Jeff VerHeul SVP Corporate Engineering, SanDisk
Joining from Standard Microsystems, now part of Microchip Technology
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 28, 2012 at 2:58 pmSanDisk Corporation has appointed Jeff VerHeul as SVP of the company’s corporate engineering organization.
Reporting to Sanjay Mehrotra, SanDisk’s president and CEO, VerHeul brings 30 years of engineering and management experience to SanDisk where he will oversee the development of SanDisk’s portfolio of SSD, embedded and removable products and solutions.
VerHeul joined SanDisk from Standard Microsystems Corporation, now a part of Microchip Technology, where he was senior VP of engineering. Prior to that, he held executive roles at AMD in platform solutions engineering and silicon design. He began his career at IBM where he spent 25 years in positions that included the VP of server development, VP of product development for microelectronics, and VP of engineering and technology services.
VerHeul holds a master’s degree in management of technology from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.