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Corporation as Vice President and General Manager. Mr. Lambert began his career with NCR Corporation, where he
served for 16 years in product management, sales and software engineering capacities. He is also a director of
Vignette Corp.
Roger H. Moore, 64, has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2000. Mr. Moore served as
President and Chief Executive Officer of Illuminet Holdings, Inc., a provider of network, database and billing
services to the communications industry, from January 1996 until it was acquired by Verisign, Inc. in December
2001 and he retired at that time. He was a member of Illuminet’s Board of Directors from July 1998 until December
2001. From September 1998 to October 1998, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and as a director of
VINA Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications equipment company. From November 1994 to December 1995, he
served as Vice President of major accounts of Northern Telecom. He is also a director of Arbinet-thexchange, Inc.,
Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., Tut Systems, Inc., and Verisign, Inc.
Thomas E. Pardun, 63, has been a member of our Board of Directors since 1993. Mr. Pardun served as Chairman
of our Board of Directors from January 2000 until November 2001 and as Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of Edge2net, Inc., a provider of voice, data and video services, from November 2000 until
September 2001. Mr. Pardun was President of MediaOne International Asia Pacific (previously U.S. West
International, Asia-Pacific, a subsidiary of U.S. West, Inc.), an owner/operator of international properties in cable
television, telephone services, and wireless communications companies, from May 1996 until his retirement in July
2000. Before joining U.S. West, Mr. Pardun was President of the Central Group for Sprint, as well as President of
Sprint’s West Division and Senior Vice President of Business Development for United Telecom, a predecessor
company to Sprint. Mr. Pardun also held a variety of management positions during a 19-year tenure with IBM,
concluding as Director of product-line evaluation. He is also a director of CalAmp Corporation, Exabyte
Corporation and Occam Networks, Inc.
Arif Shakeel, 51, has been a member of our Board of Directors since September 2004. Mr. Shakeel joined us in
1985 and has served in various executive capacities. From February 2000 until April 2001, he served as Executive
Vice President and General Manager of Hard Disk Drive Solutions, from April 2001 until January 2003, he served
as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and from January 2002 until June 2006, he served as
President. He was named Chief Executive Officer in October 2005.
Director Independence
Our Board of Directors has reviewed and discussed information provided by the directors and our company with
regard to each director’s business and personal activities as they may relate to Western Digital or its management. Based
on its review of this information and all other relevant facts and circumstances, our Board of Directors has affirmatively
determined that, except for serving as a member of our Board of Directors, none of Messrs. Behrendt, DeNero, Kimsey,
Lambert, Moore and Pardun or Ms. Cote has any relationship, material or immaterial, with Western Digital either
directly or as a partner, shareholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with Western Digital, and that
each of such directors qualifies as “independent” as defined by the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange.
Messrs. Massengill, Shakeel and Coyne are each full-time, executive-level employees of Western Digital; therefore,
Messrs. Massengill, Shakeel and Coyne are not “independent” as defined by the corporate governance listing standards of
the New York Stock Exchange.
Committees
Our Board of Directors has standing Executive, Audit, Compensation and Governance Committees. The Gov-
ernance Committee, among other things, performs functions similar to a nominating committee. Our Board of Directors
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