Press Releases

Global Rainmakers Honored with Frost & Sullivan Award

Company’s HBOX Solution Recognized for the 2009 New Product Innovation

NEW YORK – December 9, 2009 – Global Rainmakers, Inc., an intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, has been awarded the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation, in the Iris Recognition Biometric Market North America, 2009.

The award recognizes key industry challenges addressed specifically by Global Rainmaker’s HBOX® solution, which is a multi-modal biometric technology combining the iris and the face that delivers a high level of security with convenience, ease-of-use, high person-throughput, and cost-effectiveness. The HBOX family of products can be configured to serve as an electronic, physical and logical access control system and is a genuinely new paradigm in tokenless identity management.

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Global Rainmakers Brings Cutting-Edge Biometric Security Products to Reality

Company Exits “Stealth” Stage to Commercialize Groundbreaking Technology

NEW YORK - Oct. 27, 2009 – Global Rainmakers, Inc., an intellectual property holding company and advanced R&D laboratory, today announced that the company has exited its “stealth” mode and is prepared to actively commercialize its suite of technologies designed to leverage cutting-edge biometric security offerings.

During the past four years, the company has spent tens of millions of dollars to develop and deploy a series of core—but expandable—technologies built around identity management solutions. Global Rainmakers has worked with the Pentagon, U.S. Air Force and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as banking and financial services companies such as Bank of America. The company was founded by Chairman and CEO Hector Hoyos and Keith Hanna, D.Phil., Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President.

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