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BIO-key Issues Open Letter to Shareholders
[August 20, 2014]

BIO-key Issues Open Letter to Shareholders


(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WALL, NJ -- (Marketwired) -- 08/20/14 -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCQB: BKYI), a leader in fingerprint biometric identification technologies, cloud-based mobile credentialing and identity verification solutions, today issued an Open Letter to Shareholders.



Dear Shareholders, The Board of Directors, with three new, actively involved members, would like to offer our initial impressions of BIO-key, the market and opportunities ahead.

As the Board, we are honored to be with one of the original biometric technology companies, founded in 1993. Over the years, virtually every industry observer believed that "next year" would be the year that biometrics would finally gain traction. As we have seen, the market for commercial biometric solutions has not developed as fast as we and other industry participants would have liked. BIO-key has been through many iterations in structure, including acquisitions and divestitures, and through all of those changes BIO-key has survived to be the only stand-alone publicly traded biometric software company in the market.


It has come to the Board's attention that there is a shareholder concern that BIO-key's performance is due to the result of poor executive leadership. While there is always room for improvement, we believe BIO-key is in a good position for success and the leadership team is making the changes to adapt to the evolving market opportunities.

Since the new Board formation, we have recommended and management has launched modern web marketing programs with a new Search Engine Optimization campaign and instituted a 30 day sales pipeline forecast review process to insure tighter management of our business. As we review the product development and business growth opportunities, we will continue to make suggestions to management to dominate the biometrics market and maximize shareholder value. Also, with regard to our capitalization, we plan to affect a reverse split in the third or early fourth quarter to reduce the number of shares outstanding and ultimately attract new institutional investors.

Many of our investors and followers have a lengthy history with the Company. We appreciate and thank you for your loyalty and commitment and look forward to sharing additional information after the close of the fiscal year.

Sincerely, Board of Directors BIO-key International, Inc.

Additional Information and Where to Find It This letter may be deemed solicitation material in respect of a reverse stock split by the Company. In connection with any proposed reverse stock split, the Company will file a proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and furnish such proxy statement to the Company's stockholders. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, THE COMPANY'S STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ANY PROPOSED REVERSE STOCK SPLIT. The proxy statement that will be filed by the Company with the SEC will be available free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to: BIO-key International, Inc. 3349 Highway 138, Building A, Suite E, Wall, NJ 07719, Attn: Investor Relations (651) 789-6116 Participants in the Solicitation The Company and its directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees of the Company may be deemed "participants" in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders of the Company in connection with any proposed reverse stock split. Information about the Company's executive officers and directors is set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2013 and the Company's other filings with the SEC.

About BIO-key BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered in Wall, New Jersey, develops and delivers advanced identification solutions to commercial and government enterprises, integrators, and custom application developers. BIO-key's award winning, high performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and authenticates users of wireless and enterprise applications. Our solutions are used in local embedded OEM products as well as some of the world's largest identification deployments to improve security, guarantee identity, and help reduce identity theft. BIO-key's technology is offered directly or by market leading partners around the world. (http://www.bio-key.com) BIO-key Safe Harbor StatementCertain statements contained in this press release and in other public statements by the Company and Company officers include or may contain certain forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release, including statements regarding our future financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "will," "may," "future," "plan," "intend" and "expect" and similar expressions generally identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although we believe that our plans, intentions and expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot be sure that they will be achieved. Particular uncertainties that could cause our actual results to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements include: our history of losses and limited revenue; our ability to raise additional capital; our ability to protect our intellectual property; changes in business conditions; changes in our sales strategy and product development plans; changes in the marketplace; continued services of our executive management team; security breaches; competition between us and other companies in the biometric technology industry; market acceptance of biometric products generally and our products under development; delays in the development of products and statements of assumption underlying any of the foregoing, as well as other factors set forth under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us, or persons acting on our behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Investor & Media Contact: BIO-key International, Inc.

Jay Meier Vice President Corporate Development Phone: 651-789-6116 eMail: [email protected] Source: BIO-key International, Inc.

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