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MorphoTrust USA
Official Website: http://www.morphotrust.com/
Official about page: http://www.morphotrust.com/pages/9-company
Country: Please specify country
Location: 296 Concord Road, Billerica, Massachusetts 01821 United States
Founded: 1996
Business: Biometrics identity recognition, data analytics
Contact
Phone: 978-215-2400
Fax: 978-215-2500

Background

History

As of July, 2011 MorphoTrust USA, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Safran SA.

MorphoTrust USA, Inc. was formerly known as L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. and changed its name in 2011.

The company also has a facial recognition solution in use by the FBI for their Next Generation Identity program as well as mtiple techologies in use at the Department of Defense. [1]

MorphoTrust USA offers "the largest network of service centers in the U.S., with locations across all 50 states, who can also facilitate quick, convenient ways to manage many identity-related tasks. These centers enable quick and efficient enrollment and business services including the opportunity to outsource certain operations for state agencies. Over 2.5 million individuals will be served through the MorphoTrust centers in 2012, with that number steadily growing. In addition, we are an authorized service provider for the Federal Government including FBI channeling, and Aviation channeling, as well as for state, local, and commercial entities that certify trusted professionals or vet applicants in industries including education, child, senior and health care, law enforcement and financial services." [2]


According to BusinessWeek,"MorphoTrust USA, Inc. provides identity solutions.

  • It offers secure ID issuance solutions;
  • enrollment solutions; and identity management solutions, which include biometric solutions and devices; document authentication, scanning, and archiving solutions and devices;
  • knowledge and skills testing solutions; criminal processing solutions and devices; and commercial solutions, such as critical infrastructure solutions.

The company also provides identity management practices, such as DMV public private partnerships, DMV system modernization, and verified enrollment and identity management platforms and solutions.

In addition, it offers transaction solutions, which include biometric screening solutions and devices;

  • border management solutions and devices;
  • self-service and kiosk solutions; document authentication, scanning, and archiving solutions and devices;
  • and online/mobile solutions.

Further, the company provides investigative solutions, such as investigative and forensic solutions, and crime prevention solutions.

  • It serves government-issued ID segments, such as driver licenses and passports;
  • border management, public safety, law enforcement, aviation, retail, banking, and employee/applicant vetting markets."

Products


Countries using products

USA, Finland, France, Germany,


Reports

  • Safran completes the acquisition of L-1 Identity Solutions Becomes world leader in biometric ID solutions [3]
  • 2006 Viisage and Identix Merge to Form L-1 Identity Solutions [4]
  • September 20, 2010. L-1 will join Safran as Morpho, and will be renamed MorphoTrust. [5]

Tech & Business Partners

People Responsible

Board Members

  • Jean-Paul Herteman, Chairman and CEO of Safran SA

Mr. Jean-Paul Herteman has been Chief Executive Officer of Safran SA at MorphoTrust USA, Inc. since September 3, 2007. Mr. Herteman serves as Chief Executive Officer of Safran at Morpho SA. He serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at SAFRAN USA, Inc. Mr. Herteman served as the Chief Executive Officer of Defense Security Branch for Safran SA until September 30, 2009. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Morpho SA. Mr. Herteman served as Executive Vice President of Defense Security at Safran SA. Mr. Herteman served as Chairman and Member of the Executive Board at Safran SA from September 3, 2007 to April 21, 2011. He serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sagem Securite SA and Snecma Moteurs SA. Mr. Herteman serves as an Executive Vice President of Propulsion Branch of Snecma SA, a subsidiary of Safran Group. He has been Chairman of Safran SA at MorphoTrust USA, Inc. since April 21, 2011. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sagem Défense Sécurité SA. He serves as Director of Morpho SA. He is a graduate of École Polytechnique in 1970 and École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (French Aerospace School of Engineering) in 1975


Key Executives

  • Robert E. Eckel, CEO and President of MorphoTrust USA, Inc, MorphoSys AG

MorphoSys AG, Lena-Christ-Street 48, Munich, Bavaria 82152 Germany

Phone: 49 8989 9270 Fax: 49 89 8992 7222


Mr. Eckel lead the former L-1 Biometric, Secure Credentialing and Enrollment Services businesses in the United States (U.S.). He manages these businesses under a Proxy Board pursuant to an agreement developed with the U.S. government. Mr. Eckel is responsible for the business performance and operations including managing the development and implementation of solutions for State, Federal and international customers. Mr. Eckel served as Executive Vice President of the L-1 Secure Credentialing Division, where he was responsible for managing the U.S. State Department of Motor Vehicle business, a group that today provides solutions used to produce more than 80 percent of U.S. driver's licenses. He served as President of the L-1 Secure Credentialing Division at L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. since December 2010.

