Mike Cannon

MIKE CANNON is Maxtor Corporation’s President and Chief Executive
Officer. Mr. Cannon has over 20 years of data storage industry
experience in key leadership positions. He joined Maxtor in July 1996
from IBM, where he held several senior management positions in the
Storage Systems Division, including Vice President, Mobile and Desktop
Disk Drive Business Unit; Vice President, Product Design; and Vice
President, Worldwide Operations. Prior to IBM, Mr. Cannon spent the
majority of his storage industry career at Control Data Corporation’s
Imprimis Technology in a variety of senior management positions in both
the technology components and disk drive operations areas. Mr. Cannon
started his career at The Boeing Company where he worked as a research
engineer.