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nVidia Channel Manager joins AMD

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The shuffling of staff between the major players in the IT sector never ends. Senior personnel move for a variety of reasons, including money and job titles, but one of the most persuasive reasons is ‘career’. Do they believe their opponents can do better? News into KitGuru HQ says that nVidia’s main channel manager for central Europe has pegged his colours to AMD’s mast.

We managed to catch up with Robert Cajnar, mid-way through his jump from green to red/green, to find out a little more about why he’s moved.

Historically, nVidia had two strong characters in the European region, Roy Taylor and Fiona Faulkner. Roy joined AMD as the Head of Worldwide Channel Sales in December 2012 – as part of John Byrne’s ‘Dream Team’ – and he immediately went on the attack to try and try and win sales from nVidia.

While AMD’s efforts seem to have slowed nVidia’s advance in some areas (Q4 profits were down €25m compared with Q3), nVidia’s European sales personnel were reporting into Fiona Faulkner, who held together a team that she had built over her 12 year tenure. With Fiona’s departure in January, key personnel like Robert Cajnar have clearly rethought their own futures. He is an old friend of Roy’s and that seems to have been a factor.

We asked Robert about the age-old maxim regarding people buying from people, “You are absolutely right, people do buy from people and there is a reason why some will change their allegiances”.

“Right now, AMD has a great product line-up which offers outstanding value”, he said. “Our job is to let everyone know just how good these products are. With nearly 20 years of experience in the Semiconductor and IT industry this is where my strengths are”.

Robert seems confident in his ability to turn around the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), saying that there are a lot of friendly faces in the area and that he believes they will listen to a new message.

He also seems to think that he has the right tools, “Our new channel programmes are a good step towards making our relationship with our customers closer, more friendly and, above all, more balanced”.

“I’m sure that we can improve the experience of working with AMD for our board vendors, distributors, system builders, etailers, retailers, channel customers and, ultimately, for the end users”, he said.
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http://www.kitguru.net/channel/bob/nvidia-channel-manager-joins-amd-2/
 
mmj_uk said:
NVidia are very obviously doomed at this loss, everybody sell your shares.

When do the clearance sales begin?
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anything intelligent to say?

Channel sales has not been AMD's strong suit, its certainly not as good as Nvidias, if this man knows what he is doing GPU availability might improve.
 
Shock horror rival company tempts staff member away. It happens. A lot.

In my experience its usually the failing company that's throwing money at rival staff to get them on board with the hope of turning things around.
 
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Riveting :p

Could be it was always somewhere he wanted to move ;)


Wouldn't surprise me really if AMD is the better company to work for. Least at this moment in time. Wouldn't of wanted to be there 3 or 4 years ago whenever it was that they changed CPU manufacturing process
 
You ever seen the video of Nvidia staff at work/play?

Looks a great place to work and can even bring your dog to work.
 
humbug said:
anything intelligent to say?
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Like what? all this thread is your usual AMD fanboys getting excited because AMD have recuited an NVidia employee, there's nothing intelligent to discuss. Companies swap and change staff all of the time we don't need RSS feeds on a graphics hardware forum whenever it happens.

Itr's going to make 0% difference from an end user perspective.
 
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Wonder if he will come to regret it and get laid of in a year or two if sales do not pick up due to him.

Last in, 1st out.
 
Yes sure in USA they really are wiped into place behind the cameras, sure you do not mean this :


alg_foxconn.jpg
 
mmj_uk said:
Like what? all this thread is your usual AMD fanboys getting excited because AMD have recuited an NVidia employee, there's nothing intelligent to discuss. Companies swap and change staff all of the time we don't need RSS feeds on a graphics hardware forum whenever it happens.

Itr's going to make 0% difference from an end user perspective.
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No offense, but looking through the thread again it would seem you are the only one getting excited/overreacting (post 2).

humbug didn't actually say a word at all in his first post (regardless of his motive/intent), he merely linked and quoted an article without making any remarks. I failed to see any "AMD fanboys" getting excited as you claimed (well, humbug may be knowing him, but that would only be one fanboy without the 's') .
 
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TBH that is true, unlike the other guys posting/baiting methods who is at the Chelsea Flower show (gardening leave) all week. :D
 
mmj_uk said:
Like what? all this thread is your usual AMD fanboys getting excited because AMD have recuited an NVidia employee, there's nothing intelligent to discuss. Companies swap and change staff all of the time we don't need RSS feeds on a graphics hardware forum whenever it happens.

Itr's going to make 0% difference from an end user perspective.
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Maybe talk about AMD's lacking in channel sales and what difference this might make to it, i gave you a big fat que to start an intelligent debate, you chose to ignore it and go back on the attack again, really?

Perhaps be more selective in what posts you read, it will do your blood-pressure a world of good.
 
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mmj_uk said:
Like what? all this thread is your usual AMD fanboys getting excited because AMD have recuited an NVidia employee, there's nothing intelligent to discuss. Companies swap and change staff all of the time we don't need RSS feeds on a graphics hardware forum whenever it happens.

Itr's going to make 0% difference from an end user perspective.
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I would say you are completely wrong there. Look at the difference to the end user when Roy moved from Nvidia to AMD. Things have changed a lot for the AMD end user since he came on board. It might not be all down to him, but you can't deny that things have improved.
 
melmac said:
I would say you are completely wrong there. Look at the difference to the end user when Roy moved from Nvidia to AMD. Things have changed a lot for the AMD end user since he came on board. It might not be all down to him, but you can't deny that things have improved.
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There is no doubt in my mind things have improved since Twitter legend :D Roy Taylor joined Team Red.

He has several friends still at Nvidia and it looks like he is slowly bringing them over, Robert Cajnar will be working directly under Roy and if memory serves me this is the second Nvidia friend of Roy whose moved over to AMD.

Nvidia has some very talented staff, AMD could do with more of them.
 
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