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LJM Group Names Rob Gelb CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth and Innovation

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Veteran Executive Brings Three Decades of Experience Scaling Technology-Enabled Services Businesses and Advancing Cost Transparency for Clients

FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LJM Group (“LJM”), a tech-enabled provider of small parcel shipping cost optimization solutions, announced today that Rob Gelb has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Gelb brings three decades of experience building and scaling tech-enabled services businesses, much of it on the buyer’s side of complex, opaque pricing—first in workers’ compensation, then in group health, and now in parcel shipping. That experience aligns with LJM’s shipper-focused model and its mission to bring clients clarity, confidence, and control over logistics costs.

“I am honored to join LJM at such a pivotal moment,” said Gelb. “Over more than 20 years, this team has built a differentiated platform with a proven record of measurable results for shippers. I look forward to working with Ken, Kevin, Thomas, Kenneth, and the broader team to scale our technology, deepen client partnerships, and lead LJM into its next chapter.”

Gelb will lead all aspects of the business, while President and Founder Ken Wood will remain actively involved in key client relationships and LJM’s strategy for future growth.

“Rob’s track record of scaling tech-enabled services businesses and bringing transparency to opaque costs makes him the ideal leader for LJM’s next phase of growth,” said Wood. “The parcel shipping landscape continues to evolve rapidly, creating both challenges and opportunities for our clients. With Rob at the helm, we are well positioned to keep investing in our people, technology, and services while staying focused on the results that matter most to those we serve.”

Prior to joining LJM, Gelb spent more than seven years as CEO of Valenz Health, where he transformed a single point-solution provider into an integrated healthcare platform spanning cost containment, payment integrity, and self-funded employer solutions. Under his leadership, Valenz completed eight acquisitions, grew from 62 to 520 employees, and achieved approximately 30% compound annual growth, including more than 15% organic growth. The company was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in six of his seven years. Earlier in his career, he led strategy and growth at Coventry Workers’ Compensation Services and held senior leadership roles at York Risk Services Group, Intracorp, and Medlogix. Gelb is a Forbes Finance Council contributor and podcast host who writes and speaks on leadership, culture, and cost transparency. He holds a B.B.A. in Public Accounting from Hofstra University and is a CPA (inactive).

About LJM Group

Headquartered in Farmingdale, New York, LJM is a technology-enabled provider of small parcel shipping cost optimization solutions that help organizations manage and reduce parcel spend. Combining proprietary technology, advanced analytics, deep parcel expertise, and white-glove service, LJM provides carrier contract negotiation support, parcel analytics, ongoing rate optimization, and audit and recovery services. Founded in 2004, LJM has served clients nationwide for more than 20 years and is recognized for its deep parcel expertise and data-driven approach.

Learn more at www.myljm.com

About Clearview Capital

Clearview Capital is a private investment firm founded in 1999, focused on acquiring and recapitalizing lower middle-market companies in North America. The firm has completed more than 150 transactions across diverse industries and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with additional offices in California and Tennessee.

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American Bitcoin Schedules Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Release and Conference Call

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MIAMI, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — American Bitcoin Corp. (Nasdaq: ABTC) (“American Bitcoin” or the “Company”), a Bitcoin accumulation platform focused on building America’s Bitcoin infrastructure backbone, today announced it will release earnings for the third quarter of 2026 after the market closes on November 4, 2026. The Company will host a conference call and webcast to review the results on the same day at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Conference Call and Webcast Details 

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Time: 4:30 p.m. ET

To register for the webcast, use the following link: https://app.webinar.net/pymQJ5mJ37e. To join by telephone, dial 1 (888) 880-3330 ten minutes prior to the start time to allow time for registration. International callers may dial 1 (646) 357-8766. 

Supplemental Materials and Upcoming Communications

The Company expects to make available on its website and/or official social media channels certain materials and updates designed to accompany the discussion of its results, along with certain supplemental financial information and other data, including regarding its Bitcoin holdings and related performance metrics. For important news and information regarding the Company, including investor presentations and timing of future investor conferences, visit the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website, abtc.com/investors, and its social media accounts, including on X, Instagram, and LinkedIn. The Company uses its website and social media accounts as primary channels for disclosing key information to its investors, some of which may contain material and previously non-public information.

About American Bitcoin

American Bitcoin Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Hut 8 Corp., is a Bitcoin accumulation platform focused on building America’s Bitcoin infrastructure platform. The Company delivers institutional-grade exposure to Bitcoin through an industry-first business model that integrates scaled self-mining operations with disciplined accumulation strategies. For more information, visit abtc.com and follow the Company on X at @ABTC.

