AGNITIO
| AGNITIO |
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| Official Website: http://www.agnitio.es |
| Official about page: http://www.agnitio.es/quienessomos.php |
| Country: Please specify country |
| Location: Gran Vía 39 - Planta 8, Madrid,28013. Spain |
| Founded: 2004 |
| Business: Forensic and intelligence voice biometrics |
| Contact |
| Phone: +34 91 512 24 17 |
| Fax: +34 91 512 24 18 |
Contents
Background
"Agnitio is the worldwide leader in voice biometrics for Homeland Security (HLS) with deployments in over 24 countries." -- Emilio Martinez, CEO of AGNITIO --
"AGNITIO S.L. was founded in 2004, initially as a spin-off from a leading University research group doing voice biometrics research since 1994. AGNITIO has worked very closely with key police organizations worldwide with the first technology renditions being co-developments with some of the world’s most reputable police forces.
AGNITIO’s BATVOX was the first voice biometric tool for forensic applications implemented in real life police laboratories. Agnitio was the first company to deploy a 1-to-many identification system (ASIS) for police investigation, and today has been deployed in many countries of Europe and America.
The Biometric Speaker Spotting System family (BS3) is the first and most comprehensive product family for voice surveillance used by Military and Intelligence organizations. Agnitio’s proprietary technology and products are protected by a family of patents that grows every year.
Agnitio´s strong background in government forensics has paved the way for the company to launch KIVOX, voice biometrics technology targeted at the corporate sector. Financial services, telecoms, utilities and other sectors are implementing a new layer of security based on voice biometrics. KIVOX is ideally positioned in this market with inherited qualities developed in the most stringent of environments when it comes to voice-based identification and verification, namely Agnitio´s forensic identification capabilities." (Source: AGNITIO website)
"The Guardia Civil, one of the national police bodies of Spain, has been using AGNITIO’s voice biometric technology since 2000, when the technologies were still part of research being developed at the Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM). Since then, the Guardia Civil has led the world in the use of advanced voice biometrics for law enforcement deploying the first ever central police databases of voice biometrics of known criminals and allowing police investigations on intercepted voices samples" -- Emilio Martinez, CEO of AGNITIO --
Products
AGNITO "products can identify one person independently of what the person is saying. It does not require that the voice pattern is recorded using similar or identical words or phrases than those used for identification. Our technology also has cross language capabilities and can identify an individual regardless of if the language spoken at enrollment is different from the language provided during authentication. This feature is critical for most international crime cases." FindBiometrics
- BATVOX voice biometric tool designed for forensics experts and scientific police to perform speaker verification and compile expert reports as evidence in court.
- ASIS: Automatic Speaker Identification System (ASIS) makes possible a large voices database for massive search. ASIS is the next generation biometric database.
"Developed with the collaboration of worldwide forensic experts and national police and intelligence organizations, BATVOX and ASIS conform a product family that covers the whole voice treatment process and speaker identification in the lawful scenario. Separated, they are powerful tools that improve the results of forensic teams and identifications in large voice models databases. Together, voice is no more anonymous."
- BS3 - Near real-time identification for legal call interception made available to intelligence agencies and other legally authorized entities.
- SIFT – For field operations, SIFT provides a self-contained enrollment and identification capabilities that turns a laptop into a mobile biometric enrollment, verification or identification station.
- KIVOX: Voice Biometrics for Corporate Speaker Verification
Countries using Products
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Reports
- July 2011 WebWire
- 2009 Interview with AGNITIO's CEO FindBiometics
- The Spy Files SIFT WikiLeaks.
- AGNITIO website
Tech & Business Partners
Companies that partner with AGNITIO include;
- Ericsson Telephonica
- Hewlett Packard
- Microsoft
- Cestel
- IST
- Televent
- Pegasus
- Rebec
- Komix
- Jeail Elec-Trading Company LTD
- verbio
- aspelab
- SeciriMobile
- Pyramid
- SF Internaltion LTD ?
