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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, 2012):
Name Age Position
Sanjay Mehrotra .......... 53 President and Chief Executive Officer
Judy Bruner .............. 53 Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer
James Brelsford ........... 56 Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of IP Licensing
Sumit Sadana ............ 43 Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy 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.
James Brelsford has been our Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of IP Licensing since
January 2010. He joined our company in August 2007 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel.
Mr. Brelsford was initially General Counsel and then Executive Vice President of Business and Corporate
Development at Hands-On-Mobile, Inc., a developer and publisher of game software for mobile platforms, from
February 2005 to July 2007. Mr. Brelsford was Senior Vice President, Business Development at Excite@Home,
a provider of broadband network services, from July 2000 to September 2001. Mr. Brelsford has also been a
partner at each of the following law firms: Jones Day, Perkins Coie, and Steinhart & Falconer LLP.
Mr. Brelsford has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Alaska and a J.D. from the University of
California, Davis.
Sumit Sadana has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer since April 2010. 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.S. in Electrical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University. Mr. Sadana is currently on the board of directors of The Miracle Foundation.
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