Former Microsoft officials flee to AMD

 Jakarta - In order to strengthen its business lines in Indonesia, AMD hired one former official at Microsoft. Who is he?


Hermawan Sutanto is that now serves as the Country Head AMD Indonesia. Previously, he was a graduate of this ITB serves as the Director of Central Marketing Microsoft Indonesia for 7.5 years.


Now with the experience which is quite remarkable that, Hermawan AMD is now believed to lead one of its business units, namely about cloud computing and virtualization. Purported to be a lot of vendors are moving in the two industries in the near future.


"I am confident with the knowledge and expertise about the local market Hermawan could help AMD in Indonesia," writes Nick Lazaridis, corporate vice president of AMD, in a statement received detikINET, Monday (05/14/2012).


Yes, Indonesia is one of AMD's potential market in South East Asia region. So no wonder then that microchip manufacturers to recruit someone who is quite experienced in the technology industry the country.


"The growth of business and AMD's market share in Indonesia, which achieved double-digit projections indicate strong growth in the future. My vision is to continue this growth," said Hermawan.


During joining Microsoft, Hermawan responsible for developing business lines Server, Office products, to Windows targeting for consumer, commercial, and developer partners.