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It's great to be here today and thank you for coming and on behalf of all Directors,  most welcome. Thank you. I'd begin with what I'd like to really announce and introduce the fellow Directors here and EMC is incredibly fortunate to have highly experienced, well informed and fully engaged Board of Directors. Our Directors are on stage here today and I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce them. First, we start down there with Mike Cronin. Mike is the Chairman and CEO of Cognition Corporation. Next we have Win Priem. Win is the former CEO of Korn/Ferry. Next we have Gail Deegan. Gail Deegan is the former CFO of Houghton Mifflin. Next we have Mike Brown. Mike is the former Vice President and CFO of Microsoft Corporation. I'll introduce Dave last. Following down there we have Paul Fitzgerald. Paul is the former Executive Vice President and CFO of EMC. Next we have Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and Olli-Pekka,...

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