Vance Bjorn is responsible for guiding partnerships, corporate development and technical strategy. Bjorn has over 20 years of experience in the biometrics industry, which began when he co-founded DigitalPersona. Bjorn was awarded the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) to pursue doctoral studies in Computer Science at MIT by the Department of Defense and is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review TR100, a national award for technology innovators under age 35.
Bjorn holds a B.S. degree with honors in Engineering and Applied Science and an M.S. degree in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology.