SANDISK APPOINTS SUMIT SADANA AS SVP-STRATEGY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Milpitas, Calif., April 7,
2010 -SanDisk
Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory
cards, today announced that it has appointed Sumit Sadana as Senior
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development with immediate
effect.
Sadana will be responsible for
driving SanDisk's strategic planning across functions and
organizations and will report to Chairman and CEO, Eli Harari.
Sadana joins SanDisk from Sunrise Capital where as President he
provided consulting services to technology and private equity
companies. Previously, Sadana was the Senior Vice President,
Strategy and Business Development at Freescale Semiconductor, and
also served as its Chief Technology Officer. Before that, he held
several technical, operations, strategic planning and general
management roles over a 13-year career at IBM. "We are pleased to
have someone of Sumit's impressive background join the SanDisk
team," said Harari.
Sadana holds a Master's degree in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of
Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He is also on the board of directors
for The Miracle Foundation.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards,
from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer
branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio
includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and
camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for
consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices;
and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a
Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its
sales outside the United States.
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