Abhi Talwalkar, chair of the board at Lam Research, credited Cannon for his guidance on the company’s expansion and technology leadership in deposition and etch processes. Cannon joined the board in 2011, bringing over four decades of experience from roles at Dell, Seagate, and Maxtor. His career spans extensive work in global operations, supply chain logistics, and corporate restructuring, including his tenure as CEO of Solectron.

Sohail U. Ahmed, who joined the board in 2019, provided deep technical expertise in silicon logic and semiconductor processing. Before his board service, Ahmed spent over three decades at Intel, where he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Technology and Manufacturing Group. His work at Intel focused on the research and deployment of next-generation microprocessor technologies, a background that proved essential to Lam’s focus on wafer fabrication equipment.