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 Mark
Haverkate
Chairman
& Chief Executive Officer
Mark
Haverkate brings more than two decades of diversified
telecommunications and technology experience, a record
of proven success, and a unique understanding of the Internet's
power to his role as chairman and chief executive officer
of WideOpenWest, LLC.
In starting WideOpenWest in the autumn of 1999, Mark was
eager to take advantage of the enormous potential of the
Internet to transform the country's communications landscape,
and the need for a new broadband network that could allow
residential customers to fully experience the power of
this new medium. He also perceived the value of building
a network robust enough to accommodate multiple competing
ISPs, giving consumers the unbeatable combination of technologically
superior high-speed service and the power of choice.
The broadband network Mark envisioned has become a reality:
WOW's first customers were activated in the Denver, Colorado
market in the spring of 2001. At the same time, Mark orchestrated
a winning bid to acquire the assets of Ameritech New Media's
broadband cable systems serving over 300,000 customers
in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The deal, expected
to close in the fourth quarter of 2001, will transform
WideOpenWest into the nation's largest competitive provider
of broadband and cable services.
Prior to the launch of WideOpenWest in late 1999, Mark
was executive vice president of RCN Corporation (NASDAQ:
RCNC) the nation's first facilities-based provider of
bundled phone, cable, and Internet services to residential
customers. As one of RCN's founding members, he provided
broad strategic counsel and assumed a number of critical
leadership roles in the areas of city operations, business
development, sales, marketing, and corporate branding.
He also devised the strategy that resulted in rcn.com
(which at the time had virtually no Internet customers)
becoming one of the nation's largest Internet service
providers (ISPs).
He also served as president of Cable Michigan, Inc., which
served more than 225,000 subscribers. When Cable Michigan
was sold, it was the nation's largest publicly traded
cable operator with all of its subscribers located in
one state. Mark was also previously the head of C-TEC
Cable Systems, serving about 400,000 customers in five
states, and an officer and board member of Megacable,
Mexico's largest cable company.
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