Sarah O’Dowd

Ms. O’Dowd joined the Board of Directors in May 2020. Ms. O’Dowd is currently a director of the Independent Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy research and communications organization. From 2008 up until her retirement in March 2020, Ms. O’Dowd was senior vice president, chief legal officer, and secretary of Lam Research Corporation, and from 2009 to 2012, she also served as Lam’s vice president of human resources. Prior to joining Lam, from 2007 to 2008, Ms. O’Dowd served as vice president and general counsel of FibroGen, Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical firm. Prior to FibroGen, Ms. O’Dowd spent 28 years at a major law firm, Heller Ehrman LLP, where she founded both the Silicon Valley and San Diego offices, and ultimately chaired the firm’s global business practice groups, which spanned seven offices and included more than 250 attorneys. She has been a trusted adviser to numerous boards, board committees, and CEOs. In 2019, Directors Roundtable presented Ms. O’Dowd and her legal team with its Global Honor Award, given to general counsels and their law departments.

Ms. O’Dowd holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, an M.A. in communications from Stanford University, and an A.B. in mathematics from Immaculata College.