ Led the marketing and product management team responsible for driving X-Gene and Helix 64-bit ARM solutions into servers and enterprise embedded platforms. From April 2015 to November 2015 (8 months) Vice President - Server Marketing and Business Development @ Led the team responsible for go-to-market activities for the AMD Opteron x86 server processors as well as driving the OEM and Cloud provider platform portfolio. Transitioned messaging to emphasize ‘value’ positioning with a focus on real world enterprise and Cloud workloads and superior total cost of ownership (TCO). Executed multiple new product launches as well as driving AMD’s entry into the ARM-based server market. • Reversed a trend of multiple quarters of declining revenue with multiple quarters of revenue growth and profitability • Exceeded revenue target by 85% and gross margin target by over 100% • Reduced headcount expense while upgrading the team’s skill set • Significantly reduced marketing program expense with more focused programs driven by ROI • Reduced platform NRE expense by 75% by better alignment to the AMD value proposition From 2012 to 2014 (2 years) Vice President - HP Strategic Alliance @ Drove alignment on technology and product strategies between AMD and HP across all HP lines of business, developing opportunities to collaborate on key technologies for future products and driving platform design wins for AMD products. From June 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Vice President & General Manager - Datacom & Storage Business Unit @ Created and drove the execution of the M&A strategy to establish Exar's Datacom & Storage Business Unit via the acquisitions of Neterion (2010) and Hifn Technology (2009). These acquisitions established Exar in the enterprise server, and storage markets with innovative solutions for markets such as Big Data Analytics. Responsible for the resulting business unit P&L, directly managing the marketing and applications engineering teams, and driving direction for a matrixed engineering organization. From November 2008 to March 2011 (2 years 5 months) Director of Marketing / Opteron Server Product Management @ Managed a team of engineering and business professionals responsible for developing the AMD Opteron server processor roadmap. Innovative, customer-driven solutions enabled AMD to grow from a niche HPC compute supplier to a broad-based supplier of enterprise IT solutions with market share in excess of 25% and a revenue run rate of over $1B/year. Pioneered a customer-driven approach to establishing product requirements with OEMs, ISV ecosystem partners, and Fortune 500 IT organizations, and implemented new planning processes leveraging cross-functional teams across engineering, marketing, finance and sales to develop executable product roadmaps. From December 2003 to November 2008 (5 years) Strategic Marketing Manager @ Defined the product roadmaps for Marvell's innovative PowerPC and MIPS system controller products for enterprise storage, networking, and telecommunications platforms. Achieved the number one embedded chipset market position. Leveraged Marvell's leading position in enterprise chipsets and Serial ATA technology to establish Marvell's SATA host controller product line. From June 1999 to November 2003 (4 years 6 months) Strategic Marketing Manager @ Technical marketing for Sun's MicroJava Microprocessor and PicoJava core IP products From 1997 to 1998 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaApplications Engineering Manager @ Applications engineering for AMCC's line of PCI interface solutions. From 1994 to 1996 (2 years) Greater San Diego AreaApplications Engineer @ Applications engineer for Intel's low power 80C186 and 80386EX embedded processors From 1991 to 1994 (3 years) Phoenix, Arizona Area

BS @ Vanderbilt University From 1987 to 1990 John Williams is skilled in: Business Development, Marketing, Strategy, Strategic Alliances, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Mergers, Semiconductors, Consumer Electronics, Product Marketing, Technical Marketing, Product Launch, Start-ups, Marketing Strategy, Go-to-market Strategy