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Biomaterials Leader Strengthens Financial, Legal and Technology Expertise As It Scales to Meet Demand EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, biomaterials technology company MycoWorks announced the appointment of three executives to its leadership team. The news of these strategic additions comes just weeks ahead of the September 20, 2023 opening of the company's first commercial-scale Fine Mycelium™ production facility in Union, South Carolina. "The news of these executive appointments comes at a time of significant growth and achievement for MycoWorks," said Matt Scullin, CEO of MycoWorks. "We are committed to growing the future of luxury materials and the addition of these accomplished leaders strengthens our position today and tomorrow." Juan Lopez, Chief Financial Officer (CFO): With two decades of experience as a Finance and Sales Operations executive, Juan Lopez joins MycoWorks as the new CFO. He brings experience in both industrial and consumer goods sectors, delivering outstanding value through process improvement & optimization, and scale up of ventures. Most recently, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the Biotech Business Unit at Anheuser-Busch Inbev, focused on developing and commercializing alternative proteins and food ingredients through biotechnology. Craig Fleishman, General Counsel (GC): Craig Fleishman brings 20 years' experience advising prominent public figures and brands, including JPMorgan, Maersk, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey and Masterclass, and two U.S. Presidents. He joined MycoWorks after a long tenure as General Counsel and Head of Corporate Development for Rebecca Minkoff where he drove the brand's industry-leading innovation pipeline, and developed the brand's unique global IP strategy. He has taught as an adjunct law professor, and worked at two of the world's top law firms and in-house at a global private equity firm where his portfolio included both luxury and sustainable technology companies. Maud Ohler, Vice President of Technology Development: With a PhD in fermentation science and a decade of experience in international industrial biotech, Maud Ohler joins Mycoworks as the Vice President of Technology Development. Her industrial experience from Evolva, Amyris, and Zymergen has spanned strain and fermentation process development, technology transfer and scale-up, and R&D team management supporting achievement of project goals for new products. To learn more about employment opportunities at MycoWorks, visit About MycoWorks In 2013, co-founders Philip Ross and Sophia Wang formed MycoWorks, a San Francisco-based biomaterials company dedicated to bringing new mycelium-grown materials to the world. MycoWorks' patented Fine Mycelium™ technology, an advanced manufacturing platform and breakthrough in materials science, engineers mycelium during growth to form proprietary, interlocking cellular structures for unparalleled beauty, handfeel, strength and durability. The company's flagship material- Reishi™ - is a new category of material for the world's best luxury brands. For more information, please visit mycoworks.com and madewithreishi.com. CONTACT: [email protected] SOURCE MycoWorks

Hempel A/S has appointed Peter la Cour Gormsen as CFO and EVP of finance and named René Overgaard Jensen chief transformation & information officer (CTIO) and EVP of digital, strategy & transformation. Gormsen joins Hempel on June 1, 2023 from the position of group CFO at GN Store Nord A/S, and takes over from Lars Jønstrup Dollerup, who has decided to leave Hempel after five years with the company to pursue other opportunities Jensen joined Hempel in April 2021 and prior to today’s appointment, he served in the Executive Group Management as head of strategy & transformation. “Peter will be a great addition to the Hempel Executive Group Management,” said Michael Hansen, Group president and CEO of Hempel A/S. “Peter brings invaluable global finance leadership experience and extensive knowledge of international management, finance, IT, and supply chain. We are excited to welcome Peter on board.” “I’m looking forward to joining Hempel, an admirable company in the coatings industry with a proud heritage and exciting ambitions for the future. Hempel’s global setup and multifaceted solutions spanning the Decorative, Marine, Energy & Infrastructure segments as well as its sustainability impact and ambitions, combined with the values of giving back to society through the Hempel Foundation, are truly inspiring,” said Gormsen. Prior to joining GN, Gormsen worked for Novo Nordisk, Novozymes and Chr. Hansen. “I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Lars for his many contributions to Hempel during the five years he has served as our CFO. He has been instrumental to the results delivered by Hempel and in particular the Finance & Digital function over the years. The function stands on a platform ready to support Hempel further on our exciting Double Impact journey. Now, the scope of the CFO role is changing and Lars has decided to pursue other opportunities. I wish him all the best in his future endeavors,” said Hansen. “We aim to double Hempel in a financially sustainable way and one of our levers to do so is harmonizing our ways of working to a much higher degree,” said Hansen. “With this new executive function headed by René Overgaard Jensen, we will combine the capabilities that enable a coordinated and efficient transformation of our processes through standardization, automation and digitalization.” Jensen has extensive international transformation and strategy deployment experience through his previous work with PA Consulting and Maersk, where he, among other things, served as head of transformation and process excellence during a time of extensive and complex transformation.

