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Nicholas G. Moore was elected to the Network Appliance board in April 2002. Moore is the recently retired global chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the professional services firm formed in July 1998 by the merger of Coopers & Lybrand International and Price Waterhouse. He most recently served as chairman of Coopers & Lybrand International as well as chairman and CEO of Coopers & Lybrand LLP (the U.S. firm). Following the merger, he served for over two years as CEO of the U.S. firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers and for three years as global chairman of PwC. Moore joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1968 and became a partner in 1974. He led the firm's tax practice in the San Jose office from 1974 until 1981, when he was named managing partner of that office. He was elected to the Firm Council in 1984 and to its Executive Committee in 1988. He became vice chairman for the firm's West Region in 1991 and, a year later, client service vice chairman. Moore was elected chairman and CEO of the U.S. firm in 1994 and became chairman of Coopers & Lybrand International in 1997. His earlier client service experience focused on Silicon Valley venture capital firms and venture capital backed technology companies. While serving as chairman and CEO in New York, he maintained senior partner relationships with a number of clients, including Ford, AT&T, AIG, and Cisco Systems. Moore is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the California Bar Association, and the California and New York State Society of CPAs. He also recently completed his term as trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, the entity overseeing the FASB. Also, he is chairman of Co-operation Ireland and is on the Board of Trustees of the Committee for Economic Development. He has served as vice chairman of the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and continues serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's College of California. He received a BS in Accounting from St. Mary's College and a JD from Hastings College of Law, the University of California at Berkeley. | 