Carlos Moreira, CEO

Mr. Moreira founded WISeKey in 1999 and has since been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board (see above for a more detailed biography).

Juan Avellan, VP Public Sector and Deputy CEO

Mr. Avellan is involved in the company’s business operations across the globe, including its strategy, corporate affairs, and go to market operations. Avellan joined WISeKey in 2000 as head legal counsel, as a specialist in the law of electronic signatures. He has played a pivotal role in the company’s evolution and its contribution to the identity and access infrastructure market, in both the private and public sectors.  Mr. Avellan has also been an important driver at WISeKey behind the unique development of leveraging the Windows Server Platform for the easy, flexible and low-cost deployment of high security identity management platforms, as a means of mass deploying secure electronic identities.

Mr. Avellan’s work has been published in prestigious academic journals – where he has written about secure electronic identities to ensure the heightened security and reliability of electronic communications worldwide – and he represents WISeKey at conferences and working groups. He has also been a participant in the prestigious UNCITRAL and G8 cyber security working groups, and been involved in research for the European Commission on the electronic signature and electronic commerce directives.

Dourgam Kummer, COO/CFO

Mr. Kummer joined WISeKey in 2005 and is also Member of the Board of Directors and Member of the Finance & Audit Committee. He handles the entire financial department of WISeKey SA since March 2005, as well as the company restructuration (see above for a more detailed biography).

Daniel Ybarra, VP Corporate Communications, VP Spain & Latin America relations

Mr. Ybarra assumed his duties as Director of Corporate Communica­tions since September 2000. His expertise comprises, among others, brand marketing, targeted PR and general communications. He is re­sponsible for the worldwide strategy leadership for the World Internet Security brand and in charge of the global brand management for WISeKey. He joined WISeKey in 2000; some of his achievements are the organisation of WiseWord 2000, Telecom 2003, WSIS 2003 and 2005. He began his career in the United Nations. In 1986 joined the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is also a co-founder of the Abanico Foundation; an organization focused on creativity and specialized in the creation of multidisciplinary and intercultural exchange projects. Furthermore, he is actively and pro-bono involved with major initiatives on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development, such as ACT (Advertising Community Together).

Kevin Blackman, VP Product Management, Solutions & Services

Mr. Blackman leads WISeKey technology research and development activities. As CTO he is focused on leading the group that researches, develops and designs next-generation hardware and software tech­nologies for delivering leading platforms and products to customers worldwide. Prior to joining WISeKey, he was project manager of a gov­ernment Science, Technology and Innovation Park project. During his career he has par­ticipated in multipartite research work for securing high worth transactions, in conjunc­tion with representatives of other States in ASPAC, and North America; and as a team member in several national projects. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, with ISSAP (Architecture) and ISSMP (Management) credentials, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad W.I.

Liliana Petkova, General Manager WISeKey Bulgaria

Mrs. Petkova graduated from the University of National and World Economics in Sofia with degree of International Economic Relations. She joined WISeKey in 2006 and worked actively on the opening and starting of Bulgarian Affiliate, including developing the business model and establishing high level relations on both the political and economical level. Being a charismatic person she is also a promoter of the new opportunities for business development in global interconnected environment, with the security and convenience. She has more than 15 years experience in company and human man­agement, accounting. She has experience in different economic fields such as physical security, entertainment, real estate, new business development, hotels and restaurants management.