Hector de Jesus Ruiz

Héctor de Jesús Ruiz Cárdenas (born December 25, 1945) is a Mexican businessman who served as worldwide president of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the world's second-largest company in the manufacture of microprocessors and integrated circuits for electronic products.

He was born in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, the son of a cattle keeper father and a secretary mother, the eldest of a family made up of 4 women and he, in his beginnings, shined shoes in the city square, he met Olive Givin, an American Methodist missionary who lived nearby and gave him a job as a messenger boy. It was he who suggested she study in the United States. With the support of the local Rotary Club, he crossed the border every day to attend high school in Eagle Pass. He struggled with English and spent long afternoon hours with teachers in chemistry, physics, and geometry. He graduated with highest honors and entered the University of Texas at Austin. Givin paid for his first year of school, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Later he completed a Ph.D. in Electronics at Rice University (1973). After working briefly at Texas Instruments, he went to work for Motorola, where he became president of the semiprocessor industry before heading operations at AMD.

In April 2003, Ruiz was selected by President George W. Bush to serve on the Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations and Policy, which directly advises the United States House of Representatives.

Ruiz also serves on the board of shareholders of the Kodak Eastman Company. Recently, he declared his intentions to become a new supplier of processors for Apple Computer apart from affirming that in the future Steve Jobs's company will have to buy the company. After a severe crisis from which AMD cannot get out despite having fired ten percent of its workforce, Ruiz resigned his position as CEO of AMD on July 18, 2008, despite which he remains linked to the company as executive chairman..[1]

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