WD appoints Manuvir Das to its board of directors, effective May 26, 2026

Western Digital announced on May 28, 2026 that its board had appointed Manuvir Das as a director, effective May 26. Das is an Operating Partner at Stonepeak Partners and previously held senior roles at NVIDIA, Dell EMC and Microsoft. The appointment adds enterprise AI and storage experience to the board, which the company framed as relevant to its data-infrastructure strategy.

• Board appointment effective May 26, 2026; announced May 28, 2026
• Previously Head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA and led unstructured data storage at Dell EMC
• Spent 14 years at Microsoft, including engineering leadership on Azure
• Currently an Operating Partner in Stonepeak Partners' digital infrastructure group