Anand Jayapalan Storage Business Unit VP, Micron

Micron Technology, Inc. appointed Anand Jayapalan as VP of the storage business unit.

 
In this role, he will have responsibility for leading and Micron’s solid-state storage business. This includes building storage solutions to address the growing opportunity in large market segments like cloud, enterprise and client compute.

He will report to Sumit Sadana, EVP and chief business officer.
 
Jayapalan has 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently, he served as VP, enterprise and client compute solutions marketing at Western Digital. In his previous role, he was VP of enterprise SSD marketing at SanDisk, where he also led the incubation and growth of the company’s hyperscale and cloud data center business segment. 
 
“There are exciting changes afoot in the storage market as the benefits of flash memory solutions are realised by customers across the industry,” said Sadana. “Anand will help us fully capitalise on this opportunity by leveraging our broad technology portfolio and driving partnerships with key customers to take our storage business to the next level.”
 
Jayapalan holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from University of South Florida and a master’s degree in business administration from Pepperdine University.