Baseball Hall of Famer, Dave Winfield joins Authentify, Inc. Board of Directors

Chicago, IL - February 17, 2004 - Authentify, Inc., a leading vendor of automated authentication solutions for conducting business over the Internet has announced the appointment of Baseball Hall of Fame member Dave Winfield to their Board of Directors.

Mr. Winfield is the only athlete in history to be drafted by 4 teams in 3 different professional sports. Baseball’s San Diego Padres, football’s Minnesota Vikings, basketball’s Atlanta Hawks and ABA Utah Stars all sought Mr. Winfield for their organizations. Beginning his baseball career in 1973, Mr. Winfield was selected to the All Star Team 12 times, received 7 Gold Glove Awards, made key contributions to a World Series title (with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992), attained membership in the 3,000 hit club and was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2001, his first year of eligibility.

While still a player, Mr. Winfield demonstrated both his business savvy and dedication to community service. In 1977, he founded the David M. Winfield Foundation, which provided healthcare services, academic scholarships and community outreach programs throughout North America. Currently a Vice President/Senior Advisor with the San Diego Padres, Mr. Winfield has served on numerous boards including Hackensack Medical Center, Morehouse School of Medicine and the Major League Baseball Players Trust. Included in his many business interests, he was the co-creator of one of the first interactive educational computer games, Batter Up! in 1984. He is also a best-selling author, occasional newspaper columnist, and respected motivational speaker and corporate spokesman. Mr. Winfield attended the University of Minnesota, and has received honorary degrees from Syracuse University and Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

“Building a young business is, by nature, a team oriented pursuit,” said Peter Tapling, President and CEO of Authentify. “Dave Winfield’s experience with teams, with businesses – and most importantly with people – is a powerful catalyst. Dave has been an invaluable business advisor and is certainly a motivating figure to have involved in the company.”

Mr. Winfield joins existing Authentify board members Chairman James Woodhill, John J. Moores, Charles E. Noell III, Peter Tapling and Louis Woodhill.

About Authentify
For companies that rely on the Internet to provide access to and conduct transactions for customers, employees and business partners, Authentify offers a convenient and engaging way to help make certain those companies know who they are dealing with online.

Authentify provides authentication services critical for online enrollment, account activation, e-signature and identity management applications. Authentify ensures undeniable interactive contact, out-of-band, with a specific online user, yet requires no special software or hardware. Authentify's approach, tightly binds a telephone call to an Internet session, utilizes an existing infrastructure that people know how to use. The result, a low cost, but very effective way to strengthen security processes and deter identity theft, account takeover and other fraud.

Authentify first offered its services in March 2001 and today has more than a dozen customers including the likes of Hewlett Packard, Associated Bank, Verisign, PaymentOne, the Department of Defense and others. The Authentify telephony service center often places more than 5,000 calls per day most of which are used to confirm online transactions, or deliver forgotten PIN’s to an account holder, securely, over their telephone.

Authentify is privately held and based in Chicago, Illinois. There efforts to effectively combat identity theft earned them a 2003 Chicago Innovation Award in recognition of their approach. Authentify’s home on the Web is: http://www.authentify.com.

Editorial contacts:

John Zurawski
Authentify, Inc.
773.243.0328
john.zurawski@authentify.com

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