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Western Digital Hires 20 Year Dell EMC Veteran Ashley Gorakhpurwalla as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Its HDD Business
News Summary Company marks next milestone in its diversified storage portfolio strategy with the appointment of new general manager for its Hard Disk Drive
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNews Summary\n\n\nCompany marks next milestone in its diversified storage portfolio strategy with the appointment of new general manager for its Hard Disk Drive (HDD) product business unit.\n\n\nFormer Dell EMC executive responsible for its $20 billion Servers and Infrastructure Systems business to join Western Digital and lead its HDD business.\n\n\nNew organizational structure aligns the company’s broad storage technology portfolio with its deep customer relationships across cloud titans, channel partners, device manufacturers and retailers; leverages the company’s go-to-market engine to uniquely address the significant portion of its cloud infrastructure customer base that requires both technologies.\n\n\nWith strong leadership now in place for recently formed Flash and HDD business units, Western Digital is positioned to drive highly focused product development in each technology franchise and deliver customers industry-leading innovation at cost-efficient scale.\n\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWestern Digital Corp. (Nasdaq: WDC) today announced that it has hired 20-year Dell Technologies veteran, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, as executive vice president and general manager of Western Digital’s HDD business unit. Most recently, Gorakhpurwalla was president and general manager of Servers and Infrastructure Systems at Dell EMC, where he led a $20 billion business that included the company’s PowerEdge Server, Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Extreme Scale Infrastructure business units as well as research and development for its Storage and Data Protection Platform. In his new role leading Western Digital’s HDD franchise, Gorakhpurwalla is responsible for all HDD portfolio strategy, product development and business results and will lead engineering and product management teams focused on delivering the company’s HDD innovation.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201028006142/en/Western Digital Corp. has hired 20-year Dell Technologies veteran, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, as executive vice president and general manager of Western Digital’s HDD business unit. (Photo: Business Wire)\n“HDD innovation is critical to achieving the enormous storage capacity demands for the segment of the market that provides public cloud infrastructure through a development pr...