Western Digital Corp.

John F. Coyne is president and chief executive officer of Western Digital. He is a member of WD’s board of directors, has been president since June 2006 and became CEO in January 2007. Coyne has dedicated the majority of his career to WD, serving the company in many capacities around the globe. John F. Coyne 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 November 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. Coyne is also a director of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Dr. Hossein Moghadam is a long-time industry veteran whose storage background spans more than three decades. Moghadam is responsible for Western Digital's worldwide engineering and research and development program. He joined the company in 2000 as vice president of engineering and San Jose site manager. Before joining WD, Moghadam was with Terastor Corp., serving as senior vice president of engineering. Previously, he spent nine years with Seagate where his most recent position was CTO and senior vice president of research and development. Moghadam began working for Seagate in 1989 as a result of a series of acquisitions, including Rigidyne Corp., a storage hardware technology company, which he founded in 1986. His 17 years previous to Rigidyne Corp. were spent in various management roles with Pertec Peripherals, Control Data, Honeywell and General Electric. Moghadam earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Timothy M. Leyden rejoined Western Digital in May 2007 as executive vice president, finance, and became chief financial officer on September 1st 2007, reporting to John Coyne, president and chief executive officer. He previously served in various capacities with WD from 1983 through 2000. Prior to his return to WD, Leyden was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Sage Software Inc., a subsidiary of Sage Group PLC, a U.K. public company. Before that, he had worked as a management consultant to technology based companies during 2001 with Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath. In his earlier career at WD, Leyden served in various worldwide finance, manufacturing, and information technology capacities in the company's storage controller, semiconductor and hard drive businesses, both in his native Ireland and in the U.S. During that time, he worked closely with John Coyne, who became CEO of WD in January 2007. They worked together on the acquisition and integration teams when WD entered the hard drive business in 1988. Leyden received his ACMA (Associate Chartered Management Accountant) certification from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Chapter St., London. He earned a master’s degree of business administration from University of California, Irvine.

In his role, Bukaty oversees WD’s corporate law, intellectual property, risk management, stock plans administration and corporate services departments. Reporting to president and chief executive officer, John Coyne, his insight, experience and management skills fill a critical role for the company, with his team integral to many aspects of the company’s operation. Bukaty began with WD as vice president, corporate law in 1999, bringing a wealth of corporate law experience, including an extensive background with large public companies and emerging growth companies. During his tenure to date, the complexity of the company’s legal needs increased with the implementation of corporate governance changes in response to Sarbanes-Oxley, the expansion of international operations, the growth of strategic business alternatives, the launch, management and disposition of five subsidiary companies and the formation of a holding company structure. WD made significant progress during this period, restructuring its operations, turning financial losses into profits, acquiring the assets of Read Rite Corporation, re-emerging as a premium hard drive supplier to the PC market and creating new markets for hard drives such as personal video recorders and gaming consoles. Previously, beginning in 1995, Bukaty served Fluor Corporation, Aliso Viejo, Calif., as assistant general counsel for that company’s corporate group. Before that, he was a partner with the law firm Riordan and McKinzie (now part of Bingham, McCutchen, LLP), Los Angeles, Calif., where he honed his skills in securities, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funds and leveraged buyout funds. Raymond M. Bukaty received in 1983 combined juris doctor and master’s of business administration degrees from the University of Southern California and earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 1979. Bukaty currently serves on the board of directors for Mercy House, a charity supporting the homeless in Southern California, and Orange County ARC, a charity providing assistance to the developmentally disabled.

Arif Shakeel has been a director since September 2004. He 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 served as Chief Executive Officer from October 2005 until January 2007. He served as Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from January 2007 until June 2007.

Peter D. Behrendt has been a director since 1994. He was Chairman of Exabyte Corporation, a manufacturer of computer tape storage products, from January 1992 until he retired in January 1998 and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Exabyte Corporation from July 1990 to January 1997. Mr. Behrendt is currently a venture partner with NEA, a California-based venture fund. He is also a director of Infocus Corporation.

William L. Kimsey , 66, has served as a Director since April 2003. Mr. Kimsey was employed for 32 years through September 2002 with the independent public accounting firm Ernst & Young L.L.P. From 1998 through 2002, Mr. Kimsey served as the Chief Executive Officer of Ernst & Young Global and Global Executive Board member of Ernst & Young and from 1993 through 1998 as the Firm Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Kimsey also serves on the board of Western Digital Corporation, Parsons Corporation and Accenture Ltd. Mr. Kimsey serves on the audit committees of Accenture Ltd. and Western Digital Corporation. Mr. Kimsey is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.