# Sanjay Mehrotra

> Sanjay Mehrotra is Micron Technology’s chairman and CEO and a co-founder of SanDisk. An engineer with more than 70 patents, he helped commercialize flash storage before taking charge of Micron in 2017. His career connects portable storage, AI memory and semiconductor manufacturing, with an enduring emphasis on tenacity and STEM education.

- **Role:** Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Micron Technology
- **Organizations:** Micron Technology, SanDisk, Intel, SEEQ Technology, Integrated Device Technology, Semiconductor Industry Association, National Academy of Engineering
- **From:** Kanpur, India
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Undergraduate study; transferred to UC Berkeley, BITS Pilani, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford Executive Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Co-founded SanDisk and helped commercialize flash memory storage., Holds more than 70 patents., Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for contributions to nonvolatile memory design and architecture enabling multilevel-cell NAND flash products.

## Career timeline

- **1976** — Transferred from BITS Pilani to UC Berkeley after obtaining a U.S. student visa.
- **1988** — Co-founded SunDisk, later SanDisk, with Eli Harari and Jack Yuan.
- **2011** — Became SanDisk president and CEO.
- **2016** — SanDisk acquisition by Western Digital closed on May 12.
- **2017** — Became Micron president and CEO effective May 8.
- **2019** — Chaired the Semiconductor Industry Association.
- **2022** — Elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
- **2023** — Received the SIA Robert N. Noyce Award.
- **2025** — Became Micron chairman in January.

## Achievements

- Co-founded SanDisk and helped commercialize flash memory storage.
- Holds more than 70 patents.
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for contributions to nonvolatile memory design and architecture enabling multilevel-cell NAND flash products.
- Received the 2023 SIA Robert N. Noyce Award.
- Received the 2019 Flash Memory Summit Lifetime Achievement Award.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Micron reported fiscal 2026 revenue of $133.19 billion on September 30; Mehrotra remained chairman and CEO.
- **2026-09** — A Bit Personal published an interview with Mehrotra hosted by Jodi Shelton on September 21.
- **2026-07** — Micron announced planned U.S. investment of more than $250 billion through 2035 and marked the first concrete pour at its New York site.
- **2026-01** — Micron marked the groundbreaking of its planned memory manufacturing complex in Clay, New York.

## Links

- Website: https://www.micron.com/about/company/leadership/sanjay-mehrotra
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-mehrotra/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/micronceo

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