Western Digital 2004 Annual Report Download - page 18

General Manager of Hard Disk Drive Solutions. He was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
OÇcer in April 2001, and served in that position until promoted to his current position of President in January 2002.
Mr. Bukaty joined the Company in 1999 as Vice President, Corporate Law. Mr. Bukaty was promoted to Vice
President, General Counsel and Secretary in March 2002, and to Senior Vice President in March 2004. Prior to joining
the Company, he worked at Fluor Corporation for three years, two as Assistant General Counsel and one as Senior
Counsel. Prior to joining Fluor, he was a principal in the law Ñrm of Riordan & McKinzie, which merged with Bingham
McCutchen LLP in July 2003.
Mr. Milligan joined the Company in September 2002 as Vice President, Finance. He was appointed Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial OÇce in January 2004. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Milligan served in a variety of
senior Ñnance 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. Prior to joining Dell, he served twelve years at Price Waterhouse (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers) as
Audit and Account Manager for several large multinational companies.
Mr. Fetah joined the Company in March 2000 as Vice President of Human Resources. Prior to joining the
Company, he served as Executive Director, Human Resources, for PeopleSoft, Inc. Prior to joining PeopleSoft in 1996, he
was Manager, Human Resources, for Fluor Corporation where he served for Ñve years.
Item 2. Properties
The Company's corporate headquarters are located in Lake Forest, California. The Lake Forest facilities include four
buildings, consisting of an aggregate of 237,673 square feet, and house the Company's management, research and
development, administrative and sales personnel. Three of these buildings are subject to a 10-year lease that expires in
December 2010, and the fourth is subject to a 9-year lease that expires in January 2012. In addition, the Company leases
an approximately 181,000 square foot facility in Fremont, California that is used for head wafer fabrication and research
and development. The lease expires in February 2008. The Company also leases approximately 151,000 square feet in
San Jose, California for research and development activities. In addition, the Company leases one facility in Irvine,
California, which consists of 59,213 square feet and is used as a processing center and for light manufacturing. The
San Jose lease expires in July 2006 and the Irvine lease expires in September 2010. The Company also leases an aggregate
of approximately 29,000 square feet of oÇce space in various other locations throughout the world primarily for sales and
technical support.
Western Digital owns a 633,077 square foot manufacturing facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Company also
owns a manufacturing facility in Pathumthani, Thailand, consisting of approximately 232,500 square feet. In addition,
in July 2003 the Company acquired a facility in Bang Pa-In, Thailand, consisting of three buildings with an aggregate of
433,744 square feet, which is used for slider fabrication, the assembly of HGAs and HSAs, and research and
development related thereto.
The Company believes its present facilities are adequate for its current needs, although the process of upgrading its
facilities to meet technological and market requirements is expected to continue. New manufacturing facilities generally
can be developed and become operational within approximately nine to eighteen months should the Company require
such additional facilities.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
See Part II, Item 8, Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 6.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders during the fourth quarter of 2004.
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