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COMPANY PROFILE
Worldwide market leaders in voice biometrics for the government sector
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.
Privately Funded
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. For more information, please visit www.nautacapital.com
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. For more information, please visit www.elaia.com
Solutions
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.
Management Team
Agnitio’s is formed by people from 8 different nationalities, with experts in Voice Biometric technologies, security IT products, and marketing and sales experienced executives. AGNITIO´s team collaborates with Universities, research institutes and business partners from all over the world.
Emilio Martinez - CEO
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
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
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. He received a M. Eng. and a Ph. D. degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. 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.
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.
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)