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OptioLabs Expands Leadership Team with the Hiring of Dr. Hamilton Turner, Andrew Meister and Eileen MercilliottOptioLabs, which creates technology products that make mobile devices more secure, today announced that it added three executives to its management team as the company accelerates product development. Dr. Hamilton Turner joined OptioLabs as Director of Malware Research; Andrew Meister was named Vice President of Engineering; and Eileen Mercilliott joined as Director of Product Management. Turner brings expertise in technologies that optimize and secure mobile cloud systems, which he developed as part of his doctoral work at Virginia Tech. His experience as an initial creator of GhostBox, a technology for securing Android (News - Alert) mobile devices in highly sensitive environments, will augment OptioLabs' ability to provide enterprise-level mobile security for data and transactions against malware of all kinds in a globally connected economy. Before joining OptioLabs, Meister worked with early stage companies at AM Consulting, and served as Chief Operating Officer at Sonum Technologies. Meister also served as co-Founder and Vice President of Aether Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AETH), helping to lead the company through significant growth; as Director of Engineering at Mobile Solutions, Inc., working on wireless data communications; and as a developer of software for organizations including UPS. Mercilliott brings extensive experience in consumer, telecommunications, and mobile industries as a product management executive. Prior to joining OptioLabs, she was the Program and Product Manager for Good Technology-BoxTone (News - Alert), managing product development and releases for mobile applications and smartphone management software; Vice President at Aegis Mobile, supporting mobile messaging for wireless carriers; and Vice President of Carrier Relations and Channel Sales at LimeLife, Inc., a software company developing consumer-focused mobile applications. Her experience enhances OptioLabs' consumer products, including kodomo, a suite of mobile parental control applications. "We are exited to have a talented group of industry technologists and executives join our team," said OptioLabs Chief Executive Officer Gregg Smith. "Their expertise will allow us to quickly develop game-changing solutions to today's ever-changing mobile platform security needs." More information about OptioLabs and its products can be found at www.optiolabs.com. The company, which has offices in Baltimore and Nashville, Tennessee, is a subsidiary of Allied Minds (LSE: ALM). About OptioLabs OptioLabs develops transformational security products for the mobile enterprise and embedded systems. Led by a world-class team of technologists, and leveraging innovations developed for national security protocols, OptioLabs has pioneered game-changing advanced security solutions for the world's leading mobile platforms. With offices in Baltimore and Nashville, Tennessee, OptioLabs customers include federal agencies, commercial enterprises, and device manufacturers. More information can be found at www.optiolabs.com. About Allied Minds Allied Minds (LSE: ALM) is an innovative U.S. science and technology development and commercialization company. Operating since 2006, Allied Minds forms, funds, manages and builds products and businesses based on innovative technologies developed at leading U.S. universities and federal research institutions. Allied Minds serves as a diversified holding company that supports its businesses and product development with capital, central management and shared services. More information about the Boston-based company can be found at www.alliedminds.com. Allied Minds Forward-Looking Statement This press release contains statements that are or may be forward-looking statements, including statements that relate to the company's future prospects, developments and strategies. The forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance and achievements to differ materially from current expectations, including, but not limited to, those risk and uncertainties described in the risk factors included in the company's regulatory filings. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions regarding the present and future business strategies of the company and the environment in which it will operate in the future. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as at the date of this press release. Except as required by law, regulatory requirement, the Listing Rules and the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, neither the company nor any other party intends to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150813005109/en/ |
