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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, 2014):
Name Age Position
Sanjay Mehrotra .............. 55 President and Chief Executive Officer
Judy Bruner ................. 55 Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Sumit Sadana ................ 45 Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Shuki Nir ................... 44 Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, and General Manager,
Retail
Dr. Siva Sivaram .............. 53 Senior Vice President, Memory Technology
Eric S. Whitaker .............. 47 Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
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. Since January 2014,
Mr. Sadana has served on the board of directors of Second Harvest Food Bank, a 501(c)(3) charity.
Shuki Nir has been our Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, and General Manager, Retail
since December 2012, and previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Retail and
various other sales and marketing roles as a Vice President from November 2006 to December 2012.
Mr. Nir also served in various sales and marketing roles as a Vice President at msystems Ltd. from
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