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BD-BrandProtect Appoints Frankie Wong as Chief Technology Officer
Recognized Software Development and Technology Expert to Lead Online Threat Protection Development Initiatives
| Source: BD-BrandProtect
TORONTO--(Marketwire - November 26, 2007) - BD-BrandProtect, the leader in online threat
protection, today named Frankie Wong as its chief technology officer. Wong
brings several years of middleware, software and technology design and
consulting experience to his role at BD-BrandProtect. As CTO, he will be
responsible for leading the product development team in advancing product
and solution enhancement goals to support the demand for revolutionary
online brand protection and anti-phishing solutions.
Prior to joining BD-BrandProtect, Wong founded middleware provider Avokia,
which delivered continuous availability to mission critical applications
and databases. He later assumed the position of CTO to focus on research
and development of advanced technologies. Previously, Wong founded Frankie
Wong & Associates, a boutique consulting firm specializing in business
intelligence data mart systems design, implementation and outsourced
operations. He also served as a software developer, among other roles in
the IBM Toronto Laboratory, and later as solution architect at IBM Canada.
Additionally, Wong was granted a United States patent for his invention of
dynamic object caching technology and has also filed two U.S. patent
applications for the invention of transaction replication technologies.
"Given the growing amount of online threats that companies are subject to
on a daily basis, I was extremely impressed with BD-BrandProtect's holistic
offering and intricate Internet search capabilities that allow the company
to quickly uncover and alert customers to the most severe online offenses
that pose a threat to their brands," said Wong. "I look forward to leading
the already successful product development team to ensure BD-BrandProtect's
solutions are always industry leading and ahead of the next threat."
BD-BrandProtect has the most comprehensive understanding of the Internet
and the threats it contains. Unique to BD-BrandProtect is its proprietary
technology engine that has mapped the Internet, covering more than 275
million sites, nine billion Web pages and 70 billion links. In addition to
its comprehensive technology backbone that detects instances of online
brand abuse, the company uses proprietary filtering and human data analysis
to deliver prioritized infractions that matter most to clients. With the
highest quality data combined with the quickest takedown times in the
industry, BD-BrandProtect helps companies address online fraud, phishing
attacks and other brand offenses in the most accurate, efficient and
effective ways possible.
"As a technology industry veteran, Frankie has witnessed first-hand the
benefits that technology can bring to an enterprise in terms of mitigating
risks -- in our case, on the Internet -- that can pose significant threats
to the business if not properly addressed," said Roberto Drassinower,
president, BD-BrandProtect. "His esteemed reputation in software
development and other related disciplines made him the ideal addition to
our team. I'm confident that he will see much success in ensuring that our
technology initiatives exceed current and prospective customers' online
threat protection needs."
About BD-BrandProtect (www.bdbrandprotect.com)
BD-BrandProtect, the leader in online threat protection, empowers
organizations to gain control over how they are represented online. The
company's services help organizations detect, uncover and take down online
threats to their brands, such as phishing, fraud, copyright infringement,
web traffic diversion and more. By combining advanced technology and
around the clock human analysis, BD-BrandProtect filters, reports and takes
action on the threats that present the most risk to a brand. The company
has relationships with more than 2,000 Internet Service Providers globally
that account for more than 85 percent of the traffic flowing across the
Internet. Founded in 2001, BD-BrandProtect is headquartered in Toronto,
Canada, with offices in the United States, Singapore and London. For more
information, visit www.bdbrandprotect.com.