
Co-founder who built SanDisk into a $6B Fortune 500 company before its $19B acquisition, Mehrotra now leads Micron's $25B memory empire as surging AI demand makes its high-bandwidth memory chips indispensable to every major data center and AI training system.
Sanjay Mehrotra is the CEO of Micron Technology, one of the world's leading semiconductor companies specializing in memory and storage solutions.
Mehrotra previously co-founded SanDisk Corporation, the flash storage pioneer, and served as its CEO for nearly 25 years. Under his leadership, SanDisk grew from a startup to a Fortune 500 company with over $6 billion in annual revenue before its acquisition by Western Digital for $19 billion. At Micron, Mehrotra leads a company with approximately $25 billion in annual revenue that produces essential memory chips for data centers, smartphones, automotive systems, and AI applications. His leadership at Micron during the AI boom has positioned the company as a critical supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips required for AI training and inference. Born in India, Mehrotra immigrated to the United States and earned his degrees from UC Berkeley. His journey from co-founding SanDisk to leading Micron demonstrates serial entrepreneurial leadership at the highest levels of American technology.

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