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Dr. Eli Harari

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Eli Harari has served as CEO of SanDisk since the company's founding in 1988, and has built SanDisk into the global leader in flash memory cards, with revenues of $3.57 billion in 2009. A pioneering leader in both technology and business, Harari holds more than 100 U.S. and international patents in non-volatile semiconductor devices. Under Harari, SanDisk has grown into a major international retail brand, serving customers through more than 240,000 retail storefronts worldwide.

From 1973 to 1983, Harari held research and management positions with Hughes Microelectronics Ltd., Honeywell Inc. and Intel Corporation. In 1983, he founded Waferscale Integration Inc., serving as the company's president and chief executive officer until 1986 and as chairman and chief technical officer until 1988.

Along with SanDisk co-founders Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan, Harari received the 2006 Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2009 he received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal recognizing his "leadership in the development and commercialization of flash memory technology."

Harari holds a Ph.D. in solid state sciences from Princeton University and a B.S. in physics with honors from Manchester University.

Mr. Sanjay Mehrotra

President and COO

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 more than 29 years of experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory industry including engineering and engineering 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.

Ms. Judy Bruner

Executive Vice-President, Administration and CFO

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. 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.

Mr. Yoram Cedar

Executive Vice-President, OEM Business and Corporate Engineering

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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