Thomas E. Pardun

Who is Thomas E. Pardun?

Thomas E. Pardun is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Western

Digital Corporation. He has served as a director of WD since 1993 and

first served as Chairman from January 2000 to November 2001.

In

July of 2000, Pardun retired as president of MediaOne International,

Asia-Pacific (formerly U S WEST Asia-Pacific), an owner/operator of

international properties in cable television, telephone services and

wireless communications. Before that, he was president and chief

executive officer of U S WEST Multimedia Communications, Inc., and held

numerous other executive positions with U S WEST.

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 began his career with a 19-year tenure

with IBM.

In addition to Occam Networks and Western Digital, he serves on the boards of CalAmp Corp., and Megapath, Inc