People: SanDisk Corp (SNDK.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Michael Marks	62	2011	Independent Chairman of the Board
Sanjay Mehrotra	54	2011	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Judy Bruner	54	2004	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President - Administration
Sumit Sadana	44	2012	Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer
Kevin DeNuccio	52	2009	Independent Director
Irwin Federman	76	2011	Independent Director
Steven Gomo	60	2005	Independent Director
Eddy Hartenstein	62	2005	Independent Director
Chenming Hu	66	2009	Independent Director
Catherine Lego	55	2004	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Michael Marks	Mr. Michael E. Marks is an Independent Chairman of the Board of SanDisk Corp., since January 1, 2011. He has served as a Director of the Company since August 2003. Mr. Marks has managed Riverwood Capital, LLC (formerly Bigwood Capital, LLC), a private equity firm, since March 2007. Mr. Marks was interim Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Motors, Inc., a company that designs and manufactures electric vehicles, from August 2007 to November 2007. Mr. Marks was also a senior adviser from January 2007 to January 2008, and a member from January 2006 until January 2007, at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm. Mr. Marks was Chief Executive Officer of Flextronics, Inc., a manufacturing services provider, from January 1994 to January 2006. Mr. Marks has a B.A. and an M.A. in Psychology from Oberlin College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Marks has served as a director of Schlumberger Limited since 2005 and on the Board of Trustees of The Juilliard School since December 2011. Mr. Marks previously served as a director of Flextronics, Inc. from 1991 to January 2008, including as Chairman of the board of directors of Flextronics, Inc. from 1993 to January 2003 and upon his retirement as Chief Executive Officer in January 2006 until his retirement from the board of directors in January 2008. Mr. Marks also previously served as a director of Calix Networks, Inc. from 2009 to December 2010, Sun Microsystems, Inc. from April 2007 to January 2010 and Crocs, Inc. from August 2004 to July 2008.
Sanjay Mehrotra	Mr. Sanjay Mehrotra is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Sandisk Corp. He co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and has been the company's President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2011. He was appointed to the company's board of directors in July 2010. Mr. Mehrotra previously served as the company's Chief Operating Officer, 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 30 years of experience in the non-volatile semiconductor memory industry, including engineering and management positions at Integrated Device Technology, Inc., SEEQ Technology, Inc., Intel Corporation and Atmel Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra has a B.S. and an M.S. 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. Mr. Mehrotra serves on the board of directors of Cavium, Inc., the Engineering Advisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley, the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council.
Judy Bruner	Ms. Judy Bruner is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President - Administration of Sandisk Corp. She has been the company's Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer since June 2004. She served as a member of the company's board of directors from July 2002 to July 2004. Ms. Bruner has more than 30 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. Ms. Bruner also held financial management positions at 3Com Corporation, Ridge Computers and Hewlett-Packard Company. Ms. Bruner has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. Since January 2009, Ms. Bruner has served on the board of directors and the audit committee of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Sumit Sadana	Mr. Sumit Sadana is Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer of Sandisk Corp. Mr. Sadana been the company's Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer since September 2012, and previously served as the company's Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer from April 2010 to September 2012. Mr. Sadana was President of Sunrise Capital LLC, a technology and financial consulting firm, from October 2008 to March 2010. Mr. Sadana was also Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development from December 2004 to September 2008, as well as Chief Technology Officer from January 2006 to May 2007, at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., a provider of embedded processors. Mr. Sadana started his career at International Business Machines Corporation where he held several hardware design, software development, operations, strategic planning, business development and general management roles. Mr. Sadana has a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Kevin DeNuccio	Mr. Kevin A. DeNuccio is an Independent Director of SanDisk Corporation since August 4, 2009. Mr. DeNuccio has been the Chief Executive Officer of Metaswitch Networks, a provider of carrier systems and software solutions that enable communication networks to migrate to open, packet-based architectures, since February 2010. Mr. DeNuccio was President and Chief Executive Officer of Redback Networks Inc., a provider of advanced communications networking equipment, from August 2001 to January 2008, during which time it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2003 and was acquired by LM Ericsson in January 2007 and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of LM Ericsson. Mr. DeNuccio held various positions at Cisco Systems, Inc. from 1995 to 2001, including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Service Provider Operations. Previously, Mr. DeNuccio was also the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Atlantic Network Integration Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Atlantic (now Verizon Communications). Mr. DeNuccio has a B.A. in Finance from Northeastern University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. Mr. DeNuccio has served as a director of Metaswitch Networks since December 2008 and Catholic Charities. Mr. DeNuccio previously served as a director of JDS Uniphase Corporation from December 2005 to November 2009 and Redback Networks Inc. from August 2001 to December 2009.
Irwin Federman	Mr. Irwin Federman is Independent Director of SanDisk Corporation. Mr. Federman has been a general partner in U.S. Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, since April 1990. Mr. Federman was President and Chief Executive Officer from 1979 to 1987, and Chief Financial Officer from 1970 to 1979, at Monolithic Memories, Inc., a semiconductor company. Mr. Federman has a B.S. in Economics from Brooklyn College and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Santa Clara University. Mr. Federman has served as a director of Intermolecular, Inc. since June 2005, Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. since June 1999 and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. since 1995. Mr. Federman previously served as a director of Centillium Communications, Inc. from May 1998 to January 2006 and Nuance Communications, Inc. from 1995 to July 2005.
