EX-99.1
PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 27, 2004
April 27, 2004 - LISKA BIOMETRY, INC., a biometrics solutions provider,
announced today that the company has entered into employment agreements with key
individuals: Mr. Lam Ko Chau, will continue to serve as our President and has
been appointed to serve as the company's CEO, Mr. Christopher LeClerc will take
on the role as our Chief Operating Officer and Mr. Manoj Hippola will serve as
the Company's Chief Financial Officer. These changes will become effective as of
April 21, 2004.
"I am extremely pleased to welcome Chris and Manoj to the senior management
team. This move confirms the confidence that we have in Chris and Manoj and
their ability to produce results and steer the Company in a positive direction,"
said Lam Ko Chau.
Christopher LeClerc was a Hedge Fund Manager at Andover Brokerage LLC. Chris was
previously Director of Business Development and Head of OTC Trading with Mercer
Partners, Inc. in New York. Chris also served at Merrill Lynch, M.H. Meyerson
and ETG, LLC, engaging in financial consulting, sales, market-making and equity
trading.
Chris has extensive experience in the areas of finance, investor relations and
stock offering strategies. Chris graduated with a finance degree from Saint
Anselm College.
Prior to joining Liska, Manoj Hippola was a financial analyst with
Hewlett-Packard Services (Compaq Global Services) within its North American
professional services finance operations where he was responsible for financial
planning, reporting, and forecasting activities as well as for internal
operational metrics, pricing service delivery offerings and managing corporate
client contracts with Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Manoj has a 10 year
history working with dynamic new hi-tech start-ups.
Manoj studied economics at the University of Ottawa and earned his CSC, CPH and
DFC designations from the Canadian Securities Institute. He is Level II
candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program administered by the
Association for Investment Management and Research.
"I am delighted to join the management team at Liska" said LeClerc. "I am eager
to help support and augment the growth and development of Liska's business
fundamentals" said Hippola.
Liska Biometry develops revolutionary fingerprint biometric solutions enabling
fast individual authentication, precise identification searches, as well as
cross-platform data interoperability. Our head office is located in Candia, New
Hampshire. Contact us at: info@liskabiometry.com
Liska Biometry Safe Harbor Statement
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to
certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ
materially from those projected on the basis of such forward-looking statements.
The words "estimate," "project," "intends," "expects," "believes," and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such
forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, as well as
assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management pursuant
to the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. For a more complete description of these and other risk factors that
may affect the future performance of Liska Biometry, see "Risk Factors" in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB and its other filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made and the
Company undertakes no obligation to disclose any revision to these
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date
made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
For additional information contact:
Liska Biometry, Inc.
CONTACT: Christopher J. LeClerc, Chief Operating Officer
+1-603-540-0828, investors@liskabiometry.com
Web site: http://www.liskabiometry.com