Leadership

Hello, we're Biometric Signature ID

Biometric Signature ID is based in Dallas, Texas and is a leading developer of biometric ID verification software solutions using multi-factor authentication (MFA). Its innovative identity solution BioSig-ID authenticates individuals with a unique finger or mouse drawn password. Unlike other biometrics like fingerprints, BioSig-ID™ gesture biometrics do not require any special hardware.

Biometric Signature ID was founded by Jeff and Cindy Maynard. Jeff envisioned this identity solution years before the technology even existed to support it. Eventually he was able to realize his vision to reinvent the password. Jeff Maynard is CEO of Biometric Signature ID and Cindy Maynard is Chief Marketing Officer.

Executive Team

Mr. Jeff Maynard – BSc

CEO, President, and Founder

Mr. Jeff Maynard – BSc

CEO, President, and Founder

Mr. Maynard first became involved with biometrics when he ran divisions for a publicly traded company that utilized biometrics in healthcare. He is a co-founder of eScript Systems™ and developed several patented biometric signature authentication inventions. He was a senior manager with two top 10 pharmaceutical companies, and an equity partner for a software development company in predictive modelling and data mining in healthcare that later sold to a public company. He has also served as Vice President of Business Development for several publicly traded health service companies in the U.S. Mr. Maynard has published numerous white papers on identity proofing and been a keynote speaker at multiple conferences. In his career, Mr. Maynard has helped to create, manage and nurture seven early stage startup companies and has been a proven performer in developing successful products and teams in both early stage and Fortune 500 companies.

Mrs. Cindy Maynard – BA

Chief Marketing Officer

Mrs. Cindy Maynard – BA

Chief Marketing Officer

Ms. Maynard is a co-founder of BSI and a veteran in creating growth and market value for five early stage and startup companies. Her expertise includes the development of marketing materials, strategic marketing plans, systems development, research, contracts, customer support and sales. Her efforts have been instrumental in driving new business and creating over 300% growth at BSI by developing and nurturing new customers. Ms. Maynard has also worked for an educational software company, The Toronto Star, Proctor and Gamble, and IBM.

Mr. Don Smith – BS Accounting, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Don Smith – BS Accounting, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

AS CFO for BSI, Mr. Smith provides his financial skills to the company. In the past 30 years, he has held various financial positions including Controller, Director of Finance and CFO. After leaving public accounting, Mr. Smith’s industry focus has centered on companies specializing in security, product distribution and housing. Mr. Smith has broad experience in banking relations, operational management and financial administration.

Mr. Nelson Santini – BSE, NNPE

Chief Revenue Officer

Mr. Nelson Santini – BSE, NNPE

Chief Revenue Officer

Mr. Santini is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, submarine force line officer, and former Navy nuclear weapons security officer.
A systems engineer and nuclear power NNPE, he has spent the last 25 years successfully leading advanced technology sales, operations, and marketing teams in corporations targeting both commercial and US Federal Government markets. His verticals of experience include oil and gas, satellite telecommunications, data centers, and digital commerce.

Since 2008 he has directly sold and managed multimillion and multiyear information assurance, biometrics and cybersecurity programs into the US Federal Government, Department of Defense, and other national security agencies. Mr. Santini is a certified Pragmatics Marketing digital products manager, and specializes in e-commerce sales optimization and acceleration.

Mr. Chad Steen – BCS

Chief Technology Architect

Mr. Chad Steen – BCS

Chief Technology Architect

A Dallas based professional with over 25 years as an architect, engineer, developer and consultant to various companies and NPOs, Mr. Steen was responsible for bringing several Collin Country cities and towns online”including Wylie, Murphy, Sachse and Lucas. Mr. Steen has been integral to the success of over a dozen startups in the U.S. and Canada, including ISPs, retailers, wholesalers and restaurants. With a love of graphics arts united with his talents as a developer, Mr. Steen has perfected an overall skill-set ideal for UI/UX, primarily for business applications. Mr. Steen holds numerous certifications in both hardware and software including from Microsoft, Cisco, Novell, Adobe and HP. Currently, Mr. Steen is also BSI’s point man for the White House sponsored NSTIC pilot and the NASPO/ANSI identity standards, as well as FIDO and GDPR policies.

