Corporate Officers
Dr. Eli Harari
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Eli
Harari, the founder of SanDisk, has served as Chief Executive
Officer and as a director of SanDisk since June 1988. He was
appointed Chairman of the Board in June 2006. Dr. Harari also
served as President from June 1988 to June 2006. From 1973 to 1988,
Dr. Harari held various technical and management positions with
Waferscale Integration, Inc., Honeywell Inc., Intel Corporation and
Hughes Microelectronics Ltd. Dr. Harari holds a Ph.D. in Solid
State Sciences from Princeton University and has more than 100
patents issued in the field of non-volatile memories and storage
systems.
Sanjay Mehrotra
President and Chief Operating Officer
Sanjay
Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and has been our President
since June 2006. He continues to serve as our Chief Operating
Officer, a position he has held since 2001, and he has previously
served as our Executive Vice President, Vice President of
Engineering, Vice President of Product Development, and Director of
Memory Design and Product Engineering. Mr. Mehrotra has more than
29 years of experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory
industry including engineering and engineering management positions
at SanDisk, Integrated Device Technology, Inc., SEEQ Technology,
Inc., Intel Corporation and Atmel Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra earned
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Mehrotra also
holds several patents and has published articles in the area of
non-volatile memory design and flash memory systems. He currently
serves on the board of directors of Cavium Networks.
Judy Bruner
Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial
Officer
Judy Bruner has been our Chief Financial Officer and
Executive Vice President, Administration since June 2004. She
served as a member of our board of directors from July 2002 to July
2004. Ms. Bruner has over 25 years of financial management
experience, including serving as Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of Palm, Inc., a provider of handheld computing
and communications solutions, from September 1999 until June 2004.
Prior to Palm, Inc., Ms. Bruner held financial management positions
with 3Com Corporation, Ridge Computers and Hewlett-Packard Company.
Since January 2009, Ms. Bruner has served on the board of directors
and the audit committee of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Ms.
Bruner holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of
California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara
University.
Yoram Cedar
Executive Vice-President, OEM Business and Corporate
Engineering
Yoram Cedar is our Executive
Vice President, OEM Business and Corporate Engineering. Prior to
October 2005, Mr. Cedar served as our Senior Vice President of
Engineering and Emerging Market Business Development. Mr. Cedar
began his career at SanDisk in 1998 when he joined as Vice
President of Systems Engineering. He has extensive experience
working in product definition, marketing and development of systems
and embedded flash-based semiconductors. Prior to SanDisk, he was
the Vice President of New Business Development at Waferscale
Integration, Inc. and has more than 30 years of experience in
design and engineering management of electronic systems. Mr. Cedar
earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Architecture from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Israel.