Eli Harari | |
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Born | 1945 |
Title | Founder of SanDisk |
Eliyahou Harari[1] is an Israeli-American business executive best known for being the co-founder of SanDisk along with Sanjay Mehrotra.[2]
He was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Israel.[3] His parents were Polish Jews who at 1933 had immigrated to Palestine before Israel's formation.[3]
He was born and raised in the state of Israel.[4] He completed his Bachelor's Degree at Manchester University in England. He completed his Master's degree in Physics at Princeton University and his subject of study was semiconductors.[4]
As an engineering intern at Hughes Aircraft, he played a major role in the development of the world's first EEPROM.[4]
His very first job after graduating university was at Intel. He later went on to work for a number of startups including Synertek, Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk.[4]
He founded SanDisk in 1988 along with Sanjay Mehrotra.[2]
He has more than 180 patents.[5] He has received numerous awards including: