Sanjay Mehrotra

Sanjay Mehrotra is the President and CEO of Micron Technology and co-founder of SanDisk. Mehrotra served as SanDisk President and Chief Executive Officer until it was purchased by Western Digital in 2016.[1][2]

SanDisk

Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and served as President and CEO from 2011 until 2016. 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.[3]

He has more than 30 years of experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory industry, including engineering and management positions at SanDisk, Micron, Integrated Device Technology, SEEQ Technology, Intel Corporation and Atmel Corporation.

Micron

Following the announcement of Mark Durcan's retirement in February 2017, Mehrotra was named chief executive officer.[2] His appointment became effective May 8, 2017, serving as an adviser to the company until early August 2017.[4]

Education

Mehrotra spent a few years of his early education in a Delhi school, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Lodhi Road. He started college at BITS Pilani and then transferred to University of California, Berkeley.

Mehrotra was awarded his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences by Berkeley. He graduated in 2009 from Stanford University Graduate School of Businesses' Executive Education Program.[5]

Mehrotra holds more than 70 patents.[6] He has published articles in the area of non-volatile memory design and flash memory systems.

Awards

Mehrotra has received the following awards and honors:

  • Mehrotra was honored by the American India Foundation for “personal philanthropic efforts and for leading SanDisk’s programs to advance educational opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, March 21, 2015.[7]
  • “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.[8]
  • "CEO of the Year” from the Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Silicon Valley in recognition of his leadership in advancing SanDisk’s community service activities, December 10, 2013.[9]
  • "Distinguished Alumni Award in Electrical Engineering” from the University of California, Berkeley, 2013.[10]
  • “IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award” (with SanDisk co-founders Ei Harari and Jack Yuan) for “leadership in the development and commercialization of Flash electrically erasable programmable read-only memory-based data storage products,” 2006.[11]

Activities

On April 18, 2014, 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.

References

  1. ↑ "SanDisk announces planned retirement of Chairman and CEO Eli Harari". SanDisk. 2010-07-22. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  2. 1 2 Tallis, Billy (27 April 2017). "Micron Hires New CEO: Sanjay Mehrotra, SanDisk Co-Founder and Former CEO". Anandtech. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Q&A: SanDisk CEO Sanjay Mehrotra on flash and its 3-D future". San Jose Mercury News. 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  4. ↑ "Chipmaker Micron Picks SanDisk Co-Founder as New CEO". Fortune. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  5. ↑ "Sanjay Mehrotra". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  6. ↑ Mellor, Chris (27 April 2017). "Micron looks to SanDisk for new CEO". The Register. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  7. ↑ "Annual Bay Area Gala 2015". American India Foundation. 2015-03-21. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  8. ↑ "Lifetime Achievement Award for SanDisk's Sanjay Mehrotra". India West. 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
  9. ↑ "Silicon Valley Community Foundation recognizes Five Award Winners at Annual Powered by EF reception". Silicon Valley Community Foundation. 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  10. ↑ "Berkeley EECS Distinguished Alumni". University of California, Berkeley. 2013-06-01. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  11. ↑ "IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award". IEEE. 2006-06-01. Retrieved 2006-06-01.

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