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OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
The names of our executive officers, their ages as of July 3, 2009, and their positions are shown below.
Name Age Position
Enrique Salem.................... 43 President and Chief Executive Officer
James A. Beer .................... 48 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer
Janice Chaffin .................... 54 Group President, Consumer Business Unit
George W. Harrington .............. 57 Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief
Accounting Officer
Gregory W. Hughes ................ 46 Group President, Enterprise Product Group
Rebecca Ranninger ................ 50 Executive Vice President and Chief Human
Resources Officer
William T. Robbins ................ 41 Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Scott C. Taylor ................... 45 Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary
J. David Thompson ................ 42 Group President, Information Technology and
Services Group
The Board chooses executive officers, who then serve at the Board’s discretion. There is no family relationship
between any of the directors or executive officers and any other director or executive officer of Symantec.
For information regarding Mr. Salem, please refer to Proposal No. 1, “Election of Directors,” above.
Mr. Beer has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since February 28, 2006. Prior
to joining us, Mr. Beer was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AMR Corporation and American
Airlines, Inc., AMR’s principal subsidiary, from January 2004 to February 2006. From September 1991 to January
2004, Mr. Beer held other various management positions in finance and operations at American Airlines including
leading the airline’s European and Asia Pacific businesses. Mr. Beer holds a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical
engineering from Imperial College, London University and a Master of Business Administration degree from
Harvard Business School.
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 as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. 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. 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. Harrington has served as our Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Accounting Officer since January
2007. Mr. Harrington joined the Company as Senior Vice President, Finance Operations in May 2006. Prior to
joining Symantec, Mr. Harrington was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BMC Software, Inc., a
software solutions provider, from March 2004 to September 2005, and, prior to that, had served in a variety of senior
finance roles at IBM, 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.
Mr. Hughes has served as our Group President, Enterprise Product Group since January 2009. From January
2008 to January 2009, Mr. Hughes served as our Chief Strategy Officer, and as Group President, Global Services
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