Haivision reinforces leadership team and
completes full integration of recent acquisitions
MONTREAL, Dec. 8, 2022
/PRNewswire/ - Haivision Systems Inc. ("Haivision") (TSX:
HAI), a leading global provider of mission-critical, real-time
video networking and visual collaboration solutions, today
announced the appointment of Jean-Marc
Racine as Chief Product Officer effective January 2, 2023.
Jean-Marc has extensive experience in product and marketing and
has held leadership roles in the media and video technology domain.
From his career start as a hardware engineer in the team that
delivered the world's first real-time MPEG2 encoder to his more
recent role as Chief Product Officer for Synamedia, Jean-Marc
brings 25 years of market and product expertise to Haivision and
along with his passion to foster pragmatic innovation in tune with
market demand.
"Since its creation Haivision has delighted the most demanding
customers with its unique ability to create market leading products
with quality, low-latency, and mission criticality at its core. I
am delighted to join a fantastic leadership team as Haivision opens
a new chapter, and work closely with our customers to create
solutions that benefit their own transformation." added
Jean-Marc Racine.
In addition, the company has reorganized its product development
teams to realize synergies related to its most recent acquisitions.
This reorganization will allow Haivision to accelerate its
development of market leading solutions focused on mission critical
video networks within the broadcast, enterprise, and defense
markets and positions the company for higher growth.
The company also made the following appointments within the
current leadership to support the consolidation of its development
and product realization efforts: Ronan Poullaouec (CTO and founder
of Aviwest), to Senior Vice President, Engineering; Paul Singh to Senior Vice President DevSecOps,
Quality Engineering; and Mariano
Converti to Vice President Engineering, Cloud. In addition,
Mahmoud Al-Daccak, Chief Technology
Officer and Executive Vice President Product Development, has
decided to leave Haivision and the company wishes to thank him for
his dedication and contribution over the past 12 years.
"Haivision continues to be laser focused in leading the highest
value segments for high performance video-centric networks,"
expressed Mirko Wicha, President and
CEO of Haivision. "Our development teams have been aligned to
address the opportunities and challenges ahead of us and are poised
to continue to execute together under the new product leadership of
Jean-Marc."
For more information about Haivision, visit Haivision.com
About Haivision
Haivision is a leading global provider of mission-critical,
real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions. Our
connected cloud and intelligent edge technologies enable
organizations globally to engage audiences, enhance collaboration,
and support decision making. We provide high quality, low latency,
secure, and reliable live video at a global scale. Haivision open
sourced its award-winning SRT low latency video streaming protocol
and founded the SRT Alliance to support its adoption. Awarded four
Emmys® for Technology and Engineering from the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences, Haivision continues to fuel the
future of IP video transformation. Founded in 2004, Haivision is
headquartered in Montreal and
Chicago with offices, sales, and
support located throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. To learn more, visit Haivision at
haivision.com.
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