Dr. Hossein Moghadam is a long-time industry veteran whose storage background spans more than three decades. Moghadam is responsible for Western Digital's worldwide engineering and research and development program. He joined the company in 2000 as vice president of engineering and San Jose site manager. Before joining WD, Moghadam was with Terastor Corp., serving as senior vice president of engineering. Previously, he spent nine years with Seagate where his most recent position was CTO and senior vice president of research and development. Moghadam began working for Seagate in 1989 as a result of a series of acquisitions, including Rigidyne Corp., a storage hardware technology company, which he founded in 1986. His 17 years previous to Rigidyne Corp. were spent in various management roles with Pertec Peripherals, Control Data, Honeywell and General Electric.