Lisa Su

AMD's CEO turned a company that was nearly bankrupt in 2014 into a $230+ billion semiconductor giant. Su holds a PhD from MIT and joined AMD when its stock was $2; it peaked above $210. Her total compensation in 2024 was approximately $30 million, and her net worth exceeds $1 billion from AMD holdings. Under Su, AMD's Ryzen processors broke Intel's CPU monopoly, and the MI300X AI accelerator is the only credible competitor to NVIDIA's H100. She's also Jensen Huang's cousin-in-law, making family dinners presumably very competitive.