As executive vice-president of strategy and corporate development, Long will lead Western Digital Capital.

Western Digital, a Nasdaq-listed memory storage provider, last month set up a corporate venturing unit led by Mark Long, and disclosed its first deal was Skyera.

As executive vice-president of strategy and corporate development, Long leads Western Digital Capital, a strategic investment fund targeting companies within the broader storage industry and related markets aligned to the parent’s business.

Long was previously senior vice-president of strategy and corporate development at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), which was acquired by Western Digital…