Mr. Ron Kerkenaar

Chief Technology Analyst

Mr. Ron Kerkenaar

Chief Technology Analyst

Mr. Kerkenaar has over 30 years experience dealing with all aspects of Information Technology. He has performed analysis, design, management and deployment on projects ranging from individual users to multi-location large scale environments, and been involved with software design and development, hardware, infrastructure, deployment, support for such companies as Royal KPN N.V., Heineken International, and Pecoma Business Technology B.V. Mr. Kerkenaar has also been in charge of building and managing co-located off-shore servers for on-line gambling before UIGEA was enacted. Mr. Kerkenaar never stops learning about new technologies to stay informed in this fast-paced world, and in his personal time contributes to selective open-source projects as a developer, tester, and as a project owner.

Mr. Ashton Puffer – MBA, MPM

Vice President of Financial Operations

Mr. Ashton Puffer – MBA, MPM

Vice President of Financial Operations

Mr. Puffer began his career in 2003 working for Lockheed Martin as a financial analyst at the historic Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, where he worked on several large Defense Aerospace programs and gained extensive working knowledge of effective cost analysis and management. Prior to joining BioSig, Mr. Puffer was a part of L-3 Technologies Link Simulation and Training division, where he was the financial lead for numerous successful International Defense/Aerospace Programs. As Director of Financial Operations at BSI, Mr. Puffer is responsible for the strategic development and execution of BSI’s financial and operational objectives, as well as the financial analysis and reporting of Revenue and Cost. He routinely collaborates with BSI team members to develop, streamline, and implement BSI’s sales and cost reporting processes, leading to the reduction of operation costs, increased efficiency, accurate and timely reporting, and effective management of company resources. Mr. Puffer holds a BA degree in Finance from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (Minors in Economics and Accounting), as well as Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and Masters of Project Management (MPM).

Mr. David Chatham – MA

Senior Investigator

Mr. David Chatham – MA

Senior Investigator

Since the 1980’s, Mr. Chatham has been involved in technology based learning. As a pioneer in putting college courses online, he worked with faculty and administrators to develop processes to create and maintain a strong online offering to Colorado students. For the last eleven years, David managed the learning management systems for the thirteen colleges of the Colorado Community College System. As Dean of Academic Technology at CCCOnline, his department handled enrollment, archiving, upgrades, tier 2 helpdesk support, programming enhancements, the introduction of new technologies, and vendor relations related to online learning. Currently, David helps other colleges and universities initiate processes utilizing the RTEN technology for monitoring student authentication.

Mrs. Amber Merrill – BS

Senior Director of BSI Services

Mrs. Amber Merrill – BS

Senior Director of BSI Services

Amber works with current clients and builds customer relationships using regular communication and delivering BSI’s reports on a regular basis. She helps identify integrity issues for our clients using our RTEN technology for monitoring authentication. After graduating from college, Amber worked for almost ten years in statistics in the travel industry, where she was involved in reporting to various entities. With BSI, she uses her experience in statistics to generate and analyze reports for internal and external clients. Amber also works to maintain contact with current customers via touchpoints throughout the year.

Mr. Christoph Aschbacher – MCTS

Senior Software Developer

Mr. Christoph Aschbacher – MCTS

Senior Software Developer

After graduating with an engineering degree in Software Development, Mr. Aschbacher worked on high-availability ERP Machine 2 Machine systems for the automotive industry for several years. Switching roles and becoming a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in SQL Server Database Development and Asp.net Web Applications Development, he worked professionally on enterprise scale medical software, credit card payment systems and company internal frameworks. Staying on top of technologies and practices is not only a requirement for Chris, but a passion, and he is well versed in a wide variety of programming languages, styles and practices. He focuses mostly on backend work and overall system architecture, as well as development processes and quality assurance. Mr. Aschbacher was lead-developer on several large scale open source software projects, mostly connected to the MediaPortal HTPC ecosystem.

