SanDisk
Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), today announced that it has appointed two
distinguished industry and technology leaders to its board of directors,
with immediate effect. The new board appointees are Kevin DeNuccio,
currently vice chairman of Redback Networks a subsidiary of L.M.
Ericsson, and Dr. Chenming Calvin Hu, currently the TSMC Distinguished
Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
“Kevin and Chenming will contribute significant business and technical
excellence to our board of directors,” said Dr. Eli Harari, chairman and
CEO, SanDisk. “These are exciting times, and we look forward to their
participation and guidance as SanDisk pursues significant opportunities
in our target markets.”
Mr. DeNuccio currently serves as Vice Chairman of Redback Networks a
subsidiary of L.M. Ericsson and as a board member with JDS Uniphase
Corporation, Data Connections Ltd, and Catholic Charities. Previously,
he served as CEO of Redback for seven years and before that, was senior
vice president of worldwide service provider operations at Cisco
Systems. Prior to Cisco, DeNuccio held several executive management
roles with Verizon Communications, Unisys Corporation, and Wang
Laboratories. He holds finance and MBA degrees from Northeastern
University and Columbia University, respectively.
Dr. Chenming Calvin Hu is the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of
Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the
University of California, Berkeley. He has served as the chief
technology officer of TSMC, the world’s largest dedicated integrated
circuits foundry. In addition, Dr. Hu was the founding chairman of
Celestry Design Technologies, acquired by Cadence Design Systems, and
was the board chairman of the non-profit East Bay Chinese School,
Oakland, CA. He holds three degrees in electrical engineering: a B.S.
from the National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UC,
Berkeley.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards, from
research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and
retail distribution. SanDisk’s product portfolio includes flash memory
cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital
audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise;
embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for
computers. SanDisk
is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales
outside the United States.
SanDisk’s product and executive images can be downloaded from: http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/media.asp
SanDisk’s web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
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countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification
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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for markets, 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 these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include
among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than
our expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these
products in new markets that we are targeting, and the other risks
detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission
filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent
annual report on Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form
10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press
release.
SanDisk Corporation
Ryan Donovan, 408-801-2857
ryan.donovan@sandisk.com
