Western Digital Corporation (WDC)

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Western Digital Corporation

5601 Great Oaks Parkway
San Jose, CA 95119
United States
408 717 6000
http://www.westerndigital.com

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Computer Hardware
Full Time Employees: 63,800

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. David V. Goeckeler	CEO & Director	4.58M	N/A	1962
Mr. Robert K. Eulau	Exec. VP & CFO	1.77M	N/A	1962
Dr. Srinivasan Sivaram	Pres of Technology & Strategy	1.52M	N/A	1960
Mr. Michael Charles Ray	Chief Legal Officer, Exec. VP & Sec.	1.67M	435.28k	1968
Ms. Lori Sundberg Sundberg	Exec. VP & Chief HR Officer	1.09M	N/A	1964
Mr. Sean Hunkler	Exec. VP of Global Operations	N/A	N/A	1962
Mr. C. Wesley M. Scott	Chief Investment Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Gene M. Zamiska	VP of Global Accounting & Chief Accounting Officer	N/A	N/A	1962
Mr. T. Peter Andrew	VP of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. David Tang	Sr. VP of Corp. Marketing	N/A	N/A	1965

Amounts are as of December 31, 2020 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is 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. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), smart video systems, gaming consoles, and set top boxes; 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; flash-based memory wafers; and embedded storage solutions and flash products. The company also provides data center devices and solutions comprising enterprise helium hard drives; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; data center solutions, including HDDs and drive configurations for use in data storage systems and tiered storage models; and data storage platforms and systems. In addition, it offers client solutions, such as external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client SSDs; removable cards that are used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, and still and action video cameras; universal serial bus flash drives for use in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products used in-field back up 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 G-Technology, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and retailers. It operates in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. 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 December 2, 2020 is 3. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 7; Shareholder Rights: 3; Compensation: 3.

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 a 10 indicates higher governance risk.