Sundar Ramamurthy, Ph.D. was appointed general manager of the Front End Products (FEP) Division at Applied Materials, Inc. in November 2009 and appointed vice president in May 2010. He has P&L responsibility for a number of product lines, including Epitaxy and Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition, Gate Stack and Oxidation, Plasma Doping and Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP).

Dr. Ramamurthy previously was general manager of the RTP and Plasma Doping product lines. Under his direction, the company maintained its industry-leading RTP position while realizing share gains in the advanced annealing segment with the introduction of the first Applied Materials laser annealing product.

Prior to general management roles, Dr. Ramamurthy held positions of increasing responsibility in the business unit, including director of Technology, manager of Customer Applications and Process Engineering, program manager, process development engineer and implementing cost reduction and continuous improvement processes. He joined Applied Materials in 1996 as a new college graduate.

Dr. Ramamurthy holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Minnesota and a B. Tech. in metallurgical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and has more than 20 patents granted or pending.