Executive Profiles

John Hammock - President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Hammock joined ViewCast as Vice President of Sales in February 2010. Mr. Hammock has more than 20 years of sales leadership and business development experience in the networking market and video streaming industry. Mr. Hammock was Vice President of Americas Sales for Kasenna Inc, a publicly-traded provider of software to telecommunications, cable, enterprise and consumer electronics manufacturers. During his tenure, he delivered 12 consecutive quarters of sales growth. From 2004 to 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Voxpath Networks where he was instrumental in developing major opportunities with Tier-1 and Tier-2 service providers. Mr. Hammock was Vice President of Major Accounts for Columbia, Maryland-based Corvis Corporation from 2000 to 2004 where he delivered 83% of their total revenue over four years. His efforts helped the company successful launch a $1.6B IPO. Corvis later became Broadwing Corporation which was acquired by Level-3 Communications.

Mr. Hammock received a B.S. in Economics from Texas Christian University.

Laurie Latham - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President Finance & Administration

Ms. Latham has served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration of ViewCast since December 1999. She has more than 20 years of related experience with technology companies engaged in development of new media for the Internet and interactive communications, including financial management, capital and M&A transactions, strategy development and investor relations. Other prior roles include public accounting, auditing, SEC compliance and business consulting.

From 1997 until she joined ViewCast, Ms. Latham served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Perivox Corporation, an interactive communications and direct marketing company developing applications for advanced voice response technologies. From 1994 through 1997, she was the Vice President of Finance and Administration at Axis Media Corporation, which applied emerging digital and HD technologies to graphics, photography and media asset archiving for clients. Prior to joining Axis Media Corporation, she served as the Vice President of Finance and Administration for Medialink International Corporation, a food industry communication technology company located in California. In addition, her earlier career experience includes public practice with national and regional accounting firms, including KPMG Peat Marwick, and management roles within the oil and gas, real estate and agricultural industries.

Ms. Latham received her B.B.A. from the University of Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Adrian Giuhat - SVP Product Development/CTO

Mr. Giuhat has more than 20 years of senior management experience with a variety of technology and telecommunications companies including, most recently, Irving, TX-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group, one of the nation's top 20 broadcasting companies. Starting in 2008, Giuhat was Senior Vice President and CTO at Nexstar and helped define the company's digital media technology strategy. He also defined, deployed and supported the corporate IT infrastructure and data centers used for application hosting and video streaming.

From 2003 to 2008, Giuhat was founder and CTO of Plano, TX-based AvantGuard Technologies, a product development, data warehousing and technology company which defined, developed, and marketed web-based products used in video distribution, print advertising and pre-sales lead management. Concurrently, from 2007 to 2008 he worked in product and business development for a start-up applications and video codec technology company and from 2006 to 2007 he also co-founded and was CTO of a start-up telecom technology company. During 2000 to 2003 he served as SVP of Engineering for DG Systems (now DG FastChannel), a leader in content distribution of digital media to TV and radio stations across the US and Canada, where he was responsible for overall company technical direction, including the development of the first web-based clearance product in the advertising industry. Prior to 2000, Giuhat held senior level product development and management roles with ADC-Teledata, an Israeli telecom company, and with DSC-Alcatel USA, a multi-national telecom provider company.

Giuhat holds bachelor's and master's of science degrees in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest and an MBA from Ottawa University.

Howard Barouxis - Vice President of Sales

Mr. Barouxis has more than a decade of experience in sales, business development and building sales organizations within the digital and mobile media industry, both nationally and internationally. He has built and managed sales, engineering and operations teams and worked closely with customers in the broadcast, broadband, cable, web and on-demand industries. Most recently, Barouxis spent three years as Vice President and General Manager, Americas for ATEME, an international broadcast company based in France that specializes in video compression encoding/decoding solutions.

Prior to his work with ATEME, from 2006 to 2008, Mr. Barouxis held a variety of positions for Southwick, MA-based Thomson Grass Valley, a leading broadcast and multimedia company. When he left in 2008 he was Vice President, North American Sales, Network and Integration Solutions. Previously, from 2001 to 2006, he was Director of Sales and National Sales Manager for Thales Broadcast & Multimedia which was acquired by Thomson.

Mr. Barouxis holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from American International College and an MBA from Western New England College. He has been a member of both the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) since 2002.

Mike Galli – Vice President of Marketing

Mr. Galli has more than 20 years of marketing experience in the video industry, including extensive knowledge of IPTV systems, Video on Demand, CDN systems, DRM, online advertising, streaming video, enterprise software, as well as service provider and direct-to-consumer video business models.

His diverse technology background is the result of working for a variety of companies ranging from computer networking and Internet to software and telecommunications. Mr. Galli has held sales and marketing management positions at Grass Valley, DIVA Systems, VXtreme (acquired by Microsoft Corp.), Minerva and Kasenna.

Mr. Galli holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.