Steven Craig VP Quality at Hitachi GST

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced the appointment of Steven Craig to the position of vice president, quality. In this position, Craig will manage quality assurance across the entire component technology and product portfolio.

Steven brings strong leadership, strategic vision, technical depth and worldwide customer support expertise to the Hitachi executive team. His career is steeped in customer service and support leadership, both inside and outside the hard disk drive industry.

"Steven’s appointment will ensure that Hitachi continues to meet the high quality benchmarks that our customers have come to expect from us," said Hiroaki Nakanishi, CEO of Hitachi GST. "We are excited to have him join our team and look forward to his leadership in elevating what is already recognized as a world-class quality and customer service organization."

Craig comes to Hitachi GST from Dot Hill Corporation, where he served as vice president of service and support. At Dot Hill, Craig provided cross-functional leadership and direction to service and support and was responsible for driving quality and customer engineering.

Prior to his tenure with Dot Hill, Craig spent 11 years at Maxtor Corporation, where he advanced from account manager to senior director, global accounts and, ultimately, to vice president, worldwide customer engineering. Prior to joining Maxtor, Steven worked in various engineering positions at Conner Peripherals in the UK and in Houston.

Craig will be based at Hitachi GST in San Jose, CA.