Who is Lisa Su?
Lisa Su is the Taiwanese-born American engineer who has been chief executive of AMD since 2014. Forbes put her net worth at $2.8 billion (about ₹26,700 crore) on 4 November 2026 1.
How did Lisa Su make her money?
From AMD shares and stock awards. When she took over, AMD was losing money and market share; under her it overtook Intel in market value, and in 2025 it agreed to supply AI chips to OpenAI 12.
Career
Su worked at Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor before joining AMD in 2012. She became chief executive two years later 1.
Early life and education
She was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1969 and moved to New York at three. She attended the Bronx High School of Science and earned her bachelor’s, master’s and PhD in electrical engineering at MIT 1. She is a distant relative of Jensen Huangchief executive of rival Nvidia 2.
