WISeKey Appoints Philippe Gerwill to its Advisory Committee

WISeKey Appoints Philippe Gerwill to its Advisory Committee

Geneva - June 24, 2020 – WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”, SIX: WIHN / NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading cybersecurity and IoT company, today announced the appointment  of Philippe Gerwill to its Advisory Committee. Members of WISeKey’s Advisory Committee originate from a wide variety of sectors that are of critical importance to WISeKey’s growth strategy, including Cybersecurity, IoT, Blockchain, and information technology.

Mr. Gerwill brings more than 30-years of industry experience to WISeKey. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of GeniusBiz Automation, a small Swiss startup, as well as, executive advisor for the A.Brain Group and IMA (Industrial Manufacturing Alliance) in Tianjin, China. He is also an industry advisor for healthcare matters at AllThingsConnected and IoTSG as well as a freelance subject matter healthcare expert at IT Consultis in Singapore. He is also an official mentor at Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and an advisor for Antler, a global startup generator and early stage VC from Singapore, in their London branch.

Previously Mr. Gerwill worked for more than 30-years in the specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals industries in Switzerland but also in the United States mainly in the manufacturing, supply chain and information technology space.

Mr. Gerwill is regularly publishing articles on digitalization topics like Blockchain in the healthcare, digital health and smart manufacturing. Defining himself as a digitalization humanist advocating for technologies serving the humans and not the other way around, he is seen as a futurist and an inspirational speaker.  He is also a TEDx speaker and a regular keynote speaker at many international events in major cities like London, Berlin, Singapore or Tianjin where he received an “Oversea Think Tank Expert Award” granted by Chinese government officials in 2019. He is also a guest lecturer at various well-known business schools actually mainly in France and China.

Carlos Moreira, WISeKey’s Founder and CEO noted, “I am excited to welcome Philippe to our Advisory Committee.  Philippe’s expertise in the digital transformation for the manufacturing, supply chain and information technology space especially for the Pharma industry will definitively be a valuable asset to WISeKey as we continue our efforts to deploy our Digital Identification Blockchain strategy worldwide to secure those infrastructures.”