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AGOURA HILLS, Calif., March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. (“Oncotelic” or the “Company”) (OTCQB:OTLC) (f/k/a Mateon Therapeutics, Inc.) announced today that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA“) has confirmed the change in the Company’s name and approved the stock symbol trading on the OTC Markets. Effective today, March 30, 2021, the ticker symbol is changed from “MATN” to “OTLC”.

On August 14, 2020, the Company filed a Current Report on Form 8-K, in which the Company reported a number of corporate actions approved by the shareholders of the Company on August 10, 2020, including the name change and symbol change. The Company formally changed its name to Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. with the State of Delaware in November 2020, as disclosed in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2020, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 16, 2020. A notice of corporate action was filed with FINRA, requesting confirmation of its name change and approval for the new ticker symbol. On March 29, 2021, the Company received FINRA’s approval on its notice of corporate action confirming the new company name and the change in the Company’s ticker symbol, effective March 30, 2021.

About Oncotelic Therapeutics

Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. (f/k/a Mateon Therapeutics, Inc.) (“Oncotelic”), was formed in the State of New York in 1988 as OXiGENE, Inc., was reincorporated in the State of Delaware in 1992, and changed its name to Mateon Therapeutics, Inc. in 2016, and Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc. in November 2020.

Oncotelic was created by the 2019 merger with Oncotelic Inc., which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mateon, thereby creating an immuno-oncology company dedicated to the development of first in class RNA therapeutics as well as small molecule drugs against cancer and infectious diseases. OT-101, the lead immuno-oncology drug candidate of Oncotelic, is a first-in-class anti-TGF-βRNA therapeutic that exhibited single agent activity in some relapsed/refractory cancer patients in clinical trial settings. OT-101 also has activity against SARS-CoV-2. Oncotelic is seeking to leverage its deep expertise in oncology drug development to improve treatment outcomes and survival of cancer patients with a special emphasis on rare pediatric cancers. Mateon has rare pediatric designation for DIPG (OT-101), melanoma (CA4P), and AML (OXi4503). The Company merged with PointR Data Inc. (“PointR”) in November 2019. The PointR Merger was intended to create a publicly-traded artificial intelligence driven immuno-oncology company with a robust pipeline of first in class TGF-β immunotherapies for late stage cancers such as gliomas, pancreatic cancer and melanoma. In February 2020, the Company formed a subsidiary, Edgepoint. Edgepoint is a start-up company that plans to develop technologies and IP related to various unmet issues within the pharma and medical device industries. The Company is planning to spin off Edgepoint into a separate public company in the near future.

For more information, please visit www.oncotelic.com and www.mateon.com.

Oncotelic’s Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this communication regarding strategy, future operations, future financial position, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. Words such as “may”, “expect”, “anticipate” “hope”, “vision”, “optimism”, “design”, “exciting”, “promising”, “will”, “conviction”, “estimate,” “intend,” “believe”, “quest for a cure of cancer”, “innovation-driven”, “paradigm-shift”, “high scientific merit”, “impact potential” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements about future plans, the progress, timing, clinical development, scope and success of future clinical trials, the reporting of clinical data for the company’s product candidates and the potential use of the company’s product candidates to treat various cancer indications. Each of these forward-looking statements involves risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Many factors may cause differences between current expectations and actual results, including unexpected safety or efficacy data observed during preclinical or clinical studies, clinical trial site activation or enrollment rates that are lower than expected, changes in expected or existing competition, changes in the regulatory environment, failure of collaborators to support or advance collaborations or product candidates and unexpected litigation or other disputes. These risks are not exhaustive, the company faces known and unknown risks, including the risk factors described in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on May 20, 2020 and in the company’s other periodic filings. Forward-looking statements are based on expectations and assumptions as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, the company does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in expectations, whether as a result of new information future events, or otherwise.

Contact Information:

For Oncotelic Therapeutics, Inc.:
Amit Shah
[email protected]

ALVINSTON, Ontario, March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wanstead Farmers Co-operative celebrates groundbreaking at site of new grain facilities at Alvinston location.

