Co-founder of New Media Manitoba leaving organization after 15 years
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Kevin Hnatiuk, the co-founder and only executive director of New Media Manitoba is leaving the organization after 15 years.
In a posting on the New Media Manitoba website Hnatiuk said he is “returning to the passion that started it all: production.”
Hnatiuk has helped many young Manitoba companies make their way in the digital media space that has exploded into what is now one of the fastest growing industries in the world.
When he and current board chairman Brock Gunter-Smith founded the organization about 15 years ago there were about a dozen members. Now there are about 1,000.
Noah Decter-Jackson, the founder of game developer, Complex Games, benefitted from the training and resources at New Media Manitoba and is now a board member.
“I could not imagine a better person than Kevin to do this job,” Decter-Jackson said. “He was such an enthusiastic promoter for digital media in Manitoba.”
Hnatiuk, who developed one of the first iPhone video-editing apps, said he plans to remain with the organization until a successor is in place.
“There are awesome things going on in the industry and I feel we achieved a lot of the things we wanted to do when we started it although we didn’t really know what we were doing at the time,” Hnatiuk said.
He said he doesn’t have specific plans but said that he wants to get back into production in some capacity.
Gunter-Smith said New Media Manitoba is well positioned to continue on and it has plans to grow and expand the service offerings.
New Media Manitoba has about four staff, offers training programs and provides all sorts of business development assistance.
It is supported by federal and provincial and industry funding and has an annual budget of about $250,000.
