The Front Office

Scouting report · AMD

Jean Hu

  • Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, AMD since 2023-01src

AMD CFO since January 2023; previously CFO of Marvell, QLogic and Conexant

B70 / 100

Ranked #17 of 23

Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance676 beat · 10 met · 7 missed · 0 withdrawn
Answers the question683 dodges in 12 answers on 2 calls
Capital allocation60company five-year record: neutral
Pay design9092% performance-conditioned · revenue, fcf, strategic, individual, relative tsr, tsr, eps, time only · 92.6% for · 0.33% of net income
Skin in the game70stake worth $92.5m, 6× last year's pay
Age
62src
In the role
4 yr
Promises scored
23
Hit rate
70%
Dodges / 100 answers
25.0
Airtime on calls
17%
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What to weigh

Watch 5

  • 2023 reported pay was $32.8m, mostly one-off hiring awards: $12m of make-whole RSUs and a $2m cash bonus for Marvell awards she forfeited, plus a $5m sign-on PRSUsrc
  • The sign-on PRSU paid at 200% of target: 131,942 shares settled on 2026-03-01, with 51,920 withheld for taxsrc
  • Analysts have noticed that her opex guide keeps running over (seven misses in her record below). On the Q1 2026 call she tied the overrun to revenue beats and AI investment; revenue met or beat in every one of those quarters, so it understates spend rather than squeezing profitsrc
  • Would not give a path for Instinct GPU gross margin on either the Q1 or the Q2 2026 call, as the Helios ramp begins in Q3 2026src
  • Sold about $14.2m of AMD stock in the 12 months to 2026-09-24, all under 10b5-1 plans, with no open-market buyssrc

In their favour 2

  • AMD bans hedging, and pledging needs committee pre-approval, which has never been granted; the proxy says no NEO has pledged sharessrc
  • Say-on-pay passed with 92.6% of votes cast for and against at the May 2026 meetingsrc

Career

  1. 2025-09 – 2025-12
    Advanced Micro Devicessrc
    Interim Chief Accounting Officer (in addition to CFO)
    Covered from Philip Carter's departure on 2025-09-05 until Emily Ellis started on 2025-12-15 (8K-2025-12-15)
  2. 2023-01 – now
    Advanced Micro Devicessrc
    Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
    Leads the global finance organization, investor relations, global corporate services and facilities
  3. 2016-08 – 2023-01
    Marvell Technologysrc
    Chief Financial Officer
    Resigned effective 2023-01-20 'to pursue another professional opportunity' (MRVL-8K-2023)
  4. 2015-08 – 2016-08
    QLogic Corporationsrc
    Acting Chief Executive Officer (while SVP & CFO)
    Second acting-CEO stint; QLogic agreed in June 2016 to be acquired by Cavium (WS-qlogic-cavium)
  5. 2013-05 – 2014-02
    QLogic Corporationsrc
    Acting Chief Executive Officer (while SVP & CFO)
  6. 2011-04 – 2016-08
    QLogic Corporationsrc
    Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  7. 2008-12 – 2011-04
    Conexant Systemssrc
    Chief Financial Officer & SVP Business Development; Treasurer from 2009-06
    The AMD and Marvell 8-Ks compress her Conexant roles to 'CFO, Treasurer and SVP Business Development from 2004 to 2011'; the QLogic filing gives the dated breakdown used here
  8. 2006-02 – 2008-12
    Conexant Systemssrc
    Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development
  9. 2004-02 – 2006-02
    Conexant Systemssrc
    Vice President, Strategy & Business Development

Not located: Before February 2004 she held financial planning, strategy and corporate development roles at Conexant and its predecessor Rockwell International; no filing read gives the dates or titles

Achievements

  • CFO of four listed chip companies in turn: Conexant (from 2008), QLogic (2011), Marvell (2016) and AMD (2023)src
  • Twice acting CEO of QLogic while its CFO, the second time through the 2016 agreement to sell the company to Caviumsrc
  • Ran Marvell's finance, accounting, treasury, tax and investor relations for six and a half years before AMD hired hersrc
  • Also covered AMD's Chief Accounting Officer post for about three months in late 2025 after the CAO left to be a CFO elsewheresrc
  • FY2025 EIP bonus paid at 121% of target ($1,179,750) on revenue, adjusted non-GAAP net income, adjusted FCF and strategic milestonessrc

Education

  • Claremont Graduate University, PhD Economicssrc
  • Beijing University of Chemical Technology, BS Chemical Engineeringsrc

Background

  • Family AMD's 8-Ks of January 2023 and August 2025 state she has no family relationships with any AMD director or executive officer; none of the filings read reports a related-party transaction involving hersrc
  • Boards Director of Fortinet since October 2019 and chair of its audit committee as of January 2023; still receiving Fortinet director RSU grants in August 2026src
  • Other Gave Marvell notice on 2023-01-09 and AMD announced her appointment two days later, effective 2023-01-23; her predecessor Devinder Kumar stayed as EVP through April 2023 for the transitionsrc
  • Other No individual employment agreement; covered by AMD's Executive Severance and Change of Control Plan for EVPs and SVPs (double-trigger, no tax gross-ups on termination)src

