Sanjai is the Chief Marketing Officer of Coherent Corp.  He joined Coherent in 2003 and has held various progressive senior leadership roles in R&D, product management, business operations, strategy, and marketing.  He was appointed the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer in 2019.  Sanjai played a pivotal role in charting the strategy and driving the execution of the company’s transformation into an industry-leading photonics powerhouse.  Over his 35+ year career, he has broad technology industry experience across many markets, including data center, telecom, industrial, instrumentation, automotive, and consumer.  Prior to Coherent, Sanjai held senior business and technical leadership positions in Oplink Communications, TeraStor, Western Digital, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation.

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Sanjai has a B.Tech from IIT-Madras, an M.S. from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from Penn State.

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