13 Facts About Rick Bergman

Rick Bergman was born on 1964 and was the president and CEO of Synaptics from 2011 to March 2019.

Rick Bergman joined Synaptics in September 2011 from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, where he served as senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Product Group.

Rick Bergman had been a longtime executive in the graphics chip business, serving in many positions at ATI Technologies before it was acquired in 2006 by AMD.

Rick Bergman is an avid runner and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

Rick Bergman began his career at IBM, and later worked in management roles at Texas Instruments, Inc and Exponential Inc He was chief operating officer at S3 Graphics until January 2001.

Rick Bergman then served in many positions at ATI Technologies before it was acquired in 2006 by AMD.

AnandTech wrote that Rick Bergman was "instrumental in helping stage ATI's comeback as a player in the GPU space".

Rick Bergman was responsible for delivering microprocessors and graphics chips to AMD's customers and for Fusion, which are the combination chips that put a graphics chip and processor on a single piece of silicon.

In September 2011, Rick Bergman departed AMD to become President and CEO of Synaptics.

Rick Bergman became a Director of Maxwell Technologies in 2015.

Rick Bergman has been interviewed by media outlets including CNBC and Venture Beat on his firm and the evolving nature of interactions between humans and electronic devices.

In 2017, the acquisition of Conexant and multimedia division of Marvell enters Synaptics into the IoT space that Rick Bergman is calling Synaptics 3.0.

In 2019 Rick Bergman rejoined AMD as the leader of Compute and Graphics business unit.