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Akiyama will make your next World Cup world-class: there will be no boosters harassing you outside the stadium, and no fights breaking out in the seats in front of you. Akiyama’s proprietary technologies will register every ticket purchaser (a 5-minute process that includes fingerprint, signature and image collection), authenticate every attendee and ticket entering the stadium, and monitor the crowd to catch trouble makers. A single father of two without a college degree, Ismael founded Akiyama in 2005. Today Akiyama is the fastest growing Brazilian biometrics company and the exclusive distributor for three of the leading Asian electronics’ component suppliers in Brazil. Since the company launched its biometrics business three years ago it has grown 154% annually and in 2010 it was the 4th fastest growing small to mid-sized company in all of Brazil. As the leading Brazilian biometrics company and the only biometrics company worldwide that integrates the various biometrics processes (e.g. fingerprinting, image recognition), Akiyama is well positioned to capitalize on the projected 15% annual growth of the Brazilian biometrics market over the next 5 years.