ORANGE COUNTY

Irwin Federman, president and chief executive officer of Monolithic Memories, Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of Western Digital Corp. His election was based on his reputation as a “seasoned high-tech executive,” said A.J. Moyer, vice president, finance and chief financial officer of Western Digital, an Irvine-based manufacturer of computer components.

Before joining Monolithic in 1971 as vice president of finance, Federman served as chief financial officer of Optics Technology in Palo Alto and as vice president of finance and co-founder of Data Recognition Corp. He was named president of Monolithic, a Santa Clara-based semi-conductor manufacturer, in 1979.