John Fritz
Director, Virtualization / Cloud Computing Partnerships, AMD

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John Fritz is a veteran of the “Complexity Wars”, having led Fortune 500 consulting engagements involving machine learning, agent based modeling, and evolutionary computing. Currently he leads AMD’s partnerships with leading virtualization, cloud computing, and big data companies. He also leads AMD’s engagement with key open source communities such as the Apache Software Foundation.

John started his academic career as an anthropologist, where a professor told him “If you want to experiment on people, go into business”! After graduation from The Thunderbird School of Global Management, he went on to business development and consulting roles at Borland, Gartner Group, 3Com and complex adaptive system start ups Bios Group and Icosystem.

John maintains everything he knows about corporate politics he learned from working with gorillas, orangutans and a particularly disrespectful pair of Mandrills at the Rio Grande Zoo.