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Patrick Merfert Joins Alcatraz AI as Vice President of Marketing to Reinforce Market Strategy Efforts Amidst Projected 2025 Industry Growth

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Former IDEMIA and Prove Identity executive will lead the company’s marketing efforts to shape and execute the company’s overall marketing strategy, with a key focus on product marketing and demand generation

CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Alcatraz AI, a global provider of frictionless, AI-powered biometric access control solutions revolutionizing security through facial authentication, announced today the appointment of Patrick Merfert as the company’s next Vice President (VP) of Marketing. With over 15 years of experience as a technology startup marketing leader, venture capital investor, and strategy consultant, Merfert contributes a vast wealth of identity and security-based technology marketing knowledge to Alcatraz AI’s leadership team as the company positions itself at the forefront of the rapidly growing market. His expertise in digital identity and its transcension towards a digital-first approach aligns with Alcatraz AI’s commitment to delivering secure, frictionless, and privacy-preserving biometric authentication solutions.

Merfert is a growth and execution-focused technology startup marketing leader who has operated across the full lifecycle of VC-funded startups, helping tech companies go-to-market, differentiate, and accelerate revenues. Having worked across several startups from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, Merfert has garnered years of experience in demand generation, product marketing, and brand identity which allow him to thrive in dynamic environments and strategize effective marketing approaches.

Merfert holds both an MBA and BBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, respectively. As an undergraduate, Merfert gained early exposure to technology startups, which ignited a passion for working in tight-knit, dynamic environments. Pre-MBA, he spent his early career working as a venture capital associate, serving as an investor and advisor to early-stage healthcare and technology startups. During his time as a management consultant, Merfert played key roles in executive-level strategy and operational engagements for Fortune 500 companies across various industries and contributed to business development pursuits. Merfert later took on a marketing leadership role at Airside, where he was introduced to the identity and security space and experienced the power of digital identity authentication and access control first-hand.

Merfert joins Alcatraz AI most recently from Prove Identity, where he served as Vice President of Product Marketing. There, he led the product marketing team in positioning the global product portfolio, launching new products, enabling sales, and helping scale the company’s annual recurring revenue beyond $100M and a $1B+ valuation. He also played a pivotal role in developing the go-to-market framework to drive scalability and refining company and product messaging, earning the company multiple analyst awards.

At Alcatraz AI, Merfert will direct and oversee the company’s marketing team, designing, implementing, and monitoring effective marketing strategies that align with the company’s business goals and drive overall revenue growth, market awareness, and competitive differentiation. Merfert will be an integral in promoting product adoption, enhancing brand presence, and ensuring the company’s product offerings are both innovative and aligned with market demands.

“The access control market is growing at a rapid pace, and Alcatraz AI is adapting to this growth by expanding our leadership team with strategic hires,” said Tina D’Agostin, CEO of Alcatraz AI. “We are thrilled to welcome Patrick as our new VP of Marketing. His impressive background in technology startups and deep industry marketing experience will be a driving force in helping us achieve our goal to further scale in the growing security space and continue to expand our roster of large enterprise customers.”

“I’m energized to be joining Alcatraz AI’s dynamic leadership team. I look forward to shaping the marketing strategy, and leading a cross-functional team to drive growth as the company rides the wave of rapid market expansion,” said Merfert. “It’s an exciting opportunity to operate at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the identity and security market. I’m eager to shape a world-class marketing team that will maintain a strong emphasis on customers and end-users, to ensure Alcatraz AI’s market-leading products continue delivering convenient, secure, and privacy-preserving access control experiences.”

About Alcatraz AI

Alcatraz AI is the most secure, private, and frictionless biometric solution for access control in the physical world. With its patented technology, Alcatraz AI’s facial authentication and intelligent tailgating detection platform work natively with all access control systems to transform the security experience. As the pioneer of Facial-Authentication-as-a-Service (FAaaS), Alcatraz AI has made biometric access available to all enterprises, ensuring the safety of more than one million employees at Fortune 500 companies. Trusted by Data Centers, Life Sciences, Financial Institutions, Higher Education, Airports, Stadiums and Arenas, Telecom, and Critical Infrastructure entities, Alcatraz AI sets the global standard for access control credentialing. For more information, please visit www.alcatraz.ai and follow @alcatrazai on X and Alcatraz on LinkedIn.

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Linda Ebrahimian, Alcatraz AI, 1 8186368787, Linda@alcatraz.ai, Alcatraz AI

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Mastech Digital to Announce Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results; Participate in Upcoming Investor Conference

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PITTSBURGH, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Mastech Digital, Inc. (NYSE American: MHH) (“Mastech Digital”), a leading provider of Digital Transformation IT Services, today announced the date for the release of its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, and its participation in an upcoming investor conference.

Second Quarter 2026 Earnings:

Mastech Digital will report its financial results for the second quarter 2026 before the market opens on Thursday, August 6, 2026. Management will host a live conference call and webcast at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on that day to discuss the Company’s financial performance and operating results.  The conference call will be hosted by Nirav Patel, President and CEO, and Kannan Sugantharaman, Chief Financial and Operations Officer.

