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California, United States

- Silicon Valley based independent consultant providing business development, strategy, marketing & sales effort for established companies, design houses and technology startups.- Advisor at ExtoLabs: Pioneering solutions to enable offline trusted transactions for both E-Money and CBDCs.- Advisory Board: H & D Wireless, IoT/Industry 4.0, RTLS, Positioning, Payments: BD & Technology Strategy.- Other Previous Engagements: Biometric Smartcards BD Director, N America, BL Payments & Access at Fingerprint Cards Inc. BD & Sales representation for Mobile Knowledge (Avant Studio Proyectos S.L.)/Digital Wallets for Wearables & NFC/EMVCo/IoT design services, BD for Nazomi/Java smartphone application processor; Sales for Signalcraft/design services. Management strategy consultant & USA lead at Stepmind S.A., France for WLAN & RF cellular transceivers; Other clients: National Semiconductor (now TI), Tropian, NanoRadio, Private Equity Funds via PG Research, AlphaSights.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Innovative Swedish start up offering end to end IoT system solutions including embedded wireless modules/sensors, cloud platform services, smart analytics and smartphone apps. Collaborating with European team from Silicon Valley perspective for new business opportunities, including real time location services, asset tracking, performance monitoring, predictive maintenance/AI and tokenized payments.

Göteborg, Göteborg, Se

Leveraging the experience and scale from smartphone market now FPC provides the leading biometric touch sensor authentication solution for dual-interface smartcards for payments, identity and access. https://www.fingerprints.com/solutions/payments/

Klagenfurt, At

CISC Semiconductor offers products and engineering services for RFID/NFC applications and embedded systems. CISC's NFC interoperability test equipment can be used to evaluate and ensure great user experience for EMV contactless payments on mobile phones, wearables and smart cards. New venture, Coyero Access provides a software platform & SDK supporting the easy realization of smartphone apps enabling secure authentication, convenient and personalized connection to local infrastructure, services and commerce using proximity based wireless technologies like NFC or BT LE.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nl

- Lead NXP’s NFC & embedded Secure Element (eSE) design-in's & program management with Google as strategic platform partner for 5 major Android releases (ICS, JB, KK, L, M) including several commercial Nexus devices. Collaborated closely with Google on developing innovative NFC/eSE use cases (Google Wallet/Pay, Loyalty, P2P Android Beam, Host Card Emulation), facilitating reference design transfer & issue resolution during rollout at major OEM’s for each Android update cycle. This in turn propelled NFC adoption in smartphones to ramp-up from near zero to over 50% within 4 years and put NXP in a market leading position for NFC, eSE used for payments, ticketing, retail, etc in mobile wallets.- Business development with customers and service provider partners to enable new NFC/eSE use cases in mobile payments, transit, access control & authentication. Driving the emerging ‘wearables’ market with OEM lead customer developing new architecture & small footprint NFC software stack while jointly engaging with potential service providers ahead of product launch.- Manage NFC/eSE customer engagement (RFQ, design-in's, ramp-up, issue resolution, price negotiations, agreements) for Sony Mobile Communications & other Japanese OEMs.

Newark, Nj, Us

- Joined Panasonic through Tropian Inc's acquisition. Business development for 3G/UMTS radio sub-system with key baseband platform vendors and handset customers. Advise Panasonic Japanese business units on wireless roadmap & strategy. - Seconded to Strategic R & D Planning Center, evaluating new business opportunities and solutions related to video streaming, place-shifting/media extenders, wireless connectivity for portable devices and vertical markets like Automotive & Avionics/In-flight cellular communications, 'autonomous radio sensors' for use in IoT applications like smartgrid, environment control/monitoring & independent living.- Wireless Program Manager for enabling 3G connectivity on a gaming console product from internal startup: Panasonic Cloud Entertainment. Managing all aspects of 3G module vendor selection, negotiations, certification plan and establishing business case for a data MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) strategy.- Initiating Panasonic R &D activity in 'TV white space' technology & identifying potential use cases. Contributed to expanding 'Open Innovation' activity with US academic institutions.

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- Drive marketing effort for Tropian's turnaround and re-engagement with the RF IC business based on its unique Polar Impact transmitter technology & IP licensing.- Define the marketing strategy and business case for multimode E-GPRS and 3G W-CDMA transceivers. Manage collaboration with Power Amplifier partners.

- Lead the product marketing effort for GSM/GPRS/EDGE chipsets in Cellular Solutions group.- Launch National's first GSM/GPRS solution and define the requirements for next generation GSM/GPRS/EDGE chipsets, software, mobile phone reference design and turn-key modules.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

- Responsible in the North American sales organization for Bluetooth products. Manage RFQ response, engage with key customers & co-ordinate project follow-up.- Recruit team and established Bluetooth technical support center for N American customers. Train field applications and sales engineers. Manage strategic partnerships with software design and system houses.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

- Led the marketing team for RF ASICs Sector (revenues >100M$/yr).- RF ASICs for CDMA, TDMA, CATV: custom and standard catlog radio ICs.

B.Sc. (Hons), Electronic And Electrical Engineering

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