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CUJO AI and F-Secure Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Seamless Consumer Security Across Home and Mobile

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Joint offering combines best-of-breed home network, endpoint and scam protection, helping Tier-1 CSPs strengthen consumer trust in the age of AI-driven threats.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CUJO AI, a global leader in cybersecurity, device and network intelligence for service providers, and F-Secure, a global leader in consumer cybersecurity and scam protection, today announced a strategic partnership to help the world’s leading Tier-1 Communication Service Providers (CSPs) deliver a seamless security experience that protects consumers across home networks and personal devices.

AI is rapidly changing the scam landscape, making fraudulent content easier to produce, more convincing and increasingly difficult for consumers to distinguish from legitimate interactions. At the same time, scams increasingly cross traditional boundaries between networks, devices, applications, and digital services.

The partnership brings together CUJO AI’s home network cybersecurity and granular device and network intelligence with F-Secure’s endpoint and embedded security capabilities, covering device, scam, identity and privacy protection. Together, the companies will help service providers protect consumers across the home network and individual devices while creating a seamless security experience at home and on the go. As consumers increasingly move between home broadband, mobile networks, applications and connected devices, their security needs extend across multiple environments. Yet protection is often delivered through separate products and experiences. CUJO AI and F-Secure are working together to simplify that landscape, helping service providers bring complementary cybersecurity capabilities into a more seamless and cohesive consumer experience.

“Consumers don’t think about security in silos; they simply expect to be protected wherever they connect,” said Remko Vos, CEO of CUJO AI. “We already enable service providers to protect millions of homes through advanced network-based cybersecurity, scam protection and device intelligence. By combining these capabilities with F-Secure’s endpoint security and scam protection expertise, we can help service providers close the gap between home network and device protection and create a more seamless security experience for consumers.”

CUJO AI provides cybersecurity directly at the home network level, protecting connected devices without requiring security software to be installed on each individual device. Its platform also provides deep intelligence into connected devices, applications and network behavior, helping service providers identify threats, understand their subscribers’ connected environments and deliver subscriber-facing security services at scale.

F-Secure complements these capabilities with endpoint and consumer cybersecurity solutions spanning device protection, scam protection, identity, privacy and embedded security, bringing visible value for consumers into everyday digital interactions. Together, the companies will reduce fragmentation between network and endpoint protection and help service providers deliver a more integrated security experience across home and mobile environments.

“The trust advantage for CSPs in the agentic AI era has never been clearer, and we recognize the importance of equipping the world’s leading providers to succeed in protecting their customers in a holistic way,” said Timo Laaksonen, President and CEO of F-Secure. “We are delighted to be partnering with CUJO AI to help us achieve this; this partnership demonstrates a natural evolution in providing the best-of-breed solution with holistic protection for an evolving threat landscape.”

Through the partnership, CUJO AI and F-Secure will collaborate with the world’s leading service providers on opportunities including integrated network and endpoint protection, seamless security across broadband and mobile environments, simplified customer experiences, and new security propositions designed to strengthen subscriber engagement, retention and monetization.

The partnership also creates opportunities to combine security and intelligence across the connected environment, helping operators better understand their customers’ devices and digital experiences while protecting them across multiple touchpoints.

About CUJO AI

CUJO AI enables service providers to understand, serve, and protect consumers with advanced cybersecurity and granular network and device intelligence. The CUJO AI Intelligence platform – built on 72,000 device models and deployed across 63 million homes – gives service providers deep, continuous visibility into every connected device and network behavior from day one.

CUJO AI Services delivers active security, digital parenting, and scam protection for service providers ready to monetize that intelligence with subscriber-facing products. Advanced AI algorithms help service providers uncover previously unavailable insights to raise the bar for customer experience and retention with new value propositions and improved operations.

CUJO AI is trusted by the world’s largest broadband operators, including Comcast, Charter Communications, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, TELUS, Sky Italia, Sky UK, Rogers, Cox, Shaw, Videotron, BT and EE.

For more information, visit www.cujo.com.

About F-Secure

F-Secure is a human-first, AI-powered consumer cyber security experience company with 38 years of expertise in tackling digital threats. We help digital service providers turn trust into a high-value growth engine — protecting their customers while enabling them to live their best digital lives in a world of relentless, AI-driven scams. With billions of digital interactions secured each year, tens of millions of consumers protected globally, and over $10 billion in partner value created, we deliver proven impact at scale.

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Canary Speech and VillageFor Partner to Bring Voice-Based Mental Wellness Check-Ins to Mothers

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Integration brings AI-powered vocal analysis into VillageFor’s maternal mental health platform as demand grows for more continuous support throughout the motherhood journey

PROVO, Utah, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Canary Speech, a leader in AI-powered vocal biomarker technology, and VillageFor, a maternal mental health platform for every path to motherhood, today announced a partnership that integrates Canary Speech’s AI-powered vocal analysis technology into VillageFor’s journaling experience. The integration, launched October 1st, gives women another way to regularly check in on their emotional well-being during a period when mental health can change considerably between visits with a healthcare provider.

