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HYPR Corp. Appoints IBM Veteran EVP Nick Donofrio to Board of DirectorsNEW YORK, June 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today HYPR Corp., the leading innovator in decentralized biometric authentication, announced the appointment of 44-year IBM veteran Nicholas M. Donofrio, to its board of directors. As director, Donofrio will provide extensive expertise on scaling technology, operations and corporate governance earned during his lengthy tenure at IBM. "Nick is truly a captain of industry. From the rise of personal computing to machine learning, Nick has experienced a half-century of innovation and disruption across multiple waves of technology. He shares our vision and understands the power HYPR has to secure the connected world. I'm ecstatic to have Nick join our board as our first independent director. His experience will be invaluable to HYPR as we continue to deploy decentralized authentication to millions of users worldwide," said George Avetisov, CEO of HYPR Corp. "Their impeccable focus and obsession with user experience is a unique characteristic rarely found in the security space. HYPR is in a rare position to change how billions of people interact with the connected world. Together we will execute on their vision for a world powered by decentralized biometric security," said Nicholas Donofrio, IBM Fellow Emeritus; IBM Executive Vice President Innovation and Technology (Ret.), and Founde, NMD Consulting LLC. About Nicholas Donofrio Donofrio has received several industry, government and academic awards including the Director's Memento of Esteem from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for his contribution to the United States Department of Defense. In addition to over 30 awards and recognitions, Donofrio received the gold medal from U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNNSA) as the first non-U.S. government employee for his contributions toward the NNNSA. In addition to his many fellowships and trustee board memberships, Donofrio is a member of the Board of Directors for the Bank of New York Mellon, Liberty Mutual, Delphi Automotive, AMD, O'Brien & Gere, Sproxil and MITRE. About HYPR Founded in 2014 and now backed by RTP Ventures, Boldstart Ventures and Mesh Ventures, the company is under rapid expansion. The company was recently named a "Cool Vendor" in Gartner's May 2017 report, "Cool Vendors in Transforming Multichannel to Unified Retail Commerce, 2017". Additional information is available at: https://www.hypr.com/ Media Contact: North 6th Agency, Inc. To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hypr-corp-appoints-ibm-veteran-evp-nick-donofrio-to-board-of-directors-300476572.html SOURCE HYPR Corp. |