Ryan Volberg,
Co-Founder, CEO and President

A pioneer in the hospitality point of sale community and the driving force behind Vivonet's revolutionary Zata market sales intelligence platform and the Halo payment and point of sale product, Ryan has been active in software development for over a decade and is passionately committed to the success of retailers.

Prior to co-founding Vivonet, Ryan founded several start-ups including medical device manufacturer Oxygenics. As a successful entrepreneur and technology visionary, Ryan is involved in the local technology community and dedicates time every month to mentoring start-up technology companies.

Ryan studied Business Administration and Psychology as Simon Fraser University and obtained an honors certificate in Computer Based Information Systems from the University of Victoria. Ryan was a professional musician for almost ten years, recording and touring in Canada and parts of the US. He currently resides in Anmore (Port Moody), BC with his wife, two children and beagle Lucy.

Ryan was recently named on the Business in Vancouver 2007 'Top 40 under 40' list.

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Victor Holysh
Chief Financial Officer

Victor has proven his ability to lead people, develop scaleable operational systems and deliver strong operational results in very high growth technology companies.

Victor's previous roles include Chief Operating Officer at Loki Management Systems and Vice President, Internal Operations at Retek Inc., a large Minneapolis-based software provider to retailers, acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2005.  From 1996 – 1998, Victor led Sierra Systems Consultants’ North American financial systems implementation practice.

Victor holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto, and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Tom Kakanowski
Chief Technology Officer

Tom Kakanowski is a management and technology professional with 19 years in the information technology
industry. His emphasis is on providing leadership for the architecture, implementation and support of secure n-tier web sites, enterprise tools, management systems, and the development of their components. Areas of expertise include analysis, design, development, quality assurance,
usability, performance, scalability, security, and fault-tolerance within mission-critical environments, with a strong background in best practices for enterprise-level software and hosted systems. 

Tom holds MBA and MSc degrees, as well as MCSE, MCDBA and PMP certification and was nominated as a 1998 Canadian IT Excellence award finalist. His sophisticated knowledge in all project phases in systems integration, internationalization, database and business intelligence, real-time, and enterprise systems bring both strong management and technical acumen to the Vivonet team.

Tom spent several years as a musician, journeyman chef, pilot, skydiver, scuba diver and competitive sailor. Recently, Tom has moved from Ontario to Port Moody, BC with his wife, two dogs and two cats. On weekends, Tom explores his new city on motorcycle along the coast and mountains.

Kevin Froese
Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Over the past eight years, Kevin has held several senior sales and sales management positions in information technology and has proven experience with growing vertical market technology companies. In a position as Director of Strategic Solutions for Vancouver-based Class Software, a company that provides software and services to public sector and non-profit agencies, Kevin helped to build industry leading market share and grow revenue by 200%.

Kevin joined Vivonet from a subsidiary of Titan that sold enterprise systems to the government utilities sector.

Kevin also was an accomplished rugby player who played competitively for many years. Kevin studied Kinesiology from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC and resides in Coquitlam BC with his wife and three children.

Graham Hill
Vice President of Client Services and Retention

From 1997 until he joined Vivonet, Graham worked in several key positions in the customer care teams for Active.com. Prior to joining Vivonet, he directed and oversaw the growth of the team that now supports over a thousand enterprise clients where he consistently delivered an industry leading average customer satisfaction rating of 8.9/10 with an annual customer renewal rate of over 99.5%.

Graham also has played university-level hockey, coached the UBC women's hockey team and has traveled the world extensively.

Graham holds a BSc in Physics from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and resides in Coquitlam, BC with his wife and two children.