People Responsible
Board Members
- Dr. Francis J. Harvey - Board Member
Dr. Francis J. Harvey has spent the majority of his career with corporations that provided products and services to the federal government, particularly the United States Department of Defense. From November 2004 to March 2007, Dr. Harvey served as the 19th Secretary of the Army. Dr. Harvey was responsible for the Department of the Army’s annual budget and supplemental of over $200 billion. He led a work force of over one million active duty, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve Soldiers and 240,000 Department of the Army civilian employees. Just prior to becoming the Secretary, Dr. Harvey served on several corporate boards including three portfolio companies of the Carlyle Group where he was the vice chairman of the board for two of these companies. Between 1997 and 2004, he served on total of ten different corporate and non-corporate boards. At the present time, he is on six corporate boards and ten advisory boards. From 1969 to 1997, Dr. Harvey held various professional, management and executive positions within the Westinghouse Corporation, including President of the Electronics Systems Group, President of the Government and Environmental Services Company, and Chief Operating Officer of the multi billion dollar Industries and Technology Group.
- Mr. Albert E. Sisto - Board Member of AGNITIO S.L., the European Parent Company, replacing Mr. M. Rafart.
Albert E. Sisto has over 35 years of experience in the high-tech industry and is currently a Venture Partner with Nauta Capital and a General Partner of Sixth Bridge L.P. where he serves as an investor and business advisor to private companies. Al is also currently Chairman of Acctuall, Inc. a SaaS financial services and analytics company and Executive Chairman of CertiVox, Ltd., a SaaS cloud security provider. Prior to Nauta, Al was Chairman and CEO of Hifn from November 2006 until its merger with Exar Corporation in April 2009. He also was Chairman, President and CEO of Phoenix Technologies and Chief Operating Officer RSA Data Security, Inc. Al has also held executive positions at PixelCraft, Inc., MIPS Technologies, Ingres, Intel and Honeywell.
Al earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
- Emilio Martinez - CEO & Cofounder PHOTO
Emilio Martinez founded Agnitio in 2004 with four partners and is currently CEO and Chairman of the board. From 2000 to 2004, he held executive positions in several technology start-ups, such as Viaplus-Tech, a technology Web Portal, and AIA, a company offering unique security solutions based on proprietary Artificial Intelligence algorithms. From 1991 to 2000, Martinez worked in Lucent Technologies Microelectronics, leading engineering and research teams, such as the Interconnect Group in Bell Labs (Murray Hill, USA).
Martinez holds a PhD in Physics from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he was assistant professor (1978-1988).
- Javier Castano – COO & Cofounder
Javier Castaño was one of the founding partners of Agnitio in 2004. He currently manages the Operations and R&D efforts in Agnitio as Chief Operating Officer. During 2002 and 2003 he was head of the engineer department at BP Solar plant in Tres Cantos, Madrid. From 1986 to 2001, Castaño worked in Lucent Technologies Microelectronics. He spent two years at Bell Labs R&D groups, both in the USA and Spain and ended managing the Test, Technology and Yield Improvement department in the Tres Cantos plant.
Castaño holds a MS in Electrical Engineering (Ingeniero superior de Telecomunicación) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a PDG from IESE.
- Philippe Vinci - EVP marketing & Sales
Philippe brings over 20 years of invaluable experience in rapidly growing revenues of information technologies, innovations, software and services companies. He has successfully led and managed international teams in Europe, Africa, Middle East, North and South America and South East Asia. Previously, Philippe was the CEO of Welcome Real-time (EMEA and the Americas regions) and the Americas General Manager of Bull CP8 Inc. (now Gemalto).
- Marta García-Gomar - R&D Director
Marta García-Gomar leads the Technical department in Agnitio. She has been instrumental in the transferring and developing of the Speaker ID technology to the company. She joined the company right since its foundation in 2004, coming from the University group that developed the original technology that was transferred to Agnitio. Since then, she has been developing, adapting and implementing Agnitio technology in its different versions. She has filed for 10 patents.
