Frederick Sporck

Frederick Sporck earned his B.S. degree from UConn in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in [year], and his M.S. degree in physics from University of Vermont. Between 1979 and 1999, he held a variety of roles at IBM, where he started in Manufacturing Engineering supporting a semiconductor wafer fab line, then managed multiple design groups before becoming assistant to the president of IBM General Technology Division. He also co-managed IBM’s development lab in Burlington, Vermont. 

He joined AMD in 1999, shortly before the launch of AMD’s Athlon microprocessor, AMD’s first ground-up processor. There he also set up the infrastructure group, which was responsible for creating the new chipset, motherboards, and BIOS, and for AMD’s new processor family.  

In 2005, Sporck joined Nvidia as vice president of Business Operations, responsible for setting up and creating an organization which sat in between engineering, operations, marketing, sales and finance.  The Business Operations team was a small group of senior employees with engineering and operations backgrounds. They were charged with understanding the Company’s revenue plans, chips and systems schedules and product competitiveness, and helped manage product transitions, optimized profitability, and managed inventory to ensure alignment across the company.  

When Nvidia acquired Mellanox Corp for its networking expertise, Sporck helped integrate the Mellanox team into Nvidia. He retired from Nvidia in 2024.