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17 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today United Kingdom Awards 2019 TECHNOLOGY IMAD KH. MALHAS Founder & CEO, IrisGuard UK Ltd. ABOUT IMAD KH. MALHAS Imad Malhas co-founded IrisGuard in 2001, the world’s leading supplier of novel end-to-end iris recognition biometric technology that authenticates an individual’s identity for payments and large-scale humanitarian deployments. IrisGuard is headquartered in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom with a regional office in Amman, Jordan. Imad serves the company as both CEO and CTO executive positions. Imad pioneered the concept of using iris recognition to secure mass- transit across national borders and the large-scale cross-country registration of millions of UNHCR refugees in the Middle East. In 2008, he lead IrisGuard’s deployment of iris-enabled ATM machines a world’s first, which to date has processed over half a billion dollars in cash without a card or pin. In 2013, Imad launched the development of the EyePay® secure payment delivery platform, the world’s first iris-enabled retail POS that has been adopted by the United Nations through the World Food Programme in several supermarkets in refugee camps across Jordan. Imad spearheaded the innovative EyePay® Common Cash Facility solution which serves the UNHCR and participating NGO’s a trusted instrument of providing a dignified financial inclusion solution to vulnerable and unbanked populations a lifeline without which they could not subsist. With a mission of empowering financial inclusion in the blink of an eye, Imad is actively engaged in the development of IrisGuard’s first mobile Android platform to serve one-third of the worlds global population (2.5 billion persons) with the state-of-the-art KYC compliance and all-inclusive Android applications that touches all facets of their lives. Imad is the co-inventor on many international patents, an Endeavor Entrepreneur since 2009, in 2018 they awarded Imad the “CEO Today” Europe Award. CONTACT Eva Mowbray Director of Marketing - IrisGuard UK Ltd 43 Shenley Pavilions, Chalkdell Drive, Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes, MK5 6LB T: + 44 (0) 01908 597114 | M: +44 (0) 7539 739450 E: emowbray@irisguard.com FIRM PROFILE IrisGuard is the world’s leading supplier of novel end-to-end iris recognition biometric technology that authenticates identity for secure financial delivery payments and largescale humanitarian deployments. Driving disruptive and state-of-the-art innovations that provide financial inclusion for vulnerable populations, IrisGuard is an established and trusted solutions provider for international agencies including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and many national government and non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) around the world. IrisGuard’s pioneering and patented technology is implemented in a number of innovative applications designed to deliver card-less cash withdrawals on ATMs, Blockchain transfers, microfinance, remittances and supermarket food voucher replacements. IrisGuard is the owner of several patents for its innovative technology, is the winner of five International awards (including Frost & Sullivan and an emerging payments award) and has recently been named among ‘50 Innovative Companies to Watch 2019’.