Michael Figueroa Joins IXIT Corporation as SVP, Information Security & Technology Infrastructure

March 13, 2008 (McLean, VA) – IXI Corporation, premier provider of customer segmentation, targeting  and market tracking solutions,  announced today  that Michael Figueroa has joined the firm as Senior Vice President, Information Security & Technology Infrastructure.  Mr. Figueroa will be focused on implementing security-related solutions and expanding IXI’s infrastructure to meet the company’s growth requirements.

Mr. Figueroa joins IXI with over 13 years of IT consulting and program management experience in enterprise security strategic planning, organizational change management, identity and access management, infrastructure security design, and data warehousing.   Tom Dailey, CEO of IXI Corporation, said, “At IXI, information security is extremely important to us.  Michael has a good understanding of the needs of both our clients and our firm and with his expertise, IXI will continue to be on the leading edge of information security and technology.”

“Security and privacy are core values for IXI,  and I look forward to further demonstrating our security excellence to our client community as part of our ongoing commitment,” said Mr. Figueroa. 

Most recently, Mr. Figueroa served as an Enterprise Security Program Manager for Booz Allen Hamilton, providing thought leadership and program management to government agencies in the U.S. and Europe, including a system security integration effort for an enterprise-wide infrastructure consolidation effort for one of the largest U.S. federal agencies.  Prior to that, he served as an Enterprise Security Architect at American Management Systems supporting several financial industry firms including Citibank, ANZ, Bank of Montreal, and Barclays. 

Mr. Figueroa is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a B.S. degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Masters of Forensic Sciences (M.F.S.) degree in High Tech Crime Investigations from The George Washington University.  He has previously spoken at several conferences, including the RSA Conference, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia and a lecturer at The George Washington University.

About IXI Corporation
IXI enables marketers to segment and target consumer households and neighborhoods based on wealth, income, spending, share of wallet, and share of market.

Through our exclusive consortium of more than 95 leading U.S. financial institutions, IXI measures more than $10 trillion in U.S. consumer assets and investments, comprising over 42% of all U.S. invested assets.  For more than 10 years, IXI has utilized its patented process for collecting and classifying consumer asset data to create its proprietary financial assets database.

IXI works with the nation’s leading financial services marketers to segment their customers and prospects by affluence, credit, risk, product propensity, purchase behavior, and other characteristics.  Our financial services clients use IXI’s asset-based solutions to efficiently identify customers and prospects that are most likely to represent a profitable business relationship, minimize risk, identify growth markets, and deliver the right message to the right customer.