Monday, December 18, 2017
Queen's University Belfast Honors Seagate's Stephen Luczo
American-born businessman, and Executive Chairman of the Board at Seagate Technology, Stephen Luczo, will today receive an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast. Leading data storage company, Seagate Technology has over 40,000 employees worldwide and has a revenue of $10.8 billion. Mr. Luczo served as CEO of Seagate from 1998-2004 and from 2009-2017 and led the management buyout in 2000, which was the largest technology buyout at the time. Under Mr. Luczo’s leadership as CEO from January 2009 through the end of Seagate’s fiscal 2017, Seagate’s overall Total Shareholder Return (TSR) was in the top 15 companies in the S&P 500 Index. He was appointed Executive Chairman of Seagate in 2017 and serves as Chairman of the Board. Seagate has a manufacturing plant based in Northern Ireland and is one of the North West’s biggest employers.