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Management and Board of Directors

Tom Georgens
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dan Warmenhoven
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Chairman
Tom Mendoza
Vice Chairman
Manish Goel
Executive Vice President, Product Operations
Ed Deenihan
Executive Vice President, Customer Advocacy
Steve Gomo
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
David Hitz
Founder and Executive Vice President
James Lau
Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Rob Salmon
Executive Vice President, Field Operations
Mark Jon Bluth
Senior Vice President, Operations
Rich Clifton
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Enablement and Solutions Organization
Tom Gerstenberger
Senior Vice President, Field Strategy and Operations
Jay Kidd
Chief Marketing Officer
Steve Kleiman
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist
Marina Levinson
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Gwen McDonald
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Tim Russell
Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Solutions and Core Product Software

Board of Directors

Dan Warmenhoven
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Chairman
Jeffry R. Allen
Chairman of the Investment Committee: Jeffry Allen is a member of the Board of Directors at NetApp. Prior to his role of the board, Allen was the vice president of business operations at NetApp. He managed manufacturing operations and took responsibility for content delivery and NearStore business lines as well as strategic initiatives for the SAN market. Allen joined the company in 1996 as CFO and vice president of finance and operations.

Before coming to NetApp, Allen served as senior vice president of operations for Bay Networks, where he was responsible for manufacturing and distribution functions. From 1990 to 1995, he held the position of controller for SynOptics Communications and became vice president and controller for Bay Networks, the new company created via the merger of SynOptics and Wellfleet Communications.

Previously, Allen had a 17-year career at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he served in a variety of financial, information systems, and financial management positions, including controller for the Information Networks Group.

Allen holds a bachelor of science degree from San Diego State University.
Alan L. Earhart
Member of the Audit Committee and Investment Committee: Alan L. Earhart was appointed to the NetApp board in December 2004. Much of Earhart's distinguished career in Silicon Valley has been spent in various positions at Coopers & Lybrand, including San Francisco regional managing partner, San Jose Office managing partner, technical consulting partner, and chairman of Coopers & Lybrand's National Venture Capital Industry Group. During his time at PwC, Earhart served such clients as Ampex, Cisco, Convergent Technologies, Legato, Polycom, and Varian Inc. Earhart currently serves as chairman of the audit committee on the boards of Quantum Corporation, Foundry Networks, and Monolithic Power Systems. Earhart has a bachelor of science degree in certified public accounting from the University of Oregon.
Tom Georgens
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mark Leslie
Member of the Investment Committee and Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee: Mark Leslie was appointed to the NetApp board in July 2004. Leslie is currently the managing director of Leslie Ventures. Mr. Leslie was the founding CEO of VERITAS Software. He joined the Board of Directors of VERITAS Software in May 1988, and became the chairman, president, and CEO when VERITAS was restarted as a software company in 1990. Leslie currently serves on the boards of Avaya Corporation (NYSE: AV) and a number of privately held high-technology corporations, including MetricStream Corporation, Model N Software, Outerbay Technologies Corporation, Panta Systems, PostX Corporation, and Scalix Corporation, and is on the boards of nonprofit organizations Community Foundation of Silicon Valley, Leslie Family Foundation, and VERITAS Software Foundation. Leslie is also a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University Graduate Engineering. Leslie received a bachelor of arts degree in physics and mathematics from New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard Business School's program for management development in 1980.
Nicholas Moore
Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee: Nicholas G. Moore was elected to the NetApp board in April 2002. Moore is the recently retired global chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the professional services firm formed in July 1998 by the merger of Coopers & Lybrand International and Price Waterhouse. He most recently served as chairman of Coopers & Lybrand International as well as chairman and CEO of Coopers & Lybrand LLP (the U.S. firm). Following the merger, he served for over two years as CEO of the U.S. firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers and for three years as global chairman of PwC.

Moore joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1968 and became a partner in 1974. He led the firm's tax practice in the San Jose office from 1974 until 1981, when he was named managing partner of that office. He was elected to the Firm Council in 1984 and to its Executive Committee in 1988. He became vice chairman for the firm's West Region in 1991 and, a year later, client service vice chairman. Moore was elected chairman and CEO of the U.S. firm in 1994 and became chairman of Coopers & Lybrand International in 1997.

His earlier client service experience focused on Silicon Valley venture capital firms and venture capital backed technology companies. While serving as chairman and CEO in New York, he maintained senior partner relationships with a number of clients, including Ford, AT&T, AIG, and Cisco Systems.

Moore is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the California Bar Association, and the California and New York State Society of CPAs. He also recently completed his term as trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, the entity overseeing the FASB.

Also, he is chairman of Co-operation Ireland and is on the Board of Trustees of the Committee for Economic Development. He has served as vice chairman of the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and continues serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's College of California.

He received a BS in Accounting from St. Mary's College and a JD from Hastings College of Law, the University of California at Berkeley.
George Shaheen
Member of the Audit Committee: George T. Shaheen was appointed to the NetApp board in June 2004. Mr. Shaheen's distinguished career in the technology industry spans over 30 years, including CEO of Siebel Systems:, CEO and chairman of Webvan Group Inc.; CEO and Global Managing Partner of Andersen Consulting, which later became Accenture, from 1989 to 1999. He has served as an IT governor of the World Economic Forum. Shaheen currently serves on the boards of PRA International, Univita Health, 24/7 Customer, newScale and Voxify. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Marcus & Millichap Company and the Strategic Board of Advisors for Genstar Capital.

Shaheen has a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor of science degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois and he has served on the University's Board of Trustees.
Don Valentine
Chairman of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee: Donald T. Valentine has been a director of the company and chairman of the board of directors since September 1994. Valentine has been a general partner of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, since 1972. He is also the chairman of the board of diCarta, Inc. and serves on the board of directors of Traiana.
Robert Wall
Chairman of the Compensation Committee and member of the Investment Committee and the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee: Robert Wall has over 30 years of varied management experience with leading technology, investment, entertainment, and consumer product companies. Since 1984, he has been president of On Point Developments LLC, a venture management and investment company. From June 1997 through November 1998, he was chief executive officer and a director of Clarity Wireless, Inc., a broadband wireless data communications company that was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc., in November 1998. From April 1994 through August 1997, he served as chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of Theatrix Interactive, Inc., a consumer educational software publisher. Wall, the founding president and CEO of MIPS Computer Systems in 1984, has served on the board of Silicon Graphics, Inc., worked as chairman and CEO of Presentation Technologies, and headed corporate finance at Hambrecht and Quist, Inc., as well as investment and merchant banking at Cowen & Company.

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