Rising Woman of Influence: Dina McKinney

2021 Nominee

Dina McKinney

Sr. VP, Hardware Processors Business Unit

Marvell Technology, Inc.

Dina McKinney is Senior Vice President of Hardware for the Processor Business Unit at Marvell. In this role, Dina is responsible for Marvell’s infrastructure processor development and delivering products and new technologies at the forefront of 5G, data center, enterprise and automotive markets. She joined Marvell from Cypress (now Infineon) where she was Senior Vice President of Central Design Engineering and led roadmap planning, platform IP/SOC development, Central SoC teams, CAD/EDA, design methodologies and IT/Compute.

Prior, Dina was Qualcomm Bay Area Site Lead and Senior Executive where she led Snapdragon GPU Engineering for high performance, mid and value tiers. Previous to this, Dina held the position of Corporate Vice President of CPU Processor Design for mobile, desktop and server at AMD. Earlier in her career, she had engineering leadership roles in processor development at Alchemy Semiconductor, Motorola, and Digital Equipment Corporation, respectively.

Dina is a strong advocate for women in engineering as a previous Executive Board Member of the Bay Area Qualcomm Women In Science and Technology, co-founder of AMD’s Women Forum and prior Board Member of Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Dina holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Central New England College, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is a veteran of the USAF.