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Biometrics Council on Terrorism meeting - attended by Tony Frudakis:

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Tom Colatosti, Chairman of BIO-key International and CEO of American Security Ventures Appointed to Advisory Board of Biometrics Council - May 22, 2003


Two recent college graduates, David J. Harris and Wm. Matthew Jaunich, have founded Biometrics Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering public awareness of the potential of biometrics to substantially reduce the risk of terrorism to the United States. Mr. Harris graduated from Yale College in 2000, where he worked for former President Bush's brother, Jonathan, at his investment firm, J. Bush and Company, Inc. In addition, Mr. Harris co-authored the first study of women in cardiac trials funded by the National Institutes of Health in the New England Journal of Medicine. Mr. Jaunich, an honors graduate of the University of Southern California, is President of the Lucror Group, L.L.C., a private equity vehicle and consults for Fremont Partners, L.P., a merchant bank in San Francisco. Mr. Jaunich has also worked for Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood.

Within a few weeks, Mr. Harris and Mr. Jaunich have recruited luminaries of the intelligence community, academe and industry to the Board of Directors:

Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor at Large, Washington Times; UPI, and Director, Transnational Threats, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Member, Secretary Ridge's Advisory Committee for Homeland Security
Margaret L. Johnson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Department of Symbolic Systems, Stanford University
Catherine Lotrionte, Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University. Professor Lotrionte's particular areas of expertise are national security law, international law and international security.
Carlos L. Signoret, Managing Director, Hispania Capital Partners.
In addition to the Board of Directors, Biometrics Council has an Advisory Committee of leaders from the industry, who offer insight but have no governance power.

The advisors are:

Alexander and Michael Bronstein, Members of the 3DFACE Research Group, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, twenty-two year old identical twins who developed a facial recognition algorithm that distinguishes between them, which was featured on CNN.
Thomas J. Colatosti, Chairman of the Board, BIO-key International (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI) and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of American Security Ventures.
R. Terren "Terry" Dunlap, Chief Executive Officer of Ultra-Scan Corporation
Tony Frudakis, Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President of DNAPrint Genomics
Barry Hodge, President of AcSys Biometrics Corporation
Oliver "Buck" Revell, Chairman of the Board of Imagis Technologies, Inc. and retired Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Biometrics Council is market-neutral and all directors have pledged not to own biometrics securities or accept profit incentives from the industry. This underscores their commitment to the proposition that biometrics in its various modalities, including facial-recognition, fingerprint, DNA, retinal and iris, palm and vein, could in a variety of applications enhance the safety of the American people.

Mr. Harris explained the Council's motivation: "Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States is imminent.

Warren Buffett, for instance, has declared that a nuclear attack on America is 'virtually a certainty.' If we are to preserve the American way of life, we must have a revolution in infrastructure. We believe a vital piece of this is biometrics."

Arnaud de Borchgrave stated, "The next generation will see electronics worn, ingested or implanted. Biometrics is an integral part of our national security as disruptive technologies keep America at the cutting edge of revolutionary change."

"After September 11, there was a surge in interest concerning identity technology, but this crest has fallen, and we are in an almost tranquil abeyance, a denial of the immediacy of the threat," Harris added.

Mr. Harris stresses this is not a partisan issue. "Secretary Rumsfeld has admonished that a weapons of mass destruction attack on America is not a matter of 'if', but 'when.'

Congressman Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, has been sounding the clarion call that we cannot continue status quo operation of nuclear power plants, given that they are capable of being weaponized. We want to seek out more people who do not view the threat of weapons of mass destruction through rose-colored glasses."

The Council has had discussions with various officials in the government, both active and retired, and is heartened by the interest in its initiatives. Lt. General Claudia Kennedy, former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army for Intelligence, the first and only woman to achieve that rank in the United States Army, attended the Council's first meeting this winter.

SOURCE: Biometrics Council