CTO Stephen  Ritter at Mitek  Portrait

Stephen Ritter

CTO

Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Stephen Ritter has been named Chief Technology Officer at Mitek Systems, Inc. The search was led by Mark Lonergan.

About Stephen

As Chief Technology Officer, Stephen is responsible for driving the technological development of Mitek’s award-winning mobile capture and identity verification solutions and for overseeing Mitek Labs, the company’s computer vision and scientific team.

Prior to joining Mitek, Stephen was SVPEngineering and Research for Emotient (acquired by Apple). Before that, he served as CTO/VPEngineering at Cypher Genomics until it was acquired by Human Longevity Inc. Prior to that, he served as VPEngineering at Websense; Senior Director of Engineering at McAfee; VPEngineering at Preventsys; Principal Architect at Medunite, Inc.; Senior Professional Services Engineer at Persistence Software; Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Orbisys; Software Engineer at Titan Corporation; and Scientific Programmer at the Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute.

Stephen Ritter holds a BSin Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. He has co-authored eight patents.

About Mitek

Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in mobile capture and identity verification software solutions. Mitek’s IDdocument verification allows an enterprise to verify a user’s identity during a mobile transaction, enabling financial institutions, payments companies and other businesses operating in highly regulated markets to transact business safely while increasing revenue from the mobile channel. Mitek also reduces the friction in the mobile users experience with advanced data prefill. These innovative mobile solutions are embedded into the apps of more than 4,500 organizations and used by tens of millions of consumers daily for new account openings, insurance quoting, mobile check deposit and more.

Jim DeBello Portrait

As CTO, Stephen will apply his 25 years of passion for creating game-changing technology to building world-class SaaS products for organizations and consumers around the globe.

Jim DeBello, President & CEO, Mitek Systems
Stephen Ritter Portrait

As global companies look for ways to engage with customers in the mobile channel, Mitek is perfectly positioned to create fast, easy and secure processes that will enable the mobile revolution. I am excited to lead the Mitek Labs and engineering teams, and help create the future of mobile commerce.

Stephen Ritter, CTO, Mitek Systems
Alex Zakupowsky Portrait

Stephen Ritter is the ideal fit for the CTO role at Mitek due to his leadership, business savvy, and deep technical understanding in mobile, security, and computer vision. We are confident he will have profound impact on the future of Mitek.

Alex Zakupowsky, Partner, Lonergan Partners