SanDisk’s Founder Dr. Eli Harari Recognized by President Obama with Highest Honor for Revolutionizing the Flash Storage Ind...
October 06 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today announced that President Obama has further
distinguished Dr. Eli Harari, founder and retired chairman &
CEO of SanDisk, with the National Medal of Technology and
Innovation. This award is the United States’ highest honor
recognizing achievement and leadership in advancing the fields of
science and technology.
Dr. Eli Harari, founder and retired
chairman & CEO of SanDisk (Photo: Business Wire)
“These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding
of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and
helped improve countless lives,” President Obama said in Washington
Friday in announcing the recipients. “Our nation has been enriched
by their achievements and by all the scientists and technologists
across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention.”
Dr. Harari’s vision for SanDisk and flash memory began more than
26 years ago. Throughout the years flash memory innovations have
transformed and enabled new markets and devices from digital
photography to USB drives to smart phones, tablets, and
thin-and-light notebooks. Today, SanDisk is bringing flash memory
to enterprise storage and transforming the data center by helping
enterprises achieve high performance, low-latency data access and
scalability. Flash memory is on track to become the most widely
used memory technology in the world over the next decade.
“We’re now connected in ways that would not be possible without
the technologies that Eli helped pioneer and we’re well positioned
to take on new market segments such as enterprise data centers,”
said Sanjay Mehrotra, co-founder, president and chief executive
officer of SanDisk. “Eli has had a profound impact on the entire
technology landscape, and in doing so, has truly changed the world
as we experience it today. His lifelong intellectual and technical
achievements are well-deserving of the National Medal of Technology
and Innovation.”
The history of how flash storage was invented, developed, and
made available on a global scale is largely the history of SanDisk
Corporation — an American success story that like many others began
with one person and a vision. However, what distinguished this into
a remarkable story is how Dr. Harari continuously played
multifaceted roles over a span of 23 years as inventor,
entrepreneur, leader, public company CEO, and industry visionary.
From a Silicon Valley start-up in 1988, SanDisk now employs more
than 8,000 people worldwide, has over 5,000 patents and $6.5
billion in annual sales.
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation was created by
statute in 1980 and is administered for the White House by the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s Patent and Trademark Office. The award
recognizes pioneers who have made lasting contributions to
America’s competitiveness, quality of life, and have helped
strengthen the nation’s technological workforce.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P
500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For
more than 26 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of
storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have
transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality,
state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's
largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets
and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of
thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit
www.sandisk.com.
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trademark of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States
and other countries.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for markets, products, industry trends and
customers that are based on our current expectations and involve
numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these
forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause
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others: the market demand for our products may grow more slowly
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risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange
Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our
most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q and our annual report on
Form 10-K. We do not intend to update the information contained in
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