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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.
Hanif I. Jamal has served as Dot Hill's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since July 2006. Prior to joining Dot Hill, Mr. Jamal served as Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Gateway Inc., from 2002-2006. Prior to joining Gateway, Mr. Jamal served in a number of leadership positions over 17 years within Hewlett- Packard Company in the captive customer financing division, HP Technology Finance. Mr. Jamal led the company's customer financing operations in North America, Latin America and Europe and was also Vice President and General Manager for HP's Commercial and Consumer Financing Division. In 1998, he established Hewlett-Packard International Bank in Dublin, Ireland, and served as Managing Director through 2000. Jamal holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree, with Honors, in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom.
With Dot Hill Systems Corp. since 2008Ernest Hafersat has served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing Operations and Supply Base Management since November, 2008, with previous position as Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing Operations and Supply Base Management upon joining Dot Hill in March, 2008. My. Hafersat joined Dot Hill after leaving Western Digital Corporation where he held senior level positions in operations and engineering. Prior to Western Digital, Ernie was Vice President, Manufacturing Operations & Program Management for Carrier Access Corp. Previous positions include Vice President, Operations for Vari-l Corp., Vice President/ GM at Read-Rite Corp.- Philippines, Senior Director, Engineering/ NPI at Maxtor Corp. and Director of Engineering at Hyundai Semiconductor- Korea. Mr. Hafersat has overseen Operations, Supply Base Management, Global Supplier Quality and Engineering for both domestic and international multi-site facilities. His international experience includes China, Pacific Rim countries, Europe, Mexico and Costa Rica. Mr. Hafersat has a BSIE/BSEE from Waterbury State Technical University, and attended University of Hartford and Rennsslaer Polytechnic Institute with credits toward an MBA.
Cooper Cowart has served as the Vice President and General Manager, responsible for the strategic OEM relationship with Hewlett Packard since November, 2008. Prior to this position, he was in senior management roles in the marketing organization at Dot Hill since its acquisition of Chaparral Network Storage in 2004. At Chaparral, he was the Vice President of Marketing for three years, over which time he managed all aspects of marketing. Over the last twenty five years, Mr. Cowart has held positions in several high-tech companies including StorageTek, Storage Networks and Inflow. His roles and responsibilities during his tenure at these companies included product marketing, marketing strategy, field marketing, and marketing communications. Mr. Cowart has a Bachelor of Science from Colorado College and an MBA from Colorado State University.
Garrett Wein has served as Vice President of Worldwide OEM sales since 2006. Mr. Wein is a twenty year veteran in the storage Industry including the last 10 years with Dot Hill. He has been instrumental in several key OEM designs wins and is also responsible for Federal Sales Team. Prior to Dot Hill, he led OEM Sales at SAG Electronics, a startup developing Intel white-box server and RAID storage solutions. Garrett holds a Bachelor of Science, Business Management from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.
Michael Flood has served as Vice President of Quality since January 2008, and is responsible for the company's quality and reliability worldwide. Mr. Flood has over twenty seven years of experience in the quality and reliability fields. Prior to joining Dot Hill Systems, he led the quality, reliability and sustaining program functions at LeftHand Networks. Mr. Flood also served as Vice President of Corporate Quality at Quantum, Conner Technology, and Maxtor Corporation where he led strategic quality planning, global quality systems, customer satisfaction teams and product reliability programs. Mr. Flood holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry; and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.Kenneth F. Day has served as Dot Hill's Senior Vice President of Engineering since November 2012 and previously served as Chief Technical Officer beginning in November 2010. Mr. Day joined Dot Hill with more than 30 years as a respected industry visionary in the architecture, design, and execution of information technology solutions. During his career at IBM, Mr. Day provided significant contributions as principal architect that led to substantial growth in key storage segments. His innovations in the creation of IBM's Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Storage System revolutionized a new high availability market for IBM tape products. Mr. Day has over 60 patents and his development leadership has had a major impact on the modular storage business, data replication and business continuity solutions, and the optical library product family. More recently, Mr. Day was the engineering executive manager for LSI Corporation's external storage arrays. Mr. Day has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from The University of Texas at El Paso and a Master of Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University.
Brad Painter serves as Vice President of Channel Sales beginning in July 2011. Previous to that, Painter held the position of Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales at Pillar Data Systems. While at Pillar, Painter was responsible for worldwide channel sales and all distribution of Pillar branded products. Previous positions include Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Lantronix, a market leader in wired and wireless device networking and Director of Worldwide Host Bus Adaptor Sales for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a global manufacturer of semiconductor solutions, and senior sales management positions at Crossroads Systems, Pinacor, Exabyte and Hewlett-Packard.
Ali Asgari serves as Senior Vice President of Customer Support beginning September 2012 and is responsible for managing OEM and end customer requirements and services priorities and service and support organizations. Prior to joining Dot Hill, he held various positions over the past 24 years in the storage industry. Prior to rejoining Dot Hill Systems, Mr. Asgari was the Global Vice President of Customer Technical Support, for Hitachi GST, recently known as HGST, a Western Digital Company. Experience before joining HGST includes positions of Vice President of Customer Support for Dot Hill Systems, and Director of Customer Technical Support and Senior Program Manager for the Maxtor/Seagate Corporation. Mr. Asgari holds an MBA with honors from University of Phoenix and a Bachelors of Science in Electronics Engineering from Metropolitan State University of Denver.
