Mr. Sesha Varadarajan

Sesha Varadarajan is executive vice president and chief operating officer at Lam Research. In this role, he leads Lam’s Global Product Groups, the Customer Support Business Group (CSBG), Corporate Strategy, Global Trade and Government Affairs, and Lam India.

Sesha joined Lam in 2012 following the acquisition of Novellus. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of the Global Products Group, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of Lam’s product groups, worldwide lab network, and Lam India. Over his tenure at Lam, he has held multiple senior leadership roles across the company’s product and technology organizations, including senior vice president and general manager of the Deposition Business Unit. He joined Novellus in 1999, beginning as a process engineer and advancing to senior technical and business unit leadership roles, including senior vice president and general manager of the PECVD and Electrofill Business Units.

Sesha holds more than 170 global patents in semiconductor wafer processing and equipment design. He earned a master’s degree in manufacturing engineering and material science from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Mysore.