Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) announced the appointment of Manuvir Das to its board of directors, effective May 26, 2026, according to a company statement.

Das brings experience from senior leadership positions at NVIDIA, Dell EMC, and Microsoft. He currently serves as an Operating Partner in the Digital Infrastructure group at Stonepeak Partners LP, a role he assumed in April 2025.

Most recently, Das served as Head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA, where he led the company's enterprise AI strategy and launched the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. Prior to NVIDIA, he led Dell EMC's unstructured data storage business, overseeing the scale-out Isilon NAS platform and the scale-out ECS Object platform. Earlier in his career, he spent 14 years at Microsoft as an engineering leader in the development of Microsoft Azure.

"Manuvir is a highly respected technology leader with a strong track record of driving innovation across some of the world's leading AI, cloud, and enterprise infrastructure companies," said Marty Cole, chairman of Western Digital.

Das holds master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

With this appointment, Western Digital's board comprises nine directors, eight of whom are external and independent.