Seasoned Biometrics Vet Joins ID R&D’s Leadership Team

A biometrics veteran has become the latest member of ID R&D’s executive team: The company has announced the appointment of Peter Martis as its new Vice President of Growth.

Martis brings to the table extensive experience from two well-known names in the industry. Most recently, he served as Director of Global Sales for Neurotechnology, having started there as Director of Product Management in November of 2016. Before that, he was Nuance Communications’ Regional Manager for Sales & Business Development in Central Europe and the Balkans.

Nuance is known for its pioneering work in voice biometrics and transcription, both of which attracted the attention of Microsoft, which acquired the company in 2022. Neurotechnology, meanwhile, is known for its work across multiple biometric modalities, including fingerprint, face, and iris recognition.

For his part, Martis was instrumental in driving the development of Neurotechnology’s SmartFace solution and its Digital Onboarding Toolkit, which enables remote onboarding by matching end users’ selfie images to pictures of their physical IDs.

In his new role with ID R&D, Martis will oversee multiple strategic initiatives aimed at extending the company’s market presence and delivering new products and solutions.

“We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the ID R&D family,” commented CEO Alexey Khitrov. “His expertise and visionary leadership will play a pivotal role in propelling our company towards new heights of success and unlock unprecedented opportunities in the biometrics landscape.”

Like Martis’ former employer Nuance, ID R&D also prompted a big acquisition through its pioneering biometric work. Citing its cutting-edge liveness detection tech for facial recognition and its anti-spoofing technology for voice recognition in particular, Mitek brought the firm under its umbrella in the spring of 2021. At the time, Khitrov emphasized the opportunity to scale ID R&D’s technologies, and highlighted his firm’s “deepfake detection technologies”—a prescient note, given how quickly the threat of deepfakes has escalated in the ensuing years.

ID R&D’s efforts have, of course, continued to advance; and Khitrov elaborated on the firm’s work in an interview with FindBiometrics earlier this year.

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May 6, 2024 – by Alex Perala