What Happened?
Irvine, CA-based Western Digital Corporation Appointed Martin Fink as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD`s leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, Calif.
About the Person
Martin Fink joined Western Digital as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in January 2017. In this role, Fink leads the company`s technology innovation agenda as Western Digital continues to transform its business and expand its capabilities and technology portfolio. Prior to joining Western Digital, Fink most recently served as Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President and Director of Hewlett Packard Labs at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company, and served as CTO and EVP of HP, Inc, overseeing HP Labs, the company`s advanced research center. In his 30-year career at Hewlett-Packard Company and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company, Fink worked in a wide range of roles, including General Manager of HP Cloud and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Business Critical Systems and Converged Application Systems. He has been a board member of Hortonworks, Inc. since July 2014, and a board member of Wild Beer Co., since February 2016. Fink holds an associate`s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Loyalist College and an M.B.A. from Colorado State University.
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