Martin Fink was previously Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and Director of Hewlett Packard Labs, the company’s exploratory and advanced research group. Martin worked closely with the company’s strategy and research and development teams, and Martin was responsible for leading technology strategy and commercializing the company’s intellectual property to accelerate innovation across Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  Martin retired from HPE in 2016, and became Western Digital's CTO in 2017. 

Martin joined HP in 1985 and has held a wide range of leadership roles throughout his tenure. He drove the strategy and execution of HP’s Cloud business, launching the HP Helion portfolio of cloud products and services. Martin also led the open source and Linux strategy across the company. As head of the NonStop Enterprise Division, Fink was responsible for the development, delivery, and marketing of the HP Integrity NonStop family of servers, database, and middleware software and solutions. He oversaw the Atalla Security Products line of network security processors for banking, Internet, and enterprise applications. 

Martin has an MBA from Colorado State University, where he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma, and is listed as co-inventor on two patents related to online e-commerce. He is also the author of “The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source”, published by Prentice Hall. He graduated in electronics engineering from Loyalist College in Ontario, Canada.