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Available Information
We maintain an Internet web site at http://www.westerndigital.com. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available on our web site at http://www.westerndigital.com, free of
charge, as soon as reasonably practicable after the electronic filing of these reports with the SEC. Any materials we file with
the SEC are available at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. Additional
information about the operation of the Public Reference Room can also be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.
In addition, the SEC maintains a web site at http://www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements,
and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC, including us.
Executive Officers of the Registrant
Listed below are all of our executive officers as of June 29, 2007, followed by a brief account of their business
experience during the past five years. Executive officers are normally appointed annually by the Board of Directors at a
meeting of the directors immediately following the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. There are no family relationships
among these officers nor any arrangements or understandings between any officer and any other person pursuant to which
an officer was selected.
Name Age Position
John F. Coyne .................... 57 Chief Executive Officer
Raymond M. Bukaty ................ 50 Senior Vice President, Administration, General
Counsel and Secretary
Timothy M. Leyden(1) .............. 55 Executive Vice President, Finance
Stephen D. Milligan(1) .............. 44 Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Hossein Moghadam ................ 63 Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
(1) On April 26, 2007, we announced that Mr. Milligan will leave his position as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer of Western Digital, and that his employment by us will terminate, effective August 31, 2007. Our Board of
Directors has appointed Mr. Leyden to succeed Mr. Milligan as Chief Financial Officer of Western Digital, effective
September 1, 2007, or earlier if Mr. Milligan resigns as Chief Financial Officer of Western Digital prior to August 31,
2007.
Mr. Coyne, 57, has been a director since October 2006. He joined us in 1983 and has served in various executive
capacities. From November 2002 until June 2005, Mr. Coyne served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations,
from June 2005 until September 2005, he served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations and from
November 2005 until June 2006, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. Effective June
2006, he was named President and Chief Operating Officer. In January 2007, he became President and Chief Executive
Officer.
Mr. Bukaty, 50, joined us in 1999 as Vice President, Corporate Law. He was appointed to Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary in March 2002, and to Senior Vice President in January 2004, and assumed his current position as
Senior Vice President, Administration, General Counsel and Secretary in October 2004.
Mr. Leyden, 55, re-joined us in May 2007 as Executive Vice President, Finance. From December 2001 to May 2007,
Mr. Leyden served in senior finance capacities at Sage Software Inc. and Sage Software of California, subsidiaries of Sage
Group PLC, a U.K. public company that supplies accounting and business management software to small and medium-
sized businesses, including as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer from May 2004 to May 2007,
and as Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer from December 2001 to May 2004. Mr. Leyden previously
served in various worldwide finance, manufacturing and information technology capacities with us from 1983 to
December 2000.
Mr. Milligan, 44, joined us in September 2002 as Vice President, Finance. He was appointed Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer in January 2004. Before joining us, Mr. Milligan served in a variety of senior finance capacities
at Dell between April 1997 and September 2002, including Assistant Controller, European Controller, North European
Finance Director, Director of Finance for the Americas, and Controller for Dell Financial Services.
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