Sandeep Nijhawan

Dr. Nijhawan, who joined Intermolecular in May 2011, brings more than 15 years of leadership and expertise in semiconductor devices and thin film manufacturing. Prior to joining Intermolecular, Dr. Nijhawan was the founder and CEO of Siorah Inc., a venture-capital backed LED Startup Company that was acquired by Intermolecular in May 2011. Prior to Siorah, Dr. Nijhawan was at Redpoint Ventures as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and at Applied Materials Inc., where he led the company’s LED lighting business from its incubation as the group’s General Manager and product-line head. Dr. Nijhawan’s previous senior roles at Applied Materials included business development, product management, and technology development in frontend semiconductor manufacturing. As the product manager in the frontend group at Applied Materials, Dr. Nijhawan was instrumental in qualifying DPN Gate Stack for leading customers and increasing the market share to number one position. Dr. Nijhawan earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in engineering from the University of Minnesota, MBA from the International Institute of ManagementDevelopment (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland and B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He holds over forty issued or pending US patents.