The new facilities in Alvinston will increase the previous drying and storage capacity for the members of Wanstead. The expansion includes two 150,000-bushel dry bins, two 45,000-bushel wet bins, and a new high-efficiency grain dryer. These facilities broke ground at the end of March and are expected to be up and running for corn harvest this year. The increased capacity allows Wanstead to continue serving the increased demand for space by its members, as well as position themselves for future growth.

“This is about investing in our future by improving our capacity to meet our farmer-owners’ ever increasing requirements,” said Martin Gerrits, Wanstead Farmers Co-operative board president. “Our members trust us to deliver quality products and services, this expansion continues our 97-year history of delivering those services through timely improvements, investments and expansions,” said Gerrits.

“Over the last number of years, we have seen large increases in the productivity of acres in Lambton and Middlesex counties,” says Peter Kelly, Wanstead Farmers Co-operative general manager. “The addition of these new facilities will increase our efficiency and continue to offer our customers the grain services they are looking for.”

Others in attendance included Floyd Howard, senior grain merchandising manager for Wanstead Farmers Co-operative, who is looking forward to the increased capabilities for his department and sees strong growth for the co-operative’s membership going forward. And Brooke-Alvinston mayor David Ferguson, showcasing his support of the co-ops expansion and job creation in the community.

Wanstead Farmers Co-operative Co. Limited was established in 1924. It is owned by approximately 500 members. They employ 27 permanent staff members and has locations in Wanstead, Alvinston and Inwood. Wanstead Farmers Co-operative provides agronomy products and services, grain handling and marketing, feed and consumer products to farmers and residents of Lambton County and the surrounding area. Wanstead Farmers Co-operative is a member of GROWMARK, Inc. and markets products and services under the FS banner.

Visit https://www.wansteadfarmerscoop.com/ and www.fssystem.com for more information

Contact:
Peter Kelly
General Manager
Wanstead Farmers Co-operative
519- 845-3301
Email: [email protected]

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New York, March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) is hosting a free webinar, “Addiction: Science Drives New & Novel Treatments” on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, from 2pm to 3pm ET. The presenter will be Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D., Ward-Coleman Chair in Translational Neuroscience and Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also Director of the Addiction Institute in the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System and a member of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation’s Scientific Council.

Drugs of abuse have taken center stage throughout the country with a particular focus on opioids, which are of a major public health concern since overdosing remains at epidemic proportions, and previously illicit drugs, like marijuana, have gained attention for medicinal purposes. Dr. Hurd will discuss insights about recent advances made into the molecular and in vivo neurobiological underpinnings of addiction disorders that provide avenues for the development of novel treatment interventions. A translational and multidisciplinary scientific approach will be described ranging from molecular and epigenetic studies in animal models, to neurobiological investigations of the postmortem human brain that together guides human clinical studies. Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., President and CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and Host and Executive Producer of the public television series “Healthy Minds,” will be the moderator. Join by phone or on the web at bbrf.org/aprilwebinar.

This webinar is part of a series of free monthly “Meet the Scientist” webinars on the latest developments in psychiatry offered by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Please use #BBRFWebinar when sharing or posting about our Meet the Scientist Webinars on social media.

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awards research grants to develop improved treatments, cures, and methods of prevention for mental illness. These illnesses include addiction, ADHD, anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, and schizophrenia, as well as research on suicide prevention. Since 1987, the Foundation has awarded more than $418 million to fund more than 5,000 leading scientists around the world, which has led to over $4 billion in additional funding. 100% of every dollar donated for research is invested in research. BBRF operating expenses are covered by separate foundation grants. BBRF is the producer of the Emmy® nominated public television series Healthy Minds with Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, which aims to remove the stigma of mental illness and demonstrate that with help, there is hope.

 

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• Dr. Hurd

Myrna Manners
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
(718) 986-7255
[email protected]

Integration Automates and Streamlines Work Between Solutions, Increasing Operational Efficiency and Overall Productivity

HOUSTON, March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Onit, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise workflow and artificial intelligence solutions, including enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management and business process automation, and NetDocuments, the leading secure cloud-based content services platform for law firms, corporate legal teams and compliance departments, today announced a powerful, user-friendly integration for their solutions.

