Below is a summary of our committee structure and membership information. To read more about any of the committees, click on committee names in the chart below.
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Audit
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Compensation
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Governance and Nominating
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 Charles Christ  
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Charles Christ joined the Company as Chairman of the Board in July 2000. Mr. Christ also serves as a director of Maxtor Corporation and Agilysys, Inc. Maxtor is a supplier of hard disk drives for desktop computer systems. Agilysys is a broad-line distributor of computer products. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Christ served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Symbios, Inc. (acquired by LSI Logic in 1998), a designer, manufacturer and provider of storage systems, as well as client-server integrated circuits, cell-based applications-specific integrated circuits and host adapter boards. He was Vice President and General Manager of the Components Division of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), where he launched and managed StorageWorks, DEC's storage division. Mr. Christ received a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and completed his undergraduate studies at General Motors Institute, now known as Kettering University.
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Dana W. Kammersgard
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 President & CEO
Dana W. Kammersgard has served as Dot Hill's President, CEO and Director since March 2006. He served as President from August 2004 to March 2006. From August 1999 to August 2004, Mr. Kammersgard served as the company's Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Kammersgard was a founder of Artecon and served as a director from its inception in 1984 until the company's merger with Box Hill Systems Corp. in August 1999. At Artecon, Mr. Kammersgard served in various positions since 1984, including Secretary and Senior Vice President of Engineering from March 1998 until August 1999 and as Vice President of Sales and Marketing from March 1997 until March 1998. Prior to co-founding Artecon, Mr. Kammersgard was the director of software development at CALMA, a division of General Electric Company. Mr. Kammersgard holds a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego.
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Richard Mejia, Jr.
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Richard Mejia, Jr., has served as a Director of the Company since September 2008. In July 2008, Mr. Mejia retired from the San Diego office of Ernst & Young, LLP after 38 years of service where he served as partner for the last 25 years. During his 20 years in San Diego, his focus was on technology and life sciences companies. He has extensive experience with initial public offerings, secondary offerings and private and public debt financings. He has also worked closely with public company boards in implementing corporate governance initiatives and compliance requirements.
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Roderick M. Sherwood, III
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Roderick M. Sherwood, III has served as a Director of the Company since June 2006. Mr. Sherwood currently serves as chief financial officer, operations for The Gores Group, LLC, a private equity firm which he joined in 2005. Prior to joining the Gores Group, Mr. Sherwood was senior vice president and chief financial officer for Gateway, Inc. where he was responsible for corporate financial processes and controls, treasury activities and cost reduction programs. He was also integrally involved in the company's acquisition of eMachines. Mr. Sherwood has over 25 years experience in successful financial and operations capacities for companies such as Chrysler Corporation, Opsware, Inc. (formerly Loudcloud, Inc.) and Hughes Electronics Corporation. Mr. Sherwood received his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business and holds an Honors Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Distinction, in Economics from Stanford University.
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Thomas H. Marmen
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Elected 2008
Mr. Marmen has served as a Director of the Company since November 2008. Mr Marmen has over 30 years of demonstrated success in the storage and semiconductor manufacturing industries. During his impressive career, he has been involved with various start ups, global enterprises and turnaround situations. Most recently, Mr. Marmen served as the president and chief executive officer of TimeLab Corporation. Prior to joining TimeLab, he was vice president and general manager for Broadcom Corporation, where he was responsible for all aspects of the storage line of business including marketing, engineering, and technical support for end-users. Mr. Marmen has held various positions at other companies including RAIDCore Corp. where he was the company's chief executive officer, Quantum Corp. where he served as senior vice president and general manager for the High End Storage Division, Adaptec Inc. as its corporate vice president in the Enterprise Solutions Group and Materials Research Corporation (a subsidiary of SONY Corp.) as president and chief executive officer. In addition he spent 18 years at Digital Equipment Corporation holding various management positions in the company's storage, memory, disk drive and semi-conductor businesses. Mr Marmen currently serves as the lead director at Ciprico Inc.
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Debra E. Tibey
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Debra E. Tibey has served as a Director of the Company since May 2011. Ms. Tibey has over 25 years of executive management leadership and is currently the CEO of Tibey & Associates, a consulting practice predominately serving the Information Technology and Healthcare industries. Prior to starting Tibey & Associates, Ms. Tibey worked in various positions with Ingram Micro, with her final position being senior vice president of sales with responsibility for the domestic sales organization which consisted of 1,400 associates and eight customer sales divisions consisting of VARS, System integrators, Direct Marketers, SMB, Enterprise, OEM's, Retail and Outsourcing. With her knowledge and extensive IT background, she has worked in every segment of the channel, including distribution, OEM's, system integrators, manufacturers, and resellers. Ms. Tibey has in-depth knowledge and practical experience in sales, marketing and channel development. Ms. Tibey has also worked for a public board for seven years and has experience sitting on all committees, including Chairman of Special Committee.
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Barry Rudolph
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Barry Rudolph has served as a Director of the Company since February 2012. Until his retirement from IBM in November 2010, Mr. Rudolph held numerous senior level positions in a variety of functional areas, including operations, engineering, product development, test and assurance, program management, field support and, direct manufacturing. Most recently he was Vice President, System Networking, with responsibility for delivering overall networking product strategy, portfolio management, and P&L over each of the products in the group. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Rudolph was Vice President, Strategy and Stack Integration for IBM Storage, responsible for establishing the overall strategy, driving all decisions on portfolio investments for the storage business, and integrating with other areas within IBM including IBM's Global Services and Software organizations. Prior positions Mr. Rudolph held include Vice President for IBM's Disk, SAN & NAS Storage Systems, where he was responsible for all aspects of the Disk, SAN and NAS storage business within IBM, including profit and loss, product portfolio investments, go to market strategy and execution and customer support. He has also held an identical role with responsibility for IBM's tape business. Mr. Rudolph's accomplished academic background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, a Master's of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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