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Guerrino De Luca, Italian national, joined the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer in
February 1998, and became an executive member of the Board of Directors in June 1998. Mr. De Luca is
responsible for the worldwide affairs and operations of Logitech. He manages both the strategic activities of the
Company as well as the day-to-day operations. Prior to joining Logitech, Mr. De Luca served as Executive Vice
President of Worldwide Marketing for Apple Computer, Inc., a U.S. personal computer company, from February
1997 to September 1997, and as President of Claris Corporation, a U.S. personal computing software vendor,
from May 1994 to February 1997. Prior to this, Mr. De Luca held various positions with Apple in the United
States and in Europe. Mr. De Luca holds a BS degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome,
Italy.
Frank Gill, U.S. national, has been a non-executive Director of the Company since June 1999 and serves as
Lead Independent Director. Mr. Gill served in a variety of positions in sales and marketing, product development
and manufacturing operations at Intel Corporation, a U.S. semiconductor chip maker, from 1975 until his
retirement in June 1998, including Executive Vice President in 1996, General Manager of the Internet and
Communications Group from 1995, and from 1990 through 1994, General Manager of Intel’s Systems Group.
Mr. Gill holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. Mr. Gill has
informed the Company of his intention to retire from the Board of Directors after the June 2006 Annual General
Meeting of the Company.
Shin’ichi Okamoto, Japanese national, has been a non-executive Director of the Company since June 2004.
Since September 2003, Mr. Okamoto has served as a research and development consultant. Prior to that, he
served in executive and management positions with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., the interactive gaming
division of Sony Corporation, a Japanese consumer electronics company. During his time with Sony,
Mr. Okamoto served as the Chief Technology Officer from April 2001 to August 2003, Senior Vice President of
Research and Development from April 1999 to September 2002, Vice President of Software Development from
October 1998 to April 1999, and Director of Development from December 1994 to October 1998. Mr. Okamoto
holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Chemistry from the Waseda University in Tokyo.
Monika Ribar, Swiss national, has been a non-executive Director of the Company since June 2004. Since
June 2005 Ms. Ribar has served as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance of Panalpina
Management Ltd., a Swiss freight forwarding and logistics services provider. She has been a member of
Panalpina’s executive board since February 2000, and served as Panalpina’s Chief Information Officer from
February 2000 to June 2005. From June 1995 to February 2000, she served as Panalpina’s Corporate Controller,
and from 1991 to 1995 served in project management positions at Panalpina. Prior to joining Panalpina, she
worked at Fides Group (now KPMG Switzerland), a professional service firm, serving as Head of Strategic
Planning and was employed by the BASF Group, a German chemical products company. Ms. Ribar holds a
Masters degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Messrs. Bengier, Bousquette, Chua, Gill and Okamoto, and Ms. Ribar have never had management
responsibility at Logitech or at any of its subsidiaries, and do not have any immediate family members who are
employees at Logitech. The Board has determined that they are independent Directors under the rules of the
Nasdaq Stock Market. If elected by shareholders at the June 2006 Annual General Meeting, Mr. Chang would be
considered a non-independent member of the Board. Other than as described in the biographies above, none of
the Directors or Director-elect of the Company has significant business connections with the issuer or one of the
issuer’s subsidiaries.
3.2 Involvements Outside Logitech of the Members of the Board
Gary F. Bengier currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, a U.S. private,
non-profit, multidisciplinary research and education center, and is Chair of the Bengier Foundation, a private
charitable foundation.
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