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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, 2010):
Name Age Position
Eli Harari ............ 64 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Sanjay Mehrotra ...... 51 President and Chief Operating Officer
Judy Bruner .......... 51 Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Yoram Cedar ......... 57 Executive Vice President, OEM 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 1988 to June 2006. From 1973 to 1988, Dr. Harari held various technical and management positions with
Waferscale Integration, Inc., 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. Dr. Harari currently serves on the board of directors of Telegent
Systems, Inc.
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, and Director
of Memory Design and Product Engineering. Mr. Mehrotra has 30 years of experience in the non-volatile
semiconductor memory industry including engineering and management positions at SanDisk, Integrated Device
Technology, Inc., SEEQ Technology, Inc., Intel Corporation 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. Mr. Mehrotra currently serves on the board of directors of Cavium Networks and on the
Engineering Advisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley.
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 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. Prior to Palm, Inc., Ms. Bruner held financial management positions with 3Com Corporation,
Ridge Computers and Hewlett-Packard Company. Since January 2009, Ms. Bruner has served on the board of
directors and the audit committee of Brocade Communications Systems, 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.
Yoram Cedar is our Executive Vice President, OEM Business and Corporate Engineering. Prior to
October 2005, Mr. Cedar served as our Senior Vice President of Engineering and Emerging Market Business
Development. Mr. Cedar began his career at SanDisk in 1998 when he joined as Vice President of Systems
Engineering. He has extensive experience working in product definition, marketing and development of systems
and embedded flash-based semiconductors. Prior to SanDisk, he was the Vice President of New Business
Development at Waferscale Integration, Inc. and has more than 30 years of experience in design and engineering
management of electronic systems. Mr. Cedar earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Architecture from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
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