“An Onit and NetDocuments integration was a priority for our team to streamline and centralize work, ensure accuracy and increase efficiency,” commented Gregg McConnell, Legal Operations Leader at Corteva Agriscience. “Now, with the help of both Onit and NetDocuments, the integration is user-friendly and incredibly seamless – so much so, that our lawyers don’t realize a transition occurs at all.”

Available immediately, the integration between Onit Enterprise Legal Management and NetDocuments offers best-in-class matter management integrated with a leading cloud-based document management solution. Corporate legal professionals can manage matters and documents between platforms and easily create NetDocuments workspaces within Onit technology. Customers have the option to work primarily in Onit Enterprise Legal Management or NetDocuments, depending on their preference and role, without sacrificing document management system functionality or security.

“From the day we opened our doors, Onit has focused on providing technology that meets in-house counsel where they work and makes it easier for them to practice law. Uniting with our valued partner NetDocuments to create a single, centralized workspace with an intuitive user experience is further evidence of our commitment to customers. I look forward to sharing this highly in-demand integration with our customers and to future innovations with NetDocuments,” said Eric M. Elfman, CEO and co-founder of Onit.

“We are extremely pleased to offer our corporate legal customers a deep integration with Onit’s Enterprise Legal Management solution,” stated Reza Parsia, NetDocuments VP of Strategic Partner Management. “Onit is a valued NetDocuments technology partner, and together we are driven to deliver customer value focused on simplifying work and enhancing productivity. Legal departments are increasingly seeking new tools and technology to work efficiently and collaborate in a secure space – and this latest integration with Onit meets our customers where they work, ensuring a seamless user experience.”

To learn more about the integration or to see a demonstration, customers can speak with their Onit or NetDocuments account manager. To learn more about Onit, please schedule a demo here. To learn more about NetDocuments, please click here.

About NetDocuments

Founded in 1999, with more than 3,050 enterprise customers worldwide, NetDocuments is the legal industry’s most trusted cloud-based content services and productivity platform. Complete with state-of-the-art built-in security, compliance and governance solutions, NetDocuments offers document management, email management and collaboration technology complete with disaster recovery, enterprise search and matter centricity features. For more information about NetDocuments, please click here.

About Onit      
  
Onit is a global leader of workflow and artificial intelligence platforms and solutions for legal, compliance, sales, IT, HR and finance departments. With Onit, companies can transform best practices into smarter workflows, better processes and operational efficiencies. With a focus on enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management, contract lifecycle management and legal holds, the company operates globally and helps transform how Fortune 500 companies and billion-dollar corporate legal departments bridge the gap between systems of record and systems of engagement. Onit helps customers find gains in efficiency, reduce costs and automate transactions faster. For more information, visit www.onit.com or call 1-800-281-1330.

Media inquiries:

Melanie Brenneman
Director of Communications, Onit
(713) 294-7857
[email protected]

Jobst Elster
NetDocuments media contact
(850) 459-4947
[email protected] 

NEW YORK, March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — StepStone Real Estate (“SRE”) has hired Frank Forster as a Managing Director to help lead the firm’s secondaries, recapitalization and co-investment activities in Europe. Mr. Forster will be based in London and report to SRE’s Head of EMEA, Josh Cleveland, and its Head of Investments, John Waters. Before joining SRE, Frank worked at notable real estate investment managers such as EQT Real Estate, Mount Kellett and Blackstone.

“Frank’s 20-plus years’ experience investing throughout Europe, in often complex structured transactions, have positioned him to help to lead our European investment activities,” said Josh Cleveland. “The addition of a senior professional like Frank is key to our focus on prudently investing the substantial amount of dry powder we have to deploy in partnership with Europe’s leading real estate managers,” he added.

SRE has recently added nine professionals, bringing the size of its investment team to 45. The group plans to hire several junior and mid-level professionals this year to responsibly execute its global investment activities.

Mr. Forster commented, “I am excited to join SRE’s talented and collegial team and look forward to applying my experience to help SRE continue to deliver the same level of service and performance our clients and general partners have come to expect.”

