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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../part2stratml.xsl"?><PerformancePlanOrReport><Name>About iProov</Name><Description>iProov’s mission is to use Genuine Presence Assurance to bring trust to the internet by allowing individuals to prove that they are who they say they are online. Only with Genuine Presence Assurance can you be sure that an individual is the right person, a real person, authenticating right now.</Description><OtherInformation>Genuine Presence Assurance is the only way to verify that an online user is the right person, a real person, and, critically, that they are authenticating right now – not an imposter or a criminal gang or a machine-driven cyber-attack. </OtherInformation><StrategicPlanCore><Organization><Name>iProov</Name><Acronym>IPRV</Acronym><Identifier>_e2479daa-6f2b-11ec-ba5c-2bd40783ea00</Identifier><Description>iProov is a fast-growing global technology provider and the world leader in delivering Genuine Presence Assurance to organizations around the world...Founded in 2011, iProov has offices in London, Maryland and Singapore.</Description><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>iProov Leaders</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Andrew Bud CBE FREng FIET</Name><Description>FOUNDER &amp; CEO ~ Andrew founded iProov in 2011. He is an experienced technology entrepreneur and leader, with a career spanning thirty years in mobile.In 1999 he founded mBlox, which became the world’s largest provider of SMS transmission for enterprise applications. As CEO, Andrew built the firm into a successful high-throughput technology-based service business. Andrew also chairs MEF, the global trade association of the mobile content and commerce industry.He was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by the Queen in the 2020 New Year Honours List.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Joe Palmer</Name><Description>PRESIDENT, IPROOV INC ~ Having joined iProov as employee number two, Joe was responsible for building the first prototype of iProov’s Flashmark technology. He then moved into a commercial role before relocating to Maryland to lead iProov’s US operations. Before iProov, Joe was co-founder and director of SoftForge, where he successfully delivered large and complex web-based e-commerce and secure information solutions for clients such as the NHS and Shell. He has a degree in Computer Science from University College London (UCL).</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Dominic Forrest</Name><Description>CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER ~ Dominic is responsible for the design and development of iProov’s cloud-based infrastructure. Prior to taking up his role with iProov, Dominic was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at mBlox Inc., where he managed a team of fifty developers over three continents, responsible for developing and scaling the platform so that it could seamlessly run over 6 billion transactions per year.Prior to mBlox, Dominic had over fifteen years’ experience in a number of senior roles within UK Telcos and ISPs. This included the responsibly for the architecture and design of voice, transmission and IP networks for NTL, followed by the launch and growth of the company‘s broadband service to over 2 million customers.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Dr Andrew Newell</Name><Description>CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER ~ Andrew joined iProov from University College London where he was a Research Fellow in both the Department of Computer Science and CoMPLEX. His PhD and subsequent published research focused on computer vision and pattern recognition. Since 2014 he has led iProov’s work on image processing.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Aarti Samani</Name><Description>SVP, PRODUCT &amp; MARKETING ~ Aarti leads iProov’s Product &amp; Marketing organization with responsibility for formulation and execution of business strategy including product, pricing, positioning and brand.Before joining iProov, Aarti led the international product and market development for SwiftKey, culminating in a successful $250M exit to Microsoft. At Microsoft, she managed the mobile text input business in emerging markets.Prior to SwiftKey, Aarti led the management of Nomura’s Global Portfolio Sales and Trading products. This included the integration of technology acquired from Lehman Brothers and transitioning the global business to the integrated product.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Richard Swindells</Name><Description>CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER ~ Richard has over 20 years’ experience of corporate finance and works with a number of growth and technology companies as part-time CFO, most typically at the Series A/B stage, helping them get to grips with the challenges of rapid scaling and preparing for the next stage of expansion.Richard has worked with a broad range of companies, including Speechmatics, Aframe and FromCounsel. Prior to this, he spent 15 years working in the energy sector and in investment banking.  Richard has an Economics degree from the University of Birmingham and holds the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment Diploma.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Simon Williamson</Name><Description>SVP, REVENUE ~ Based in Philadelphia, Simon is responsible for leading the Revenue organization at iProov, incorporating Customer Success, Partnerships, Demand Generation and Sales. A veteran of the telecoms and media sectors, Simon has held senior leadership roles at Amdocs and Thompson Reuters, as well as tech scale-ups JacobsRimell and FriendMTS.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Matthew Pearch</Name><Description>COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR ~ Matthew is an experienced Sales and Marketing executive. He has a strong background in fast-growth SaaS and web services built on deep relationships with large, complex clients. He built the European operations of Bulletin and was Partnership Director at IOVOX. He has also worked with voice biometrics at Nice Systems. From 2003-2008 Matthew was the most successful European sales executive at mBlox Inc. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Hertfordshire.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>iProov Directors and Advisors</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Andrew Bud CBE FREg FIET</Name><Description>DIRECTOR ~ Andrew Bud CBE, CEO of iProov, is a Director.