• Applied Materials appointed Qualcomm CFO and COO Akash Palkhiwala to its board of directors.
• Palkhiwala also joins the board’s Audit Committee.
• He has been Qualcomm’s CFO since 2019, became COO in 2024, previously held finance leadership roles since joining in 2001.
• Earlier in his career, he worked as a private equity analyst at KeyBank.

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