Tara Long is a Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Seagate. Tara works on Seagate’s corporate strategy, mergers and acquisition activities, equity investments, licensing and strategic partnerships. Tara has over 20 years of experience researching, financing and advising technology companies.Prior to Seagate in 2006, Tara was a Managing Director at MCG Capital Corporation, where she performed competitive and industry analysis to define business opportunities.Tara was a Managing Director with C.E. Unterberg Towbin, where she performed due diligence and made recommendations on investments, as well as advised on mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments.She has also worked at Montgomery Securities and The Washington Service, an economic research firm located in Washington, DC.Tara holds a MBA from University of Maryland and a BA in Economics from Marquette University.