Jerald Kagele

Jerald Kagele is Executive Vice President (EVP), Customer Organization. In this position, Kagele has responsibility for the customer relationship in cloud, enterprise, OEM, client and consumer markets globally. This responsibility includes revenue generation and all go to market activities: sales, demand generation and customer support for all Western Digital products and services. He also serves as Vice Chairman of UNIS WDC Storage Co. Ltd.

Kagele joined Western Digital in 2009 after more than 20 years of experience in the worldwide channel. He most recently served as President of North America for Bell Microproducts where he was responsible for the distribution business in the United States and Canada. Prior to Bell Microproducts he held executive positions at Avnet in both Europe and North America with the most recent being Sr. Vice President of Applied Computing Solutions, Europe.