Western Digital Appoints Tim Leyden As Its New CFO

(RTTNews) - Western Digital Corp. (WDC) said Thursday that it has appointed Tim Leyden as chief financial officer, effective November 18, and that Jim Murphy will succeed Leyden as president of the company's WD subsidiary.

Leyden will succeed Wolfgang Nickl, who is resigning as CFO, effective November 17, to join ASML in his native Europe. Leyden, 62, has served Western Digital for more than 23 years in a variety of leadership positions, including tenures as CFO from 2007 to 2010 and chief operating officer from 2010 to 2012. At the time of Western Digital's acquisition of HGST in 2012, Leyden was named president of the WD subsidiary, leading that organization during a time of outstanding financial performance, operational excellence, and full recovery from the historic floods in Thailand. Murphy, 54, has served as executive vice president of the WD subsidiary since 2008. He joined the company from Read-Rite Corp., where he headed the worldwide sales and supply/demand organizations. Murphy began his career with IBM.