SanDisk Promotes Nelson Chan to Senior
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and
Marketing
July 24, 2000 10:02 AM Eastern Time
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2000--SanDisk
Corporation SNDK , the world's largest supplier of flash memory
cards, today promoted Nelson Chan to senior vice president of
worldwide sales and marketing. Chan, who was formerly SanDisk's
senior vice president of worldwide marketing, will report to Eli
Harari, SanDisk CEO and president.
Harari said, "It's a real pleasure to announce the promotion of
Nelson Chan to senior vice president of worldwide sales and
marketing. Nelson has been a key contributor to SanDisk's
success, evidenced by our consistent record of growing sales,
record customer orders and backlog and clear market leadership
positions in the OEM, retail and industrial distribution channels we
serve. Nelson has also played a pivotal role in establishing
SanDisk's CompactFlash(TM), MultiMediaCards and most recently
the Secure Digital Card as industry standard card formats. I look
forward to working closely with Nelson as we continue to drive for
rapid growth globally by applying our exciting technology to the
consumer, wireless and Internet market opportunities that are just
beginning to take off."
When Chan joined SanDisk, annual revenues were $22 million. In
1999, company revenues were $247 million, an 82 percent
increase over the $135.8 million recorded in 1998. During his
tenure at SanDisk, the company has become, according to
independent market research surveys, the worldwide market share
leader in the flash memory card industry. SanDisk also
significantly expanded its OEM accounts and became a major
force in the retail market by selling its branded products in more
than 20,000 retail outlets worldwide.
Chan has more than 17 years of high-technology marketing and
engineering experience. He was one of the principal organizers of
the CompactFlash Association and the MultiMediaCard
Association. Together, the two associations have more than 200
members. Chan is an officer of the CompactFlash Association and
a board member of the MultiMediaCard Association. Before joining
SanDisk, Chan was marketing manager for the Integrated Systems
Products Division at Chips and Technologies and also held
marketing and engineering positions at Signetics and Delco
Electronics.
SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash data
storage products, designs, manufactures and markets
industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio
storage products using its patented, high density flash memory
and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
The matters discussed in this news release contain forward looking
statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as
described under the caption "Factors That May Affect Future
Results" in the company's annual report on Form 10-K and
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to
update the information in this release.
CompactFlash is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation SanDisk's
web site/home page address: sandisk.com
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CONTACT: SanDisk Corp. Bob Goligoski, 408/542-0463
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