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Robert Crooke

Independent board member at Numem, an MRAM memory company

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Updated Nov 6, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 28, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Robert Crooke

Robert Crooke is an independent board member at Numem. Numem makes MRAM memory solutions for uses from data centers to edge computing. Numem announced his election on May 6, 2025.

Crooke has more than 30 years of semiconductor experience. At Intel, he was senior vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. He helped develop and commercialize Intel's 3D NAND and Optane technologies. He later became the founding chief executive officer of Solidigm, after Intel sold its SSD business to SK hynix.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Robert Crooke in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Numem Inc. Current
Independent board member
2025 – Present · Sunnyvale, CA
Numem builds MRAM memory cores and chiplets that serve as an alternative to SRAM and Flash, for products from wearables to data centers.
Intel
Senior vice president and general manager, Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group
Solidigm
Founding CEO

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Robert Crooke works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Numem Inc. · Form D, Oct 28, 2026
MS
Max Simmons
CEO and director
NG
Nilesh Gharia
Executive officer and director

Robert Crooke in the News

Sources

  1. SECNumem Inc. Form D, filed Oct 28, 2026
  2. wireNumem press release, May 6, 2025 (GlobeNewswire copy on Yahoo Finance)