Corporate Officers
Dr. Eli Harari
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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. Harari also served as
President from June 1988 to June 2006. From 1973 to 1988, Harari
held various technical and management positions with Waferscale
Integration, Inc., Honeywell Inc., Intel Corporation and Hughes
Microelectronics Ltd. 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, Senior Vice President of
Engineering, Vice President of Product Development, and Director of
Memory Design and Product Engineering. Mehrotra has more than 30
years of experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory
industry including engineering and management positions at SanDisk,
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., SEEQ Technology, Inc., Intel
Corporation and Atmel Corporation. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees
in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University
of California, Berkeley and is a recent graduate of Stanford
Executive Program. 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 and on the Engineering Advisory Board of the
University of California, Berkeley.
Judy Bruner
Executive Vice President 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 more than 30 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 and Chief Technology
Officer
Yoram Cedar is our Executive
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to October 2010,
Cedar served as our Executive Vice President, OEM and Corporate
Engineering. He began his career at SanDisk in 1998 when he joined
the company as Vice President, Systems Engineering. Cedar has more
than 30 years of experience in design and engineering management of
electronic systems as well as product definition, marketing and
development of systems and embedded flash-based semiconductors.
Before joining SanDisk, he served as Vice President, New Business
Development at Waferscale Integration, Inc. Cedar earned B.S. and
M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Architecture
from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
