CTO Bob Whitmore to Leave Seagate

In a Form 8-K SEC filing, published on May 7, 2013, Seagate Technology plc stated:

On May 7, 2013 Robert W. Whitmore, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Seagate Technology plc announced that he plans to step down from his current role as Chief Technology Officer effective July 1, 2013. Prior to that date Mr. Whitmore will work with William D. Mosley, Executive Vice President, Operations, to ensure a smooth transition. After July 1, 2013 the functions previously under Mr. Whitmore’s oversight will become the responsibility of Mr. Mosley as our Executive Vice President responsible for the Company’s Operations and Research and Development. Mr. Whitmore will remain at the Company after July 1, 2013 in a senior technical advisory capacity.

Whitmore, 50, has been the CTO and EVP of Seagate in March 2011. He served as an EVP of product and process development at the company since February 8, 2006. He was the CEO of New SAC since February 8, 2006,
where he was responsible for managing worldwide product and process development for design centers located in Minnesota, …
Colorado and Singapore. He served as a SVP of product
and process development at Seagate from October 2004 to
February 8, 2006. His experience includes nearly 20 years in the disk drive industry. He was SVP of product development engineering from 2002 to 2004 for enterprise, personal and consumer storage, where he managed all disk drive products engineering organizations. From 1999 to 2002, he served as VP of enterprise storage design engineering, where he was
responsible for the launch of multiple key products. He served as VP for Twin Cities manufacturing operations of Seagate, where he was responsible for all enterprise storage products since 1997.

His total calculated compensation was $3,067,987 in FY2012.

Mosley, 44, has served as EVP operations since March 2011. Prior to that, he was as EVP sales and marketing from September 2009 through March 2011; EVP sales and marketing and product line management from February 2009 to September 2009; SVP global disk storage operations from 2007 to 2009; VP, R&D, engineering from 2002 to 2007; senior director, R&D, engineering from 2000 to 2002; director, R&D, engineering from 1998 to 2000; and manager, operations and manufacturing from 1996 to 1998.
Prior to joining Seagate, Mosley was a research physicist at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory and a senior engineer at Micropolis and
Conner Peripherals.


Total compensation was  $1,896,121 in 2011 and he owns 15,246 shares of Seagate.