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[[SanDisk]] co-founder '''Sanjay Mehrotra''' is the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He was appointed to this role in January 2011. |
[[SanDisk]] co-founder '''Sanjay Mehrotra''' is the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He was appointed to this role in January 2011. |
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SanDisk co-founder Sanjay Mehrotra is the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He was appointed to this role in January 2011.
Mr. Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and has served as president and chief operating officer since June 2006. He previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer, senior vice president of engineering, vice president of product development and director of memory design and product engineering.
He has more than 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 his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. He is the named inventor on more than 70 patents and has published articles in the area of non-volatile memory design and flash memory systems.
Mr. Mehrotra received a “Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA at the 13th annual Asian American Engineer of the Year Award ceremony March 1, 2014.
Mr. Mehrotra delivered a commencement address to graduates of the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering on May 18, 2014. His speech detailed his own journey and related the lessons he has learned along the way from an international student to the head of a Fortune 500 company that is recognized as a global leader in flash storage solutions.
On April 18, 2014, Mr. Mehrotra along with S. Shankar Sastry, dean and Carlson professor of engineering at UC Berkeley, opened the SanDisk Computing Lab College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The lab was funded by a $1 million donation by SanDisk to the College of Engineering. The donation also funded recently completed renovations to Cory Hall, home of the College’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.