Tom Marmen Director of Dot Hill

Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced that Thomas H. Marmen has been appointed to the Dot Hill board of directors, effective November 11, 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. and as advisor at Virsec Systems.

"We are delighted that Tom has joined the Dot Hill board of directors," said Charles Christ, Dot Hill chairman. "His impressive operational experience and knowledge of the storage industry should prove to be a real asset for Dot Hill. I am confident that he will help to drive the future success of the company. We anticipate his contributions to the board and to the company as a whole will be invaluable."

Mr. Marmen’s appointment brings the total number of directors on the Dot Hill board to seven, and the number of independent directors to six.