Eli Harari

American business executive and founder of SanDisk

Eliyahou Harari is an Israeli-American business executive best known for being the co-founder of SanDisk along with Jack Yuan and Sanjay Mehrotra.2

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Born Jun 10, 1945.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • 1973Princeton University Doctor of Philosophy3 4

Harari was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His parents were Polish Jews who at 1933 had immigrated to Mandatory Palestine.

He was born and raised in Israel. He completed his Bachelor's Degree at Manchester University in England. He completed his PhD degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University and his subject of study was semiconductors.

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Career

Hughes Aircraft

As an engineering intern at Hughes Aircraft, he played a major role in the development of the world's first EEPROM.

Intel

His first job after graduating university was at Intel. He later went to work for a number of startups, including Synertek, Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk.

SanDisk

He, Jack Yuan and Sanjay Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipIsrael7

Awards

  • 2017National Inventors Hall of Fame4 8
  • 2014National Medal of Technology and Innovation4 8
  • 2009IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal8 11
  • 2006IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award8 10
  • Date not recordedNational Medal of Technology and Innovation8 9