rekr_ex991
Exhibit 99.1
Rekor Systems Announces Christine Harada Leaving Board to Join
Biden Administration
COLUMBIA, Md. – July 1,
2021 – Rekor Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: REKR) ("Rekor" or the
“Company”), a provider of real-time roadway, customer,
and public safety intelligence to enable AI-driven
decisions, today announced that board member Christine
Harada will step down from her various roles on Rekor’s Board
of Directors effective July 2, 2021, to lead the Federal Permitting
Improvement Steering Council (“FPISC” or
“Permitting Council”).
FPISC
was established as an impartial federal partner responsible to
oversee interagency coordination and process improvements for
covered projects. The Permitting Council is composed of
representatives at the agency Deputy Secretary-level and is chaired
by an Executive Director, appointed by the President.
“Christine has brought tremendous insight into the government
market and corporate best practices to our board, and I will miss
her advice and counsel,” said Rekor president, CEO and board
chairman Robert Berman. “She helped successfully guide the
company through its rapid expansion, and we were lucky to have her
expertise and leadership on the team for the last four
years.”
Ms. Harada has prior leadership experience in federal government,
serving as the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer and Acting
Chief of Staff at the U.S. General Services Administration during
the Obama Administration. Outside
of the Obama White House, Harada also served in the private sector.
She's currently vice president of the clean energy company
Heliogen. In the private sector she also served as Global Manager
at Boston Consulting Group for the Transformation/Large Scale
Change practice and as principal at Booz Allen
Hamilton.
“Christine is always a pleasure to work with, and her
leadership has been a tremendous asset to Rekor’s
board,” said Paul de Bary, lead director for Rekor’s
Board of Directors. “Her diligence, technical expertise and
depth of understanding of federal governmental processes has served
us well as we’ve been delivering and developing solutions to
serve government clients in the areas of smart cities,
environmental and infrastructure applications. We will miss her
greatly but are consoled by the knowledge that our loss is a gain
for our country and the planet.”
Ms. Harada, who joined the board in 2017, served as the Governance
Chair and as a member of the audit and compensation committees.
Rekor will name a new Governance Chair shortly.
About Rekor Systems, Inc.
Rekor (Nasdaq: REKR) provides real-time, customer and public
safety intelligence to enable AI-driven decisions. Rekor bridges
commercial and government sectors with actionable, real-time
vehicle recognition data to enable informed decisions faster, and
with greater outcomes. Rekor is transforming industries like Public
Safety, Customer Experience, and Smart Cities in approximately 80
countries across the globe with smarter, quicker, cost-competitive
vehicle recognition solutions for security, revenue discovery and
recovery, public safety, electronic toll collection, brand loyalty,
parking operations, logistics, and traffic management. We use the
power of artificial intelligence to analyze video streams and
transform them into AI-driven decisions by our clients. Our machine
learning software can turn most IP cameras into highly accurate and
affordable vehicle recognition devices used to help protect lives,
increase brand loyalty, and enhance operations and logistics,
without the need to install expensive new infrastructure. We make
what was once considered impossible, possible. To learn more please
visit our website: https://rekor.ai.
Contact:
Media:
Robin Bectel
REQ for Rekor Systems, Inc.
rekor@req.co
Investors:
Charles Degliomini
Rekor Systems, Inc.
ir@rekor.ai