Supermicro promised a new CFO in December 2024. A $2.5 billion smuggling case and a co-founder’s arrest later, it has one

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    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/15/supermicro-new-cfo-mark-long-western-digital-nvidia-smuggling/",
    "title": "Supermicro promised a new CFO in December 2024. A $2.5 billion smuggling case and a co-founder’s arrest later, it has one",
    "author": "Amanda Gerut",
    "contact": "Mark Long",
    "excerpt": "Super Micro Computer , the troubled hardware ally of Nvidia and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has finally hired a new head of finance. The appointment comes nearly two years after a board-level independent investigation led the company to commit to “immediately” begin searching for a replacement for longtime chief financial officer David Weigand. Mark Long, 59, replaced Weigand as CFO on Wednesday - “effective immediately,” according to Supermicro - and he brings with him a stack of bona fides. He previously served as CFO and chief strategy officer at $130 billion data storage company Western Digital , and he runs an investment and advisory firm, Prime Impact Capital. Long also served a stint as co-CEO and CFO of a SPAC he co-founded that raised $300 million before it merged in 2023 with a Beijing-based auto insurance technology platform , Cheche Technology. He joins Supermicro at an incredibly complex moment for the hardware maker with deep ties to Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang and Musk’s xAI , which was folded into SpaceX. Long’s record as a veteran executive and tech investor are likely intended to help clear the cloud that has hovered over Supermicro for the past two years and to burnish its credibility with skeptical investors. In March, the Department of Justice and FBI indicted and arrested Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw in a shocking smuggling case allegedly...",
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