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Table of Contents
Mr. Brian S. Dexheimer
joined us as a result of our acquisition of Imprimis in 1989. His career includes more than 21 years of experience
in data storage, holding various sales, sales management and marketing positions with us. Mr. Dexheimer held the position of Vice President,
Marketing and Product Line Management in the Removable Storage Solutions group from 1996 to July 1997. In July 1997, he was promoted to
Vice President and General Manager of Removable Storage Solutions until August 1998 when he was promoted to Senior Vice President,
Product Marketing and Product Line Management for Desktop disc drives. In August 1999, he was promoted to Senior Vice President,
Worldwide Sales and Marketing. He was promoted to Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Customer Service in August
2000. In December 2005, he assumed the additional role of Executive Vice President, Storage Business.
Mr. William L. Hudson , our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, joined us in January 2000 as a Senior
Vice President and was promoted to Executive Vice President in November 2002. Prior to joining us, Mr. Hudson was a partner of the law firm
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP from August 1997 to December 1999 and, from October 1984 to July 1997, he was a partner of the law firm
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP.
Mr. Robert Whitmore was promoted to Executive Vice President of Product and Process Development in February 2006. Prior to this
promotion, he was our Senior Vice President of Product and Process Development since October 2004. In this position, he is responsible for
managing worldwide product and process development for design centers located in Minnesota, Colorado and Singapore. His experience
includes nearly 21 years in the disc drive industry. Prior to his current position, he was Senior Vice President of Product Development
Engineering from 2002 to 2004 for Enterprise, Personal and Consumer Storage. In this position he managed all disc drive products engineering
organizations. During 1999 to 2002, as Vice President of Enterprise Storage Design Engineering, Mr. Whitmore’
s organization was responsible
for the launch of multiple key products for us. After returning from his expatriate assignment in Singapore in 1997, where he was responsible
for all Enterprise Storage products, he served as Vice President responsible for our Twin Cities Manufacturing Operations.
Mr. James M. Chirico, Jr. , our Executive Vice President, Global Disc Storage Operations, joined us in 1998 as Senior Vice President of
Worldwide Manufacturing Quality based in Singapore. In April 1999, he was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of
Recording Head Operations based in Minnesota and in September 2000, he was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Asia Operations. Mr. Chirico was appointed to his current position of Executive Vice President, Global Disc Storage Operations in
February of 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Chirico spent 17 years with IBM where he held a number of management positions within
manufacturing operations.
Mr. Michael J. Wingert has been our Executive Vice President of Maxtor Integration since May 2006. On September 8, 2006, he also
assumed the responsibility of Chief Technical Officer. Prior to our acquisition of Maxtor, Mr. Wingert served as President and Chief Operating
Officer of Maxtor Corporation from November 2004 to May 2006. Mr. Wingert previously served at Cornice, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer
from May 2004 to November 2004, and as President and Chief Executive Officer from July 2004 to November 2004. Mr. Wingert served as
Maxtor’s Executive Vice President/ General Manager, Server Products Group from November 2001 to May 2004. From October 1994 until
October 1999, Mr. Wingert served as Maxtor’s Vice President, Desktop Engineering and became Senior Vice President, Engineering in
October 1999. Prior to joining Maxtor in 1994, Mr. Wingert held various senior management positions in product test and development at IBM.
Mr. Jaroslaw S. Glembocki was promoted to Senior Vice President of our Recording Heads and Media Operations in October 2000. In
this position, Mr. Glembocki is responsible for overseeing all component research, product development, disc drive integration, production
launch, materials and volume production activities for the worldwide operations relating to heads and media, which are located in the United
States, Asia and Europe. Mr. Glembocki joined us in the February 1996 merger with Conner Peripherals. As Vice President of Engineering for
our Recording Media Group, Mr. Glembocki was responsible for our media research, product development, drive integration and production
launch. A key member of the team that founded the Conner Disk
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