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Additional Information
We file reports and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC,
including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and
proxy or information statements. Those reports and statements and all amendments to those documents
filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act (1) may be read and
copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549, (2) are
available at the SEC’s internet site (www.sec.gov), which contains reports, proxy and information
statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC and (3) are
available free of charge through our website as soon as reasonably practicable after electronic filing with,
or furnishing to, the SEC. Information regarding the operation of the SEC’s Public Reference Room may
be obtained by calling the SEC at (202) 551-8090. Our website address is www.sandisk.com. Information on
our website is not incorporated by reference nor otherwise included in this report, and any references in
this report to our website are intended to be inactive textual references only. Our principal executive
offices are located at 951 SanDisk Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035, and our telephone number is (408) 801-1000.
SanDisk is our trademark, and is registered in the U.S. and other countries. Other brand names mentioned
herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
Employees
As of December 28, 2014, we had 8,696 full-time employees, including 3,014 employees in research
and development, 1,023 employees in sales and marketing, 639 employees in general and administrative,
and 4,020 employees in operations. None of our employees is represented by a collective bargaining
agreement and we have never experienced any employee work stoppage. We believe that our employee
relations are good.
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 10, 2015):
Name Age Position
Sanjay Mehrotra .......... 56 President and Chief Executive Officer
Judy Bruner ............. 56 Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Sumit Sadana ............ 46 Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Mark Brazeal ............ 47 Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President, IP Licensing
Shuki Nir ............... 45 Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, and General Manager, Retail
Dr. Siva Sivaram .......... 54 Senior Vice President, Memory Technology
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 35 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 is the named inventor on over
70 patents and has published numerous 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.
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