CORRECTING and REPLACING Daon Establishes U.S. Headquarters in Washington, DC; Company Appoints Jim Byrne as Senior Vice President.Business Editors CORRECTION....by Daon WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2003 In BW5506 issued Oct. 6, 2003: Please replace the release with the following corrected version: The corrected release reads: DAON ESTABLISHES U.S. HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, DC; COMPANY APPOINTS JIM Jim Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] See : Escape BYRNE AS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Daon, a provider of biometric identity management software systems, today announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Washington, DC, and the appointment of Jim Byrne as senior vice president responsible for the company's US government business. This new office is part of Daon's international expansion plan and further enables the company to focus on the government sector with its offerings. Since its establishment in 2000, Daon has invested heavily in the design and development of biometric identity management middleware to meet the emerging security requirements of both government agencies and large enterprises worldwide. The company's global headquarters is located in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and London. "We have built a strong client base in the government, travel and transportation sector, as well as the pharmaceutical and financial industries," said Tony Murphy, COO of Daon. "With large-scale biometrics projects, such as the US Border & Immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. programs, about to become more common throughout the government sector, we decided that it was important to have a strong presence in the areas where our customers and partners are located." To head its U.S. operations, Daon has hired Jim Byrne, an identity management and security industry veteran, as a senior vice president within the organization. In this role, Mr. Byrne is responsible for defining strategy, managing operational activity and achieving revenue and profitability goals via Daon's sales, partnership and field delivery teams across the globe. Prior to joining Daon, Mr. Byrne held a senior management position at Precise Software, an international provider of application performance management and storage resource management software, where he was responsible for direct and channels sales support, market development, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , technical management and customer support. He was also responsible for supporting the integration between Precise Software Solutions and VERITAS Software Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. , which acquired Precise earlier this year. "With more than 15 years of experience working for both government system integrators and enterprise software companies, we strongly believe that Jim Byrne is best capable to lead our planned growth in the US Government business," said Mr. Murphy. "His leadership style in creating high-performance teams and defining business strategies to drive results will help increase the success of Daon's products and services in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ." Mr. Byrne also held multiple positions at Software AG and SAGA Software, where he was responsible for the go-to-market execution of the company's flagship product lines. In addition, he held several engineering positions at Lockheed Martin Corporation and General Electric. Mr. Byrne received his bachelor of science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree from the University of Rochester The University of Rochester (UR) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research university located in Rochester, New York. The university is one of 62 elected members of the Association of American Universities. and a master of science degree from George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. . He is also a graduate of General Electric's Senior Management Program. About Daon Founded in 2000, Daon delivers proven biometric identity management software products to support customers, integrators, and device & algorithm vendors in offering solutions with the highest levels of privacy and security, availability, throughput & timeline performance. Daon's multi-modal biometric middleware minimizes implementation and total ownership costs and risks while maximizing business benefits by integrating with universal IT platforms and managing the long term identity life-cycle. Daon is partnered with 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) , Siebel, Documentum amongst others with US headquarters in Washington DC and offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , London and Dublin, Ireland. For further information please visit www.daon.com. |
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