authID Positions for Strong Growth in Biometric Identity Verification and Authentication with New Identity Domain Talent
February 08 2024 - 8:00AM
authID® [Nasdaq: AUID], a leading provider of innovative
biometric identity verification and authentication solutions, today
announced the appointment of new talent that will position the
Company for further growth in 2024 and beyond. Following the
successful completion of its November 2023 fund-raise, the Company
is expanding its sales, customer success, and engineering teams to
drive quick execution on its sales and product pipeline and
capitalize on the global demand for secure and seamless biometric
authentication solutions.
To build upon the Company’s highly successful 2023 sales
momentum where it increased sales by 1200%, authID has hired
additional enterprise-sales executives with a wealth of business
development experience as well as deep technical depth in the
security and identity industry. Offering impressive track records
of building strong relationships with enterprise clients and
driving revenue growth, the appointments are:
- Prateek Bijapurkar, Director of Sales, has
over 15 years of authentication and identity sales experience and
most recently served as Enterprise Sales Manager at ForgeRock/Ping,
Oracle, and Persistent Systems focused on Identity and Access
Management solutions. He was a key contributor to creating adaptive
authentication products that were the precursors to today’s
advanced multi-factor authentication solutions. Prateek is a former
identity developer which helps him provide the best guidance on how
to integrate and configure biometrics for authID’s
customers.
- Spencer Bybee, Director of Sales, holds over
25 years of strategic selling of security and identity solutions
and arrives at authID having served in Executive Account Manager
positions at Ping Identity, ForgeRock, Oracle, IDMWorks, DELL and
NetIQ, where he excelled in securing customers in the United States
and LATAM. Spencer is a former technical identity engineer which
provides him with tremendous technical depth to solve customer
challenges.
- Linh Nguyen, Principal
Solutions Architect, brings over 15 years of pre-
and post-technical sales and product expertise. Most recently, he
served as Principal Sales Engineer at ForgeRock/Ping where he
tailored identity access solutions to meet customer needs and
ensure post-implementation success. Prior to that, Linh worked at
Persistent Systems as a Senior Sales Engineer and Lead User
Experience consultant, creating a suite of identity APIs and
interface solutions that became resident in Persistent’s and
Oracle’s core services.
"We are excited to welcome Prateek, Spencer, and Linh to help
expand our sales pipeline, acquire new customers, and deliver value
with our next-generation biometric authentication platform," said
Rhon Daguro, CEO of authID. "Their proven expertise in sales
management and deep identity domain knowledge will be instrumental
in strengthening our market position, accelerating authID’s growth
trajectory, and increasing shareholder value."
In addition to these sales veterans, authID has also brought on
personnel to bolster the development ranks for the purpose of
strengthening its product offerings and delivering on an aggressive
roadmap. To better service its growing list of customers and ensure
successful implementations, authID has also broadened its customer
success team with new members who are deep in both technical and
identity verification practices.
“It’s not enough to sell to new accounts,” added Daguro. “We
have to be a great partner to our customers to help them secure
access to corporate assets, build revenue with legitimate users,
and do away with the costs of fraud, all while providing their
employees and consumers the best user authentication experience
possible.”
About authID Inc.authID (Nasdaq: AUID)
ensures cyber-savvy enterprises “Know Who’s Behind the
Device”TM for every customer or employee login
and transaction. Through its easy-to-integrate, patented,
biometric identity platform, authID quickly and accurately
verifies a user’s identity, eliminating any assumption of ‘who’ is
behind a device and preventing cybercriminals from taking over
accounts. authID combines digital onboarding, FIDO2 login, and
biometric authentication and account recovery, with a fast,
accurate, user-friendly experience – delivering identity
verification in 700ms. Establishing a biometric root of trust
for each user that is bound to their accounts and provisioned
devices, authID stops fraud at onboarding, eliminates password
risks and costs, and provides the faster, frictionless, and
more accurate user identity experience demanded by
operators of today’s digital ecosystems. For more information, go
to www.authID.ai.
authID Media Contact
Rhon Daguro, CEO InvestorRelations@authid.ai
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