16 June, 2015

Fingerprint Cards (FPC) strengthens its management team by recruiting Johan Wilsby as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). FPC's current CFO, Jens Reckman will remain in the company's finance department. Further, Mikael Jönsson is appointed Vice President, Product Management. Johan and Mikael will report to Jörgen Lantto, CEO of FPC.

Johan Wilsby has been recruited as new CFO in FPC. Most recently he has worked at Transmode, a global supplier of optical network solutions, where he has been CFO since 2013. He has a Master of Science in Finance and Marketing from Stockholm's School of Economics, and has a long experience from leading positions within finance in the IT sector. During 2008 to 2013 he worked with Hewlett-Packard, most recently as head of Finance for their business in the Nordics and the Baltics. He has also worked at Microsoft for 13 years, where he was head of Finance for Western Europe 2004-2007. Johan will assume his position in FPC during the third quarter 2015.

Jörgen Lantto, CEO of FPC comments: "We are very pleased with the recruitment of Johan, who brings a solid knowledge of financial control and management in an international high-technology environment. This will prove extremely valuable for the implementation of our long term strategy with focus on technology leadership and to remain the leading supplier of fingerprint sensors. I am also happy that Jens has chosen to continue to work in the company's finance department and I am convinced that Johan and Jens will form a very strong team for our future expansion".

Further Mikael Jönsson has been appointed Vice President Product Management. Mikael joined FPC late 2014 and he has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. Mikael bring more than 15 years of experience from product management at Ericsson and ST-Ericsson. Mikael's new position is effective immediately.

Jörgen Lantto, CEO of FPC comments: "I have had the pleasure of working with Mikael for many years and I am convinced he will bring a positive contribution to our management team based on his deep expertise in the smartphone market and what is required by our products to be successfully integrated in smartphones".

For more information, please contact:

Jörgen Lantto, President and CEO Fingerprint Cards AB (publ), +46-(0)31-60 78 20, investrel@fingerprints.com

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About Fingerprint Cards AB (publ)

Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) is a high tech and listed company which develops, produces and markets biometric technology that through the analysis and matching of an individual's unique fingerprint verify the person's identity. A secure and convenient user experience is thus made possible, beyond keys and pins. The FPC technology offers world class advantages and include unique image quality, extreme robustness, low power consumption and complete biometric systems. With these advantages and in combination with low production costs the technology may be implemented in large volume products as smartphones, tablets and biometric cards where these demands are extremely high. FPC's technology have user cases from a number of applications.

Fingerprint Cards AB (publ) discloses this information pursuant to the Swedish Securities Market Act (2007:528) and the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act (1991:980). The information was issued for publication on June 16, 2015, at 9:00 a.m.

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