About StepStone and StepStone Real Estate

StepStone Group Inc. (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to its clients. As of December 31, 2020, StepStone oversaw $333 billion of private markets allocations (including $105 billion within StepStone Real Estate), including $80 billion of assets under management. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals. StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.

Contacts:

Shareholder Relations


[email protected]


1-212-351-6106

Media

Brian Ruby / Chris Gillick, ICR
[email protected]
1-203-682-8268

LOS ANGELES, March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Campaigner, the email marketing brand of J2 Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: JCOM), announced the launch of “Campaigner SMS,” a new product to help companies send SMS messages using their same customer list in Campaigner. This new SMS marketing product transforms Campaigner into a multichannel marketing platform for email and SMS marketing. Marketers can use an integrated platform to build, manage, analyze, and test their email and SMS campaigns. People check their phones 85 times per day on average, and SMS messages have 6-8 times higher engagement rates than email.

Campaigner SMS gives customers the ability to send SMS messages on a standalone basis or to integrate SMS messages into their email marketing campaigns. Campaigner’s SMS messages can be used by almost any industry and are especially useful for online retailers, brick and mortar, restaurants, insurance companies, professional practices, and other businesses that need to send personalized, targeted, 1:1 messages to their customers.

“Campaigner is now a multichannel marketing automation platform, helping our customers to expand their reach and to have an instant and direct, 1:1 communication channel with their customers,” said Bodhi Debnath, Senior Director of Marketing for Campaigner. “Our new SMS product is built to drive sales and revenue using advanced marketing automation, intuitive reporting, and powerful personalization. Campaigner’s customers now have an even stronger platform ready to help them send high-impact marketing messages via email and SMS.”

A recent survey by Campaigner of nearly 150 marketing leaders across the US found that there is a significant growth opportunity for companies to adopt SMS marketing. The survey revealed that while 56% of marketers said they will use SMS marketing strategies in 2021, many are still getting acquainted with its possibilities for sending SMS messages to customers. The Campaigner survey found:

• We’ve only just begun. 25% of marketers will be trying SMS marketing for the first time in 2021, and 67% rated their own knowledge of SMS marketing as “fair” or “poor.”
• Marketers have big room for improvement. Only 26% of marketers graded their brand’s use of SMS marketing as “Excellent” or “Good.” 24% said their companies’ use of SMS was “Fair; we have work to do” or “Not good; we need a lot of help,” and nearly 50% said that their brand’s use of SMS was “terrible/non-existent.”
• While not yet king, SMS integration is in the court. 27% of marketers (the largest response of any category) said they are integrating SMS with other marketing channels (such as social and email) in 2021.

“With a 92% engagement rate, SMS together with email marketing from one application is categorically the most effective way to personalize and automate interactions with your prospects or existing customers for maximum ROI,” said Alaa Gedeon, VP, Sales & Marketing for Campaigner.

Campaigner SMS is designed to integrate with email marketing and lets clients create multichannel workflows to target customers by sending SMS instead of or in addition to email. Clients can use Campaigner as a single platform for SMS and email. It provides businesses with robust segmentation options to create personalized SMS messages based on personal data and customer engagement with email campaigns and other SMS messages.

Learn more about Campaigner SMS.

About Campaigner   

Founded in 1999, Campaigner has a mission to help marketers do more with email. Over 100,000 businesses and many Fortune 500 companies have trusted Campaigner with their email marketing. Campaigner has offices in Ottawa, Newcastle, Kiev, Dublin, and Raleigh. For more information visit Campaigner.com

Media Contact:

Carolyn Adams, BlueRun PR
847-867-3005
[email protected]

COLUMBIA, Md., March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tenable^®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced that it has been named a finalist for two 2021 SC Awards — Best Security Company and Best SCADA Security Solution for Tenable.ot.

Over 30,000 organizations, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, more than 30 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies rely on Tenable’s risk-based vulnerability management solutions. The company has a long history of product innovations, including the recent launch of Frictionless Assessment, a new cloud security capability that enables customers to quickly and confidently harness the benefits of cloud-first environments without the need to deploy network scanners or even agent-based approaches.