Steven Gomo	Mr. Steven J. Gomo is an Independent Director of SanDisk Corporation since December 2005. Mr. Gomo was Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer from October 2004 until his retirement in December 2011, and Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer from August 2002 to September 2004, at NetApp, Inc., a storage and data management company. Mr. Gomo was also Chief Financial Officer of Gemplus International S.A. from November 2000 to April 2002, Chief Financial Officer of Asera, Inc. from February 2000 to November 2000 and Chief Financial Officer of Silicon Graphics, Inc. from February 1998 to February 2000. Previously, Mr. Gomo spent 24 years at Hewlett-Packard Company serving in various finance, financial management, manufacturing and general management positions. Mr. Gomo has a B.S. in Business Administration from Oregon State University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. Mr. Gomo has served as a director of Enphase Energy, Inc. since March 2011 and on the Board of Trustees of Oregon State University since October 2011. Mr. Gomo previously served as a director and member of the Audit Committee of Macromedia, Inc. from April 2004 to December 2005.
Eddy Hartenstein	Mr. Eddy W. Hartenstein is an Independent Director of SanDisk Corporation since November 2005. Mr. Hartenstein has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tribune Company, a multimedia, publishing, digital media and broadcasting company, since May 2011. Mr. Hartenstein has also been publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Times since August 2008. Previously, Mr. Hartenstein was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of HD Partners Acquisition Corporation, a company formed to acquire assets or businesses in the media, entertainment or telecommunications industry, from December 2005 through February 2008. Mr. Hartenstein was Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2004, and President from 1990 to 2001, at DIRECTV, Inc., a television service provider. Mr. Hartenstein was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame in 2008, the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2002 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2001, and received an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for lifetime achievement in 2007. Mr. Hartenstein has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and an M.S. in Applied Mechanics from the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Hartenstein has served as a director of Sirius XM Radio Inc. since July 2008, including as the non-executive Chairman of the board of directors since November 2009, and as a director of Broadcom Corporation since June 2008 and City of Hope since 2007. Mr. Hartenstein previously served as Vice Chairman of the board of directors of The DIRECTV Group, Inc. from December 2003 until his retirement in December 2004 and Chairman of the board of directors of DIRECTV, Inc. from 2001 through 2004 and as a director of Thomson, S.A. (Thomson Multimedia).
Chenming Hu	Dr. Chenming C. Hu, Ph.D., is an Independent Director of SanDisk Corporation since August 4, 2009. Dr. Hu has been the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences since 2001, and a professor since 1976, at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Hu was also Chief Technology Officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a semiconductor company, from June 2001 to July 2004. Dr. Hu is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academia Sinica. Dr. Hu has a B.S. from National Taiwan University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Hu has served as a director of Inphi Corporation since August 2010. Dr. Hu previously served as a director of FormFactor, Inc. from December 2009 to December 2010, MoSys, Inc. from January 2005 to June 2010 and was founding Chairman of the board of directors of Celestry Design Technologies, Inc.
Catherine Lego	Ms. Catherine P. Lego, CPA, is an Independent Director of the SanDisk Corporation. Ms. Lego was a General Partner of The Photonics Fund, an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in components, modules and systems companies for the fiber optics telecommunications market, from December 1999 to December 2009. Ms. Lego was a general partner at Oak Investment Partners, a venture capital firm, from 1981 to 1992. Ms. Lego previously practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand. Ms. Lego has a B.A. from Williams College and an M.S. in Accounting from the New York University Graduate School of Business. Ms. Lego has served as a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Lam Research Corporation since January 2006 and Cosworth Group, a private United Kingdom-based precision engineering products and services company since 2011. Ms. Lego previously served as a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of WJ Communications, Inc. from October 2004 to May 2008 and StrataLight Communication, Inc. from September 2007 to January 2009.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Michael Marks	--
Sanjay Mehrotra	12,167,800
Judy Bruner	2,978,060
Sumit Sadana	1,419,200
Kevin DeNuccio	--
Irwin Federman	--
Steven Gomo	--
Eddy Hartenstein	--
Chenming Hu	--
Catherine Lego	--

As Of 31 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Michael Marks	0	0
Sanjay Mehrotra	1,424,810	65,199,020
Judy Bruner	712,000	27,602,250
Sumit Sadana	15,000	165,774
Kevin DeNuccio	0	0
Irwin Federman	0	0
Steven Gomo	0	0
Eddy Hartenstein	0	0
Chenming Hu	0	0
Catherine Lego	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,000	$57.72
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,000	$22.90
BRUNER JUDY	5,000	$25.18
MEHROTRA SANJAY	25,000	$24.18
BRUNER JUDY	10,000	$8.16
MEHROTRA SANJAY	25,000	$60.00
BRUNER JUDY	60,000	$60.00
BRUNER JUDY	45,000	$41.91
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,000	$22.90
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,000	$58.30
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,250	$58.84
GOMO STEVEN JOHN	6,250	$42.00
GOMO STEVEN JOHN	6,250	$28.10
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,250	$59.04
GOMO STEVEN JOHN	12,500	$59.02
SADANA SUMIT	9,900	$48.85
SADANA SUMIT	12,400	$58.45
SADANA SUMIT	2,081	$58.47
SADANA SUMIT	2,500	$36.03
MEHROTRA SANJAY	20,000	$24.18
MEHROTRA SANJAY	20,000	$56.30
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,000	$22.90
LEGO CATHERINE P	6,000	$55.95
BRUNER JUDY	10,000	$8.16
BRUNER JUDY	10,000	$25.18

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