Mr. Eckel served as President of Digimarc ID Systems, LLC since April 2005 and its President of Government Programs since August 2005.

Prior to joining L-1 Secure, Mr. Eckel served as Vice President and General Manager, Air Traffic Management Systems for Raytheon Company in Marlboro, Massachusetts from 1999 to 2005. In this capacity, he was responsible for the business performance and operations for a portfolio of domestic and international programs as well as developing and maintaining strong customer relationships and business partnerships with commercial customers and the Department of Defense.

Prior to this position at Raytheon, he held increasing levels of responsibility including Program Director roles for production missile and advanced system development programs from 1995 to 1999, and from 1990 to 1995, he held various levels of technical management in the development of advanced electronic and optical systems.

From 1980 to 1990, he served in key managerial and technical leadership capacities in developing electronic systems and large-scale integrated circuits at Hughes Aircraft Company in Canoga Park, California.

He holds five patents in electronic and optical systems, and is published in the fields of infrared system development and management.

Mr. Eckel holds a BSEE from the University of Connecticut and an MSEE from the University of California, Los Angeles.


  • Charlie Carroll, CEO of Enrollment Services Division

Charlie Carroll serves as Chief Executive Officer of Enrollment Services Division at L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. and is responsible for overall management, development, and growth of the division.

Mr. Carroll serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of ASET Corporation.

He is an expert in the development of procedures used to conduct undercover operations in corporate facilities and government agencies, as well as vulnerability and threat assessments.

Since 1988, he has trained over a quarter million managers, supervisors, and employees to spot the signs and symptoms of the drug-affected person and how to prevent violence in the workplace.

Mr. Carroll served as Vice President of Business Risk International (BRI), the Professional Law Enforcement (PLE) Division.

He co-founded PLE, Inc. in 1981 and developed PLE Testing Laboratories.

Mr. Carroll served as an Officer at Dayton, Ohio, Police Department, where he specialized in narcotics, organized crime, and motorcycle gang enforcement. He managed and participated in long-term undercover operations.

Since then, he was responsible for the management and performance of over 5,000 undercover drug investigations resulting in over 35,000 arrests. He is an active Member of the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) and the National Drug Enforcement Officers Association (NDEOA). Mr. Carroll is a nationally recognized authority on drug abuse, drug trafficking, violence prevention, and the "principals of protection.".


  • Dr. Mohamed Lazzouni, Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Mohamed Lazzoun has been named to the Board of Advisors for the Centre for Identity at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Dr. Lazzouni joins board members from IBM, LexisNexis, VISA, the US Secret Service, the FBI and others from industry, government and academia.

Lazzouni is a strategist and technology leader for MorphoTrust. He has been personally engaged in almost every advancement in biometrics over the past two decades, and has expertise in a wide variety of technologies including facial, iris, and fingerprint recognition. Dr. Lazzouni is an architect of identity systems in use by US government agencies and many state motor vehicle agencies today.


  • Richard A. Agostinelli, President of Biometrics Division

CEO, President and Director, DigitalPersona, Inc.

Mr. Richard A. Agostinelli has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of DigitalPersona, Inc. since June 2012. Mr. Agostinelli is responsible for developing DigitalPersona's strategic business relationships and setting the overall direction for it.

He has 30 years experience in successfully setting strategic direction and building infrastructure for high-growth, multi-location international businesses, both public and private.

Prior to joining DigitalPersona, he spent ten years in the ID Management industry. He served as the President of Biometrics Division at L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. (now MorphoTrust USA, Inc.).

Mr. Agostinelli served as Chief Financial Officer of Identix.

From 2003 to 2005, he served as Chief Financial and Operating Officer of SecuriMetrics.

Prior to joining SecuriMetrics, Mr. Agostinelli served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Lawson Products Inc., where he also served as Managing Director of Mexico and UK operations.

