CANDIA, N.H., July 22, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Liska Biometry, Inc. (OTCBB:LSKA), a biometric solutions provider, is pleased to announce the election of its Board of Directors. The new Board Members are:
General Jean E. Boyle (ret.), Chairman of the Board, retired as Chief of Defense Staff of Canada's Armed Forces following a distinguished 30-year military career including serving as Assistant Deputy Minister (Personnel) for National Defense, Commander 1 Canadian Air Division (Europe) and Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada. Following his retirement, he joined the Boeing Company as Vice-President of International Business Development and as Managing Director of Boeing International - Europe. In 2001, General Boyle joined the SPECTRUM GROUP, a Washington, DC-based strategic consulting organization serving defense, aerospace and high technology companies. He is the President and CEO of JEBtek International located in Ottawa.
Gary A. Gaulding, Member, is the Founder and President of Pinnacle Marketing Group, an independent insurance management company. He has over 21 years of management and marketing experience in the independent life and health insurance industry. He has served as Director of Administration and Marketing for the L.A. Franklin Companies in St. Petersburg, Florida and as Vice-President and National Sales Director for NRS Marketing Services of Springfield, Illinois.
Christopher J. LeClerc, Member, is the Chief Operating Officer of the company. He joined the company from Andover Brokerage LLC, where he was responsible for a 12-member proprietary trading desk specializing in a wide range of investment strategies. He has been a Director of Business Development and Head of OTC trading at Mercer Partners L.P., a New York-based investment bank and securities underwriter. Previously, he has served as financial consultant and equities trader for Merrill Lynch, M.H. Meyerson and ETG LLC.
Dr. Javaid I. Sheikh, Member, is the Chief of Staff of the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) and is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Medical Director of the National Center on the Psychology of Terrorism (NCPT). The NCPT works closely with the Naval Postgraduate Institute in Monterey, California, as part of the Homeland Security Leadership Development Program. Dr. Sheikh was listed in the "Best Doctors in America" from 1997 to 2001.
G. Bryan Thomas, Member, is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Cochran Management Services, Inc. (CCMSI). He joined CCMSI in 1987 and, as Account Executive, was responsible for marketing and program development for large individual self-insureds and major associations. Promoted to Executive Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer in 1998, he oversaw all sales and marketing efforts of the company. In addition, he specializes in developing risk financing and cost-containment alternatives for large employers and association insurance plans with emphasis on employee benefits and workers' compensation programs.
Lam Ko Chau, re-elected as Member of the Board, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liska Biometry Inc. He has spent many years in developing and managing fingerprint biometric technologies research and holds two patents on optical fingerprint scanning techniques. He comes to the company from Kojon Biometrics Inc. which he co-founded and where he served as President and Director. Previously, he was the president of Oscan Electro-Optics Inc. a pioneer in the design and application of fingerprint scanning technology. Prior to Oscan, he was the Head of Broadcast Spectrum Engineering for the Department of Communications of Canada where he lead the Canadian effort on broadcast planning at the World Administrative Radio Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. He also was the Aerosat Project Manager with the Department of Transportation of Canada. Prior to joining the Canadian government, he was the Manager of Satellite Transmission Systems at Nortel Networks, where he authored the architectural design of several Trans-Canada satellite-terrestrial data networks. He received his BEE degree from Melbourne University (Australia) and holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is a licensed Professional Engineer.
The shareholders of the Company voted unanimously to elect the Board of Directors. Our president and Chief Executive Officer, Lam Ko Chau, pleased with the results said that "the collective management and industry experience of the Board and their network of contacts will benefit Liska Biometry tremendously."
About Liska Biometry (OTCBB: LSKA)
Liska Biometry develops revolutionary fingerprint biometric solutions enabling precise individual authentication, rapid identification searches, as well as cross-platform data interoperability. Our innovative technology extracts a short code template number based on one's fingerprint pattern. This short number becomes a unique and universal biometric identifier capable of being embedded in travel documents, such as visas and passports, credit cards, driver's licenses and a host of other personal credentials.
More information on Liska Biometry can be accessed via our website at http://www.liskabiometry.com.
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