Dr. Leendert van Doorn is a Corporate Fellow at AMD where he is leading the Software Technology Office, an organization that was recently created to drive focused software initiatives around: accelerated computing (manycore), managed code, virtualization, and security. Leendert is actively involved in AMD’s future processor designs and product planning councils. Before joining AMD, he was at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he initiated and led IBM’s secure hypervisor (sHype) initiative and where he was responsible for the research contributions to IBM’s 4764 physically secure coprocessor that ships in most mainframes. Leendert holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, he has authored over 40 papers.