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Indian American Sanjay Rajan named Laminar CRO
Rajan joined Laminar with around two decades of industry experience, having served at numerous companies over the years, including Harris Corporation, Autodesk and Tulip Interfaces.
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Staff Reporter - Tue, 26, May 2026
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Sanjay Rajan / Laminar
Massachusetts-based automation machinery manufacturing company Laminar has appointed Indian American revenue and go-to-market executive Sanjay Rajan as the company's new chief revenue officer.
Rajan, who has been working with Laminar for over a year now, was promoted from his role as the head of its go-to-market department and is now expected to guide Laminar's sales, go-to-market, partner and marketing strategy as "Laminar continues a trajectory of rapid global growth," according to the company.
Talking about the promotion, Annie Lu, Laminar chief executive officer and co-founder, said in a statement, "The need for truly autonomous factories has never been greater as process manufacturers around the globe face increasing margin compression due to macroeconomic factors like rising input costs, loss of expertise, and geopolitical risk."
Hailing Rajan's contributions over the past year, Lu continued, "Since joining Laminar in 2025, Sanjay has accelerated Laminar's global footprint as we enable more customers to address their production capacity constraints and improve margins. By expanding Sanjay's leadership to our entire revenue function, Laminar will be stronger and ready to meet this incredible market demand."
A graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, Rajan also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester.
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Rajan joined Laminar with around two decades of industry experience, having served at numerous companies over the years, including Harris Corporation, Autodesk and Tulip Interfaces.
Rajan expressed gratitude for the opportunity and hailed Laminar for its industry impact. He said, "Industrial AI focus is on Physical AI...But process manufacturing has a different challenge: continued reliance on human expert intervention...Laminar's Chemical-Process AI changes that by first sensing real-time fluid conditions, reasoning the optimal action, and then acting to ensure every cycle runs on the best conditions."
Rajan continued, "I'm thrilled to step into this role as Laminar continues its mission to transform the industry with our first-of-its-kind AI platform that powers fully autonomous process manufacturing."
Rajan was promoted at a point that Laminar considers key to its growth trajectory. The company recently received the 2026 Edison Awards Gold Award in the Manufacturing & Logistics category, was named AB InBev's 2024 Cheers Award recipient for outstanding startup partnership, and earned Unilever's 2023 Supplier Startup of the Year award.
Laminar's solution is also deployed in World Economic Forum Lighthouse factories, a select group recognized for leadership in cutting-edge industrial technology.
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