Dr. Robert Arn, President and CTO
Robert Arn has founded and developed multiple companies that have transformed markets in networks and media. His first venture Gensat Corp. (acquired by Electrohome/Panasonic) developed and marketed the first consumer digital satellite receiver. His next venture, Cemcorp (acquired by Unisys) developed and marketed the first plug and play network computers.

Dr. Arn was a founding executive and director of Meridian Technologies Inc. which went public on the Toronto Exchange before acquisition by Norsk Hydro ASA. He subsequently arranged a management buyout of a Meridian natural language processing subsidiary, ESP Inc., which he transformed into the first developer and marketer of award-winning web analysis products under the name of InContext Corp. As CEO, he took InContext Corp. public on the Toronto Exchange prior to its subsequent acquisition by Pervasive Software Inc. of Austin TX. (NASDAQ: PVSW). He served as Chief Technology Officer of Pervasive until leaving to found Itiva Digital Media Corp. in 2003, based on the conviction that video entertainment would ultimately move to the Internet.

Dr. Arn graduated #1 in his class with a B.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan and was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship to continue his studies at Oxford University, where he graduated with an M.A. degree and the Woodrow Wilson Award. He subsequently completed his Ph.D. degree as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Cambridge University.

David Redekop, Founder and CFO
David Redekop is an entrepreneurial executive with extensive finance and operations experience in early stage technology ventures.

As a founder of Itiva, he guided the company’s finance through its product development stage, in the difficult financial climate of 2003 to 2005, to a market stage company today with exciting growth prospects and a solid shareholder base.

He came to Itiva from a major success as a Founder/CFO of Workfire Technologies, a web acceleration venture. He guided Workfire from founding to liquidity in 2 years in an acquisition by Packeteer (NASDAQ: PKTR) – a $110 million transaction, based on invested capital of less than $5 million.

As well as his specialty in high tech finance, his 14 years of finance experience spans beverage, resource and transportation sectors, including acting as CFO of Hawkair, a regional airline.

David graduated with a B.Commerce from the University of Calgary and gained his Chartered Accounting Degree in 1996 while articling with the accounting firm BDO Dunwoody.

Derek Lownsbrough, VP of Engineering
Derek Lownsbrough has over 12 years of experience in software development and the management of R&D and engineering teams.

Before joining Itiva in May 2006, Derek served as a Software Development Manager and Principal Engineer with Packeteer, the world leader in WAN application optimization. At Packeteer he was responsible for overseeing and participating in the design, development and delivery of product features, and was an active participant in their Intellectual Property process. He holds a number of patents in the area of network optimization involving caching proxy infrastructure, and has additional patents pending.

Prior to Packeteer, Derek was a lead engineer in the development of web server acceleration technology acquired by Packeteer. His earlier experience involved leading the development and delivery of numerous custom information management systems for organizations including Macmillan Bloedel, BC Ministry of Agriculture, the Pacific Forestry Centre, and the Canadian Department of National Defence.

Derek holds two degrees from the University of Victoria.

Alex Mckenzie, VP of Operations
Alex McKenzie has over 10 years of experience in network and data center engineering and the management of engineering teams.

Alex served as a Traffic Management Engineering Manager with Shaw Communications Inc., a diversified communications company prior to joining Itiva in June 2006. At Shaw he was responsible for the development and deployment of the Traffic Management Solution which included both a network hardware and data center deployment.

Prior to his role in Traffic Management, Alex was responsible for upgrade of the Shaw IP Backbone infrastructure, as well as serving as the ARIN representative for Shaw's IP Management.

Alex holds a B.Sc in Electronics Engineering.