Marta holds a MS in Electrical Engineering (Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicación) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
- Niko Brümmer - Chief Scientist (2008-present)
Niko Brümmer is one of the world most respected scientist in the field of Speaker recognition. He has participated in all NIST Speaker and language Recognition Evaluations since 2000. His contributions on application-independent evaluation of systems have been adopted by NIST in Speaker and Languare recognition evaluations since 2006. Since 1990, he worked with Spescom DataVoice, and in 2008 he joined AGNITIO as Chief scientist, developing the current technology of AGNITIO. His research interests include speaker and language recognition and the evaluation and improvement of pattern recognition and machine-learning technologies. He has co-chaired Odyssey 2008, the ISCA Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop.
He received a M. Eng. and a Ph. D. degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. additional info on FindBiometics
- Cinta Baena – CFO
Cinta Baena recently joined Agnitio as CFO. She has an experience of more than 10 years in the Financial field. From 1997 to 2001, she worked at KPMG as auditor of manufacturing and technological companies. From 2002 to 2006 she has worked as Financial Controller in international companies, managing and supporting inter-company transactions. Since 2006 she held a CFO position at Infodesa S.A, a technological company owned by Spanish Banks.
Cinta has a Business Degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a AMP program at IE Business School.
- Sapna Capoor - Director - Corporate Development & Strategy, Agnitio PHOTO
Contact: Mobile: +44 (0) 7766338089
Email: scapoor@agnitio.es
Virgilio 25, Ciudad de la Imagen, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.
Joined AGNITIO in 2007, was previously the lead analyst and Global Program Manager for Biometrics at Frost and Sullivan – " Having analysed and evaluated the biometrics community from a neutral standpoint for many years, I am convinced that voice biometrics has a unique ‘remote capability’ positioning over other biometric modalities. Within the voice biometric vendor space I believe Agnitio’s unique text independent technology approach is formidable and offers the most compelling proposition for multiple applications industry-wide, hence I decided on the significant shift."
- Steve Hodges - Director Marketing & Sales
- Douwe Mik - VP for business development
Mobile: +34 663 923 283
Tel: +34 91 512 2417
Fax: +34 91 512 2418
E-mail: Dmik@agnitio.es
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
AGNITIO Scientific Advisory Board includes a range of international academics, key customers and global industry experts in the field of voice biometrics with members from the university.
The Advisory Board members are:
- Prof. Hermann Künzel, University of Marbürg (Germany)
- Catalin GRIGORAS, Ph.D. - National Center for Media Forensics, University of Colorado, Denver (USA)
- Dr. J. F. Bonastre - University of Avignon (France)
- Dr. Andrzej Drygajlo - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and School of Criminal Justice, University of Lausanne (Switzerland
Investors
"funding will allow Agnitio to further consolidate its leadership position in the voice biometric market by expediting our worldwide expansion plans in a rapidly expanding opportunistic market, in particular in the USA, Asia and the Middle East." Emilio Martinez, AGNITIO CEO
"AGNITIO is a privately funded company backed by leading venture capitalists. Nauta Capital (Barcelona) and Elaia Partners (Paris) are the two Investors of reference.
Nauta has offices in Barcelona and Boston and invests in companies in the Technology and Telecommunications sectors. Nauta’s target companies for investment are in their very early stage of development (Seed Capital) and until more advanced stages of development (series A and series B financing rounds). Nauta actively invests in Western Europe and the US.
Elaia Partners is a French independent venture capital firm focused on digital technologies. It has over € 65M under direct management and by delegation. The company works closely with the companies in its portfolio at all stages of development."
In March 2009, Agnitio had secured €5.5 million of Series B funding led by Elaia Partners.
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LOCATIONS & CONTACTS
"AGNITIO S. L. headquartered in Madrid, Spain is a worldwide market leader in the government sector for forensic and intelligence voice biometrics solutions. AGNITIO has an extensive customer base including leading police, Intelligence, military and other government organizations in over 25 countries. Agnitio Corp., based in Washington DC area, is the US subsidiary of Agnitio, leading the business development in USA and Canada."
Headquarters
AGNITIO S.L.
Gran Vía 39 - Planta 8
28013 Madrid, Spain
T: +34 91 512 24 17
F: +34 91 512 24 18
E: info@agnitio.es
USA
AGNITIO Corp.
1001 19th Street North
Suite #1200
22209 Arlington (VA) USA
T: +1-571-384 7908
F: +1-571-384 7959
E: info@agnitio.es
