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Former Microsoft Chairman EMEA, Patrick De Smedt, joins the Board of Directors of WISeKey to assist the company with the further expansion of its international growth

Former Microsoft Chairman EMEA, Patrick De Smedt, joins the Board of Directors of WISeKey to assist the company with the further expansion of its international growth
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WISeKey, the leading Internet Trust and Digital
Identification company is pleased to announce that Mr. Patrick De
Smedt has joined WISeKey's Board of Directors.
While at Microsoft, Mr. De Smedt refined the strategic directions
and initiatives of Microsoft in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mr.
De Smedt joined Microsoft in 1983 and holds a Commercial Engineer
degree from the University of Louvain.
    Prior to be appointed Chairman of Microsoft EMEA, Mr. De Smedt
held diverse and important functions at Microsoft not least being the
Vice President for Central, Southern Europe and Africa as well as
Vice-President responsible for Microsoft's sales, marketing,
enterprise partners and services towards enterprise customers in the
EMEA region. Mr. De Smedt established the Benelux subsidiaries of
Microsoft in 1986.
Mr. Carlos Moreira, Founder and Chairman of WISeKey S.A. said: "I
am confident and pleased that the appointment of Patrick De Smedt to
the company Board of Directors will cement WISeKey's role as the
world's leading provider of Internet trust services and digital
identification at a time when the company enters into the phase of
consistent growth. Patrick's unquestionable experience in building
companies and expertise will be very valuable and welcome to our
Board of Directors"
Referring to his appointment Mr De Smedt said: "I am really
excited to join the Board of an organization as vital and innovative
as WISeKey and to have an opportunity to help realize its potential.
It is an honour for me to join the WISekey Board of Directors and to
assist the company with the further expansion of its global reach".

Kontakt:

Daniel Ybarra
VP Corporate Communications
E-Mail: dybarra@wisekey.com
Tel.: +41/22/594'30'00

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