Timothy M. Archer is president and chief executive officer at Lam Research. He joined the company in 2012 following its acquisition of Novellus Systems, Inc. (“Novellus”), becoming Lam’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. He was later promoted to president and chief operating officer and then president and chief executive officer in December 2018.
Prior to joining Lam, Tim had an 18-year tenure at Novellus, where he served as the company’s COO and previously held a variety of technology development and leadership roles, including executive vice president of the PECVD and Electrofill Business Units; vice president of Worldwide Sales, Marketing, and Customer Satisfaction; and senior director of technology for Novellus Systems Japan. He began his career at Tektronix, Inc. in 1989, developing processes for high-speed bipolar integrated circuits.
Since 2024, Tim has served as a member of the board of directors of Johnson Controls International. Tim is also on the International Board of Directors for SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain. From 2020 to 2022, he served as chairman of the board for 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 in engineering and science at the master’s and doctoral levels.
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.
