Dot Hill Systems Corp.

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.

Prior to joining Dot Hill, Patrick Collins was a partner in a consulting firm, LGE Consulting, which focused on the areas of corporate growth and operational excellence. From 1997 to 2000 and again from 2003 to 2005, Collins served as vice president of worldwide procurement and supply chain and then vice president of product operations, at Dell, Inc. During his two tenures at Dell, Collins was responsible for overseeing new product introductions, coordinating worldwide fulfillment, managing procurement and driving supply chain initiatives. Collins served as chief executive officer of RLX Technologies, Inc., from 2000 to 2003, and from 1993 to 1997, he served as chief operating officer of Vixel Corporation. He also served in various management positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Apple Computer, Inc. Collins holds a B.S. in Math and Physics from National University of Ireland.

Ernest Hafersat has served as our Senior Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing, Operations and Supply Base Management since November 2008, and previously served as our Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing Operations and Supply Base Management since March 2008. Mr. Hafersat joined Dot Hill after leaving Western Digital Corporation where he held senior level positions in operations and engineering from 2005 to 2008. Prior to Western Digital, Mr. Hafersat 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, 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.

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.

Philip A. Davis has served as our 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.

Joe Markee Is a Managing Director of Express Ventures. He brings to Express extensive experience in early stage company formation, capital raising, corporate management, and public and private corporate governance. Joea s startup experience encompasses Primary Access as a founder and senior manager, Copper Mountain Networks as founding CEO, CTO and Chairman, and Figure 8 Wireless as CEO. Joe serves on the boards of Dot Hill Systems (HILL) and Metalink, LTD (MTLK). A BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Davis as well as 15 years of product development experience provide Joe with the experience to quickly evaluate technology opportunities. As CEO, Joe took Figure 8 Wireless from its initial business plan and fund raising in January of 2004 to the sale of the company to Chipcon ASA of Norway in March or 2005. Chipcon was subsequently purchased by Texas Instruments in January of 2006 for $200M. Figure 8 developed ad hoc mesh networking software for wireless device networking using the Zigbee standard. Prior to Figure 8, Joe was co-founder and founding CEO of Copper Mountain Networks (founded 1995). Copper Mountain produced subscriber access (DSL) and broadband remote access server solutions for facilities-based carrier networks. As Chairman and CTO, Joe helped take the company public in May 1999. Annual revenues at the time were approximately $100M and the market capitalization of the company was in excess of $1B before the market correction in late 2000. From 1988 to 1995, Joe was co-founder at Primary Access, a remote access server company which was sold to 3Com Corporation in 1994 for $170M. In addition to initial product development, Joe held senior management positions as VP Operations and VP Quality and Support. Joe was also a founder and served as President of the San Diego Telecommunications Council (recently renamed Commnexus). He has been honored with awards for his contributions to San Diego's high-tech business community, including Master Entrepreneur.

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.