Chia-Lin Simmons joined NXT-ID (NASDAQ: NXTD) as CEO on June 14, 2021. Before NXT-ID, Ms. Simmons was the CEO and Co-Founder of LookyLoo, a patent-pending AI social commerce company. She is active in the AI, automotive, mobility, digital media / music and e-commerce technology space as an executive, advisor and board member. Prior to NXT-ID and LookyLoo, Ms. Simmons was an executive at a number of high visibility technology companies. She was the former Head of Global Partner Marketing for Google’s Google Play Music and the Google Play Store; former VP of Marketing & Content for Harman International / Samsung; former VP of Marketing and General Manager of Playphone North America; a senior business development executive at Time Warner/ AOL, as well as the former VP of Strategic Alliances at Audible / Amazon.   

Ms. Simmons serves on the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee for Servco Pacific, a global automotive and consumer goods company with businesses in mobility and automotive distribution and sales as well as entertainment through Fender Guitar. Ms. Simmons is also a board member New Energy Nexus, an international organization that support clean energy entrepreneurs with funds, accelerators and networks. She is an active angel investor in technology and founded the #bindersproject, which helps connected women tech founders with global funders looking to accelerate them. Ms. Simmons graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from U.C. San Diego. She received her MBA from Cornell University, where she received a full-ride scholarship and stipend as a Park Leadership Fellow and built the Big Red Incubator as a Managing Partner. Ms. Simmons earned her JD from George Mason University School of Law and is a licensed New York State attorney. 

Mark Archer joined Nxt-ID, Inc. in July 2021 as interim Chief Financial Officer. He has spent over 40 years in consumer centric and technology businesses, serving in general management, finance, operations and marketing roles.  With over 30 years of experience as a Chief Financial Officer in both public and private companies ranging in size from start-ups to companies with multi-billion dollar revenue streams, Mr. Archer has worked with many top tier venture capital and private equity firms.  

Prior to joining Nxt-ID, Mr. Archer was CFO of Saxco International, a private equity owned middle market distribution company.  Mr. Archer was hired to restructure the business, execute a new go-to-market strategy, then sell the Company, which he successfully completed in 18 months.  Prior to joining Saxco International, Mr. Archer was President & CEO of SmartBee Controllers, a technology company manufacturing hardware products based on IoT technology, targeted at both the B2C and B2B space.   

Mr. Archer received his B.S. in Business Administration and M.B.A. in Finance, both from the University of Southern California, where he was a Presidential Scholar.  He serves on the Board of JaM Cellars, a Napa based wine and spirits company. 

During the past two decades Rafael has been leading globally distributed engineering teams on product development, technology strategy, system architecture, hardware-phone-cloud connectivity, analytics, machine learning, blockchain, IP and data security at various roles, most recently co-founder of Trace.Global (IoT, AI and blockchain-based supply chain traceability startup), co-founder and CTO of LookyLoo (AI for fashion), CTO of Drive TimeMetrics (a connected car analytics startup), director of technology for Aha Radio at Harman International(Samsung), and founder of GGT-Meridian, a software consulting and outsourcing company. 

Rafael moved to the US 25 years ago to lead the engineering team of Liikkuva Systems, a GPS navigation pioneer startup, which was later purchased by Motorola. He was Motorola’s Navigation Software Architect, leading the development of one of the first-ever server-based GPS navigation systems for the UK and US markets, which later became OnStar Navigation. After Motorola, Rafael started GGT, a consulting firm in Silicon Valley, and was a technology consultant for Qualcomm and multiple startups. He founded GGT-Meridian in CA and Bogotá, Colombia, a software outsourcing company developing mobile, analytics, ML, IoT and blockchain. Rafael and his Meridian team held multiple international blockchain hackathons in 2018. 

Rafael graduated as a BS in CS with highest honor at Colombia’s National University. He is named as inventor in various patents in geo-spatial, mobile, analytics, blockchain and connected car technologies. Rafael is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. 

Bennett Porter is NXT-ID’s Interim CMO. Ms. Porter is a Board Member and Advisor to start-ups where she uses her experience in past marketing leadership roles to help companies build new categories.  Previously, she was the Chief Marketing Officer of energy start-up Booster Fuels and held executive marketing positions at SurveyMonkey and Yahoo! managing B2B2C activities and emerging markets expansion. 

Ken Hoskins is the Vice President of Operations at NXT-ID / Logicmark and has been with the company since 2013. He has spent his career working in the operations segments of industry leaders such as Coca-Cola Enterprises and Bertelsmann Media worldwide.  

Before joining NXT-ID / Logicmark, Mr. Hoskins served as Director of Operations North America for Bertelsmann Media handling all operations for Microsoft and Apple accounts.