Imation Promotes Subodh Kulkarni to Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

OAKDALE, Minn.--(Business Wire)--
Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN) today announced the promotion of Subodh Kulkarni, PhD,
to the position of senior vice president of Imation`s global commercial business
and chief technology officer (CTO) for the company. Dr. Kulkarni was most
recently vice president of the commercial business, manufacturing, and research,
development, and engineering (RD&E) for Imation, a position he has held since
2007.

"As Imation has expanded its brand and product portfolio as part of its
strategic transformation, Subodh has successfully guided our company`s continued
global leadership in data storage across magnetic, optical, flash, and
removable/external hard disk drive technologies. He is well known and respected
within the storage industry," said Mark Lucas, president and chief operating
officer of Imation.

"As senior vice president, Subodh also leads our global commercial business,
which supplies virtually all of the world`s Fortune 500 companies with data
storage solutions. While maintaining Imation`s core storage technology
leadership, Subodh has also expanded the company`s technology breadth in design
and engineering for our growing consumer electronics and accessories business,
positioning us well for success as we move forward. We are very fortunate to
have someone of Subodh`s experience and passion for technology leadership in
this key executive position," said Lucas.

Kulkarni has more than 20 years in high technology R&D, manufacturing, and
global business management. He began his technical career with IBM in 1989 as a
research engineer. He joined 3M Company in 1992 as a senior research engineer
and in 1996, when Imation spun-off from 3M, moved to Imation where he held a
series of technology leadership positions of increasing responsibility. In 2006,
Kulkarni was named vice president of manufacturing and R&D in 2007 his
responsibilities were expanded to include leadership of the company`s global
commercial business.

Kulkarni received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology. He received his Master of Science and PhD
degrees in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He holds eight U.S. patents and his research on silicon surface chemistry and
application in integrated circuit fabrication is published in multiple technical
publications.

Kulkarni is a member of the Minnesota High Technology Association Board of
Directors.

About Imation Corp.

Imation is a leading global developer and marketer of branded products that
enable people to capture, save and enjoy digital information. Our world-class
portfolio of digital storage products, audio and video electronics and
accessories reaches customers through a powerful global distribution network.
Our goal is a company with strong commercial and consumer businesses and
continued long-term growth and profitability that creates shareholder value.
Imation Corp.'s global brand portfolio, in addition to the Imation brand,
includes the Memorex brand, one of the most widely recognized names in the
consumer electronics industry, famous for the slogan, "Is it live or is it
Memorex?" and the XtremeMac brand. Imation is also the exclusive licensee of the
TDK Life on Record brand, one of the world's leading recording media brands.
Additional information about Imation is available at http://www.imation.com.

Imation, the Imation logo, Memorex, the Memorex logo, `Is it live or is it
Memorex?` and XtremeMac are trademarks of Imation Corp. and its subsidiaries.
The TDK Life on Record logo is a trademark of TDK Corporation. All other
trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Imation Corp.
Mary Rawlings-Taylor, 651-704-6796
E-mail: mjrawlings-taylor@imation.com

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