MIKOH Corporation's Dr. Peter Atherton Appointed CTO of the RFID Sub-Committee for the Industry Advisory Council

NEW YORK--Oct. 1, 20051, 2005--MIKOH Corporation, an innovative technology company producing a variety of security and digital marking products, announced today that Dr. Peter Atherton, chief technology officer for MIKOH, has been appointed CTO of the RFID sub-committee for the Emerging Technology Shared Interest Group (SIG) of the Washington, DC-based Industry Advisory Council (IAC).

The sub-committee will advise US government bodies (federal, state and local) on various issues relating to RFID. These areas include enterprise architecture, standards and interoperability, privacy/policy matters, future RFID technology developments, and system integration issues including hardware, software, applications and ROI.

Co-founding MIKOH in the early 1990's, Dr. Atherton has been instrumental in development of the company's security and authentication technologies. Prior to forming MIKOH, he spent nearly ten years in the telecommunications industry in Australia and the UK, developing technologies for optical fiber systems. Dr. Atherton received his doctorate in quantum physics and bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

Dr. Atherton will continue to serve as CTO of MIKOH as he begins his new role in the IAC SIG's sub-committee.

About IAC's Emerging Technology SIG and its RFID sub-committee

The RFID sub-committee is a part of the Emerging Technology SIG, which helps serve the IAC overall mission with a focus on emerging commercial technologies. The IAC strives to bring industry and government executives together to exchange information, support professional development, improve communications, and build partnership and trust, thereby enhancing government's ability to serve the nation.

About MIKOH Corporation

MIKOH Corporation, headquartered in Sydney, Australia with Australian offices in Melbourne, VIC and US offices in McLean, VA, and New York, NY, is a specialty supplier of security products with powerful marking technologies for authentication, identification, tamper-indication and subsurface information storage. MIKOH conceives unique security approaches, researches and develops proprietary technologies to support these approaches, patents and prototypes the technologies, integrates the technologies with other security components, and then embeds these components in commercial and government products. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.mikoh.com.