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Executive Officers

Corporate Officers


Dr. Eli Harari
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
 
Dr. Harari has served as CEO since SanDisks inception in 1988, during which SanDisk has grown to over $3 billion in annual revenues. Harari is a pioneer in non volatile semiconductor storage with more than 100 US and foreign patents and numerous technical articles. He has more than 30 years experience in the electronics industry. His extensive operational and technological development experiences include co-founding Waferscale Integration, overseeing the development and transfer into production of Intel’s first-generation stepper and dry etch technology, and technical management positions at Hughes Aircraft and Honeywell. He holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in Solid State Sciences from Princeton University and a B.S. (Honors) degree in Physics from Manchester University.
 
 
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and Chief Operating Officer
 
Mehrotra is a co-founder of SanDisk and has served as director of memory design and product engineering, vice president of product development and senior vice president of engineering. His earlier experience in the semiconductor industry included work at Intel Corporation, Seeq Technology, Integrated Device Technology and Atmel Corporation in the area of design engineering and engineering management, mostly in EPROM and EEPROM product development. Mehrotra holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
 
 
Judy Bruner
Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer
 
 Bruner joined SanDisk in June 2004 as Executive Vice president, Administration and Chief Financial Officer, after serving on the company’s Board of Directors for two years. She is responsible for accounting & finance, investor relations, human resources, information technology, legal, and business development. She served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of palmOne, Inc. from September 1999 through June 2004. Previously, Bruner spent 11 years at 3Com Corporation as Corporate Controller, VP of Finance for Enterprise Systems and Corporate Treasurer. Prior to 3Com, she was CFO at Ridge Computers, Inc., and she started her career at Hewlett-Packard in accounting and finance. Ms. Bruner holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University. Ms. Bruner serves as a director for Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.
 
 
Yoram Cedar
Executive Vice President, Mobile Business Unit and Corporate Engineering
 
Cedar has been with SanDisk since 1998 and is currently Senior Vice President of Engineering. He has more than 20 years of experience in design and engineering management of electronic systems including the role of Vice President of New Business Development at Waferscale Integration (WSI). He has an extensive background in the development of storage products such as CompactFlash, PC Card, MultiMediaCard, various MemoryStick products, SmartMedia, SD including miniSD, Triflash/Transflash, xD, Cruzer line of USB drives and NAND memory development. Cedar graduated as an electrical engineer and computer architect from Technion, Israel.