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and Managing Director, European Publishing from May 1999 to April 2003. Prior to this, he held several
positions in EA Europe, which he helped establish in 1987, including Director of European Sales and
Marketing and Managing Director of EA Europe. Mr. Gardner has also held various positions at Electronic
Arts in the sales, marketing and customer support departments since joining the company in 1983.
Mr. Barker has served as Vice President and Chief Accounting OÇcer since June 2003. Prior to joining
Electronic Arts, Mr. Barker was employed at Sun Microsystems Inc., as Vice President and Corporate
Controller from October 2002 to June 2003 and Assistant Corporate Controller from April 2000 to September
2002. Prior to that, he was an audit partner at Deloitte. Mr. Barker graduated from the University of Notre
Dame with a B.A. degree in Accounting.
Investor Information
We Ñle various reports with, or furnish them to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the ""SEC''),
including our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and
amendments to such reports. These reports are available free of charge on the Investor Relations section of our
web site, http://investor.ea.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically Ñle the reports with,
or furnish them to, the SEC.
The charters of our Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Governance committees of our Board of
Directors, as well as our Global Code of Conduct (which includes code of ethics provisions applicable to our
directors, principal executive oÇcer, principal Ñnancial oÇcer, principal accounting oÇcer, and other senior
Ñnancial oÇcers), are available in the Investor Relations section of our web site at http://investor.ea.com. We
will post amendments to our Global Code of Conduct in the Investor Relations section of our web site. Copies
of our charters and Global Code of Conduct are available without charge by contacting our Investor Relations
department at (650) 628-1500.
Shareholders of record may hold their shares of our common stock in book-entry form. This eliminates costs
related to safekeeping or replacing paper stock certiÑcates. In addition, shareholders of record may request
electronic movement of book-entry shares between their account with our stock transfer agent and their
broker. Stock certiÑcates may be converted to book-entry shares at any time. Questions regarding this service
may be directed to our stock transfer agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., at 1-800-468-9716.
Item 2: Properties
The following diagram depicts the locations of the majority of our facilities throughout the world:
Annual Report
We currently own a 207,000 square feet product development studio facility in Burnaby, British Columbia,
Canada and a 122,000 square feet administrative, sales and development facility in Chertsey, England. In
addition to the properties we own, we lease approximately 2.3 million square feet of facilities, including our
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