Akoura Biometrics Expands Technology Advisory Board; Two Industry Veterans Join Technology Advisory Board of Enterprise Information Security Software Firm.BOSTON -- Akoura Biometrics The biological identification of a person. Examples are face, iris and retinal patterns, hand geometry and voice. Increasingly built into laptop computers, fingerprint readers have become popular as a secure method for identification. , Inc. (Akoura(R)), a leading provider of information security solutions, today announced Naeem Zafar and Michel Vandenberghe have joined its Technology Advisory Board. "Akoura continues to attract world-class business and technology professionals and we are extremely proud of the strength of the management team that we have in place," said Billa Bhandari, Founder and Chief Architect of Akoura. "Our Technology Advisory Board consists of world-class thought-leaders across a wide range of industries, providing important insight into the development of technology solutions that will best serve our customers. We are excited to welcome Michel and Naeem to this prestigious group." "Having been involved in the biometric security field over the last six years, I believe Akoura is uniquely positioned to succeed. Their focus on providing data-centric enterprise security solutions and biometric hardware independence will serve them well. Their technology platform is excellent and they can execute well ahead of the competitors with the team they have assembled" said Naeem Zafar, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Silicon Design Systems. Mr. Zafar has extensive experience in high tech startup companies The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. , including capital investment, international market and channel development, M&A and IPOs. Zafar has been a frequent lecturer on the subject of entrepreneurship and high-tech startups, and has served on advisory boards of various early stage companies including NewCore Networks, Relatia, Network Utilities, Cautella and EZValidation. Michel Vandenberghe is another key addition to Akoura's Technology Advisory Board, having been instrumental in the development of ubiquitous computing ubiquitous computing - Computers everywhere. Making many computers available throughout the physical environment, while making them effectively invisible to the user. Ubiquitous computing is held by some to be the Third Wave of computing. and collective intelligence applications. Mr. Vandenberghe has more than 20 years' experience in information technology working at Amdahl, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) where he received recognition for his instrumental role in emerging business projects. About Akoura Akoura is an information security solutions company. Akoura is committed to developing security solutions that offer the strongest levels of commercially available information protection technology, with zero incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. investment in infrastructure, and a simple, functional end-user experience. For more information please visit www.akoura.com. |
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