Sanjay Mehrotra Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Business Executive
Known For	Being Chairman, President and CEO at Micron Technology, USA
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Brown Hazel
Hair Colour	Salt and Pepper
Career
Awards, Honours, Achievements	• 2006: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award • 2013: Entrepreneur's Foundation of Silicon Valley “Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Year” Award • 2013: University of California, Berkeley Distinguished Alumni Award in Electrical Engineering • 2014: University of California, Berkeley Graduate Engineering School Commencement Speaker Honor • 2014: Chinese Institute of Engineers USA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award • 2015: American India Foundation Honor for Philanthropic and Educational Support Work • 2015: American Red Cross Silicon Valley “Philanthropic CEO of the Year” Award • 2019: Flash Memory Summit Lifetime Achievement Award • 2021: Malaysian Order of Loyal Defender of the State Medal • 2021: University of California, Berkeley “Spirit of 1868 Volunteer Award” • 2022: Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering • 2022: Boise State University Honorary Doctorate Award • 2023: Semiconductor Industry Association Robert N. Noyce Award • 2023: Indian Institute of Management Mumbai Lakshya Business Visionary Award • 2024: Rochester Institute of Technology Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Award
Personal Life
Date of Birth	27 June 1958 (Friday)
Age (as of 2026)	68 Years
Birthplace	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Zodiac sign	Cancer
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
School	Sardar Patel Vidayalaya, New Delhi (1972-1974)
College/University	• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani • University of California, Berkeley • Stanford University, Stanford
Educational Qualification(s)	• A bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California (1976-1978) • A master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California (1978-1980) • An Executive Education Program from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business (2009)
Religion	Hinduism
Social Media	• Facebook • Twitter • LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Wife/Spouse	Sangeeta Mehrotra
Children	Son- None Daughter(s)- 2 • Malika Mehrotra • Mahncy Mehrotra
Parents	Father- (liaison officer in the cotton industry)
Siblings	Note: He has three siblings
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$1.2 billion (as of 2026)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sanjay Mehrotra

• Sanjay Mehrotra was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

• Sanjay is the youngest of his four siblings. His father was a liaison officer in the cotton industry in Kanpur.

• When Mehrotra was 10 years old, his family moved to New Delhi.

• Mehrotra attended Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

• In an interview, Sanjay mentioned that at an early age, he developed interest in math and science. He added that his father and siblings played a significant role in encouraging him to pursue an education in Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM).

• After school, he attended BITS Pilani for his first two years of college.

• In an interview, Sanjay mentioned that it was his father, who wanted him to pursue his remaining engineering degree in the USA, so he started applying to American universities.

• At the age of 18, he transferred from BITS Pilani to the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a bachelor and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.

• Once in an interview, he revealed that he got rejection three times for US visa before the final approval because American colleges demanded 12 years of high school schooling. To achieve this requirement, he enrolled at BITS Pilani and resubmitted his candidacy to the United States at the end of his second year at BITS.

• In 1980, Sanjay started his professional career as a Senior Designer Engineer at Intel Corporation.

• Later, he served at many non-volatile semiconductor memory industry at engineering and management positions at SEEQ Technology (1982-1987), Integrated Device Technology (1986-1988), and Atme Corporation (1988).

• In 1988, he co-founded SanDisk, when flash memory technology was still in its early stage.
  

  A picture of all the founders of SanDisk

• At SanDisk, he served at many positions, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, senior vice president of engineering, vice president of product development and director of memory design and product engineering at SanDisk.

• Sanjay played a major role in making NAND flash memory popular in cameras, smartphones, USA drivers, and storage devices worldwide.

• While working at SanDisk, he helped in maintaining SanDisk’s long term falsh memory manufacturing partnership with Toshiba, Japan.

• In 2006, Mehrotra received the institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award. He shared the award with his SanDisk co-founders, Eli Harari and Jack Yuan.

• In 2009, he earned an Executive Education Program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

• From 2009 to 2018, he served as a member of board of directors of Cavium, Inc.’s.

• From 2011 to 2016, he served as the president and CEO of SanDisk.

• In April 2014, Mehrotra along with Shankar Sastry opened the SanDisk Computing Lab at the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The lab was opened after the university received $1 million donation from SanDisk.

• In 2017, Sanjay joined Micron Technology, one of the world’s largest memory chip companies, as its President and CEO. His appointment at Micron gained attention because he had previously led rival company SanDisk many years.

• In 2019, while serving at Micron, Mehrotra was appointed as the chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the primary advocacy organisation for the U.S. semiconductor industry.

• In 2021, he was awarded with the Malaysian order of Loyal Defender of the State model.

• In 2022, Sanjay was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for his contribution in flash memory technology.

• With a career span of more than 35 years, Mehrotra holds more than 70 patents related to flash memory and semiconductor storage systems. He has also published many articles in the area of non-volatile memory design and flash memory systems.

• In 2023, he received the Semiconductor Industry Association’s Robert N. Noyce Award, one of the highest honour in the semiconductor industry.

• Along with being on the board of director of Micron, Sanjay also served on the boards of CDW Corporation and the Semiconductor Industry Association.

• In 2026, under Sanjay’s leadership Micron reported record financial results, due to rising demands for artificial intelligence memory chips and data centre technology.

• In May 2026, Sanjay Mehrotra came into news after joining India-born tech leaders, Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai in the “trillion-dollar club” because of Micron’s rapid growth and market value.