A bit of news this morning.
Jim
Tuesday December 5, 10:31 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SANDISK Expands Management Team With
Appointment of Two Vice Presidents
Appointment of Vice President of Information Systems and Technology and Vice President of
Quality and Reliability
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2000-- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK - news) today
announced the appointment of two new vice presidents to key corporate positions. Gene Fleischer, 58, has been named
vice president of information systems and technology and Sharon McAfee-Hunter, 52, has been named vice president of
quality and reliability. Both positions are newly created and the appointments are effective immediately.
Fleischer, with over 30 years of high technology experience in software applications development, marketing/business
strategies and Internet-based information services, will oversee SanDisk's growing information technology infrastructure.
Fleischer, who graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Business, Information Management Executive Program, has
held various engineering and management information systems positions at Xerox, Amdahl and Unisys Corporation.
Most recently, he was the senior director of information technology at XO Communications and was also a co-founder
and vice president of an Internet-based business intelligence software company, SupplyPoint Solutions. Fleischer will
report to Ralph Hudson, senior vice president of worldwide operations.
McAfee-Hunter, who will refine SanDisk's quality and reliability program, has over 20 years of manufacturing,
engineering, reliability, operations and managerial experience. Before joining SanDisk, McAfee-Hunter was director of
quality at Dell Computer Corporation, defining a quality latitude strategy that encompassed tactical response and
measurement. She was also the director of quality for Unisys and Read-Rite Corporation and was senior manager of
quality control at Digital Equipment Corporation. She holds a B.A. degree in Electrical Engineering from New York
University and is a graduate of General Electric's manufacturing management program. McAfee-Hunter will also report
to Ralph Hudson.
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.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: sandisk.com
Contact:
SanDisk Corporation
Bob Goligoski, 408/542-0463
bgoligoski@sandisk.com Tuesday December 5, 10:31 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SANDISK Expands Management Team With
Appointment of Two Vice Presidents
Appointment of Vice President of Information Systems and Technology and Vice President of
Quality and Reliability
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2000-- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK - news) today
announced the appointment of two new vice presidents to key corporate positions. Gene Fleischer, 58, has been named
vice president of information systems and technology and Sharon McAfee-Hunter, 52, has been named vice president of
quality and reliability. Both positions are newly created and the appointments are effective immediately.
Fleischer, with over 30 years of high technology experience in software applications development, marketing/business
strategies and Internet-based information services, will oversee SanDisk's growing information technology infrastructure.
Fleischer, who graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Business, Information Management Executive Program, has
held various engineering and management information systems positions at Xerox, Amdahl and Unisys Corporation.
Most recently, he was the senior director of information technology at XO Communications and was also a co-founder
and vice president of an Internet-based business intelligence software company, SupplyPoint Solutions. Fleischer will
report to Ralph Hudson, senior vice president of worldwide operations.
McAfee-Hunter, who will refine SanDisk's quality and reliability program, has over 20 years of manufacturing,
engineering, reliability, operations and managerial experience. Before joining SanDisk, McAfee-Hunter was director of
quality at Dell Computer Corporation, defining a quality latitude strategy that encompassed tactical response and
measurement. She was also the director of quality for Unisys and Read-Rite Corporation and was senior manager of
quality control at Digital Equipment Corporation. She holds a B.A. degree in Electrical Engineering from New York
University and is a graduate of General Electric's manufacturing management program. McAfee-Hunter will also report
to Ralph Hudson.
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.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: sandisk.com
Contact:
SanDisk Corporation
Bob Goligoski, 408/542-0463
bgoligoski@sandisk.com |
