Alper Ilkbahar | Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Sandisk Technologies, Inc.

Alper Ilkbahar Executive Vice President, CTO Sandisk Alper Ilkbahar is Executive vice president, CTO at Sandisk, overseeing NAND technology development, next-generation technologies, corporate research functions, and market development. Most recently, Ilkbahar served as senior vice president of global strategy and technology at Western Digital. Prior to Western Digital, he was the vice president of the Data Center Group and general manager of the Intel Optane Group. In this role, he supported the development of memory and storage solutions by integrating innovative hardware and software for next-generation data centers around Optane Technology.  Ilkbahar served as vice president and general manager of several business units at SanDisk. He started his career in Intel’s microprocessor division, where he worked in design engineering and management. A leader who has honed his technical expertise, Ilkbahar holds more than 50 patents in the fields of semiconductor process, device, design, and testing. Ilkbahar received a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, and a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.