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.