Bill Wuertz SVP Products and Solutions, Dot Hill

Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced that Bill Wuertz will be joining the company on September 29, 2014 as SVP of products and solutions, reporting to Dana Kammersgard, president and CEO.

 Wuertz will have oversight of technology strategy, product roadmap and product positioning for both the server OEM and vertical markets businesses. In addition, he will also directly lead the company’s product development teams and will assume an executive sponsor role with several large customers, prospects and suppliers.

“I am thrilled that Bill will be joining our team,” stated Kammersgard. “He is a very seasoned and successful technology executive with deep knowledge of storage and strong relationships with many of our existing and prospective customers, as well as our suppliers. Bill certainly espouses our culture of customer responsiveness, honesty and hard work and will be instrumental as we scale up over the coming quarters.”

“I am truly honored to be joining Dot Hill and very much look forward to working with its customers, suppliers and product development teams,” said Wuertz. “I have always admired Dot Hill’s continuous product innovation, quality and price-performance value proposition for its customers, and am confident that I can help contribute to the company’s continued success as it begins a period of strong growth based on numerous design wins.”

Wuertz will join Dot Hill on September 29, 2014 from Avago Technologies, where he served as senior VP and GM of the RAID storage division recently acquired from LSI. Prior to joining LSI, he was VP of the client/server business unit for Symbios Logic Corporation and director of design tools and libraries for AT&T. He also held management positions in product marketing and design for NCR Corporation.

He earned a bachelor’s of science degree in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University.