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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
35 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. Since July 2014, Ms. Bruner has served on the board of directors of the
Computer History Museum, a 501(c)(3) organization.
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.
Mark Brazeal has been our Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President, IP Licensing since
December 2014. Prior to joining SanDisk, Mr. Brazeal served in various positions of increasing
responsibility at Broadcom Corporation from April 2000 to September 2014, most recently as Senior Vice
President and Senior Deputy General Counsel. Prior to joining Broadcom Corporation, Mr. Brazeal was
an attorney with the law firms of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, P.C. in Palo Alto, California from
1998 to 2000, YUASA and HARA in Tokyo, Japan from 1996 to 1997 and Howrey and Simon, LLP in
Washington, D.C. from 1993 to 1996. Mr. Brazeal holds a B.A. with Distinction in American Government
from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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
February 2003 until November 2006, when it was acquired by us. Prior to that, Mr. Nir held sales and
marketing positions at Destinator Ltd. and also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of
MindEcho, Inc. Mr. Nir has a B.A. in Law and Accounting and an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Siva Sivaram has been our Senior Vice President, Memory Technology since June 2013, and
previously served as our Vice President Technology from January 2005 to March 2007 and as Chief
Operating Officer for Matrix Semiconductor, Inc. from November 1999 until January 2005, when it was
acquired by us. Most recently, Dr. Sivaram was Chief Executive Officer of Twin Creeks Technologies, Inc.,
a company focused on manufacturing equipment for the production of solar modules, sensors, LEDs and
other solid-state devices, from January 2008 to December 2012. Dr. Sivaram also held various engineering
and management positions at Intel Corporation between July 1986 and October 1999. Dr. Sivaram serves
on the board of directors of ZigStor Inc., Sand 9, Inc. and EnerGram Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Sivaram received
a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Materials Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.E. in Mechanical
Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
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