Harry E. Blount, CFA, Lehman Brothers, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Hardware

PRESENTATION

Biography

Harry Blount, with Lehman Brothers since November 2000, has over 18 years of experience as a sell-side analyst with a variety of firms including Oppenheimer, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Blount has provided in-depth research coverage on over 100 companies in a variety of industry disciplines including – enterprise hardware, wireline and wireless telecommunication services, wireless distribution, competitive local exchange services, internet infrastructure, enterprise storage networking, hard disk drives, environmental services, restaurants, hotels, entertainment, and consumer products.

Mr. Blount was named to the Institutional Investor All-American analyst teams in 2000 and 2001 for the Internet Infrastructure Services category.  In 2002, Mr. Blount received his third Wall Street Journal award, when he was named a top stock picker in the Computer Hardware sector.  He has appeared on CNBC and Reuters and been quoted in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week.  He most recently delivered the keynote address to IDEMA, the global hard drive industry association. Mr. Blount currently serves on the advisory board of Innovent, a Nokia Ventures Organization company.  Innovent evaluates emerging technologies such as dynamic mesh networks, Peer-to-peer computing, and intelligent agents.

Mr. Blount is a Chartered Financial Analyst who holds the Series 7 and Series 63 licenses. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from

the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in 1986.

      Current research coverage includes:

O Akamai                         Apple                          Brocade               Dell

O Dot Hill                          EMC                           Emulex                 Hewlett-Packard

O IBM                               Iron Mountain             Maxtor                  McDATA

O Network Appliance     QLogic                       Quantum               Seagate

O StorageTek                  Sun Microsystems    Western Digital