Sekur Private Data Appoints Retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Expert John T. Lewis as Chief Technology Officer and Strategic Advisory Board Member

34-Year CIA Veteran, Trailblazer Medal Recipient, and Pioneer of Groundbreaking Intelligence Capabilities Brings Unmatched Expertise in Secure Systems, RF Technologies, and Operational Security to Sekur's Leadership Team - Leading Sekur's entry into defense communications technology

MIAMI, FL / ACCESS Newswire / April 20, 2026 / Sekur Private Data, Inc., a Miami based leading Swiss-hosted cybersecurity, private communications, and defense communications company serving enterprise, government, and defense clients, and wholly owned U.S. based subsidiary of Sekur Private Data (OTCQB:SWISF)(CSE:SKUR)(FRA:GDT0) ("Sekur" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce the appointment of John T. Lewis, a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Executive Expert and CIA Trailblazer Medal recipient, as the company's new Chief Technology Officer and a member of its Strategic Advisory Board. Mr. Lewis brings over 34 years of front-line experience in the development, deployment, and leadership of some of the most sensitive technical intelligence capabilities in the U.S. Intelligence Community - making him uniquely qualified to advance Sekur's mission of delivering world-class privacy and secure communications to individuals, enterprises, and governments worldwide.

Securing the Signal: A Career in Defense Communications Comes to Sekur Private Data

Throughout his CIA career, Mr. Lewis was at the forefront of developing secure systems and communications capabilities that operated in the world's most hostile environments. From hands-on engineering of clandestine RF systems to helping lead the CIA's Federal Laboratory and shaping Intelligence Community-wide research strategy, his career was defined by one constant: ensuring that sensitive information and communications remain protected against the most sophisticated adversaries on earth.

That expertise arrives at a pivotal moment for Sekur. The company is actively expanding into military and defense communications markets - sectors where the margin for error is zero and the adversaries are state-level. Mr. Lewis's decades of experience building and operating sensitive capabilities against exactly those adversaries, positions Sekur to meet the rigorous standards demanded by defense and government customers. His appointment signals that Sekur is not merely adapting commercial privacy tools for defense use - it is building a defense-communications capability from the ground up, with leadership that has operated at the sharpest edge of that mission.