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Dana W. Kammersgard
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.
Hanif I. Jamal
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer: 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.
Philip A. Davis
Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations: Philip A. Davis has served as the company's Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations since March 2007. Previously, Mr. Davis served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing following Dot Hill's acquisition of Chaparral Network Storage, Inc. While at Chaparral, Mr. Davis served as Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales from 2003 to 2004. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Davis was Vice President of Field Operations for RLX Technologies, Inc., a blade server provider, and from 1999 to 2002, he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for BetaSphere, Inc., a provider of product lifecycle management solutions. Mr. Davis has also served in various sales management positions at Update.com Software, Inc., Vixel Corporation, PMC-Sierra, Inc., and Texas Instruments, Inc. Mr. Davis holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
James E. Kuenzel
Senior Vice President of Engineering: James E. Kuenzel has served as Dot Hill's senior vice president of engineering since February 2006. Mr. Kuenzel joined Dot Hill after leaving Maranti Networks Inc. where he began his tenure in 2002 as the company's vice president of engineering and then was appointed to president and chief operating officer. Kuenzel has also held vice president of engineering positions at McData Corporation, Cabletron Systems, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Kuenzel attended Georgetown University Extension, University of Wisconsin Extension, and holds an A.A. in Electronics from Philco Ford Technical Institute.
Robert Finley
Vice President, Operations/Manufacturing: With Dot Hill Systems Corp. since 2006

Robert Finley has served as the company's vice president of supply chain management since March 2006. Prior to joining Dot Hill, Mr. Finley was vice president of manufacturing, new product introductions and service repair operations from 2001 to 2006 for McData Corp., a storage networking provider. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Finley served in a variety of executive operations positions, most recently as vice president of business programs management for SMTC manufacturing, a global EMS company. Mr. Finley has also served in various operations management positions at Disposal Sciences, Inc., Century Data Inc., Amcodyne Inc., and Storage Technology Corp. Mr. Finley holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology from Arizona State University where he also completed one year of post graduate work in Business Administration.