BIOGRAPHY
Tim Archer is president and chief executive officer at Lam Research. He joined the company in 2012 following Lam’s acquisition of Novellus Systems, serving as its executive vice president and chief operating officer. He was later promoted to president and CEO in December 2018.
A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM and the semiconductor industry, Tim also serves as chairman of the board at the National Consortium for Graduate Engineering Degrees for Minorities (GEM): a nonprofit organization in the U.S. that is dedicated to increasing the participation of underrepresented groups engineering and science at the master’s and doctoral levels.
Prior to Lam, Tim had an 18-year tenure at Novellus Systems, where he served as the company’s COO, and held other executive positions supporting worldwide sales, marketing, customer satisfaction, and product and business development. He began his career at Tektronix in 1989, developing processes for high-speed bipolar integrated circuits.
Tim completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Business and earned his B.S. degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology.