What Happened?
San Diego, CA-based Mitek Systems Appointed Stephen Ritter as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Mitek is a global leader in mobile capture and identity verification software solutions. Mitek`s ID document verification allows an enterprise to verify a user`s identity during a mobile transaction, enabling financial institutions, payments companies and other businesses operating in highly regulated markets to transact business safely while increasing revenue from the mobile channel. Mitek also reduces the friction in the mobile users experience with advanced data prefill. These innovative mobile solutions are embedded into the apps of more than 4,800 organizations and used by tens of millions of consumers daily for new account openings, insurance quoting, mobile check deposit and more.
About the Person
Prior to joining Mitek, Ritter was SVP Engineering and Research for Emotient, which was acquired by Apple. In this role, Ritter leveraged his expertise to deliver a groundbreaking emotion detection service based on facial expressions. Emotient’s service leveraged deep learning techniques to solve computer vision problems. Ritter has held senior leadership roles in product development, architectural implementation and engineering operations. He served as Vice President of Engineering at Websense and Sr. Director of Engineering at McAfee. “As global companies look for ways to engage with customers in the mobile channel, Mitek is perfectly positioned to create fast, easy and secure processes that will enable the mobile revolution,” said Ritter. “I am excited to lead the Mitek Labs and engineering teams, and help create the future of mobile commerce.” Stephen Ritter holds a BS in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. He has co-authored eight patents.
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