Rick Bergman

Rick Bergman (born 1963) is the president and CEO of Synaptics. He joined Synaptics in September 2011 from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), where he served as senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Product Group. He had been a longtime executive in the graphics chip business, serving in many positions at ATI Technologies before it was acquired in 2006 by AMD.
In May 2015, he was appointed to Maxwell Technologies board of directors.

Bergman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Colorado.

Bergman served as chief operating officer at S3 Graphics, a division of SonicBLUE. He has held senior level management positions in the technology field since his early roles at Texas Instruments, Inc. and IBM.

Bergman's career at AMD began in October 2006 as part of AMD's acquisition of ATI; there he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Products Group. At AMD, Bergman was responsible for delivering microprocessors and graphics chips to AMD's customers and for Fusion, which are the combination chips that put a graphics chip and processor on a single piece of silicon.

In 2014, Bergman placed Bronze in Best in Biz's "Executive of the Year" awards.

• On October 6, 2016, Rick Bergman provided an exclusive interview to The Fly, a digital publisher of real-time financial news.
• On October 12, 2016, Fortune Magazine featured an article penned by Rick Bergman on the topic of Mentoring.
• On November 1, 2016, Bloomberg Radio interviewed Rick Bergman about Synaptics.
• On November 21, 2016, the CNBC Squawk Alley television program interviewed Rick Bergman about the future of human interface.
• On November 29, 2016, Jim Probasco at Wootrader interviewed Rick Bergman on technology topics and the history of Synaptics.
• On January 14, 2017, Dean Takahashi at Venture Beat interviewed Rick Bergman at CES 2017.

• The Fly Financial News Interview with Rick Bergman
• Fortune Insider, Rick Bergman on Mentoring
• Bloomberg Radio: P&L with Pimm Fox & Lisa Abramowicz discuss M&A with Rick Bergman
• / CNBC Squawk Alley television interview with Rick Bergman
• Wootrader interview with Rick Bergman
• Venture Beat: Synaptics CEO believes the human-machine interface isn’t perfected yet