Voyager Digital Announces Daniel Costantino as Chief Information Security Officer
CSE: VYGR
OTCQB: VYGVF
Borse Frankfurt: UCD2
- Bolsters Voyager's Safe and Secure platform -
NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Voyager Digital Ltd. ("Voyager" or the "Company") (CSE: VYGR) (OTCQB: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2), a publicly-traded, licensed crypto-asset broker that provides investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto assets, today announced it has appointed Daniel Costantino, CISSP, CISM, CEH, as Chief Information Security Officer.
Mr. Costantino joins Voyager from Penn Medicine, where he was the Associate CIO and CISO. He will spearhead Voyager's implementation and maturity of several information technology and security programs, including further enhancements to infrastructure scalability and best-in-class security safeguards to continue ensuring complete platform and account protection to our customers. A highly decorated United States Marine, Dan served in both combat and humanitarian tours during his time in the military as a Cyber Network Operator. He was nominated as a "CSO of the Year'' finalist in 2019 and in 2020 and his team won "Best Security Team" in 2020 by SC Media. Dan is also the winner of the CSO50 Awards in 2019 and 2020 for cybersecurity innovation and thought leadership.
"At Voyager, safeguarding our users' assets and information is our first priority. Dan's extensive track record securing sensitive military and healthcare information on a large scale will add to our robust controls already in place today as we grow our business to meet unprecedented demand," said Steve Ehrlich, Co-founder and CEO of Voyager Digital. "We welcome Dan to the team and know his skillset will enhance our security features and provide reassurance to our community that they hold accounts on the most trusted and secure platform to trade digital assets."
In his most recent role at Penn Medicine, Dan led the IT Infrastructure and Information Security departments, managing a $60 million budget, while protecting and enabling one of the United States' leading schools of medicine, six hospitals, over 40,000 employees, and millions of patient records. He implemented comprehensive security programs and technologies, including vulnerability management for over 150,000 devices, identity protection, application and data protection safeguards, incident response, cloud computing infrastructure design, EMR security, and security operations. Further, Dan completed development and staffing of a 24/7 security operations center (SOC) for Penn Medicine, including active security monitoring, forensic analysis, threat intelligence, and technical orchestration of day-to-day security operations. Dan holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) designations.
"Voyager's growth in the nascent digital asset space presents significant opportunities as the Company continues to expand its product offering and grows its business internationally," added Mr. Costantino. "I look forward to safeguarding the Voyager community during these exciting times as more and more retail investors discover and embrace digital assets, positioning the Voyager platform as the most secure to store and invest in digital assets."
For more information on Voyager Digital, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com. The Voyager app is available for Android and iPhone.
About Voyager Digital Ltd.
Voyager Digital Ltd. is a crypto-asset broker that provides retail and institutional investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto assets. Voyager offers customers best execution and safe custody on a wide choice of popular crypto-assets. Voyager was founded by established Wall Street and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who teamed to bring a better, more transparent, and cost-efficient alternative for trading crypto-assets to the marketplace. Please visit us at https://www.investvoyager.com for more information and to review the latest Corporate Presentation.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved of the contents of this press release.
Certain information in this press release, including, but not limited to, statements regarding future growth and performance of the business, momentum in the businesses, future adoption of digital assets, and the Company's anticipated results may constitute forward looking information (collectively, forward-looking statements), which can be identified by the use of terms such as "may," "will," "should," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate," "intend," "continue" or "believe" (or the negatives) or other similar variations. Because of various risks and uncertainties, including those referenced below, actual events or results may differ materially from those reflected or contemplated in such forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements are subject to the risk that the global economy, industry, or the Company's businesses and investments do not perform as anticipated, that revenue or expenses estimates may not be met or may be materially less or more than those anticipated, that trading momentum does not continue or the demand for trading solutions declines, customer acquisition does not increase as planned, product and international expansion do not occur as planned and those other risks contained in the Company's public filings, including in its Management Discussion and Analysis and its Annual Information Form (AIF). Factors that could cause actual results of the Company and its businesses to differ materially from those described in such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, a decline in the digital asset market or general economic conditions; the failure or delay in the adoption of digital assets and the blockchain ecosystem by institutions; a delay or failure in developing infrastructure for the trading businesses or achieving mandates and gaining traction; failure to grow assets under management, an adverse development with respect to an issuer or party to the transaction or failure to obtain a required regulatory approval. In connection with the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, the Company has made assumptions that no significant events occur outside of the Company's normal course of business and that current trends in respect of digital assets continue. Forward-looking statements, past and present performance and trends are not guarantees of future performance, accordingly, you should not put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, past performance, or current trends. Information identifying assumptions, risks, and uncertainties relating to the Company are contained in its filings with the Canadian securities regulators available at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking statements in this press release are applicable only as of the date of this release or as of the date specified in the relevant forward-looking statement and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after that date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Readers are cautioned that past performance is not indicative of future performance and current trends in the business and demand for digital assets may not continue and readers should not put undue reliance on past performance and current trends. All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.
SOURCE Voyager Digital (Canada) Ltd.
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