LEADERSHIP TEAM
Miroslav (Mirko) Wicha
President, CEO & Chairman
Miroslav (Mirko) Wicha
President, CEO and Chairman
As Haivision’s founder, Mirko has over 30 years of proven senior management and worldwide sales experience with software and hardware companies in the graphics, high performance computing, and multimedia industries such as Discreet Logic, Autodesk Inc., Alias|Wavefront, Alias Research Ltd., Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard.
With extensive international experience, Mirko has managed and built successful high tech companies worldwide, with a focus on global expansion and building shareholder value. Mirko received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics degree from Acadia University (Canada).
Peter Maag
Chief Strategy Officer and
Executive Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Peter Maag
Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Peter brings over 26 years of proven experience in international business development, sales, marketing, and strategic partner development. Previously, Peter served as Vice President at Hyperchip (telecommunications sector – VC funded), Discreet Logic / Autodesk (multimedia/broadcast sector – public), and Matrox (computer graphics sector – private) developing top-level strategic alliances and channel / OEM partnerships.
Peter received his MBA from McGill University and his Bachelor of Engineering Science (Mechanical Engineering) degree from the University of Western Ontario (Canada).
Dan Rabinowitz
Chief Financial Officer and
EVP Operations
Dan Rabinowitz
Chief Financial Officer and EVP Operations
Dan brings over 30 years of finance and administrative management expertise to Haivision. Previously, Dan served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for FinanSure, Inc. (a student loan lender), TUSC (an IT professional services firm) and Peapod, Inc. (the world’s first internet grocer), where he has significant experience in capital raising, M&A and infrastructure building. He also served as an M&A intermediary for Geneva Capital Markets a subsidiary of Citibank.
Dan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, and his Masters of Management degree (MBA) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (USA).
Jean-Marc Racine
Chief Product Officer
Jean-Marc Racine
Chief Product Officer
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.
Jean-Philippe Demers
Senior Vice President
Operations
Jean-Philippe Demers
Senior Vice President
Operations
Jean-Philippe Demers brings 20 years of supply chain and operations management experience to Haivision. Before joining the company, Jean-Philippe held a number of senior management roles at aerospace, manufacturing and technology companies, including Pratt & Whitney, Hyperchip, Clarent Corporation and Procter & Gamble.
Most recently, Jean-Philippe was the senior manager of advisory services at Gestion Conseil Robert Lamarre where he consulted clients on supply chain processes and strategy. Jean-Philippe received his MBA from McGill University and his Bachelor of Science degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Brian Henry
Chief Revenue Officer
Haivision MCS
Brian Henry
Chief Revenue Officer
Haivision MCS
Brian has more than 10 years of proven sales experience building effective revenue growth strategies and leading results driven sales teams. With a combination of extensive sales and technical experience, Brian has helped build and grow successful high tech products in a broad base of industries. Most recently, Brian led the enterprise, defense and government business for the Americas. Prior to joining Haivision, Brian served as a system engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton where he designed the deployment of video streaming solutions over satellite, and at Bank of America designing IT infrastructure for online banking.
Brian holds a Masters of Information Systems Management and a Bachelor’s in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ronan Poullaouec
Senior Vice President
Engineering
Ronan Poullaouec
Senior Vice President
Engineering
With over 20 years of experience in the video technology industry, Ronan is passionate about innovative technologies like 5G technology. Ronan co-founded AVIWEST in 2008, developing linked cellular video solutions for the broadcast and media market. Under Ronan’s leadership, AVIWEST was acquired by Haivision in 2022 to grow the product portfolio and help expand the company’s global development operations. Ronan holds an engineering degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rennes.
Paul Singh
Senior Vice President
DevSecOps and Quality Engineering
Paul Singh
Senior Vice President
DevSecOps and Quality Engineering
Paul is a Project Management Professional (PMP®️) with more than 12 years of experience in program management, agile transformation, building CI/CD-DevOps infrastructure and implementing quality management frameworks along with software test automation for large complex projects within the software industry. Before joining Haivision, Paul worked at Yiblab as a technology director, where he leveraged several cutting-edge technologies to create tailored software solutions to help the business achieve its goals. Paul’s result-oriented approach guided teams at Timeplay to build the Interactive Platform from the ground up successfully. Paul uses the principals of modern agile software development to drive consistency, transparency, and execution excellence on the projects.
Paul holds a Bachelor in Tech (Electronics & Communication) from P.T.U (India) and a Bachelor in Computer Science from the University of Windsor, Ontario.
Steve Brousseau
Vice President
Customer Success
Steve Brousseau
Vice President
Customer Success
Steve brings over 14 years of proven experience in building and managing customer-serving teams and a passion for customer success and promoting customer-centric processes and culture. Since joining Haivision in 2008, Steve has held senior roles in sales operations, business operations, and customer success.
Previously, Steve worked at Hyperchip Inc, a Montreal-based telecommunication start-up company. Steve studied Business Administration at Concordia University.
Marcus Schioler
Vice President
Marketing
Marcus Schioler
Vice President
Marketing
Marcus has over 25 years of experience in technology, product marketing and management, sales readiness, strategy and product development. This experience has allowed him to develop a broad base of knowledge in video streaming and broadcast workflows, expertise in post-production for commercials, film and television, video games and eSports. He frequently presents and writes on numerous video-related topics including broadcast and enterprise video, cloud workflows for live video, remote production, and low latency video.
Marcus received his Bachelor of Science (Geophysics) degree from the University of Western Ontario (Canada).
Lawrence Wilk
Vice President
Finance
Lawrence Wilk
Vice President
Finance
Lawrence brings over 20 years of accounting and management experience to Haivision. Previously, Lawrence was director of finance and CFO at companies in the manufacturing and finance sectors. He also served a wide variety of businesses as a principal at the accounting firm Richter where he was a key business advisor to his clients.
Lawrence received his Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting from McGill University and his Graduate Diploma in Accounting from Concordia University (Canada). He obtained his Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation in 1997.