David V. Goeckeler

Career

1. 2025 – now
   Sandisk Corporationsrc
   Chairman & CEO
   From the separation from Western Digital in February 2025
2. 2020 – 2025
   Western Digital Corporationsrc
   CEO and director (March 2020 to February 2025)
   Appointed 2020-03-04, effective 2020-03-09, succeeding Stephen Milligan; also chair of the board's Executive Committee (WDC-8K-2020)
3. 2017 – 2020
   Cisco Systems, Inc.src
   EVP & General Manager, Networking and Security Business
4. 2016 – 2017
   Cisco Systems, Inc.src
   SVP & General Manager, Networking and Security Business (May 2016 to July 2017)
5. 2014 – 2016
   Cisco Systems, Inc.src
   SVP & General Manager, Security Business (November 2014 to May 2016)
6. 2000 – 2014
   Cisco Systems, Inc.src
   VP, Engineering and Security Business, and other engineering leadership roles from May 2000
7. 1991 – 2000
   BellSouthsrc
   VP, Product Software; earlier senior member of the technical staff
   Joined 1991; the 8-K does not date his exit, taken here as his May 2000 move to Cisco
8. 1986 – 1991
   Bell Laboratoriessrc
   Software engineer

Achievements

• Ran Western Digital for five years and led the separation of its flash business into Sandisk, completed February 2025src
• Sandisk GAAP net income went from a $1.641bn loss in FY2025 to $11.433bn in FY2026, his first full year as a standalone companysrc
• Ran Cisco's networking and security business as EVP & GM from 2017 to 2020 after building its security businesssrc
• Chairs the Semiconductor Industry Association board and the U.S.-Japan Business Councilsrc
• Say-on-pay passed with 98.4% of for and against votes at Sandisk's first annual meeting, 2025-11-18src

Education

• Columbia University and University of California, Berkeley, MBA Business Administration (joint program; one MBA from each)src
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MS Computer Sciencesrc
• University of Missouri-Columbia, BS Computer Sciencesrc
• University of Missouri-Columbia, BA Mathematicssrc

Background

• Family The proxy states there are no family relationships among the executive officers; the 2020 WDC appointment 8-K said the same for WDCsrc
• Boards Director of Automatic Data Processing since February 2022; director of Western Digital 2020 to 2025src
• Boards Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association board and of the U.S.-Japan Business Councilsrc
• Other Engineer by training: began as a software engineer at Bell Labs and spent most of his Cisco years in engineering leadership before general managementsrc
• Other No employment agreement with Sandisk; covered by the Executive Severance Plan and a double-trigger change-in-control plan with no tax gross-upssrc