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About Us: Fused Face and Voice Biometrics

Headquartered in London and Great Malvern, one of the UK’s leading cybersecurity clusters, FARx was founded by a team of face and voice biometric experts to develop the first and only company globally to fuse voice and face recognition.

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The Landscape Is Making Person Recognition Harder

We believe that traditional security measures are no longer enough to reliably verify person identification. Thanks to the advances in AI, fraudsters can now generate entirely fake identities and bypass traditional verification systems such as, voice verification and one-time passcodes. Deepfake technology has intensified the threat landscape enabling highly convincing video and audio impersonations that now outpace legacy systems including single signal biometric checks - making it significantly harder to verify who is truly behind the screen especially in virtual environments.

A Continuous Authentication Process

That’s why continuous, biometric, face and voice recognition is essential to the authentication process. Face recognition maps unique physical facial features (such as eyes, nose, lips and jawline), while voice recognition analyses the user's voice for their unique acoustic characteristics and speech patterns.

At FARx, our fused face and voice biometrics technology coupled with specifically trained acoustic models prevent identity fraud, impersonation, and deepfakes. Our proprietary AI software combines voice recognition (who is speaking), speech analysis (what is being said and how it’s being said), and facial recognition (who is in front of the camera) to confirm the individual behind the screen is a real human. FARx continuously verifies identity in real time ensuring that the same individual remains in control throughout the session. It analyses unique vocal traits and facial features to grant access only to genuine users and can detect when someone is looking over the user’s shoulder, blurring sensitive information or even shutting down the session.

Meet the team

Face and Voice Biometric Experts

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Clive Summerfield

Founder and CEO 
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With over 30 years of experience in speech recognition and biometric voice authentication algorithms, voice data and facial identification, Clive is a global expert in voice (and face) recognition technologies, from research and development to international commercialisation.
As a leader in voice identity, he holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering and Speech Processing from the University of Sydney and has over twenty granted patents across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, China, and Hong Kong. Back in 2002, he organised the first-ever conference on Biometrics, Identity, and Authentication in Sydney - long before the rest of the world caught up.
In 2022, he founded FARx to bring a new era of seamless, secure, and continuous biometric authentication to life.

Chris Bruce

Non- Executive Director and Chairperson
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Chris is an International Telecoms and Tech industry veteran and thought leader.  NED Chairman, FARx and previously Handshakr.com, NED at Cambridge Wireless and independent Go to Market Strategy Consultant.  Now embedded in the Cambridge Deep Tech Ecosystem as founding chair of Cambridge Tech Week in the first two years of launch, supporting the development of the innovation and investment community.
Chris is a successful international business executive with over 30 years’ experience of leading growth businesses in wireless, internet, cloud and technology sectors, including CEO BT Openzone Wi-Fi, Chair of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (Board Director for 10 years) and MD and Board Director, GlobalReach Technology (authentication specialists).
Prior to this Chris held many international leadership roles including: Director BT Advise Consulting to international Telcos, Sales & Marketing Director Telfort NL Business Mobile, VP Channel BT Ignite Hosting, Non-Executive Director Inet Spa (Italian Web hosting leader) and Marketing roles at Ericsson.
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Emma Whitehouse

Co-Founder and Director 
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Emma is passionate about the future of voice and face recognition and how AI can transform the way we secure and interact with technology. With over twenty years of high-level corporate and commercial legal experience across sectors including infrastructure, manufacturing, financial services, technology, and healthcare, she brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to our team.
She is responsible for the day-to-day operations including industry legal and compliance matters.
More recently, Emma founded a legal consultancy supporting start-ups and growing SMEs, helping them navigate complex legal and commercial challenges.
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Nick Morris

Non- Executive Director 
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With over 14 years of experience in the finance industry, Nick is a skilled business leader and financial adviser. Beginning his career in accountancy and supporting organisations across Worcestershire, he has since broadened his expertise to help both individuals and businesses achieve long-term financial success through strategic tax and investment planning. 
His expertise, combined with a deep understanding of emerging technologies, brings valuable insights to FARx’s work in transforming the delivery of secure online services through fused biometrics.

Clive Busby

VP Sales and Marketing
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As a seasoned strategy consultant with over two decades of experience, specialising in agile sales and new business development for early stage, high tech companies, Clive’s expertise lies in bridging the gap between startups and investors, facilitating effective scaling through strategic sales initiatives, and risk mitigation.  He also brings a successful track record in the financial services markets within the UK, Europe and Asia Pac.
With over nine years’ recent experience in the deployment of secure biometrics and identity technologies, including Identity Management, Voice and Face biometrics.

Explore our technology

Discover how FARx detects deepfakes, impersonation and identity fraud in real time.

Deepfake Detection