Dr. Harari, the founder of SanDisk, has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of SanDisk since June 1988. He was appointed Chairman of the Board in June 2006. Dr. Harari also served as President from June 1998 to June 2006. From 1973 to 1988, Dr. Harari held various technical and management positions with Waferscale Integration, Inc., Honeywell Inc., Intel Corporation and Hughes Microelectronics Ltd. Dr. Harari previously served as a director of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. Along with SanDisk co-founders Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan, Dr. Harari received the 2006 Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (“IEEE”).

 In 2008, the Global Semiconductor Alliance awarded Dr. Harari the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. In 2009, Dr. Harari received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal recognizing his “leadership in the development and commercialization of flash memory technology.” Dr. Harari holds a B.S. in physics with honors from Manchester University and a Ph.D. in Solid State Sciences from Princeton University. Dr. Harari has more than 100 patents issued in the field of non-volatile memories and storage systems. On July 21, 2010, Dr. Eli Harari, the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of SanDisk Corporation informed the Registrant's Board of Directors that he will retire as the Registrant's Chief Executive Officer and as a director, as of December 31, 2010.In 2014,he received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.