Madison, Wis., Aug. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Barton Miller has a surprise for his University of Wisconsin-Madison class of 250 software programming undergraduates this fall: No code assignment is complete until it's declared weakness-free by a suite of software analysis tools."You're not going to get extra points," he says. "It's just that you can turn in your code only when it comes through clean."That may sound stringent, but Miller is confident it won't be such a chore. His students will be directed to the Software Assurance Marketplace, or SWAMP, a powerful software assurance platform designed to make the detection of potential software weakness as quick and painless as possible.The SWAMP offers more than 30 open-source and commercial static code analysis tools fully integrated into its automated platform. Leading commercial tool providers in the SWAMP include Synopsys, Parasoft, and GrammaTech, all household names with programmers."For the students, using the SWAMP is to feel the freedom that they are not handcuffed to a single tool," Miller says, likening the SWAMP experience to taking multiple medications to manage a chronic disease. "Each medication may not solve the whole problem, but it may have a strength that other medications don't have."Launched five years ago, the SWAMP is now coming into its own as a free, portable, one-stop source for programmers to tighten up their code - and, in turn, shore up the most frequent target of cyberattacks. The project is funded by the Department of Homeland Security and is led by the Morgridge Institute for Research in close collaboration with partners at UW-Madison, Indiana University, and the University of Illinois.Miller's classroom experiment represents an important front for the SWAMP as it aims to advance continuous assurance on software security. Software assurance is for the most part missing from the undergraduate coding curriculum and is often relegated to separate security-based courses. Miller, a UW-Madison computer science professor and chief scientist of the SWAMP, says the goal is to create "turnkey resources" such as video tutorials for computer science instructors to plug it into their courses.Experience gained this fall from Miller's course will be used as a blueprint for integrating software assurance into lecture-size coding courses at other institutions. The SWAMP platform was designed to support "scaling-out" in support of wide-scale usage.Miron Livny, SWAMP director and chief technology officer, says that partnering with the educational community is key because the software security challenge has strong behavioral elements that need to be addressed in the beginning stages of software development teaching.  Raising awareness early among future developers, and providing integrated tools like the SWAMP, will help make software assurance a continuous activity in the software life-cycle.Von Welch, director of Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and SWAMP chief information security officer, says the greatest contribution of the SWAMP has been to provide empowerment in what seems like an unwinnable scenario."The whole ecosystem of software has just exploded with iPhones and Android phones and software doing a lot for our lives these days," he says. "It's easy to be sort of abstractly aware of the security challenge, but we're giving developers a tool to do something concrete about it."The project also yielded an application called "SWAMP-in-a-Box," which enables developers to deploy the platform locally on their private network to address security and privacy concerns. In 2018 to date, more than 34,000 software assessments have been run in the SWAMP, covering hundreds of millions of lines of code.Companies and organizations also have been active in the SWAMP. Partners on specialized assurance projects include the Department of Defense, defense contractors, and commercial companies certifying software.Cyberattacks are only getting worse as software proliferates into every corner of life. Operating systems that once could support a few thousand applications can now support as many as 3 million. Things got remarkably bad in 2017 with 159,700 cyberattacks targeting businesses -nearly doubling the previous year's total, according to the Online Trust Alliance.One example from last year serves as a "poster child" for business catastrophe, Miller says. Dutch-based Maersk Shipping, representing almost one-fifth of all the world's cargo shipping, was hit with the "NotPetya" ransomware virus that wiped out all 45,000 of the company's computers. The result snarled global shipping traffic and cost the company $300 million in repairs. "One of the challenges in cybersecurity right now is the attackers get unlimited attempts," adds Welch. "Cyber attackers have this sort of invulnerability and anonymity and they're doing it from across the world. When they keep attacking, it's like the idea of monkeys typing randomness until they eventually produce Shakespeare." Brian Mattmiller Morgridge Institute for Research 608-316-4332 bmattmiller@morgridge.org