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10 Western Digital procurement leaders

Vice president of HDD strategic sourcing and procurement, senior director of strategic sourcing, director of strategic sourcing for heads and media and director of logistics strategic sourcing are among the current titles held by these Western Digital procurement leaders. A reader can learn how procurement leaders work at Western Digital from people who have held the role.

10 professionals2 companiesData retrieved October 23, 2026

Professionals to explore

  1. Abhinav Gupta, MBA, CSCP

    Experience: Director, Fab Capital Equipment Procurement Supply Chain · WD

    Abhinav Gupta has been Director, Fab Capital Equipment Procurement Supply Chain at WD (Western Digital) since September 2025, based in Hillsboro, Oregon. Abhinav Gupta was Sr. Manager, Strategic Commodities - Supply Chain at Lam Research from 2024 to 2025 and Engineering Manager - Supply Chain at Intel from 2022 to 2024.

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  2. Audrey Gorham

    Experience: Vice President Digital Transformation & Operations Procurement · WD

    Audrey Gorham has been Vice President Digital Transformation & Operations Procurement at WD (Western Digital) since October 2023, based in Phoenix. Audrey Gorham was Digital Transformation & Analytics Leader Procurement, IT, & Customer Experience at Honeywell Technologies from 2020 to 2023 and Vice President Procurement and Supplier Management there from 2018 to 2020.

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  3. Brandon Lee

    Experience: Regional Sr. Director, Global Procurement and Strategy Sourcing · WD

    Brandon Lee has been Regional Sr. Director, Global Procurement and Strategy Sourcing at WD (Western Digital) since April 2017, based in Penang, Malaysia. Brandon Lee was Commodity Director, Asian SCM at WD from 2011 to 2017 and Sr. Manager Commodity, Asian SCM from 2008 to 2010, and the profile headline reads Global Sr. Director, Procurement and Strategy Sourcing.

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  4. Damian Flynn

    Experience: Director Procurement Operations and Projects · Western Digital

    Damian Flynn has been Director Procurement Operations and Projects at Western Digital since February 2015, based in Ladera Ranch, California. Damian Flynn was Supply Chain Enterprise Risk Manager at WD from 2012 to 2015 and Senior Materials Program Manager at WD from 2008 to 2012, and the profile headline reads Director - Procurement Operations at Western Digital.

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  5. John Callahan

    Experience: Sr. Director Procurement- HDD PCBA, Platform and Consumer Solutions CM/ODM Management · WD

    John Callahan has been Sr. Director Procurement- HDD PCBA, Platform and Consumer Solutions CM/ODM Management at WD (Western Digital) since November 2022, based in Oceanside, California. John Callahan was Director, Global Supply Chain - System Operations at Facebook from 2020 to 2021 and Director, Sourcing ODM/OEM & Integration at Facebook from 2012 to 2020.

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  6. Josh Dykstra, MBA

    Experience: Director, Strategic Sourcing - Heads and Media · WD

    Josh Dykstra has been Director, Strategic Sourcing - Heads and Media at WD (Western Digital) since November 2025, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Josh Dykstra was Engineering Commodity Manager - Advanced Packaging at Intel from 2024 to 2025 and Capital Equipment Commodity Manager - Advanced Packaging at Intel from 2018 to 2022.

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  7. JS Palani

    Experience: Director, Strategic Sourcing - Corporate Real Estate & Workplace · WD

    JS Palani has been Director, Strategic Sourcing - Corporate Real Estate & Workplace at WD (Western Digital) since May 2021, based in Penang, Malaysia. JS Palani was Global Category Manager (Processing Equipment) at Nestrade (Nestlé Group) from 2017 to 2019 and Procurement Director - Global Facilities & Construction at SunPower from 2015 to 2017.

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  8. Maria Mellon Heyes

    Experience: Sr. Director of Strategic Sourcing · WD

    Maria Mellon Heyes has been Sr. Director of Strategic Sourcing at WD (Western Digital) since January 2008, based in the United States, and the profile headline lists global REO, MRO, logistics, packaging and travel. Maria Mellon Heyes was Sr. Purchasing Manager at Applied Materials from 1991 to 2006.

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  9. Martha Dudek

    Experience: Vice President - HDD Strategic Sourcing & Procurement · WD

    Martha Dudek has been Vice President - HDD Strategic Sourcing & Procurement at WD (Western Digital) since October 2024, based in Portland, Oregon, and the profile headline reads Vice President - Strategic Supply Chain and Procurement. The profile describes global experience in operations, strategic sourcing, procurement, quality management, program management, finance and P&L oversight.

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  10. Ryan Maddern

    Experience: Director, Logistics Strategic Sourcing · WD

    Ryan Maddern has been Director, Logistics Strategic Sourcing at WD (Western Digital) since January 2024, based in the New York City area, with a profile focused on logistics procurement for freight forwarding, truckload and courier services. Ryan Maddern was Director, Global Logistics Procurement at Pitney Bowes from 2017 to 2024.

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Match the person's scope, whether hard drive components such as heads, media and circuit boards, fab capital equipment, logistics, or indirect spend such as real estate and travel, to the question you have. Check when each person's role started to judge how recent their view of the work is.

Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01What did you change first when you took on your current sourcing or procurement role, and why?
  2. 02How do you balance cost, supply security and supplier relationships when sourcing hard drive components?
  3. 03What has your own work taught you about measuring the results of a sourcing program?

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