Conference Advisory Board
Deborah Baxley
Partner
IBM Global Business Services
Deborah Baxley is Partner and leader of the Strategy and Change consulting practice for Financial Services in North America. Well-known and sought-after globally as IBM's top credit card expert, addresses top executives at dozens of financial services firms on emerging business models. Consulted to more than twenty payments players in a dozen countries. As chair of Contactless and Mobile Payments Council, co-authored "Proximity Mobile Payments Business Scenarios: Research Report on Stakeholder Perspectives" and "Proximity Mobile Payments: Leveraging NFC and Contactless Financial Payments Infrastructure" Smart Card Alliance white papers. Addresses audiences on retail / wireless payments trends, including CardTech SecureTech and Visa International.
Salvatore D’Agostino
CEO
IDmachines
Salvatore D’Agostino is currently CEO of IDmachines. Sal and IDmachines experience with large scale security and infrastructure projects include the US Capitol and Pentagon security systems, EZPass, SunPass and other ETC systems, the FIPS 201 validation infrastructure, and the First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC).
Sal blogs at http://idmachines.blogspot.com is Secretary of the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council, member of the SIA PIV Working Group, ASIS, the Transportation Research Board’s Freeway Operation Committee, a charter member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Machine Vision Association, and former Chairman of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Massachusetts. Sal is a 1978 graduate of Harvard College.
Willy Dommen
Principal
Booz Allen
Willy Dommen, a Principal, is a leader in Booz Allen’s Electronic Payment and Smart Card business. Mr. Dommen served as the hands-on advisor for the BART-Sprint mobile payment trial. He is currently one of the firm’s leaders for the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 initiative. He is a key contributor on smart card, RFID and mobile payment assignments around the world, for both government and private industry including Australia, Singapore, London, New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, all of which started from the work he completed for Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s TransLink® program in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Patrick W. Hearn
VP Identity Markets - North/Central America
Oberthur Technologies
Patrick W. Hearn is Vice-President of Government and Identification Markets North and Central America at Oberthur Technologies. He is a member of Oberthur Technologies of America Executive Committee with specific responsibility for business development for all identification initiatives, government relations and lobbying, and product development.
Wendy Humphrey
Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships
First Data
Wendy Humphrey is a Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships for First Data. Wendy is a member of the corporate business development team in the United States , specializing in the integration of electronic payments with strategic partners. She is well versed in global ecommerce solutions for US domiciled organizations, including card present and card not present solutions. Additionally, she focuses heavily on emerging technologies including contactless payment solutions. In previous product development roles, she was responsible for the launch of the first portable wireless credit card terminal and the launch of contactless payments at First Data.
Bryan K. Ichikawa
Chief Architect
Unisys Corp.
Bryan Ichikawa works within Unisys’ Federal Systems organization, based in Reston, Va. As a globally recognized expert in smart card and security technologies, Bryan provides tactical assistance to qualify, win and deliver new business opportunities that utilize these technologies. Bryan is also responsible for representing Unisys in worldwide industry and standards organizations for smart cards. Bryan is also the Chief Architect for Unisys’ Registered Traveler Programs, and is responsible for the Federal Systems Identity and Access Management Practice.
Mohammad Khan
President & Founder
ViVOtech, Inc.
Mohammad Khan is the President and Founder of ViVOtech incorporated in 2001. Mr. Khan held several management positions during the 15 years he worked with VeriFone. Joining VeriFone in its early stage in 1983, Mr. Khan helped the company develop its payment automation systems and later helped successfully market these products in close to 100 countries. Included were the smart card and security payment products he conceived for VeriFone and launched to its worldwide markets in the early '90s. Mr. Khan was also a co-founder of the Internet Commerce Division within VeriFone and was responsible for expansion of its Internet payment systems business into more than 25 countries. Mr. Khan holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
In 2006 Mohammad Khan was recognized as a leader of the Electronic Payments Industry by the Transaction Trends Magazine and in 2005 as a “Mover and Shaker” of the Electronic Payments Industry by the Transaction World magazine.
Marcelo Lima
Director of Marketing
ViVOtech
Marcelo Lima is Director of Marketing for ViVOtech. As part of the original founding team, he lead the Marketing Communications department of ViVOtech over 7 years of rapid growth. Marcelo played a key role in building new payments brand and mobile payment products out of scratch to reach the status of “Leader in the mobile phone and contactless payments industry”. His responsibilities have included marketing communications, PR, product management and business development. Previously Marcelo was marketing manager for Amniventure.com an accelerator of high-tech start-ups and Netprospect.com, an online marketing web site. While in Brazil Marcelo was part of the marketing team at Philip Morris Corporation and a planning specialist at Promon Telecommunications, in his home country, Brazil. Marcelo was a member of the Board of Directors of Hispanic Net, a Silicon Valley-based network of executives in High-Tech/ Software/ internet related companies. Marcelo holds a Business Degree from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a marketing post-graduate certificate from UC Berkeley.
Cathy J. Medich
Director, Strategic Programs
Smart Card Alliance
Cathy Medich is Director of Strategic Programs for the Smart Card Alliance. In this role, she manages strategic marketing and industry initiatives and directs all industry council activities, including the definition of new projects, the management of project teams, and the development of messaging and marketing programs to promote council positions in the industry.
Robert J. Merkert, Sr.
Director of Sales
CardLogix
Robert J. (Bob) Merkert has been involved with the card industry for over 20 years. He is currently Director of Sales for CardLogix, Irvine, CA, and is championing the CardLogix Credentsys PIV card for HSPD-12 applications. He is also involved in the GSM, Parking, Healthcare, and Vending marketplaces.
Neville Pattinson CIPP CISSP
Vice President for Government Affairs and Business Development
Gemalto
Neville Pattinson is the Vice President for Government Affairs and Business development at Gemalto, Inc. based in Austin, TX.
Roger Roehr
Manager of the Government Vertical
Tyco International
Roger Roehr is the Manager of the Government Vertical at Tyco International Access Control and Video Systems business unit. He is responsible for standards activity and product development in Tyco Fire International access control, video, and integrated systems to meet the specific needs of government customers and related markets.
Bill Rutledge
Cnxtd Event Media Services
Smart Card Alliance
Bill is the Managing Director of Cnxtd Event Media Servces. He has eighteen years of experience in all aspects of international business event media management and has been involved in the launch and development of over ninety different conferences, trade shows, custom events, and virtual events. Most recently he has developed events for the Smart Card Alliance, Wiley-Blackwell, Advantage Business Media, Reed Business Information, and SourceMedia. He was previously group director for Chemical Week conferences (Access Intelligence), Penton Media, and CMP Media (fka Miller Freeman). He is the editor of the popular event media industry blob, B2BPresence.com. He is a graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz with a B.A. in comparative literature, and New York University’s program in Business Publishing.
Randy Vanderhoof
Executive Director
Smart Card Alliance
Randy Vanderhoof is the Executive Director of the Smart Card Alliance. The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association of over 180 member firms working to accelerate the widespread acceptance of smart card technology in North America and Latin America. He came to the Alliance in January, 2002 and became the Executive Director in August, 2002. During his tenure as the chief executive, he has directed the transformation of the organization from primarily a networking organization into a diverse, education oriented, international, multi-industry organization that gathers industry stakeholders together to help stimulate the rapid adoption of all forms of smart cards (cards and other form factors) for electronic payments and digital security applications. Previously, he served as on the Executive Board for the Alliance as a corporate member from 1998 – 2001.