Eliyahou Harari
is an Israeli-American business executive best known for being the co-founder of
SanDisk
SanDisk is a brand for flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, solid-state drives, and digital audio players, manufactured and marketed by Western Digital. The original company, SanDisk Corporation was acquire ...
along with
Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Mehrotra is an Indian-American business executive and the CEO of Micron Technology. He was a co-founder of SanDisk, where he served as president and CEO until its acquisition by Western Digital in 2016.
Early life and education
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Early life and education
He was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
His parents were Polish Jews who at 1933 had immigrated to
Palestine
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before Israel's formation.
[
He was born and raised in the state of Israel.]Manchester University
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
in England. He completed his Master's degree in Physics at Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
and his subject of study was semiconductors.
Career
Hughes Aircraft
As an engineering intern at Hughes Aircraft, he played a major role in the development of the world's first EEPROM
EEPROM (also called E2PROM) stands for electrically erasable programmable read-only memory and is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers, usually integrated in microcontrollers such as smart cards and remote keyless systems, or as a ...
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Intel
His very first job after graduating university was at Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
. He later went on to work for a number of startups including Synertek, Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk.[
]
SanDisk
He founded SanDisk in 1988 along with Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Mehrotra is an Indian-American business executive and the CEO of Micron Technology. He was a co-founder of SanDisk, where he served as president and CEO until its acquisition by Western Digital in 2016.
Early life and education
Mehrot ...
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Awards and recognition
He has more than 180 patents.[
* He has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame][
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References
Living people
American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies
SanDisk
Western Digital people
American technology chief executives
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
American computer businesspeople
American chief executives
Chief executives in the technology industry
1945 births
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