Sanjay Mehrotra

Career

1. 2025 – now
   Micron Technologysrc
   Chairman, President & CEO; Chairman & CEO from 2026-08-26
   Board combined Chair and CEO in January 2025 on the independent Chairman's retirement; Lynn Dugle became Lead Independent Director. The President title passed to Bhatia and DeBoer on 2026-08-26 (8K-2026-08-26)
2. 2017 – 2025
   Micron Technologysrc
   President, CEO and director
   Appointed 2017-04-26, effective 2017-05-08, succeeding Mark Durcan
3. 2016 – 2017
   Western Digital Corp.src
   Director (May 2016 to February 2017), after WD acquired SanDisk
4. 2011 – 2016
   SanDisk Corporationsrc
   President & CEO (January 2011 to May 2016); director from July 2010
   Led it to the $16bn sale to Western Digital in May 2016, per the 2017 appointment 8-K
5. 1988 – 2011
   SanDisk Corporationsrc
   Co-founder; engineering and operating roles up to EVP & COO
   Co-founding from the proxy; the roles before CEO (director of memory design and product engineering, VP product development, SVP engineering, EVP & COO) come only from WS-wiki, undated

Undated in the sources

• Intel, SEEQ Technology, Integrated Device Technology, Atmelsrc, Engineering and management positions in non-volatile memory

Not located: Dates of his SanDisk roles before 2011 and of his pre-1988 employers are not in any filing read; not needed for the ten-year window

Achievements

• Co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and ran it as CEO from 2011 to its $16bn sale to Western Digital in 2016src
• Micron GAAP net income went from a $5.83bn loss in FY2023 to $0.78bn in FY2024 and $8.54bn in FY2025src
• More than 70 patents; Semiconductor Industry Association's Robert N. Noyce Award (2023) and National Academy of Engineering (2022)src
• Board made him Chairman in January 2025 as well as CEO, with a Lead Independent Director alongsidesrc
• Say-on-pay passed with 95.1% of votes cast for and against at the 2026-01-15 meetingsrc

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciencessrc
• University of California, Berkeley, MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciencessrc
• Stanford Graduate School of Business, Executive Program Managementsrc
• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, attended before transferring to Berkeleysrc

Background

• Family The proxy states there are no family relationships between any directors or executive officerssrc
• Family Part of his stake sits in grantor retained annuity trusts for the benefit of him and his family (675,000 shares at the proxy date); 67,925 moved from a GRAT to a family revocable trust in February and April 2026src
• Boards Director of CDW Corporation since March 2021; earlier director of Cavium (July 2009 to July 2018) and Western Digital (May 2016 to February 2017)src
• Boards On the Semiconductor Industry Association board and chairs the Micron Foundation boardsrc
• Other Honorary doctorates from Boise State University, Rochester Institute of Technology and BITS Pilani; Malaysian Order of Loyal Defender of the State medal (2021); Flash Memory Summit Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)src
• Other Executive agreement from his 2017 hire: severance of two years' salary plus two times target bonus, a year of continued vesting, and two years of benefits costsrc