WISeKey Appoints Simon Reding as Satellite Application Manager to Facilitate Relations with Swiss Armed Forces’ Spatial Domain
October 25 2022 - 1:00AM
WISeKey Appoints Simon Reding as
Satellite Application Manager to Facilitate Relations with Swiss
Armed Forces’ Spatial Domain
Geneva, Switzerland – October 25, 2022: WISeKey
International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a
leading global cybersecurity, AI and IoT company, announced today
the appointment of Simon Reding as its Satellite Application
Manager. Mr. Reding will be responsible for handling Space Domain`s
operational SSA (Space Situational Awareness) between WISeKey,
FOSSA Systems and other partners including the Swiss Armed Forces
Joint Operations Command, and The Federal Office for Defense
Procurement armasuisse.
Of note, on October 13, 2022, WISeKey announced
the signing of a partnership with the Swiss Armed Forces in the
Space domain. This partnership between WISeKey and the Swiss Armed
Forces aims to establish the foundation for the development of new
capacities in the field of data security, interconnection of
objects or communication links based on a constellation of small
low-orbit satellites.
Mr. Reding brings military experience and
connections, as well as proven experience in software engineering
and information technology. Before joining WISeKey, Mr. Reding was
part of the software engineering team of the spatial domain Joint
Operations Command where he assisted in the development of a
process and software tools to analyze and verify satellite imagery.
Mr. Reding actively serves in the Swiss Armed Forces. Mr. Reding
holds a master’s degree in computer science from EPFL with a focus
on AI, Decentralized Systems and Innovation Management and a minor
in Management, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and is fluent in
German and English with knowledge of French and Italian.
Carlos Moreira, WISeKey’s Founder and CEO noted,
“We are excited to have Simon join our team. His experience in the
software engineering department will be critical in advancing the
partnership with Swiss Armed Forces in the Space domain.”
Mr. Reding added, “I am thrilled to be joining
the WISeKey team and working closely with a group of remarkable
people to execute a business strategy focused on making WISeKey a
global leader in satellite technology.”
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN)
is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large
scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using
Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install
base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors
(connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors,
anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile
phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned
to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge
amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence
(AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of
their equipment before it happens.Our technology is Trusted by the
OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”)
provides secure authentication and identification, in both physical
and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain
and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common
trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions among
objects and between objects and people. For more information,
visit www.wisekey.com.
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