YooniK appoints identity veteran Daniel Suess as Head of Sales Written on 14 Feb 2022

Lisbon, February 14, 2022

YooniK, a leader in privacy-first face authentication for identity management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Suess, MBA International Business, and former Keesing Technologies Commercial Director, as Head of Sales.

With 15+ years of experience as a commercial leader in the identity industry where he recruited, built, and coached high-performing sales and marketing teams, Daniel has successfully onboarded and managed global governmental and commercial accounts, including multiple Fortune 500 companies to on-premise and cloud-based identity verification services.

Daniel joins YooniK as Head of Sales where he will be responsible for the company’s sales strategy and leading the operational elements of the go to market in various industries, including retail, banking, hospitality, and digital workplace.

"I am excited to join YooniK during a time where fast, handsfree, and foremost secure access to locations, products, and services, while respecting an individual right for privacy, is receiving more interest from individuals and corporations globally every day. With YooniK’s outstanding facial authentication algorithms in combination with the mission to provide private handsfree authentication via a simple look, the number of biometric authentication use cases and transactions will grow exponentially. I am proud to be able to contribute to YooniK’s future growth.", said Daniel Suess.

"I believe Daniel’s vast experience and wisdom in understanding customer needs in the identity world make him the right person to bring a clear sustainable growth path to the great mission we have in front of us: making authentication truly convenient, private and secure for all users worldwide. We're all very excited to have Daniel on board the team and look forward to changing the world together!", stated Pedro Torres, Co-Founder and CEO of YooniK.

About YooniK

YooniK simplifies all customer interactions with private, convenient, and secure face authentication on any device. Ranking Top 5 for accuracy in live face matching in the combined business regions of Europe and Americas, as independently certified by the international benchmark, and featuring a decentralized zero-knowledge privacy architecture, YooniK solves a longstanding privacy challenge: it breaks with decades of centralized biometric databases while enabling a fully handsfree experience, thus bringing unprecedented levels of privacy, convenience, accuracy, and user trust when adopting face authentication in daily routines.

For more information visit the company website or its LinkedIn.