Raj Persaud

Raj Persaud, PhD, is a Chief Marketing Officer and member of the executive staff at Applied Materials, having held various leadership roles including Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Strategy at Varian Semiconductor and VP of Technical Marketing at KLA-Tencor. With 20 years of industry experience, Raj also serves as an executive at XPFIR and previously as an executive consultant at Coherent Inc. Raj has a PhD in Physics from York University and has completed post-doctoral research at the University of Sussex and Rutgers University-New Brunswick.