Understanding the rapid convergence of IT and operational technology (OT), the company also brought its risk-based innovations to Tenable.ot, empowering organizations with unified visibility and control across their IT and OT assets. With integrations for both Tenable.io and Tenable.sc, customers can manage and reduce risk in their OT operations from anywhere — in the cloud or on-premises — with the ability to predict which vulnerabilities pose the greatest business risk.

“In the wake of massive cyberattacks over the last few months, the ability to confidently know where you’re exposed, to what extent and how best to reduce risk are absolutely critical,” said Renaud Deraison, chief technology officer and co-founder, Tenable. “At Tenable, our mission is to arm CISOs with actionable, risk-based insights to understand and ultimately reduce their exposure across IT, cloud and OT systems. We’re thrilled and thankful to be recognized by the SC Awards this year.”

The SC Awards honor the achievements of cybersecurity professionals, products and services that safeguard businesses, their customers and critical data. Winners are chosen by an expert panel of judges with extensive knowledge and experience in the cybersecurity industry.

For more information about Tenable’s award-winning products, visit https://www.tenable.com/products.

About Tenable

Tenable^®, Inc. is the Cyber Exposure company. Over 30,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus^®, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the world’s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, more than 30 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Learn more at www.tenable.com.

Contact Information:

Cayla Baker
Tenable
[email protected]
443-545-2102, x 1544

BOSTON, March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stavvy, the fully-integrated digital mortgage platform, was recognized by HousingWire’s 2021 Tech100 Mortgage Awards. The ninth annual Tech100 program honors the most innovative technology companies in the housing market, providing housing professionals with a comprehensive list of the most innovative and impactful companies that can be leveraged to identify partners and solutions to the problems that mortgage lenders and real estate professionals face every day.

Stavvy is unifying the fragmented mortgage lending and documentation process with flexible technology that helps lenders manage security risk and increase transaction speed and transparency with identity, eSign, and remote notary tools, enabling an efficient and reliable customer experience while ensuring dynamic risk compliance. Stavvy’s features and tools can be deployed by financial institutions for origination, retail banking, and loan servicing.

COVID-19 has accelerated the acceptance of remote real estate transactions in their various forms, including online notarizations, making Stavvy’s solution more necessary than ever. As eClosings will ultimately become the standard for investors, consumers, and lenders, Stavvy has positioned itself at the forefront of this transition and digital transformation by prioritizing security and customer experience.

This honor comes on the heels of several major milestones for the Boston-based fintech. In January 2021, Stavvy integrated with ICE Mortgage Technology’s Encompass^® Digital Lending Platform, empowering lenders to access Stavvy’s solutions directly through Encompass to drive quality and efficiency in the loan origination process. To meet growing demand for their technology, Stavvy expanded their staff, growing over 400% in 2020. The company’s booked revenue for 2021 is projected to exceed 10 times its 2020 gross revenue.

“Despite the challenges of launching a company in the midst of this global pandemic, we have been able to provide our customers with a solution that has enabled them to safely execute transactions that were previously only possible in person,” said Kosta Ligris, Cofounder of Stavvy. “We’re proud of the incredible strides we have made both as a company and a technology.”

“It’s an honor to be recognized among some of the great companies in this industry,” said Stavvy Cofounder Josh Feinblum. “We’re especially grateful for the exceptional team we’ve built this past year. It’s been an exciting start, and we look forward to our continued growth and innovation in 2021.”

About Stavvy


Stavvy
is a Boston-based, venture-backed financial technology company that designs platforms to manage security risk, eliminate fragmentation, and increase speed and transparency in real estate transactions. The company’s mission is to create efficiency and security in the consumer/mortgage lending life cycle. Stavvy helps lenders and their vendor partners connect during the underwriting and settlement process of home loans. Its software includes eClosing functionality like remote signature and video conferencing tools that enable closing agents to perform remote transactions. To learn more, please visit www.stavvy.com

Media Contact:

Lisa Murray
Trevi Communications, Inc.
O: 978.750.0333 / M: 617.835.0396
[email protected]

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TORONTO, March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sunwing Travel Group is pleased to announce that Mystique Holbox by Royalton will be joining Marriott International’s portfolio and is expected to align with the Tribute Portfolio brand later this year. The news follows last month’s monumental announcement that Sunwing Travel Group’s resort division, Blue Diamond Resorts, had entered into a long-term agreement with Marriott International.