He received a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Loyola University of Chicago, Summa Cum Laude, and a Master's Degree in Management from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg School of Management.


  • Joseph J. Atick Ph.D., Chief Strategic Officer and Executive VP, MorphoTrust USA, Inc.

Dr. Joseph J. Atick is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Identix Identification Services. Dr. Atick has been serving in this role since June 2002, when it was merged with Visionics Corp. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Visionics Corp. from February 16, 2001 to June 2001 and as its President from April 1, 2001 to June 2002. Additionally, Dr. Atick served as Chief Executive Officer at Visionics Technology Corporation from 1994 until its merger with Digital Biometrics, Inc., in February 2001, forming Visionics Corporation.

After founding Visionics, he steered the company through a successful merger with Digital Biometrics. One year later, Dr. Atick led the merger of Visionics with Identix. He has been a Director of Identix Inc., since June 2002. He served as a Director of Visionics Corp., from February 16, 2001 to June 2001.

Before his work with Identix, Dr. Atick led the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory at Rockefeller University and the Neural Cybernetics Group at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

From there, he co-founded and managed two other companies that focused on technology transfer and development.

Over the years, Dr. Atick has served as a technical advisor to many high-tech enterprises and organizations including NATO.

Dr. Atick is also a Member of Advisory Board at Sherpa Partners, LLC.

Dr. Atick is a founding member of the International Biometrics Industry Association.

He is a highly sought after speaker at high level industry conferences and a frequent commentator in the media. Dr. Atick has also been asked to testify several times before congressional committees. In January 2000 and then again in November 2001, MIT Technology Review and Business Week Magazine recognized him as an innovator at the forefront of the high-tech security field of biometrics.

Dr. Atick holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from Stanford University.


  • Vincent A. D’Angelo, Chief Accounting Officer and Senior VP of Finance

Vincent A. D'Angelo has been the Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance of L-1 Identity Solutions Inc., since August 29, 2006. Mr. D'Angelo served as a Senior Consultant of L-1 since 2005. Prior to joining L-1, Mr. D'Angelo was a Senior Audit Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers for more than 35 years. He has been a Director of Digimarc Corp., since August 2, 2008.


  • Joseph S. Paresi, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Sales Officer and Executive Vice President

Mr. Joseph S. Paresi, Joe has been Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Sales Officer of L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. since August 29, 2006. Mr. Paresi is a Co-founder of L-1 Identity Solutions.

He serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of Core Software Technologies, and serves as a consultant to several companies in the security systems industry.

Mr. Paresi is a founding Partner of L-1 Investment Partners, focused on the Biometric Security sector.

Mr. Paresi served as President of L3 Security & Detection Systems, a leading supplier of X-ray security screening systems and metal detectors.

He served as the Vice President, Product Development and President of the Security Systems Division of L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. from April 1997 to 2005.

Mr. Paresi was responsible for developing several advanced airport security systems, including the examiner 3DX 6000, which is used in more than 600 airports and secure facilities throughout the United States and worldwide.

He was Corporate Vice President of L-3 Communications Corporation.

From 1996 to 1997, he worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation as the Director of Technology in the US$8B Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) sector.

Prior to the April 1996 acquisition of Loral, Mr. Paresi served as Corporate Director of Technology for Loral, a position he held since 1993. From 1978 to 1993, he served as a Systems Engineer, Director of Marketing and Director of International Programs at Loral Electronic Systems. From 1978 to 1995, he served as the Director of Technology for US$6B Loral Corporation where he held positions in Program Management, Business Development and Design Engineering.

He served as Chairman of AMP Holding, Inc. since December 2010. He served as a Director of AMP Electric Vehicles, Inc. since December 2010.

Mr. Paresi has been a Director of Rand A Technology Corp. since March 1, 2005.

He serves as a Director of AnnisTech, Inc. and Millivision, Inc.

He served as Director of Q Technology Group Limited (formerly QRsciences Holdings Ltd.) from September 8, 2005 to December 2007. He served as a Non-Executive Director of QRSciences Pty Ltd. from September 8, 2005 to December 31, 2007.

Mr. Paresi holds advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering and Finance and is a graduate of the USA Army Defense Systems Management School.



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