Chris Donahue

Chris has nearly 25 years of experience in the video game, hardware and software, Internet, and cloud gaming industries, and is a seasoned veteran in leading start-ups, growing small to mid-size technology firms, as well as managing successful programs at Fortune 500 companies. He recently joined AMD, and manages the Microsoft Alliance as well as a number of initiatives for the company.

Prior to joining AMD, Chris was with PlayFab, founded Elevate Partners, was V.P. of business development & Marketing at CiiNOW, Director of Games and Media at OnLive, Inc., SVP of Marketing and Business Development at Live Gamer, Inc., Director and Group Manager of Games and Graphics for Windows at Microsoft Corporation, has held leadership roles in Developer Relations at NVIDIA Corporation and ATI Research, Inc., and was Executive Producer at The ImagiNation Network and Sierra On-Line.

Chris is a regular speaker at industry conferences such as E3, The Game Developers Conference, New York and Los Angeles Game Conferences, the Global Gaming Expo (G2E), CES, as well as many others, and is a member of the Digital Media Wire Advisory Board.