Micron Technology appointed Sanjay Mehrotra as president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors, effective May 8, 2017. Mr. Mehrotra will be replacing Mark Durcan. Durcan will serve as an adviser to the company until early August.
Mehrotra was a co-founder of SanDisk and served as its president and CEO from 2011 to 2016. He drove the growth of the company from a start-up in 1988 to an industry-leading Fortune 500 company with revenues that reached $6.6 billion, and ultimately culminated in a sale for $16 billion to Western Digital Corporation in 2016.
Sanjay Mehrotra has more than 30 years experience in non-volatile semiconductor memory industry, including engineering and management positions at SanDisk, Intel Corporation and Atmel Corporation, SEEQ Technology, Integrated Device Technology.
Mehrotra did his schooling in Delhi from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Lodhi Road. He started college at BITS Pilani and then went to University of California, Berkeley. He is a 2009 graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Businesses' Executive Education Program.