Through the new partnership, women using VillageFor’s voice journaling feature can receive a Canary Speech wellness assessment based on vocal characteristics captured during their journal entry. Canary’s assessment is designed as a daily or weekly self check-in and is not intended to diagnose a mental health condition. It will be available as an add-on to VillageFor’s free My Village app and included in its Village Plus premium subscription offering.

Maternal mental wellness is gaining significant traction throughout the healthcare ecosystem, driving clinicians and policy leaders to move past isolated evaluations in favor of ongoing care. According to government statistics, postpartum depression impacts nearly one out of every eight mothers, yet over 50% go untreated. Global medical guidelines now advocate for routine emotional assessments during every postnatal check-in, ensuring these regular reviews connect seamlessly to comprehensive clinical evaluation, therapy, and ongoing follow-up.

“Maternal Mental health isn’t static, and how someone is feeling can change from one day or week to the next,” said Henry O’Connell, CEO of Canary Speech. “By bringing our vocal analysis into VillageFor, we’re giving women another way to check in with themselves using their own voice. The partnership is an important step toward making emotional wellness insights accessible in everyday life.”

VillageFor supports women across nine stages of motherhood, from trying to conceive and pregnancy through postpartum, pregnancy loss and infant loss. The app includes clinically validated postpartum depression screening using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS-US), daily mood check-ins, journaling, educational content and tools for anxiety management.

“From the beginning, VillageFor has been focused on empowering women to better understand their mental health during some of the most emotionally complex moments in the journey into and through motherhood,” said Christy Davis, Co-Founder and CEO of VillageFor. “We’re creating a safe place where women can check in with themselves, recognize patterns in how they’re feeling, and feel supported through experiences that can often be difficult to put into words. Our partnership with Canary Speech brings an entirely new dimension to that. A woman may say she’s fine, while her voice can carry signals that tell a more complex story. By bringing vocal biomarkers together with clinical screenings, mood check-ins and longitudinal insights, we’re giving women another way to understand what may be changing in their mental health over time. That is what makes this partnership so meaningful: using technology to help women better understand themselves, feel seen in what they’re experiencing, and have more support around them throughout motherhood.”

The partnership will extend to VillageFor’s #AskHerTwice initiative launching October 10th in recognition of World Mental Health Day. The campaign challenges the reflexive “I’m fine” response that can mask how mothers are actually feeling and encourages families, friends and communities to ask again and create space for an honest answer. Under the theme “Motherhood Isn’t Looking Fine,” #AskHerTwice will invite mothers to complete the statement “Motherhood isn’t __” in their own words. Canary will participate in an in-person launch event supporting the initiative and providing information on the voice journaling feature.

About Canary Speech

Canary Speech is a Utah-based, AI-powered voice biomarker health tech company, utilizing patented real-time vocal analysis to screen for mental health and neurological disorders. Canary’s technology swiftly captures and analyzes speech data, detecting behavioral and cognitive changes—including signs of anxiety, depression, and dementia—often before traditional clinical standards or noticeable symptoms. Recently, Canary Speech launched Canary Ambient™, an API-first solution for real-time voice analysis in healthcare and contact centers. This clinical decision support software provides actionable insights from patient-clinician conversations by tracking speech patterns for real-time assessments of cognitive and behavioral health conditions. Canary Speech advances speech and language applications across health systems, payers, and pharmaceutical markets.

About VillageFor

VillageFor, a maternal mental health app, supports women through every step in their motherhood evolution. From trying to conceive and infertility through pregnancy, postpartum, loss, NICU, and adoption, VillageFor brings mental health, emotional well-being, and everyday support into one connected experience.

Founded by two mothers, Christy Davis and Caitlin Probst, who experienced infertility, NICU stays, and postpartum mental health conditions themselves, VillageFor was built around a simple idea: a mom should not have to be in crisis before she has somewhere to turn. The platform brings evidence-based mental health screening together with personalized insights, mood check-ins, expert-informed content, Voice Journal, and My Village, which helps the people a mother trusts better understand how and when to show up.

By bringing clinical insight, everyday resources, and a woman’s own village into one experience, VillageFor gives mothers a place to better understand how they’re doing, feel seen in what they’re experiencing, and navigate each stage with more support around them than before.

VillageFor offers mental health for every motherhood journey. Learn more https://www.villagefor.com/ and follow on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook for company news and updates.

Caitlyn@canaryspeech.com

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