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Thomas E. Pardun has served as a director of WD since 1993. Mr. Pardun served as Chairman of the Board of Western Digital Corporation from January 2000 until November 2001, and as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of edge2net, Inc., a provider of voice, data and video services, from November 2000 until September 2001. Previously, Mr. Pardun was President of MediaOne International Asia Pacific (previously U.S. West International, Asia-Pacific, a subsidiary of U.S. West, Inc.), an owner/operator of international properties in cable television, telephone services, and wireless communications companies, from May 1996 until his retirement in July 2000. Before joining U.S. West, Mr. Pardun was President of the Central Group for Sprint, as well as President of Sprint's West Division and Senior Vice President of Business Development for United Telecom, a predecessor company to Sprint. Mr. Pardun also held a variety of management positions during a 19-year tenure with IBM, concluding as Director of product-line evaluation. Mr. Pardun also serves as a director of Exabyte Corporation, Netifice Communications and Occam Networks, Inc. | 