Ward Tisdale

Biography

Ward Tisdale is director of AMD’s Global Community Affairs Department. His team is responsible for ensuring active company involvement in the communities where AMD operates around the world through corporate charitable contributions, employee volunteerism, issues management, stakeholder communications and AMD Changing the Game, the company's signature education program on youth game development.

Prior to his current role, Ward was a manager in AMD’s Product Public Relations Department, leading the external communications of global microprocessor product launches and working closely with customers such as HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and many others.

Before working at AMD, Ward served as deputy press secretary for the Texas Attorney General’s Office and was a newspaper reporter in McAllen, Texas.

Ward’s community involvement activities include chairing the Austin, Texas-based Coalition for Clean, Affordable and Reliable Energy (CCARE), a grass roots coalition of local businesses, public institutions, and nonprofits that encourages energy affordability and reliability while continuing to preserve the city’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint.

Ward also serves on the board of Envision Central Texas, a nonprofit organization composed of a diverse group of citizens to address regional growth sensibly with the interests of the region's citizens in mind.

Ward is past chair of the Digital Media initiative for the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce’s economic development efforts. He is a graduate of Leadership Austin’s 2007 class and was a board member of the World Congress on IT (WCIT) - 2006 conference in Austin, Texas.

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