Michael R. Cannon

Mr. Cannon has served as our Board Chair since July 2020 and prior to that served as Lead Independent Director from October 2016 until he was appointed as Chair. He served as President, Global Operations of Dell Inc., a multinational computer technology company, from February 2007 until January 2009, and as consultant to Dell Inc. from January 2009 until January 2011. He was the President and CEO of Solectron Corp., an electronic manufacturing services company, from January 2003 until February 2007. From July 1996 until January 2003, Mr. Cannon served as the CEO of Maxtor Corporation, a disk drive and storage systems manufacturer. He served on Maxtor’s board of directors from July 1996 until Seagate acquired Maxtor in May 2006. Prior to joining Maxtor, Mr. Cannon held senior management positions at IBM, a multinational technology company, and earlier was the Vice President of Asia Operations residing in Singapore, for the disk drive division of Control Data Corporation, a mainframe and supercomputer firm. Mr. Cannon began his career at The Boeing Company, an aerospace company, in engineering and management positions. He has served on the board of directors of Lam Research Corporation since February 2011, and on the board of directors of Dialog Semiconductor plc from February 2013 until its sale to Renesas Electronics in April 2021. Mr. Cannon has previously served on the board of directors of Elster Group SE and Adobe Systems, Inc. 

Expertise: Mr. Cannon has extensive relevant industry expertise, including expertise in the disk drive business as well as with our major customers, that is valuable to our Board. Mr. Cannon brings international, technological, operations, leadership, and research and development expertise to our Board through his service as a public company CEO, and as a member of other public company boards of directors.