WISEKEY SA REPORTS RESULTS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

WISEKEY SA REPORTS RESULTS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

WISeKey celebrated its annual shareholders´ meeting on the 28th of June at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Geneva which was attended by a substantial majority of the company´s shareholders. The issues put to the shareholders were analyzed and debated with enthusiasm and all were approved by an almost unanimous majority.
Among the issues discussed were the financial statements of 2009 (approved by 98 % of the shares represented) as well as a review of the results of the first 6 months for 2010. The Board of Directors also presented WISeKey´s ongoing strategy to expand geographically into the BRIC countries as well as the USA and EU, and to expand into new markets related to eSecurity such as Mobile Security and Trusted Cloud Computing. This expansion strategy was backed by a series of resolutions adopted by the same overwhelming majority, empowering the Board of Directors with substantial resources to work towards its execution.
As an indication of their backing to the current Board of Directors and management, the shareholders re-elected the current board in full for a new 3 year term and approved the election of 2 new board members, namely, Maryla Shingler and Thomas J. Egger.

The Board of Directors closed the meeting thanking the shareholders for their ongoing support to continue making WISeKey a unique offering globally in the secure electronic identity market and the company from which the global privacy and security problems that plague the Internet today can be managed substantially better for the good of consumers, enterprises and governments.