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WISeKey receives strategic investment from GJC, Grupo Jaime Câmara, leading Brazilian media group and creates a new JV "WISeKey Liber"

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WISeKey and GJC, Grupo Jaime Câmara, two World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies have entered into a Joint Venture Agreement, aiming at the creation of a new company with the name WISeKey Liber expanding WISeKey's global footprint to Latin America and Iberia. WISeKey's global expansion in the past few years focused on emerging economies and in particular BRIC economies, with several major wins in these countries that face high growth in cyber security, digital identity and privacy solutions, mobile communications security, secure cloud computing and other WISeKey related technologies.

This new JV will expand existing operations in Latin America and Iberia and shall result in WISeKey becoming one of the fastest growing eSecurity companies in the world. WISeKey and GJC initiative form an alliance between two leading companies whose values and product portfolios bring high quality technology and eSecurity services to consumers in Latin America and around the world. This will also allow the company to provide its solutions through a localized High Security datacenter in the region.

The partnership includes a strategic investment by GJC in WISeKey SA representing 5% equity stake and an option to bring the equity participation to 10% before the IPO of WISeKey.

Carlos Moreira, Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of WISeKey said: «The economic outlook for Latin America is very bright and this joint venture enables WISeKey to respond faster to marketplace dynamics. Our company will be in a better position to strategically deploy our technology in the region and to accelerate our growth».

Cristiano Camara, CEO of GJC said, «The joint venture will provide WISeKey with a platform to expand its successfully branded products to the Latin America and Iberia markets in a consolidated approach integrating with local technologies and services and offering the solutions to regional clients. WISeKey's partnership with GJC leverages both firms' strengths and will enable us to expand eSecurity services much faster and more efficiently across the region, substantially increasing revenues and profitability».

Website: http://www.wisekeyliber.com/

About GJC

Grupo Jaime Câmara (http://www.gjccorp.com.br ) is the leading communications group in the brazilian North-Central region of the country with 26 media vehicles in Goias, Tocantins and Federal District. GJC holds 4 newspapers (O Popular, Jornal Daqui, Jornal do Tocantins and Daqui Tocantins), 11 TV stations, 9 radio stations and internet media.

About WISeKey

WISeKey (www.wisekey.com ) is one of the fastest growing eSecurity companies in the world, being a leading Swiss information security and identity management software and services company established in 1999 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. WISeKey's mission is to facilitate the global growth of secure electronic transactions by providing businesses, governments and individuals with advanced technology and services that authenticate the identity of communicators, signatures, and objects during Internet transactions.

Contact:

GJC Breno Machado, CFO
E-Mail: Breno.machado@gjccorp.com.br
Phone: +55/62-3250-1001

WISeKey Miléna Piletta-Zanin
Marketing and Communications
E-Mail: mpiletta@wisekey.com
Phone: +41/22-594-30-00

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