History (1993): Chuck Haggerty Chairman and CEO, Western Digital

At Western Digital (Irvine, CA), Charles A. Haggerty, president and COO, is now the new chairman and CEO.

He came from IBM to WD in June last year.

Roger Johnson was the preceding COB and CEO, before joining the General Services Administration.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 67, published on August 1993.

Note: At 57, Haggerty retired in June 1999. At 65, he died on February 1, 2011, at home. He was born on June 1, 1945, in Spalding, UK, to Charles M. and Edwina (Sharp) Haggerty.