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Peter Sugarman</Name><Description>NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ~ Peter is a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of JRJ Group, a growth-oriented investment firm, providing capital, deep operational expertise and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies. Peter’s thirty-five plus year career with JRJ Group, Lehman Brothers, Rabobank and J.P. Morgan spans the fields of corporate finance, tax, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions structuring, as well as investing in large numbers of early stage companies, many with a technology focus.Peter holds BA and MA degrees in History and Law from Cambridge University. In addition to his role as director of iProov, he serves as Non-Executive Chairman for Optimum (SME) Finance Ltd, director of Fireaway Inc., and as a director for various other JRJ Group portfolio companies.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Eddie Alleyn</Name><Description>NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ~ Eddie spent 35 years working for the UK Government, in the FCO, Cabinet Office and MOD. For the last five of those years, until the end of 2016, he was Chair and CEO at HMGCC, leading teams designing, integrating and manufacturing secure systems of various kinds for Government use.Since leaving Government service, Eddie now has a portfolio of Executive and Advisory roles with a small number of innovative tech and cyber security start-ups and scale-ups in London, including iProov. He sits on the Advisory Board of a large investment fund, with a focus on Defence and Security. He also advises SANS Institute, especially in connection with DCMS’s Cyber Schools Programme. He is a Fellow of the IET, and sits on its Information Technology Policy Panel.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Angela Sasse FREng</Name><Description>CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR ~ Professor Sasse is the Head of Information Security Research at University College London (UCL), and currently also Director of the GCHQ/EPSRC-funded national Research Institute for the Science of Cyber Security. She started research in usable security in 1996, and has conducted dozens of lab and in-company studies on the cost and benefit of authentication mechanisms such as passwords and biometrics, and carried out two studies for the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.Professor Sasse’s team incorporates the Human-Centred Systems Group, an inter-disciplinary research unit she established at UCL to focus on HCI with special emphasis on security. She read psychology in Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University, and a PhD in Computer Science (on Users’ Models) from the University of Birmingham. She worked as a Human Factors Specialist for Philips Corporate Industrial Design in 1990 and joined the Department of Computer Science at UCL as a Lecturer in November 1990.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Paul King</Name><Description>ADVISOR ~ Paul King spent 27 years at Cisco, most recently as Chief Security Officer, Cisco UK. He has been an influential member of many cyber security industry bodies, including the Internet Security Advisory Group at Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes Against Children.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Financial Services</Name><Description>banks and other financial institutions use iProov technology</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Governments</Name><Description>How is Genuine Presence Assurance helping governments and the public sector</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Healthcare Providers</Name><Description>use iProov biometric technology</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Travel Providers</Name><Description>help travel providers to deliver contactless services</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Social Networks</Name><Description>Safeguarding ~ help social networks and sharing economy platforms to protect users</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Digital Identity Providers</Name><Description>working with digital identity providers to protect users</Description></Stakeholder></Organization><Vision><Description>Genuine Presence Assurance</Description><Identifier>_e2479eea-6f2b-11ec-ba5c-2bd40783ea00</Identifier></Vision><Mission><Description>To bring trust to the internet</Description><Identifier>_e2479fb2-6f2b-11ec-ba5c-2bd40783ea00</Identifier></Mission><Value><Name>Trust</Name><Description/></Value><Goal><Name>Identity</Name><Description>Enable individuals to prove that they are who they say they are online</Description><Identifier>_e247a07a-6f2b-11ec-ba5c-2bd40783ea00</Identifier><SequenceIndicator/><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation/><Objective><Name>Customer Onboarding</Name><Description>Support customer onboarding</Description><Identifier>_e247a12e-6f2b-11ec-ba5c-2bd40783ea00</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>1</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>Customer Onboarding ~ Onboarding can take many forms; opening a bank account, applying for a visa, accessing health records, applying for college or joining a social network.</OtherInformation></Objective><Objective><Name>Authentication</Name><Description>Support ongoing authentication</Description><Identifier>_e247a2be-6f2b-11ec-ba5c-2bd40783ea00</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>2</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>Online Identity Authentication ~ Once a customer or citizen has onboarded, the ongoing authentication process can vary, from multi-factor or step-up authentication for high-risk situations to everyday log-on.</OtherInformation></Objective><Objective><Name>Rebinding</Name><Description>Make it easy for customers to rebind new mobile devices</Description><Identifier>_e247a444-6f2b-11ec-ba5c-2bd40783ea00</Identifier><SequenceIndicator>3</SequenceIndicator><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>Rebinding ~ iProov enables organizations to make it easy for a customer to rebind a new mobile device, with Genuine Presence Assurance technology that authenticates their identity.</OtherInformation></Objective></Goal></StrategicPlanCore><AdministrativeInformation><StartDate/><EndDate/><PublicationDate>2022-01-06</PublicationDate><Source>https://www.iproov.com/about-us</Source><Submitter><GivenName>Owen</GivenName><Surname>Ambur</Surname><PhoneNumber/><EmailAddress>Owen.Ambur@verizon.net</EmailAddress></Submitter></AdministrativeInformation></PerformancePlanOrReport>
