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Executive Officers
Our executive officers, who are elected by and serve at the discretion of our board of directors, are as
follows (all ages are as of February 15, 2013):
Name Age Position
Sanjay Mehrotra .............. 54 President and Chief Executive Officer
Judy Bruner .................. 54 Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Sumit Sadana ................ 44 Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Khandker Quader, Ph.D. ........ 54 Senior Vice President, Memory Technology, Design and Product
Development
Sanjay Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since
January 2011. He was appointed to our board of directors in July 2010. Mr. Mehrotra previously served as our
Chief Operating Officer, 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 30 years of
experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory industry, including engineering and management positions
at Integrated Device Technology, Inc., SEEQ Technology, Inc., Intel Corporation and Atmel Corporation.
Mr. Mehrotra has a B.S. and an M.S. 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. Mr. Mehrotra serves on the board of directors of Cavium, Inc., the
Engineering Advisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley, the Global Semiconductor Alliance and
the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council.
Judy Bruner has been our Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer 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. Ms. Bruner also held financial management positions at 3Com Corporation,
Ridge Computers and Hewlett-Packard Company. Ms. Bruner has a B.A. in Economics from the University of
California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. Since January 2009, Ms. Bruner has served
on the board of directors and the audit committee of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Sumit Sadana has been our Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer since September 2012, and
previously served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer from April 2010 to September 2012.
Mr. Sadana was President of Sunrise Capital LLC, a technology and financial consulting firm, from October
2008 to March 2010. Mr. Sadana was also Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development from
December 2004 to September 2008, as well as Chief Technology Officer from January 2006 to May 2007, at
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., a provider of embedded processors. Mr. Sadana started his career at International
Business Machines Corporation where he held several hardware design, software development, operations,
strategic planning, business development and general management roles. Mr. Sadana has a B.Tech. in Electrical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University.
Dr. Khandker Quader has been our Senior Vice President of Memory Technology, Design and Product
Development since July 2008. Dr. Quader joined SanDisk in June 1995, and previously served as our Senior Vice
President of Memory Design and CAD, Vice President of Memory Design, Senior Director of Memory
Technology and Design, Director of Memory Design and Senior Design Engineer. Prior to SanDisk, Dr. Quader
held various engineering roles at International Business Machines Corporation and Intel Corporation. Dr. Quader
has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in
Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley.
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