The promise ledger

23 scored · 0 open
ResultWhat was promisedWhere it is scoredHow
M MetQ3 2024 (guided 2024-07-30) (revenue)AMD row 1written outlook
M MetQ3 2024 (guided 2024-07-30) (gross_margin)AMD row 1written outlook
M MetQ4 2024 (2024-10-29) (revenue)AMD row 2written outlook
M MetQ4 2024 (2024-10-29) (gross_margin)AMD row 2written outlook
B BeatQ1 2025 (2025-02-04) (revenue)AMD row 3written outlook
M MetQ1 2025 (2025-02-04) (gross_margin)AMD row 3written outlook
M MetQ2 2025 (2025-05-06) (revenue)AMD row 4written outlook
M MetQ2 2025 (2025-05-06) (gross_margin)AMD row 4written outlook
B BeatQ3 2025 (2025-08-05) (revenue)AMD row 5written outlook
M MetQ3 2025 (2025-08-05) (gross_margin)AMD row 5written outlook
B BeatQ4 2025 (2025-11-04) (revenue)AMD row 6written outlook
B BeatQ4 2025 (2025-11-04) (gross_margin)AMD row 6written outlook
B BeatQ1 2026 (2026-02-03) (revenue)AMD row 7written outlook
M MetQ1 2026 (2026-02-03) (gross_margin)AMD row 7written outlook
B BeatQ2 2026 (2026-05-05) (revenue)AMD row 8written outlook
M MetQ2 2026 (2026-05-05) (gross_margin)AMD row 8written outlook
X MissedQ4 2024 (2024-10-29) (opex)AMD row 2said it
X MissedQ1 2025 (2025-02-04) (opex)AMD row 3said it
X MissedQ2 2025 (2025-05-06) (opex)AMD row 4said it
X MissedQ3 2025 (2025-08-05) (opex)AMD row 5said it
X MissedQ4 2025 (2025-11-04) (opex)AMD row 6said it
X MissedQ1 2026 (2026-02-03) (opex)AMD row 7said it
X MissedQ2 2026 (2026-05-05) (opex)AMD row 8said it

Questions dodged

25.0 per 100 answers
  1. Q1 2026 · Instinct gross-margin path · C.J. Muse (Cantor). "How are you thinking about that either today or in the coming 1, 2, 3 years?" Hu: "at this stage, we really focus on driving the topline revenue growth on our Instinct family of product". CALL-Q1-26, turns 39–40.

    from AMD · dossier-2026-09-24.md

  2. Q2 2026 · Instinct gross margin entering and exiting 2027 · C.J. Muse. "how should we think about beginning 2027 and then exiting?" Hu answered the company-level mix — "it's really determined by both the pace of server CPU business ramp and the data center AI ramp". CALL-Q2-26, turns 47–48. Tom O'Malley asked the same about 2027 gross margin earlier in the call and got "puts and takes".

    from AMD · dossier-2026-09-24.md

  3. Q1 2026 · Data Center AI sequential growth ex-China · Stacy Rasgon. Hu: "The China, for our business, in Q1, it's not material." Rasgon: "But you didn't answer my question." CALL-Q1-26, turns 44–45.

    from AMD · dossier-2026-09-24.md

Calls reviewed

  • FY2026-Q1.roic.json — 7 answers, 18% of the words
  • FY2026-Q2.roic.json — 5 answers, 16% of the words

Sources

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  1. Filing Advanced Micro Devices DEF 14A (2026 annual meeting; accession 0001193125-26-129057) · 2026-03-27
  2. Filing Advanced Micro Devices 8-K Items 5.02/7.01, Kumar retirement and Hu appointment with offer letter (0000002488-23-000003) · 2023-01-11
  3. Filing Advanced Micro Devices 8-K Item 5.02, CAO Carter resigns; Hu interim CAO (0000002488-25-000147) · 2025-08-25
  4. Filing Advanced Micro Devices 8-K Item 5.02, Emily Ellis appointed CAO; Hu ceases as interim CAO (0000002488-25-000182) · 2025-12-15
  5. Filing Advanced Micro Devices 8-K Item 5.02, FY2025 EIP bonuses (0000002488-26-000029) · 2026-02-17
  6. Filing Advanced Micro Devices 8-K Item 5.07, 2026 annual meeting vote results (0001193125-26-226746) · 2026-05-15
  7. Filing Advanced Micro Devices 8-K Item 5.02, 2026 base salaries and LTI target values (0000002488-26-000115) · 2026-07-01
  8. Filing EDGAR XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 2488 (FY2025 10-K, accn 0000002488-26-000018) · 2026-02-04
  9. Filing Marvell Technology Group 8-K Item 5.02, Jean Hu appointed CFO effective 2016-08-22 (0001193125-16-688737) · 2016-08-23
  10. Filing Marvell Technology 8-K Item 5.02, Hu resignation effective 2023-01-20 (0001193125-23-006474) · 2023-01-11
  11. Filing QLogic Corporation 10-K/A for fiscal 2016, Part III executive officers (0001564590-16-021022) · 2016-07-01
  12. Filing Form 4, Jean X. Hu (reporting CIK 1452385), AMD sales of 2025-11-24 (0000002488-25-000173) · 2025-11-26
  13. Filing Form 4, Jean X. Hu, AMD RSU vesting of 2026-02-15 and sales of 2026-02-17 (0000002488-26-000039) · 2026-02-18
  14. Filing Form 4, Jean X. Hu, AMD sign-on PRSU settlement of 2026-03-01 (0000002488-26-000050) · 2026-03-03
  15. Filing Form 4, Jean X. Hu, AMD 2023 PRSU settlement and 2026 annual grants of 2026-08-15 (0000002488-26-000151) · 2026-08-18
  16. Filing Form 4, Jean X. Hu, AMD sales of 2026-08-25 (0001452385-26-000008) · 2026-08-27
  17. Filing Form 4, Jean X. Hu as Fortinet director, RSU grant of 2026-08-12 (0001452385-26-000006) · 2026-08-13
  18. Call transcript AMD Q1 2026 earnings call (2026-05-05), ROIC.ai
  19. Call transcript AMD Q2 2026 earnings call (2026-08-04), ROIC.ai
  20. Web search result WebSearch: QLogic Form 425 (June 2016), Cavium to acquire QLogic; Jean Hu Acting CEO and SVP & CFO · 2026-09-24