What Happened?
Irvine, CA-based Western Digital Corporation Resigned Steven Campbell as Chief Technology Officer
Date of management change: January 23, 2017
Irvine, CA-based Western Digital Corporation Resigned Steven Campbell as Chief Technology Officer
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.
Steven Glenn Campbell, also known as Steve, serves as Chief Information Officer of HGST, Inc. Mr. Campbell serves as Managing Director of Multitech Systems Inc. He has been Chief Executive Officer of Magnecomp International Limited since July 26, 2002. He serves as Vice President of Business Development at MediTract, Inc. He is responsible for exploring new growth opportunities for the TractManager as well as the management of the TractManager`s intellectual property. He has been the Chief Technology Officer of HGST, Inc. since January 2009 and had global responsibility for all aspects of its product development and technical vision. He served as the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Western Digital Corporation from November 2015 to January 23, 2017. He served as Vice President of Business Development of TractManager, Inc. He joined TractManager in 2005. He served in the marketing department at Hewlett-Packard where he was responsible for planning the overall messaging and sales tools for the entire content capture family of products and software solutions. He has more than 20 years of experience in the technology and marketing field. He served as Chief Executive Officer of InnoTek Ltd. from July 26, 2002 to December 31, 2008. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Magnecomp Precision Technology Public Company Limited (Formerly, KR Precision Public Co., Ltd.) from February 2, 2005 to November 7, 2007 and its Member of Executive Management Team. Mr. Campbell spent over 12 years with Western Digital Corporation. During his tenure with Western Digital, he held several executive positions including, General Manager of the Desktop Solutions Line of Business, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Vice President of New Product Introduction and Chief Quality Officer. He served as Senior Vice President of Engineering for DataPlay Corporation. Mr. Campbell has over 30 years of experience in the electronics and disk drive industries including more than 24 years in the data storage industry. His experience also includes managerial and engineering positions with Quantum Corporation, Honeywell Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Corporation. Mr. Campbell serves as Chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board of Convergent System Solutions in Longmont, Colorado. He has been an Executive Non Independent Director of InnoTek Limited since July 26, 2002. Mr. Campbell has been an Executive Director of Magnecomp International Limited since July 26, 2002. He serves as Director of NanoPrecision Products Incorporated and Exerion Precision Technology Holding B.V. He served as Director of Magnecomp Precision Technology Public Company Limited from February 2, 2005 to November 2007 and Daylight Solutions, Inc. Mr. Campbell holds three U.S. patents in the area of magnetic storage. He holds Bachelor`s of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona. Mr. Campbell earned Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
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