Western Digital Corporation (WDC)

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Western Digital Corporation

5601 Great Oaks Parkway
Great Oaks
San Jose, CA 95119
United States
408-801-1000
https://www.westerndigital.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Computer Hardware
Full-time employees: 53,000

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. David V. Goeckeler	CEO & Director	1.15M	N/A	1962
Mr. Wissam G. Jabre	Executive VP & CFO	1.02M	N/A	1970
Mr. Michael Charles Ray Ph.D.	Chief Legal Officer, Executive VP & Secretary	1.08M	N/A	1968
Mr. Robert W. Soderbery	Executive VP & GM of Flash Business	653.2k	N/A	1967
Mr. Tiang Yew Tan	Executive Vice President of Global Operations	N/A	N/A	1970
Mr. C. Wesley M. Scott	Chief Investment Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Gene M. Zamiska	Senior VP of Global Accounting & Chief Accounting Officer	N/A	N/A	1962
Mr. T. Peter Andrew	Vice President of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. David Tang	Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing	N/A	N/A	1965
Ms. Christine Bastian	Executive VP and Chief People & Inclusion Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), gaming consoles, and set top boxes; and flash-based embedded storage products for mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and other portable and wearable devices, as well as automotive, Internet of Things, industrial, and connected home applications. The company also provides enterprise HDDs; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; and data storage platforms. In addition, it offers external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client portable SSDs; removable cards that are used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, and cameras and smart video systems; universal serial bus flash drives for use in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products used in-field backup of created content, as well as wireless streaming of high-definition movies, photos, music, and documents to tablets, smartphones, and PCs. The company sells its products under the Western Digital, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, dealers, resellers, and retailers. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Corporate governance

Western Digital Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 December 2023 is 7. The pillar scores are Audit: 3; Board: 7; Shareholder rights: 5; Compensation: 9.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.