Carlos Moreira
Founder and CEO,WISeKey International Holding WIHN.SW
“WISeKey is becoming a bit like Google … their digital identity encryption systems are becoming platforms people and organizations customize and use to manage their lives. They often do it in creative ways we hadn’t even imagined. I find that rewarding. It feels good to empower people to shape their own fortunes.”
Early in the morning at a café in a conference centre in Dalian, China in September, Carlos Moreira sipped his coffee and reflected on the challenges facing his company and its interdependent, interconnected and deeply recession-battered world. The CEO of WISeKey, the Swiss maker of high-versatile digital identity encryption systems, had recently seen his company evolving as a New Champion since the original nomination by the World Economic Forum back in 2007, a nomination which at that time introduced the company to the audience of established corporate, academic, news media, and political leaders and positioned WISeKey as one of the world’s most innovative and promising new cybersecurity companies protecting the human on the 4th industrial recolution.
WISeKey is the hottest Swiss digital technology company listed in the Swiss stock exchange in years. Founded in Geneva in 1999 and listed in 2016, WISeKey’s first major collaboration was with international non-government organizations, the International Organization for Security in Electronic Transactions (OISTE) foundation and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The partnership yielded international standards on cyber security and electronic commerce solutions that were widely embraced by governments and leading corporations around the world.
WISeKey made its PKI, which stands for “Public Root Key”, the heart of digital identity systems, devices and services designed to protect creators and consumers alike from the rogues of the digital age: hackers, spies, counterfeiters, trespassers and thieves. Whereas giant digital security corporations, like Symantec , RSA, and McAfee, protected your computer mainly from a constant onslaught of faraway viruses, WISeKey’s services operated on a more personal human focus and scale. With WISeKey’s software on your computer, you can secure your log-in info, e-mails, digital identities , personal Dara and transactions at your convenience. If you’re a producer of high-quality, expensively manufactured goods, WISeKey can provide digitally encrypted badges and biometric readers to modernize your facilities and increase the loyalty of your customers with authentification software. Chinese media