Executive Management

Miroslav (Mirko) Wicha has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since founding Haivision in 2004. Mr. Wicha has over 35 years of executive management and worldwide sales experience with software and hardware companies in the graphics, high performance computing, and multi-media industries such as Discreet Logic (NASDAQ: DSLGF), Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), from 1999 to 2000, Alias|wavefront, Alias Research Ltd. (NASDAQ: ADDDF), from 1993 to 1998, Silicon Graphics (NASDAQ: SGI) from 1988 to 1993 and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP) from 1983 to 1988. Mr. Wicha has also served as a director of ToonBoom Technologies Inc. in Montréal from 2001 to 2003 and St. George’s School of Montréal from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Wicha is currently Chairman and Director of the Wicha Music Foundation since 2009 and an Industrial Advisory Board Member for the Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University since 2012. Mr. Wicha has lived and worked internationally, managing successful high-tech operations throughout the world with a focus on building global companies and shareholder value. Mr. Wicha received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics degree from Acadia University.

Dan Rabinowitz has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company since November 2008 and currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice-President, Operations. Mr. Rabinowitz has over 30 years of experience in finance and management. Prior to joining Haivision, Mr. Rabinowitz served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for FinanSure, Inc., a student loan lender, from 2005 to 2008, TUSC, an IT professional services firm, from 2001 to 2004 and Peapod, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPOD), the world’s first internet grocer, from 1995 to 2001. He also served as an M&A intermediary for Geneva Capital Markets, a subsidiary of Citibank from 1994 to 1995. Mr. Rabinowitz received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, and his Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Peter Maag has served as Chief Marketing Officer of the Company since October 2010 and has been part of the executive management team since joining Haivision in 2004. Mr. Maag has over 26 years of experience in business development, sales, marketing and partner development. Previously, Mr. Maag served as Vice President Business Development at Hyperchip Inc., a company operating in the telecommunications sector, from 2001 to 2004 and as Vice President at Discreet Logic (NASDAQ: DSLGF), a public company that specialized in digital video effects and editing software tools, which was acquired by Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), an American multinational software corporation. Mr. Maag received his Masters of Business Administration degree from McGill University and his Bachelor of Engineering Science degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Jean-Marc Racine has served as Chief Product Officer of the Company since January 2022. Mr. Racine has over 25 years’ experience in product, marketing, sales and executive positions in the media and telecom industry working in France, UK and USA. Prior to joining Haivision, Jean-Marc consulted for leading service providers, technology and private equity firms supporting due-diligence, product, and technical strategies. Working with The Permira Funds, Jean-Marc supported Cisco’s SPVSS division spin-off to form Synamedia in 2018, a global video platform supplier where he then served as Chief Product Officer, based in London, until 2020. Previously, Jean-Marc co-founded Farncombe Technology in 2007, a video and security specialist sold to Cartesian in 2015, where he then served as SVP Media & Telecom Advisory Services until 2018. From 1997 to 2004, Jean-Marc held several executive positions for CANAL+, the leading European media company serving as CEO of its US Subsidiary in San Francisco from 1999 to 2002, and as EVP Product & Marketing in Paris until the sale of the business in 2004. Jean-Marc received his master’s degree in engineering from Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris (ISEP) in 1993.