Sanjay Mehrotra, SEP '09
President and Chief Executive Officer
SanDisk Corporation
Sanjay Mehrotra became president and CEO of SanDisk effective January 2011. He was
appointed to the SanDisk board of directors in July 2010. Mr. Mehrotra cofounded
SanDisk in 1988 and was appointed president and COO in June 2006. He previously served
as EVP and COO, 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 Graduate School of Business Executive Program (SEP).
He 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 the engineering advisory board of the University of California,
Berkeley.