UPEK Appoints Greg Goelz as Vice President of Marketing

Berkeley, CA – May 2, 2005 –   UPEK, Inc., the leader in biometric fingerprint security technology and solutions, today announced that Greg Goelz has joined the company as vice president of marketing. In this role, Goelz will lead all product and marketing strategies for the company. Goelz was most recently vice president of marketing at StorCard, Inc., and brings over twenty years of experience to UPEK in the area of high-tech marketing from companies including SGI, Iomega Corporation, Conner Peripherals, Micropolis, Proxima and Cipher Data/Archive.
"Greg brings a wealth of experience to the organization and is an excellent addition to round out our executive team," said Alan Kramer, CEO of UPEK. "With his background in high tech and in particular the security and storage markets, Greg has a great combination of skills that will help us deliver complete end-to-end fingerprint authentication solutions to customers in the consumer, enterprise and government markets."

"UPEK continues to extend its leadership in the notebook PC and USB flash drive markets with a growing list of first tier customers,” Kramer noted. “No other company offers a complete, fully-industrialized end-to-end solution for these industries, as well as for emerging opportunities in the mobile phone market.  UPEK provides the only high-volume biometric solution in the market today that delivers full hardware-level security with one-touch convenience for the end-user.  With Greg on board we will continue strengthening our leadership position in these established markets while building our presence in new markets as our fingerprint authentication solutions continue to gain widespread acceptance.”

About UPEK

Headquartered near Berkeley, California, with offices in Prague, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo, UPEK, Inc. is a privately-held biometric fingerprint solutions company launched as a venture-backed spin-off from STMicroelectronics in 2004. The fingerprint authentication solutions offered by UPEK under the TouchChip® and TouchStrip™ brands have been shipping in volume since 1999 and have been integrated into a broad range of commercial and consumer applications. UPEK offers the full range of capabilities needed to deliver end-to-end solutions, including silicon fingerprint sensors, biometric algorithms, companion processors and application software. For more information, visit www.upek.com.

For more information contact:
Steve Hahm
UPEK, Inc.
510.420.2630
steve.hahm@upek.com

Lisa Kennedy
Citigate Cunningham for UPEK
415.618.8746
lisa.kennedy@citigatecunningham.com

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