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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. Dr. Harari founded Waferscale Integration, Inc., a privately held semiconductor company, in
1983 and was its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1983 to 1986, and Chairman and Chief Technical
Officer from 1986 to 1988. From 1973 to 1983, Dr. Harari held various management positions with 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.
Dr. Harari is a board member of Tower.
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 25 years of experience in the non-volatile
semiconductor memory industry including engineering and engineering management positions at Intel
Corporation, Seeq Technology, Integrated Device Technology and Atmel Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra earned
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California,
Berkeley. He also holds several patents and has published articles in the area of non-volatile memory design and
flash memory systems.
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. Ms. Bruner also serves on the board of directors of Vermillion, 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.
Dr. Randhir Thakur has been our Executive Vice President, Technology and Worldwide Operations since
September 2005. Prior to joining us, Dr. Thakur was group Vice President and General Manager of the Front End
Products Group at Applied Materials, Inc. He joined Applied Materials in 2000 as Chief Technical Officer of the
Transistor and Capacitor Products Business Group. Previously, from 1997 to 2000, Dr. Thakur was Vice President
of Research and Development at AG Associates and Chief Technology Officer and General Manager at Steag
Electronic Systems after its acquisition of AG Associates. He also held various technical and management positions
at Micron Technology from 1991 to 1997. Dr. Thakur has extensive experience in semiconductor manufacturing,
holds more than 250 patents and has published more than 200 technical publications. Dr. Thakur received his B.S.
degree (honors) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the Regional Engineering College,
Kurukshetra, India, and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dr. Thakur received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Yoram Cedar is our Executive Vice President, Mobile 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 and has more than 27 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.
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