Executive Vice President and Chief of Global Operations · Western Digital Corp. (WDC)

Vidyadhara Gubbi

A named executive officer of Western Digital in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2025 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,118,385

8th of 9 named executive officers at Western Digital by FY2025 total.

9 named officers on file for Western Digital, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed October 5, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Vidyadhara Gubbi compensation by year

Western Digital Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Western Digital reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025FY2026
Salary$423,846$544,424
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$3,165,490$1,791,995
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$520,470$1,088,846
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$8,579$17,461
Total$4,118,385$3,442,726

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Western Digital Corp. DEF 14A filed October 5, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-064909, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Western Digital Corp. filed document, accession 0001628280-26-064909. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed October 5, 2026.

$4.1M
$3.4M
FY25
FY26
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2026 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU36,502$19,674,578—
RSU24,915$13,429,185—
RSU16,592$8,943,088—
RSU12,613$6,798,407—
RSU11,535$6,217,365—
RSU1,197$645,183—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Western Digital Corp.'s FY2026 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Western Digital’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
David GoeckelerFormer Chief Executive Officer$24,931,456
Irving TanChief Executive Officer$11,534,369
Kris SennesaelExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$10,216,791
Robert SoderberyFormer Executive Vice President and General Manager, Flash Business$8,242,382
Ahmed ShihabChief Product Officer$7,436,766
Wissam JabreFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$7,038,803
Cynthia TregillisExecutive Vice President Chief Legal Officer and Secretary$4,462,029
Vidyadhara Gubbi · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief of Global Operations$4,118,385
Don BennettSenior Vice President, Finance and Former Interim Chief Financial Officer$2,161,294

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