Mark Brazeal Appointed as SanDisk's Chief Legal Officer

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that it has appointed Mark Brazeal as senior vice president and chief legal officer. Brazeal is responsible for SanDisk's intellectual property (IP) portfolio and licensing as well as all other legal areas, including commercial agreements, M&A transactions, litigation, corporate securities law and governance.

Mark Brazeal is responsible for SanDisk's intellectual property (IP) portfolio and licensing as well as all other legal areas, including commercial agreements, M&A transactions, litigation, corporate securities law and governance. (Photo: Business Wire)

Brazeal spent the past 14 years at Broadcom where he most recently served as senior vice president and senior deputy general counsel with responsibilities including a wide variety of IP matters and litigation for the company.

Prior to Broadcom, Brazeal focused on IP licensing and litigation at law firms Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA, Yuasa and Hara in Tokyo, Japan, and Howrey & Simon in Washington, D.C. Brazeal obtained his J.D. as well as his undergraduate degree in American Government from the University of Virginia.

About SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.

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