Roop K. Lakkaraju is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Bio-Rad Laboratories, appointed effective April 15, 2024 and serving as principal financial officer. In April 2024 he also assumed the role of the Company's principal accounting officer.
Prior to joining Bio-Rad, Mr. Lakkaraju was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Benchmark Electronics, a multi-national electronics manufacturing services company, from January 2018 to March 2024. Before that he was Chief Financial Officer at Maana, Inc., an enterprise software company, from 2017 to 2018, and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Support.com, a provider of cloud-based software and services, from 2013 to 2017. He earlier held senior executive financial and operational roles at Quantros, Inc. from 2011 to 2013, 2Wire Inc. from 2007 to 2010, Solectron Corporation from 2002 to 2007, and Safeguard Scientifics from 1999 to 2002. Mr. Lakkaraju began his career as an auditor with Grant Thornton and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Mr. Lakkaraju holds a B.S. in Business Administration, Accounting, from San Jose State University. He served on the board of directors and as audit committee chair at Infinera Corporation, a publicly traded global supplier of open optical networking solutions, until Infinera was acquired by Nokia Corporation as of February 28, 2025.