Corporate Governance
Code of Ethics (PDF)
Board of Directors
Robert B. Dillon, a 1971 graduate of the University of Texas and a 1974 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, is a practicing attorney and seasoned executive with thirty (30) years of litigation and transactional experience. Mr. Dillon has served as CEO, President and Chairman of the Board since April 2004. Prior thereto, Mr. Dillon was engaged in the private practice of law.
Scott Copeland, a co-founder of Exobox and co-inventor of its technology, is an expert programmer with worldwide experience in Internet security gained during his employment with Compaq, Gateway, Matrix and Axis Host. Mr. Copeland has served as vice president and director since 2002. Prior to that time, Mr. Copeland was a self-employed computer consultant.
Michael S. Studdard was appointed to the Exobox board on April 4, 2008. Mr. Studdard has served for almost two years as President and a Director of Wentworth Energy, Inc., a publicly-traded oil and gas exploration and development company based in Palestine, Texas, for which he successfully arranged $32.35 million in financing. Mr. Studdard has more than 25 years experience in operating several diversified companies in the oil and gas industry and brings strong, independent general business skills to the Exobox Board of Directors.
Marc Pernia has served as Chief Product Development Administrator and Director since July 2003. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Pernia was a Senior Unix Systems Administrator with Electronic Arts. Mr. Pernia is a Senior Unix Systems Administrator who received an A.S. degree in Computer Science from Foothill College in 1994 and studied computer science at Stanford University. He has extensive computer systems program development and administrative experience in the industry over the last 10 years for such Silicon Valley entities as Electronic Arts, Mind Source, the SETI Institute and the NASA Ames Research Center, as well as considerable experience in the configuration and maintenance of such software applications as Veritas, Weblogic, Netscape, iPlanet, Marimba, LDAP and *SQL, Tomcat, Apache and WebX.
Richard A. Evans, M.D., has served as a Director since 2005. Mr. Evans is self-employed and has been a practicing physician for the last 5 years. Mr. Evans received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University in Houston, and his Doctor of Medicine and Master of Science (physiology and immunology) degrees from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He pursued specialty training in general surgery at the University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco, and at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto. Dr. Evans completed his general surgery training at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston. This included training at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and a one year fellowship in surgical oncology working under world-renowned cancer specialist, Dr. John S. Stehlin Jr. Dr. Evans maintains a private practice in oncology and alternative medicine in Houston, Texas. He founded the Texas Cancer Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, in 1998.
James W. Metts is President of Millennium Design, Inc., an industrial engineering design and construction management firm that supports the worldwide process control and semi conductor industries, located in Houston, Texas. Mr. Metts, who holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston and has more than 37 years of experience, is a technical specialist and is developing ways to integrate Exobox technology into industrial control and process systems to enhance security in the petrochemical industry. He is a member of The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Process Control Security Requirements Forum and the Semiconductor Industry Association.