Ray Bukaty is a business executive and corporate lawyer who retired as Senior Vice President, Administration, and General Counsel of Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC).  Ray served as part of the senior management team at WD that executed a successful turn-around and grew the company over his tenure from 1999 to 2010.  Ray led the Legal, Corporate Services, Risk Management, and Human Resources departments at Western Digital.  Before his role at WD, Ray served as Assistant General Counsel at Fluor Corporation and as a principal at the Los Angeles law firm Riordan & McKinzie (now Morgan, Lewis & Bockius), where his practice focused on business transactions and securities issues for public and emerging growth companies. Ray’s service to Mercy House is inspired by Catholic social teaching that we are all created in the image and likeness of God. Each of us holds inherent human dignity, and we are obligated to care for the poor and unhoused among us. Ray holds a combined J.D. / M.B.A. degree from the University of Southern California and a B.A. from Stanford University.  Residing in Irvine, he delights in his most important role as a husband, father, and grandfather. Ray served as the Chairman of the Board of Mercy House for fiscal years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024.

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