Director of Innovation for Extended Access Technologies RFID BU : solutions that enable NFC services at your workplace with your employee badge (as card, smartphone, wearable...) : door, parking, printers, vending, canteen, lockers, gym, PC/SSO, bike rack, EV charging station, car sharing, etc...

#SEOS #MobileAccess #Omnikey #NFC #RFID #SecureElement #RFIDreader #readerboard #biometrics #fingerprint #facialrecognition

https://blog.hidglobal.com/tag/extended-access-technologies

Director of Innovation

IDEMIA

In charge of global marketing and innovation for the Corporate Identity business unit :
• fingerprint and facial recognition terminals & video analytics software solution, for physical access control and time & attendance 
• logical access control solutions (multiapplication RFID chip cards, middleware+apps for SSO, e-signature)

- channel marketing : animation of a partner network of 70+ VARs and security system integrators: events, PartnerHub program to foster collab between partners, BioDevices Academy training platform & Certification program
- animation of the "Innovathon" corporate innovation process for the BU : from idea to proto/MVP/product
- Marcom : BU participation to key events (Intersec, ISC West + 60 regional events), webinars, PRs, case studies, LinkedIn group (2300+ members from scratch)

VP of Marketing & Innovation - Corporate Identity business line

Oberthur Technologies

In charge of global marketing & innovation for the Financial Services Institutions Business Unit (payments & retail) 600+M€ revenue : ideation, development, incubation & launch of multiple new products and concepts (see below)

Head of Marketing & Innovation, Payments & Retail

In charge of product management, with a team of 10 product managers & market analysts covering Payment Retail Transport cards and NFC applications. 
• Worldwide responsibility >600M€ revenue.
• Management of the roadmap : new product launch, first migration from EEPROM to Flash, cost optimizations...

Marketing Director, Payment Retail Transport (Oberthur Technologies)

Eurosmart

Eurosmart is the Voice of the Digital Security Industry
https://www.eurosmart.com/activities/

Executive Board Member

Smart Payment Association (SPA)

The Smart Payment Association is the trade body of the cards and mobile payments industry.
https://www.smartpaymentassociation.com/

President / Board Member

Blackhawk Network

Blackhawk Network (NASDAQ: HAWK) prepaid and payments network, market leader in card-based financial solutions and largest provider of third-party prepaid cards.

I co-founded the continental Europe subsidiary from scratch in start-up mode :
• dealing at C-Level, built a network of 2000+ retail partner stores in FR, BE, NL, ES...)
• managed relationships with several transaction processors to enable connectivity to our activation hub
• signed deals with 35+ brands to distribute their gift/prepaid cards generating multi-million € in sales
• I was also involved in the e-money licence project and discussions with Visa and Mastercard to issue our own branded/white-labeled cards

Business Development Manager Europe, brands and retail partners

GEMALTO

I was in charge of marketing for Banking, Retail, PayTV & Transport activities for Europe. 
I built and managed a team of 10 people
Revenue perimeter >200M€

Member of the integration team prior to and after the Axalto/Gemplus merger, mainly on product marketing topics (merger and optimization of product ranges)

Marketing Director Europe, Banking/Retail/Security

Sales of smartcard solutions (payment cards, ID/driving Licence/passport, Pay-TV, payphone, loyalty, network access, physical access...) to various industries (telcos, banks, governments...) Benelux/Nordics/Switzerland/Germany
Management of bizdev and account managers (6 people)

Achievements : 
* took revenue from 5 to 36M€
* reached and maintained leading market share with BE, NL, Nordic banks
* implemented the Belpic/eID card project in Belgium
* developed innovative access card for Swift
* was involved in the innovative "EMPS" mobile payment project with Nokia, Nordea and Visa ("Apple Pay 14 years before")

Sales Director Benelux DACH Nordics

Schlumberger

Direct/indirect sales of smartcard solutions : electronic purse, transport cards...
Area covered : Spain, Portugal, Israel, Greece

Business Development Southern Europe

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