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engineering and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Ms. Chaffin has served as our Group President, Consumer Business Unit since April 2007. From May 2006 to
April 2007, Ms. Chaffin served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Ms. Chaffin joined
Symantec in May 2003 and served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer from May 2003 to May
2006. Prior to Symantec, Ms. Chaffin spent 21 years at Hewlett-Packard Company, a global provider of products,
technologies, solutions and services, where she held a variety of marketing and business management positions and most
recently served as Vice President of Enterprise Marketing and Solutions. Ms. Chaffin is a member of the board of
directors of Informatica Corporation, an enterprise data integration software and services provider. She graduated summa
cum laude from the University of California, San Diego with a bachelor’s degree and earned a master’s degree in business
administration from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a Henry Ford Scholar.
Mr. Thompson has served as our Group President, Information Technology and Services since January 2008.
From February 2006 to January 2008, he had served as Symantec’s Executive Vice President and Chief Information
Officer. Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Thompson was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for
Oracle Corporation, a global enterprise software company, from January 2005 to January 2006. Before joining
Oracle, Mr. Thompson was Vice President of Services and Chief Information Officer at PeopleSoft, Inc., an
enterprise application software products company, from 1995 to January 2005.
Mr. Courville has served as our Executive Vice President since May 2006, General Counsel since February 2006
and as Secretary since 1999. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Legal Affairs from July 2005 to
February 2006, and as Vice President and General Counsel from 1999 to July 2005. Mr. Courville joined Symantec in
1993, and was promoted to Director of the Legal Department in 1994. In 1997, Mr. Courville took the position of
Director of Product Management for the Internet Tools Business Unit of Symantec, where he was responsible for all
product management activities related to Java programming and HTML editing products. Mr. Courville later returned
to the legal department as Senior Director before his appointment as Vice President and General Counsel in 1999.
Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Courville practiced law with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Mr. Courville
holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University, a law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law and a
Masters of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ms. Ranninger has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer since May 2006.
Ms. Ranninger previously served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources from 2000 to May 2006. From 1997 to
2000, she held the position of Vice President, Human Resources. Prior to 1997, Ms. Ranninger served for over
six years as an attorney in the legal department. Before joining Symantec in 1991, Ms. Ranninger was a business
litigator with the law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Ms. Ranninger graduated magna cum laude from
Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree, earned a bachelor’s degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University and
a Juris Doctorate from Stanford University.
Mr. Harrington has served as our Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Accounting Officer since
January 2007. In this capacity, Mr. Harrington serves as the Company’s principal accounting officer. Mr. Harrington
joined Symantec in May 2006, and served as Senior Vice President, Finance Operations from May 2006 to January
2007. Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Harrington had served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of
BMC Software, Inc., a software solutions provider, from March 2004 to September 2005, and had served in a variety
of senior finance roles at International Business Machines Corporation, a global information technology company,
since 1981. As Vice President of Finance for IBM Software Group, Mr. Harrington was the senior executive
responsible for all financial and IT aspects of IBM’s $13 billion software organization. Mr. Harrington also served
as the Chief Accountant for IBM. In addition, he served as Vice President, Finance for IBM Americas, responsible
for all financial aspects of a $38 billion IBM division. Mr. Harrington also served in a range of finance leadership
positions for IBM’s Americas, Asia Pacific and European operations. Mr. Harrington earned a Bachelor of Arts in
Political Science and a Masters in Business Administration from Brigham Young University.
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