Jackie is Vice President of Global Operations Strategy and Corporate Sustainability at Western Digital, where she leads the company’s enterprise-wide sustainability agenda and operational transformation.
Under Jackie’s leadership, Western Digital collaborated with industry partners, pioneered the first large-scale recovery of rare earth metals from data center electronic waste in the U.S., setting a new benchmark for sustainable impact.
Jackie is responsible for driving initiatives that decarbonize operations and the entire value chain, advancing circularity innovation, and reporting progress across emissions, waste, and water reduction. Western Digital has achieved measurable progress toward all publicly committed sustainability goals.
Jackie’s leadership and groundbreaking work in sustainability earned international recognition and the Silver Award for 2025 North America’s Chief Sustainability Officer.
Jackie is a passionate leader with a proven track record of achieving world-class impact through technology adoption, business process excellence, and cultural change. She immersed herself in Western Digital’s factories, a hands-on approach that helped earn seven World Economic Forum “Lighthouse” recognitions for deploying Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, advancing sustainable manufacturing practices, upskilling the workforce, and achieving operational excellence.
Widely recognized as an industry expert, Jackie serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains and the executive committee of the U.S. Center for Advanced Manufacturing.
Jackie holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Stanford, a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from UCLA, and completed executive education at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.