Ashish joined Watlow® in August 2020 after Watlow’s acquisition of CRC, Inc. of Santa Clara, CA. Dr. Bhatnagar has served in variety of senior executive leadership roles in his 29 years of work experience. He served as managing director at Applied Materials, executive vice president at Tango Systems (Applied Materials) and vice president at CRC. Ashish is an advisory board member of the engineering leadership program at University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, a master’s degree from the University of Akron and a bachelor’s degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, all in the field of chemical engineering. He is well known and respected in the semiconductor industry and has over 100 granted/filed U.S. and international patents.