Those wishing to participate via webcast should access the call through Mastech Digital’s Investor Relations website at https://investors.mastechdigital.com. Those wishing to participate via telephone may dial in at 1-800-715-9871 (USA) or 1-646-307-1963 (International) with the passcode 7506988. The replay will be available via webcast through Mastech Digital’s Investor Relations website.

Upcoming Investor Conference:

Mr. Sugantharaman will host a fireside chat at the Sidoti Micro-Cap Investor Conference on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time.

Mastech Digital management is scheduled to host virtual one-on-one and small group meetings with investors during the conference on August 19-20, 2026. Investors interested in arranging a meeting should contact their Sidoti representative or reach out to the Mastech Digital investor relations team at investors@mastechdigital.com.

About Mastech Digital, Inc.

Mastech Digital (NYSE American: MHH) is a leading provider of Digital Transformation IT Services. The Company offers Data Management, Analytics & AI Solutions, and IT Staffing Services with a digital-first approach. A minority-owned enterprise, Mastech Digital is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, with offices across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and India. Visit us at www.mastechdigital.com.

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SOLAI Limited Announces Extraordinary General Meeting

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AKRON, Ohio, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SOLAI Limited (NYSE: SLAI) (“SOLAI” or the “Company”) (previously known as “BIT Mining Limited”), a technology-driven personal AI and digital infrastructure provider, today announced that it will hold its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders at 428 South Seiberling Street, Akron, Ohio, US on August 14, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., New York time.

Holders of record of ordinary shares and preference shares of the Company at the close of business on July 20, 2026, New York time (the “Record Date”) are entitled to receive notice of, and to attend and vote at, the extraordinary general meeting or any adjournment thereof. Holders of the Company’s American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying ordinary shares must act through the depositary of the Company’s ADS program, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas.

The notice of the extraordinary general meeting, which sets forth the resolutions to be submitted to shareholder approval at the extraordinary general meeting is available on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at https://ir.solai.com. 

About SOLAI Limited

SOLAI Limited (previously known as “BIT Mining Limited”) (NYSE: SLAI) (previously traded under “BTCM”) is a technology-driven personal AI and digital infrastructure provider. Building upon its historical legacy in digital asset mining and blockchain network operations, the Company is leveraging extensive experience in large-scale hardware deployment, data center operations, and high-performance computing to build the foundational infrastructure for personal AI computing and digital asset ecosystems globally.

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TrendAI™ Adopts Claude Opus 5 to Advance Vulnerability Prioritization and Virtual Patching

As a participant in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, TrendAI applies frontier reasoning to convert vulnerability intelligence into faster protection across hybrid environments

DALLAS, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security leader from Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), today announced it is adopting Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s latest and most capable Opus model, to help security teams convert vulnerability intelligence into immediate protection, from prioritization to virtual patching. The move builds on TrendAI’s collaboration with Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.8, extending the same defensive focus to a model that delivers step-change gains in advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and long-horizon analysis. As AI makes finding vulnerabilities easier than ever, the harder problem becomes protecting organizations faster than software can be permanently patched, and that is where TrendAI is putting Opus 5 to work.

As a participant in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, which credentials organizations for the defensive use of frontier AI models, TrendAI is positioned to apply Claude Opus 5 to defensive security as access becomes available. The model is Zero Data Retention compatible, supporting TrendAI’s governance and data-protection requirements as it scales AI across security operations.

The work extends to TrendAI Threat Research, where frontier AI models are combined with our proprietary frontier intelligence engine and human expertise to generate pre-disclosure intelligence. Those insights power TrendAI Vision One™, delivering stronger detection, deeper forensic insights, and proactive protection through virtual patching.

Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer, Head of TrendAI™:
“With Claude Opus 5, TrendAI can move from vulnerability intelligence to action faster than ever, prioritizing what matters most by exploitability and business impact. Finding the vulnerability was always the hard part. Now the challenge is protecting organizations faster than software can be permanently patched, and frontier reasoning is what changes that equation, extending all the way to virtual patching that protects customers before a vendor fix ships. This is what it means to secure the AI age, fearlessly.”

These capabilities support TrendAI Vision One™ in helping security analysts, AppSec teams, and SOC teams prioritize exposure, map attack paths, and accelerate mitigation, including virtual patching, across hybrid environments, moving vulnerability management from a static scanning process into a faster, context-aware risk mitigation workflow.

About TrendAI™
TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments across 185 countries, TrendAI™ secures the entire organization, from identities, to infrastructure, to data. Global Fortune 500 companies rely on TrendAI™ to cut risk and stop threats up to three months earlier, powered by world-leading threat and attack intelligence. Through deep ecosystem partnerships with market leaders like NVIDIA, Anthropic, AWS, Google, and Microsoft, TrendAI™ empowers your organization to securely drive forward at the speed of AI. AI Fearlessly. Learn more: trendaisecurity.com

About Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its Claude family of models, including Claude Opus 5, enables advanced capabilities across a wide range of applications, including code understanding and security analysis.

Update: The latest version of this release includes additional statements from TrendAI related to the original announcement.

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