WISeKey Expands its Asian Team by Appointing Ken Chen as Director of Sales for Taiwan
April 24 2023 - 7:00AM
WISeKey Expands
its Asian Team by
Appointing Ken
Chen as Director of
Sales for Taiwan
Geneva, Switzerland – April 24, 2023: WISeKey
International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a
leading global cybersecurity, AI and IoT company, announced today
the appointment of Ken Chen as Director of Sales in Taiwan,
effective immediately. Ken Chen will actively contribute to the
expansion of WISeKey business in Asia targeting both the Taiwan
OEMs and more particularly ODMs who design and manufacture a
significant share of electronic equipment such as IoT for Global
OEMs.
Mr. Chen brings over 20 years of senior level
sales and channel management experience, specifically in
semiconductors, telecoms and AI. Before joining WISeKey, Mr. Chen
led Taiwan’s sales team at Maxim Integrated a global manufacturer
and distributor of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for
the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, and computing
markets. Previously, he served at Ericsson (Taiwan), a
multinational networking and telecommunications company as Channel
Sales Manager. Mr. Chen holds an M.A. degree from the National
Chung Cheng University in Taiwan.
David Khalifa, WISeKey’s VP of Global Sales
noted, “We are excited to have Ken join our team. His extensive
sales expertise and knowledge of Taiwan OEMs, ODMs and sales
channel will help us open opportunities to expand our business
worldwide.”
Mr. Chen added, “I am thrilled to join WISeKey,
a company thatis at the forefront of innovation in cybersecurity,
delivering state-of-the-art security technology. I look forward to
working closely with WISeKey’s leadership team, to further create
value for customers and stakeholders.”
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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WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.com |
WISeKey
Investor Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity
Group Inc.Tel: +1 212
836-9611lcati@equityny.com |
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