Abhi Talwalkar

Abhijit Y. Talwalkar (born March 10, 1964) is an Indian-American business executive who was president and CEO of LSI Corporation, a company that designed chips and software for datacenters and other applications.

Early life and education Talwalkar was born in Pune, India, on March 10, 1964.

Talwalkar served in many upper management positions at Intel from 1993 to 2005. His career at Intel started as a Server Development Engineering and Program manager in 1993. He then served as vice president and general manager for the Intel Enterprise Platform and Service Division.

In May 2005, Talwalkar replaced Wilfred Corrigan as CEO of LSI Corporation. Under Talwalker's leadership, LSI became profitable again in his first four years. Talwalkar joined a company that was "in a strategic vacuum, participating in way too many markets and subscale in a lot of them." Talwalkar redirected the company to focus on the "data deluge," the massive growth in information flowing through datacenters and wireless networks. That same year, Talwalkar was a featured speaker at the IDC Cloud Leadership Forum in June, as well as serving as a panelist at the December CEO2CEO Leadership Summit in New York.

In 2013, Talwalkar appeared on stage together with Box CEO Aaron Levie at the Accelerating Innovation Summit.

In December 2013, it was announced that Avago had acquired LSI Corporation for $6.6 billion in a cash transaction. LSI Corporation publicly stated that Talwalkar would leave the company after the close of the transaction.

Since 2019, Talwalkar is the chairman of Lam Research. He is a board member of AMD, TE Connectivity, iRhythm Technologies, and the Semiconductor Industry Association.

Personal life Talwalkar is married and has two sons.