One of Jay Jumper’s signature businesses is just that — literally, a signature business.
Jumper is the chairman and CEO of SIGNiX (pronounced SINE-ix), headquartered at downtown Chattanooga’s Warehouse Row, specializing in applying digital signatures often needed by “highly regulated industries” such as wealth-management firms, banks, credit unions, law firms, governments and health care companies.
Jumper is quick to explain that there’s a marked difference between a digital signature and an electronic signature.
“An e-signature is just an image of a signature put on a document by an e-sign company,” he says. “We actually embed a digital certificate into the document for every signature. Each one is unique.