The move will bring one of Mexico’s most stylish destinations to the Tribute Portfolio, Marriott International’s growing global family of independent hotels highly regarded for their unique, captivating design and vibrant social experiences.

“We are excited to be furthering our agreement with Marriott International by introducing Mystique Holbox by Royalton to the vibrant Tribute Portfolio,” said Jordi Pelfort, President, Hotels & Resorts of Sunwing Travel Group. “Mystique Holbox’s unique, nature-inspired design, secluded location and personalized service offers an unparalleled vacation experience that we are thrilled to share with new and existing customers.”

Mystique Holbox by Royalton will be joining 19 other Blue Diamond Resorts properties in aligning with Marriott International. Those 19 resorts will become part of Autograph Collection, Marriott’s collection of hotels hand-selected for their inherent craft and distinct perspectives on design and hospitality, significantly expanding Marriott’s all inclusive portfolio. As part of the agreement, Sunwing Travel Group will benefit from worldwide distribution in addition to the award winning Marriott Bonvoy travel program with 147 million members worldwide.

“We are thrilled to add Mystique Holbox by Royalton, the twentieth Blue Diamond Resorts property, to the Marriott portfolio,” said Laurent de Kousemaeker, Chief Development Officer of Marriott International, Caribbean and Latin America. “This exquisite boutique beachfront resort, which is located on the exotic Island of Holbox, is a perfect fit for our Tribute Portfolio brand.”

Located in the Yum Balam Nature Reserve, Mystique Holbox by Royalton is a contemporary beach resort that perfectly blends the island’s natural landscapes with traditional Mexican design. The property is home to 38 sprawling suites featuring lavish amenities and two on-site restaurants serving dishes influenced by local cuisine in addition to interactive dining experiences. Plus, guests can explore the car-free island’s natural beauty on a biking tour, kiteboard on the calm waters or swim with whale sharks.

About Sunwing Travel Group
The largest integrated travel company in North America, Sunwing Travel Group is comprised of Sunwing Vacations and Vacation Express, two of the leading leisure tour operators in North America; Sunwing Airlines, Canada’s premier leisure airline; SunwingJets, a luxury private jet charter service; SellOffVacations.com and Luxe Destination Weddings, two leading travel retail businesses; NexusTours, a full-service destination management company; and Blue Diamond Resorts, the Group’s hotel management company, an innovative organization that operates popular resort brands across the Caribbean and Mexico. Since its inception in 2011, Blue Diamond Resorts has curated an impressive portfolio encompassing 45 properties, exceeding 15,000 rooms in ten countries, including the award-winning All-In Luxury® Royalton Luxury Resorts, adults-only brands Hideaway at Royalton and Royalton CHIC, Planet Hollywood Hotels and Resorts, and Mystique by Royalton. For more information on Sunwing Travel Group, please visit www.sunwingtravelgroup.com.

About Marriott International

Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of more than 7,600 properties under 30 leading brands spanning 133 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company offers Marriott Bonvoy™, its highly-awarded travel program. For more information, please visit our website at www.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.marriottnewscenter.com. In addition, connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram.

About Tribute Portfolio  
Tribute Portfolio is a growing global family of characterful, independent hotels drawn together by their passion for captivating design and their drive to create vibrant social scenes for guests and locals alike. With nearly 50 hotels open around the world, Tribute Portfolio has struck a chord with those who seek out independent experiences and crave a connection with the community when traveling. From boutique resorts like Inn at Rancho Santa Fe in California and urban hotels such as The Vagabond Club in Singapore; to hotels in indie-spirited locales like Noelle in Nashville and The Slaak in Rotterdam, each Tribute Portfolio hotel celebrates its individuality, offering travelers a fresh, often colorful, perspective. Stay with character and stay connected on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Tribute Portfolio is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy, the global travel program from Marriott International. The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, exclusive experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments and unparalleled benefits including free nights and Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit MarriottBonvoy.marriott.com. 

