Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 4, 2001

Mike Cannon – Maxtor Corporation (mxtr)

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. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief historical sketch of Maxtor and then a

profile of the company today?

Mr. Cannon: Maxtor was founded in 1982. The history of the company has

been to establish