Madura Dissanayake

Director, Hardware Catalyst Initiative

Madura brings well over two decades of experience in the semiconductor industry to the organization. He had lead device characterization and Validation of numerous CPU, APU and GPU designs during his 20 year tenure as a Member of Technical Staff/Senior engineer at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc. in Markham Ontario. His accomplishments were rewarded with multiple spotlight awards and the Spirit of Success award for driving Electrical Characterization of AMD’s fist APU device named Ontario. Apart from his engineering career, he is also a certified professional project manager.