Western Digital Management

Management criteria checks 1/4

Western Digital's CEO is Irving Tan, appointed in Oct 2024, has a tenure of 1.92 years. total yearly compensation is $11.53M, comprised of 7.2% salary and 92.8% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.16% of the company’s shares, worth THB9.35B. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 1.6 years and 7.8 years respectively.

Key information

Irving Tan

Chief executive officer

US$11.5m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	7.25%
CEO tenure	1.9yrs
CEO ownership	0.2%
Management average tenure	1.6yrs
Board average tenure	7.8yrs

Recent management updates

No updates

Recent updates

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has Irving Tan's remuneration changed compared to Western Digital's earnings?
Date	Total Compensation	Salary	Company Earnings
Jul 03 2026	n/a	n/a	US$9b
Apr 03 2026	n/a	n/a	US$6b
Jan 02 2026	n/a	n/a	US$4b
Oct 03 2025	n/a	n/a	US$3b
Jun 27 2025	US$12m	US$836k	US$2b

Compensation vs Market: Irving's total compensation ($USD11.53M) is above average for companies of similar size in the TH market ($USD212.06K).

Compensation vs Earnings: Insufficient data to compare Irving's compensation with company performance.

CEO

Irving Tan (56 yo)

1.9yrs

Tenure

US$11,534,369

Compensation

Mr. Tiang Yew Tan, also known as Irving, is Chief Executive Officer of Western Digital Corporation from October 10, 2024 and serves as its Director since February 2025. He was Executive Vice President of G...

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Tiang Yew Tan	CEO & Director	1.9yrs	US$11.53m	0.16% THB 9.4b
Kris A. Sennesael	Executive VP & CFO	1.3yrs	US$10.22m	0.012% THB 679.3m
Vidyadhara Gubbi	Executive VP & Chief of Global Operations	1.6yrs	US$4.71m	0.023% THB 1.3b
Cynthia Tregillis	Executive VP	2.7yrs	US$4.46m	0.031% THB 1.8b
Ahmed Shihab	Executive VP & Chief Product Officer	1.5yrs	US$7.77m	0.045% THB 2.6b
C. Wesley Scott	Chief Investment Officer	no data	no data	no data
Brad Feller	Senior VP & Chief Accounting Officer	less than a year	no data	no data
Sesh Tirumala	Chief Information Officer	no data	no data	no data
Ambrish Srivastava	Vice President of Investor Relations	no data	no data	no data
Brian Davis	Executive VP and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer	1.6yrs	no data	0.028% THB 1.6b
Jeremy Faulk	Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development	1.7yrs	no data	no data
Katie Watson	Chief Human Resources Officer	1.6yrs	no data	no data

1.6yrs

Average Tenure

56.5yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: WDC03's management team is not considered experienced ( 1.6 years average tenure), which suggests a new team.

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Tiang Yew Tan	CEO & Director	1.6yrs	US$11.53m	0.16% THB 9.4b
Tunc Doluca	Independent Director	8.1yrs	US$354.24k	0.011% THB 601.9m
Matthew Massengill	Independent Director	26.7yrs	US$474.96k	0.0020% THB 112.4m
Stephanie Streeter	Lead Independent Director	7.8yrs	US$417.44k	0.0097% THB 553.2m
Bruce Kiddoo	Independent Director	1.6yrs	US$273.21k	0.00064% THB 36.7m
Martin Cole	Independent Chairman of the Board	11.8yrs	US$456.95k	0.0054% THB 310.1m
Kimberly Alexy	Independent Director	7.8yrs	US$364.98k	0.0071% THB 408.7m
Roxanne Oulman	Independent Director	1.6yrs	US$275.07k	0.0011% THB 61.3m
Manuvir Das	Independent Director	less than a year	no data	no data

7.8yrs

Average Tenure

65yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: WDC03's board of directors are considered experienced (7.8 years average tenure).

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/09/10 04:11
End of Day Share Price	2026/09/10 00:00
Earnings	2026/07/03
Annual Earnings	2026/07/03

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Western Digital Corporation is covered by 50 analysts. 21 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
James Fontanelli	Arete Research Services LLP
James Kelleher	Argus Research Company
Tristan Gerra	Baird