Ms. Rachel Lane

Director of Customer Success

Ms. Rachel Lane

Director of Customer Success

Ms. Lane provides support to clients, and end-users, by addressing their technical issues with BioSig-ID™ interface challenges. Ms. Lane has an extensive background in technical support having worked as a Technical Support Specialist in the Racing industry. Ms. Lane also works directly with the development team to optimize our knowledge base and better address technical issues.

Ms. Jamie Martin

Lead Data Analyst

Ms. Jamie Martin

Lead Data Analyst

As an American living abroad in the Netherlands now for over 10 years, Jamie has decades of technology experience across broad spectrum of disciplines. 20+ years as a programmer and security specialist along with nearly a decade of Data Sciences work combine to allow her to create and debug not only our code, but to decipher the vast quantity of data we use to protect your systems. Jamie is a native of Minnesota and has traveled extensively in the United States and abroad gathering and learning technologies and techniques from a global perspective.

Mr. Josh Aldrich

End User Support Specialist

Mr. Josh Aldrich

End User Support Specialist

Mr Aldrich has 25 years experience in Computer Consulting services and 14 years experience in Information Technology services. His primary focus has been in product control management, software training, hardware replacement, maintaining of operating systems, maintaining the health of operating systems, responding to help desk tickets submitted by clients, and beta testing of software. He started his own consulting company, Aldrich Computer Consulting Services, in 2008.

Board Of Directors

Mr. Jeff Maynard

Mr. Jeff Maynard

Mr. Maynard first became involved with biometrics when he ran divisions for a publicly traded company that utilized biometrics in healthcare. Prior to founding BSI, he negotiated a $10M reverse merger and the sale of an electronic prescribing company for over $3M. He is a co-founder of eScript Systems™ and developed several patented biometric signature authentication inventions. He has senior management experience with two top 10 pharmaceutical companies, and was an equity partner for a software development company in predictive modelling and data mining in healthcare that later sold to a public company. He has also served as Vice President of Business Development for several publicly traded health service companies in the U.S. Mr. Maynard has published numerous white papers on identity proofing and been a keynote speaker at multiple conferences. Through his leadership, he has guided BSI to recognition by the State of Texas as among the top 4% of companies with breakthrough technology, and earned a New Product Innovation of the Year Award from Frost and Sullivan. Most recently, the White House chose BSI technology to reduce identity fraud on the Internet from a field of 180 competing companies. In his career, Mr. Maynard has helped to create, manage and nurture seven early stage, startup companies and has been a proven performer in developing successful products and teams in both early stage and Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Matt Kelsay

Mr. Matt Kelsay

Sweetwater Private Equity specializes in direct investments, co-investments and secondaries in the private markets, including venture capital, growth equity, leveraged buyouts and real estate. Our professionals have collectively managed billions (USD) in private investments across hundreds of companies and real properties over several economic cycles. Our clients are sophisticated investors that require specialized services to solve complicated issues in a challenging asset class. Our professionals have advised some of the largest institutional investors across the globe including sovereign wealth funds, public & corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments and insurance companies.

Mr. Walter Hamilton

Mr. Walter Hamilton

Mr. Hamilton is a Senior Consultant with Identification Technology Partners (IDTP), a consulting firm in the identity management field. He is a recognized industry authority and subject matter expert on biometric technology. Mr. Hamilton has been committed to advancing biometric use and is an advocate for the adoption of open standards, crucial for industry development. He completed a seventh elected term as Chairman and President of the International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA), a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit trade association that advocates the use of technology to determine identity and enhance security, privacy, productivity and convenience. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of IBIA. In his work with IDTP, Mr. Hamilton is actively involved in supporting government clients in implementing biometric technology in the maritime and aviation transportation sectors. Prior to joining IDTP in 2006, Mr. Hamilton served as Vice President and General Manager; Biometric Solutions for Saflink Corporation. Prior to joining Saflink in 1995, Mr. Hamilton completed a distinguished 30-year career with Unisys Corporation.