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Employees
As of December 31, 2006, we had 2,586 full-time employees, including 1,081 in research and development,
527 in sales and marketing, 422 in general and administration and 556 in operations. None of our employees is
represented by a collective bargaining agreement and we have never experienced any work stoppage. We believe
that our employee relations are satisfactory.
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, 2007):
Name Age Position
EliHarari....................... 61 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Sanjay Mehrotra .................. 48 President and Chief Operating Officer
Judy Bruner. . . ................... 48 Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief
Financial Officer
Randhir Thakur ................... 44 Executive Vice President, Technology and
Worldwide Operations
Yoram Cedar . . ................... 54 Executive Vice President, Handset Business and
Corporate Engineering
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
1998 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. In
December 2006, Dr. Harari, along with SanDisk’s co-founders Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan, received the 2006
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award “For leadership in the development and
commercialization of Flash EEPROM-based data storage products.” 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, 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 Corpora-
tion, 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. In December 2006, Mr. Mehrotra, along with SanDisk’s co-founders Dr. Eli Harari and Jack Yuan,
received the 2006 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award “For leadership in the
development and commercialization of Flash EEPROM-based data storage products.”
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 Ciphergen Biosystems, 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
October 2005. Prior to joining us, Dr. Thakur was group Vice President and General Manager of the Front End
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