For more information:        
Melanie Anne Filipp
Director, Corporate Communications & Media Relations
Sunwing Travel Group
1-800-387-5602 | [email protected]

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ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME) (“VerifyMe,” “we,” “our,” or the “Company”), a provider of comprehensive brand protection and customer engagement solutions that combine ultra-secure product authentication, track and trace, and customized engagement strategies with industry-leading online retail monitoring capabilities, today announced that Robert Dlugopolski has joined VerifyMe as a Regional Sales Manager, to focus on expanding VerifyMe’s revenue growth by identifying new opportunities and closing new business in the western United States with heavy focus in California (Silicon Valley) and Seattle, Washington.

Mr. Dlugopolski is a versatile sales and marketing professional with over 12 years of experience in assisting clients in the brand protection and anti-counterfeit industry. Most recently he served as Business Development Manager at De La Rue Authentication Solutions, where he launched several notable brand protection programs producing millions of dollars of revenue and protecting some of the world’s most recognized and valued brands. Mr. Dlugopolski secured new business opportunities across a wide variety of industries including pharmaceutical, bio-pharma, vaping, cannabis, electronics, and the printing industry. Some recent accomplishments include executing a multi-million dollar brand protection label & digital authentication program with one of the largest packaging suppliers to the cannabis industry, launching a unique consumer loyalty and authentication seal program for a major California vaping brand, and developing a novel tamper evident and covert security solution for a leading global printer company.

VerifyMe’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Patrick White, stated, “VerifyMe needed a West Coast, USA presence particularly in the Silicon Valley and Seattle, Washington markets to address brand protection technology consulting inquiries. We welcome Robert to our growing business development and sales and marketing team, as we seek to increase our market penetration in the emerging and large addressable market for our security authentication technology solutions. Robert comes to us with distinguished experience in authentication having worked at De La Rue and DuPont. He has been recognized for exceptional creativity, flexibility, leadership skills, and the development of long term customer relationships, including receiving the De La Rue Authentication Global Sales Excellence Award in 2019 and 2020. He has delivered strong revenue and earnings growth of new prospect accounts and product line expansion at existing accounts. We welcome Robert to our team and look forward to working with him.”

“I was impressed with VerifyMe’s broad portfolio of proprietary technologies and strategic partnerships to deliver end-to-end brand protection solutions to their customers,” stated Mr. Dlugopolski. “The scale of the market opportunity and VerifyMe’s suite of physical and digital technology solutions has created a unique situation that I wanted to be part of,” he added. “Counterfeit issues are relevant across many different industries and becoming more of a priority. With established key partnerships and large reference customers in place, I believe VerifyMe is set up for an amazing opportunity to achieve accelerated growth and rapidly scale revenues. I am extremely excited to join the Company at such an exciting phase of growth.”

About VerifyMe, Inc.

VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME), is a technology solutions provider specializing in brand protection functions such as counterfeit prevention, authentication, serialization, and track and trace features for labels, packaging and products. VerifyMe’s physical technology authenticates packaging, labels and documents with a suite of proprietary security inks and pigments, which work in conjunction with serialization and track and trace software known as VeriPAS™ that allows both consumers and brand inspectors to verify authenticity with their smartphones. VeriPAS™ is a serialization software system that brand owners access through a web portal to monitor, control and protect their products complete life cycle. To learn more, visit www.verifyme.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding revenue opportunities, the use of our products in additional devices and locations, strategic partnerships, commercialization efforts, our sales pipeline and opportunities, and geographic areas, markets and industries in which we intend to expand our business. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “look forward,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “is likely,” “will,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, intellectual property litigation, the successful development of our sales and marketing capabilities, our ability to retain key management personnel, our ability to work with partners in selling our technologies to businesses, production difficulties, our inability to enter into contracts and arrangements with future partners, issues which may affect the reluctance of large companies to change their purchasing of products, acceptance of our technologies and the efficiency of our authenticators in the field. Forward-looking statements should be evaluated in light of important risk factors and uncertainties. These risk factors and uncertainties include those more fully described in VerifyMe’s Annual Report and Quarterly Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the heading entitled “Risk Factors.” Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the our underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those currently anticipated. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

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Company: VerifyMe, Inc.
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Website: http://www.verifyme.com
                 
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