Ahmed Shihab

Ahmed Shihab is the Chief Product Officer at Western Digital. In this role, he is responsible for leading engineering and product strategy as well as innovation and the development of current and future Western Digital products and solutions.

With over 30 years of experience across product design and business leadership, Ahmed has consistently delivered on the needs of customers and the business by developing a culture of quality and agile execution.

Prior to Western Digital, Ahmed served as Corporate Vice President of Azure Storage at Microsoft, where he led the engineering and operations teams for object and block storage, driving the design and development of Microsoft's cloud storage solutions. Previously he served as Vice President, Infrastructure Hardware at AWS, where he led innovation, building, and operations of AWS's compute and storage global fleet. He also held leadership roles at NetApp and Xyratex. Ahmed holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton in England.