Insyndia Appoints John Haggard as Senior Vice President Strategy

GIG HARBOR, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Insyndia, a global solutions and consulting firm that targets the developing world and governments with information security and general IT services, today announced that it has appointed John Haggard to its senior management team as Senior Vice President Strategy. Mr. Haggard brings to Insyndia more than 25 years of vast experience in information security. During his career, he has become a pioneer in the design, development, and delivery of advanced state-of-the-art information security products in many different areas that include international, corporate, government, and educational institutions. He has extensive experience ranging from large mainframe enterprise systems to large Internet distributed systems. In his new role, Mr. Haggard will head Insyndia’s strategy initiatives as the company expands its global footprint.

“John comes to us with a breadth of qualifications that are well aligned with Insyndia’s goals. He is a world-class entrepreneurial leader with a proven track record of success. Adeptly suited to spearhead the tremendous opportunities in the technology industry, John is a dynamic addition to our senior management team. We look forward to John’s contributions to Insyndia’s continued growth and development,” said Kevin Casey, CEO of Insyndia Corporation.

Mr. Haggard added, “I am extremely pleased to conjoin my consulting practice with Insyndia. I have collaborated with the founders, Kevin Casey and Lance Gaines, in the security industry for many years and have deep respect not only for their talent, drive and experiences, but also their ethics. My role is to expand Insyndia from a global enterprise solutions provider to include being a global launch platform for existing and emerging security vendors. Several vendors are already in the queue and we plan on major announcements of these launches this summer.”

Before Mr. Haggard joined Insyndia, he was a member of an elite team in the mid-1980’s that developed and deployed the world's first extended user authentication infrastructure for authentication beyond passwords. He has served as the ACF2 Development Manager for SKK Inc., then as Product Owner of the Security, Control, and Audit division of CA (NYSE: CA) until 1994. Since then he has led startup companies that focus on deploying biometrics and one time passwords that service international financial institutions. Mr. Haggard has also served as President, COO, and CTO of VASCO Data Security International (Nasdaq: VDSI), bringing that company into the market in 1994. Since 2000, he has served on the board of directors for numerous intellectual property companies in the field of advanced smart card technologies related to authentication and security. Mr. Haggard has a BS in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University.

About Insyndia

Insyndia is a global, broad-spectrum technology and business solutions consulting firm dedicated to delivering pertinent solutions to complex problems in the first world and in the developing world. Insyndia's solution developers, business analysts and infrastructure specialists are accomplished consultants with a wide range of expertise from low-level device and network interfaces to large-scale enterprise applications covering many different industries and organizational structures. Insyndia develops and supports technologies that help businesses operate, share information, and communicate more effectively. Our areas of expertise include a wide array of technology architectures, business disciplines, software development, security, and testing disciplines to meet specific requirements. We also provide security offerings to address threats by focusing on risk and vulnerability management practices. For more information regarding Insyndia, please visit www.insyndia.com.