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William D. Watkins our Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors joined us in February 1996 upon our merger with Conner Peripherals Inc. as Executive Vice President of our Recording Media Group. In October 1997 Mr. Watkins took on additional responsibility as Executive Vice President of the Disc Drive Operations and in August 1998 he was appointed to the position of Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for our disc drive manufacturing recording media and head operations and product development. In June 2000 he was appointed to the position of President and in November 2000 he became a member of our Board. In April 2004 Mr. Watkins relinquished the title of Chief Operating Officer and he was appointed as our Chief Executive Officer effective July 3 2004. On September 8 2006 he relinquished the title of President. Prior to joining us he was President and General Manager of the Disk Operations Division at Conner Peripherals Inc. from January 1990 until December 1992. In January 1993 Mr. Watkins became Senior Vice President of World Wide Operations at Conner Peripherals Inc. | 