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January 28, 2005

HPC Veteran Nakano To Lead Cray Japan. Juergen Dormann Elected to IBM Board. StorageTek VP Featured As Super Hero.

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HPC VETERAN NAKANO JOINS CRAY AS PRESIDENT OF CRAY JAPAN

Cray Inc. announced that high performance computing (HPC) industry veteran Mamoru Nakano has been appointed president of Cray Japan. Nakano joins Cray from Hewlett Packard, where he built a strong track record of success as general manager for HPC and Linux in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.

In his new role, Nakano will be responsible for creating and implementing Cray Japan's marketing and sales strategy, including collaborating closely with customers, expanding opportunities for current and future Cray products, and leading Cray Japan's marketing, sales and technical teams.

He will report to Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president for sales, marketing and service.

After starting out 23 years ago in a research position with Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Nakano held a series of increasingly responsible management positions in Japan with Digital Equipment Corporation and that firm's new parent, Compaq, before the latter company was acquired by Hewlett Packard.

His management experience includes sales, marketing and service, all in the technical computing market in which Cray also competes. Nakano-san demonstrated notable leadership in growing market share for DEC, Compaq and Hewlett Packard and introducing the companies' products to new customers and new market segments.

JUERGEN DORMANN ELECTED TO IBM BOARD OF DIRECTORS

IBM announced that Juergen Dormann, chairman of the board of ABB Ltd, has been elected to the IBM board of directors effective February 22, 2005.

Mr. Dormann, 65, joined Hoechst AG in 1963 and was chairman of the management board from 1994 until 1999. In 1999 Mr. Dormann was elected chairman of the board of management of Aventis S.A. He was elected chairman of the board of ABB Ltd in 2001 and was president and chief executive officer of ABB from 2002 through 2004. Mr. Dormann is vice chairman of the board of Sanofi-Aventis and a director of Adecco S.A.

Mr. Dormann previously served on the IBM board of directors from 1996 to 2002.

The IBM board will have a total of 15 members when he joins on February 22, 2005.

STORAGETEK CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT FEATURED AS SUPER HERO

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