Micron’s new CEO makes his mark quickly, but he’s still a stranger to Idahoans

Sanjay Mehrotra is a star in Silicon Valley, but he is mostly unknown in Idaho.

When Mehrotra, the new president and CEO of Micron Technology Inc., introduced himself to the state July 27 at a Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce luncheon, the chamber board member who presented him struggled with his last name. (It’s pronounced meh-RO-truh.) Idahoans outside Micron have seen little of Mehrotra since.

Day by day, he spreads his message to Micron’s 35,000 employees like an evangelist: We have great talent. We have great technology. The world needs us, and we have worldwide reach. The future is ours. But we are not meeting our potential. We must curb our production costs. We must deliver the memory products our customers want, and we must do it faster.

BY DAVID STAATS
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