About INLINE > Management Team

John R. Tibbitts
CEO, INLINE Corporation

John Tibbitts established INLINE Corporation in 1994 with the goal of better meeting the increasing demand of business and government for reliable, technologically superior storage solutions.

Since its inception, Mr. Tibbitts has guided INLINE to consistently increasing annual revenues and a position of technological leadership in the data storage industry. Early on, he recognized the importance of customer service and the advancing demands the Internet would place on data storage. He combined his extensive expertise in technology and sales to develop industry leading storage solutions based on customer demands utilizing the newest technologies available, including Fibre Channel.

Mr. Tibbitts' passion for technology, commitment to integrity in business, and outstanding leadership skills have enabled him to grow the company more than 100 percent year over year. As a privately held company, INLINE was named to both the Inc. 500 list and to the Washington Technology Fast 50 in 1999, further evidence of Mr. Tibbitts' vision and to the company’s growth. While INLINE has recognized a growing dotcom client base, largely due to the company’s location in the Dulles, Virginia high-technology corridor, the company continues to serve a diverse client base including the likes of SAIC, Raytheon E-Systems, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force, UUNET, VERIO, and Broadcast.com, among others.

Mr. Tibbitts began his career as a Selling Manager for Networking and Personal computers in the high tech arena in California. He has been recognized for numerous achievements during his career including being awarded “Highest Revenue, Highest Gross Profit and Highest Gross Profit Percentage at a Connecting Point Dealership” for three consecutive years; “rated #1 Sales Person”, USA 1991 out of 5000+ sales people by Intelligent Electronics.

While marketing Silicon Graphics in the early ‘90’s, Mr. Tibbitts played an integral role in the development and marketing of a lucrative line of storage solutions for Silicon Graphics. The new line featured the first - and only - alternative to SGI’s own brand and therefore enabled open-architecture for what was previously closed architecture on Silicon Graphics Servers and Workstations.

With a very comprehensive knowledge of systems design, technical development, successful sales practices and operational management augmented with a very focused and visionary leadership style, Mr. Tibbitts promises to bring tomorrow’s technology to market today.

Charles Rothermel
Chief Operating Officer

With well over two decades of senior management experience, Charles “Chuck” Rothermel, Chief Operations Officer (COO), heads all day-to-day company operations to include: Finance, Engineering, R&D/ Product Development and Support, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Customer Satisfaction. In addition, he is closely involved with all of the company’s major strategic initiatives such as business development and capture activities, acquisitions and long-range planning.

Rothermel brings almost 15 years of experience as Senior Vice President with Cordant, Inc. to his role as COO. In addition to entrepreneurial experience successfully leading two different operations, he has more than eight years of IT programming and software development experience. During his tenure, as part of the senior management team at Cordant, he was credited with delivering huge increases in profitability via improving work flow processes, standards, quality assurance methodologies, pragmatic cost structures and building a talented team of committed professionals. Rothermel was actively engaged in a management led buyout of the firm by Centel as well as strategic planning and restructuring of the new entity – ultimately resulting in the sale of the company to Tracor, Inc. in 1997.

Rothermel holds a BS Degree in Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from James Madison University.

Kenneth Casazza
Vice President, Corporate Development

Kenneth Casazza, the Vice President of Corporate Development for INLINE Corporation brings deep industry experience in sales, corporate development and product marketing, with a strong government emphasis, to the executive team. He is responsible for establishing key technology and corporate relationships, and overseeing strategic initiatives and business planning activities for INLINE Corporation.

Before joining INLINE, Mr. Casazza held many high-level management and executive positions. Most recently, he was the Executive Vice President of TSI TelSys where he directed all international business and oversaw all activities of this leading supplier of satellite communications processors and associated engineering services. Prior to that, Mr. Casazza was the Vice President of Corporate Development for Tracor Information Systems (Now part of BAE Systems). While at Tracor, Mr. Casazza was responsible for the strategic planning for a $500 Million division for the defense and information systems company. Mr. Casazza was previously the principle owner and Vice President of Corporate Development, Chief Sales Officer and Strategic Planning Coordinator at Cordant, Inc., a government systems integrator, where he directed all corporate communications, sales campaigns and industry marketing. In the time he was with Cordant, sales grew to over $130M.

Mr. Casazza holds a Bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and a Masters degree from Indiana University.

Thomas Fore
Chief Financial Officer

Thomas Fore, has over 30 years experience in international and domestic business. Before joining INLINE Corporation, he was CFO and co-founder of a software development company. Prior to that, he was President of an international trading and investment company with subsidiaries in both the United States and Eastern Europe. He served as Executive Vice president of American World Services, a small international consulting company, and Executive Vice President and Director of Finance for Hold-Trade International, an international agricultural and food trading company with subsidiaries in Chile and France.
Mr. Fore began his international career in the Corporate Finance department of the Arabian American Oil Company before becoming President of a rice mill located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He spent the first 12 years of his career in public accounting and was a partner in a regional accounting firm. He has extensive financial, business development, strategic planning, forecasting, and contract negotiation experience.
He has a Bachelor's Degree in accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Stephen Gill
Vice President, Sales

Stephen Gill brings more than 15 years of sales leadership experience to his role as Vice President, Sales for INLINE Corporation where he directs the company’s global sales force. A top-echelon sales achiever, Gill brings an extensive background in strategic planning, pricing, business development and marketing to the senior management team. With more than a decade of high-tech experience, Gill excels at grasping the big IT picture and solving data storage challenges with innovative solutions that exceed client expectations.

Prior to INLINE, Gill was a senior member of the sales management team at MTI Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: MTIC) consulting in the areas of networked storage, data protection and recovery, records management and compliance, business continuity and storage resource management supporting the company’s Velocity Signature Partnership with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) in both the government and private sectors. During his time at MTI, Gill was a dynamic force in the company’s sales efforts as well as strategically involved in developing the company’s channel partner relationships with such marquee brands as: Legato, VMWare, Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Veritas just to name a few.

A native of the UK, Gill played professional soccer for both the Richmond Kickers and the Northern Virginia Royals after graduating from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.