Corporate Officers
Dr. Eli Harari
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Eli Harari has
served as CEO of SanDisk since the company's founding in 1988, and
has built SanDisk into the global leader in flash memory cards,
with revenues of $3.57 billion in 2009. A pioneering leader in both
technology and business, Harari holds more than 100 U.S. and
international patents in non-volatile semiconductor devices. Under
Harari, SanDisk has grown into a major international retail brand,
serving customers through more than 240,000 retail storefronts
worldwide.
From 1973 to 1983, Harari held research and management positions
with Hughes Microelectronics Ltd., Honeywell Inc. and Intel
Corporation. In 1983, he founded Waferscale Integration Inc.,
serving as the company's president and chief executive officer
until 1986 and as chairman and chief technical officer until
1988.
Along with SanDisk co-founders Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan,
Harari received the 2006 Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device
Technology Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). In 2009 he received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce
Medal recognizing his "leadership in the development and
commercialization of flash memory technology."
Harari holds a Ph.D. in solid state sciences from Princeton
University and a B.S. in physics with honors from Manchester
University.
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.