Hitachi Hard Drive Business Welcomes Two New Executives
Mon 16 July, 2007

New Chief Administrative Officer and VP of General Procurement to Strengthen Organizational Structure and Improve Costs

SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 16, 2007 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) today announced the appointment of Phillip Duncan to the position of chief administrative officer (CAO) and Raj Bhalla as vice president of General Procurement.

Duncan will oversee all human resource functions and will have responsibility for organizational design and development, succession plans and span of control for all levels of the management team. The CAO is a newly-created position, intended to bring best practices to organizational management.

With more than 20 years of experience, Bhalla will play an integral role in helping to reduce the company’s cost structure and improve profitability targets through various strategic sourcing mechanisms.

"Phil and Raj are key additions to the Hitachi management team as we focus our efforts on business transformation in 2007 and 2008," said Hiroaki Nakanishi, chief executive officer, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "We are adding the organizational and operational expertise that Phil and Raj bring to enhance the strength we already have in hard drive technology, development and manufacturing."

Since 2005, Duncan managed his own consulting company, which provided a broad range of HR services. Before that, Duncan served as executive vice president of HR and Real Estate for Maxtor for nine years. Duncan brings more than 24 years of HR experience with technology companies, including Avantek, SyQuest and Berkeley Systems.

Bhalla has been vice president of strategic sourcing for Nortek Holdings, a $2.2 billion diversified holding company, for the past five years. He also built and led the procurement consulting practice at A.T. Kearney in Southeast Asia for nine years, during which he transformed seven procurement organizations to best-practices level.

Duncan and Bhalla will be based at Hitachi’s Yerba Buena Road site in San Jose.

About Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies develops advanced hard disk drives to store and preserve the world’s valued data. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi enables users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing high-value, high-capacity storage in formats suitable for the office, in the home or on the road. With vertically-integrated research, design and manufacturing capabilities, Hitachi delivers leadership technology and quality to its global customer-base.

With approximately 33,000 employees worldwide, Hitachi offers a comprehensive range of hard drive products for desktop computers, high-performance storage systems and servers, notebooks and consumer devices. For more information, please visit the company’s Web site at www.hitachigst.com.

About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 384,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2006 (ended March 31, 2007) consolidated revenues totaled 10,247 billion yen ($86.8 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.