Defenx PLC announced that, pursuant to the strategic partnership with BV-Tech SpA announced on 11 April 2017, Raffaele Boccardo, the founder and CEO of BV-Tech, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of the company, as a nominated representative of BV-Tech, effective August 7, 2017. Mr. Boccardo is an entrepreneur and President of the BV-Tech Group, which he founded in 2005 to become one of Italy's leading independent corporate IT solutions providers. He received the Order of Merit of the Republic from the President of Italy in 2010.