NFC Forum

Marketing Committee

Marketing Committee Chair: Peter Preuss, Nokia

Peter Preuss is working as a Senior Manager at Nokia. He is responsible for NFC Business Development in Central and Eastern Europe. Peter has been involved with NFC since 2004. His various activities in NFC based multi-party marketing and project management included launching one of the first commercial NFC Services in Europe. Before joining Nokia Peter headed the Strategy and New Business Development unit at Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV), the public transport authority for Frankfurt Greater Metropolitan Area, Germany. He was in charge of the integration of mobile solutions into RMV’s information and ticketing systems.

Marketing Communications Working Group Chair: Julia Charnock, Innovision Research & Technology

Julia Charnock is the senior Marketing Communications Manager at Innovision R&T. She brings 20 years of experience in communicating cutting edge technologies to both B2B and B2C global audiences using a wide range of marketing and marcoms methodologies. Within RFID and NFC, she has established extensive press and analyst contacts, produced white papers and the NFC Innovation Awards, and developed interactive NFC and RFID demos for both the industry and consumer segments. Julia is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a graduate of Brunel University (UK) and Norwich University (USA).

Ecosystem Development Working Group Chair: Peter Coster, Toppan Forms

Peter hails from Australia, but currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan, for Toppan Forms in their hardware and middleware engineering subsidiary Zixsys Inc., as Product Planning and Marketing Leader. Peter comes from a background in sales and business development in a variety of service industries in both Japan and Australia. Toppan Forms is a leading company in Japan for Smartcard and RFID technologies and has targeted NFC as a next-generation core technology. Zixsys Inc. is a hardware and middleware development company specializing in identification and authentication technology, including NFC and RFID.

Technical Committee

Technical Committee Chair: Jonathan Main, MasterCard Worldwide

Jonathan Main is Vice President, Centre of Excellence for Mobile, Advanced Payments, where he has been active in the integration of card payments into mobile devices and the associated security requirements. Jonathan has over 10 years experience in mobile and mobile commerce technologies, and has been an active contributor to a number of specification organisations such as the Mobile Payment Forum, OMA, WAP Forum, MeT and EMVCo.

Reference Applications Framework Working Group Chair: Stephen Tiedemann, Sony

 

Security Technical Working Group Chair: Open

 

NFC Devices Technical Working Group Chair: John Waters, Innovision Research and Technology

 

Compliance Committee

Compliance Committee Co-Chair: Matt Ronning, Sony

Matt Ronning is Director of Engineering for Sony's Component Solutions Business Division located in San Diego, California. In this position, Matt and his engineering team support both module and integrated circuit development for the consumer and automotive markets. As a communications systems engineer, Matt has over 20 years experience in the development of IC's and modules supporting Cellular, Digital TV, GPS, and wireless/wireline PAN/LAN technologies, and has been an active contributor to a number of specification organizations such as IEEE and SAE.

Compliance Committee Co-Chair: Henrique Costa, NEC

Henrique Costa is a Unit Leader in NEC Portugal, SA. He is responsible for the Solutions & New Technologies for Portugal. Henrique started his involvement on NFC in 2006 when he designed an end-to-end proposal for the integration of transport ticketing in NEC mobiles for the Lisbon metro, then followed with the design for integrating banking services on mobiles for a bank in Italy. Before these projects, Henrique was responsible for the Portuguese team involved in GCF pre-certification testing of NEC mobile phones.

Minimum Level of Interoperability Working Group Chair: Hauke Meyn, NXP

Hauke Meyn is Principal, Business Development Manager New Programs in the identification business of NXP Semiconductors. With fifteen years experience in smart card and contactless systems, Hauke has held a number of different positions, such as Manager Software and Services, Product Manager Innovation and Technology, Product Manager Smart Card IC Software and Cluster Manager of the world wide customer support. In January 2008, Mr. Meyn took over the responsibility of Business Development Manager New Programs to support market creation and product design in new markets. In addition, Mr. Meyn was and still is active in standardization around smart card technology, participating in GlobalPlatform, Java Card Forum, ISO/IEC, German DIN and the NFC Forum.

Compliance Program Working Group Chair: Gregor Ponert, SKIDATA

Gregor Ponert leads the Device Factory at SKIDATA AG. SKIDATA AG is an international market leader in access management and ticketing solutions for controlled access of persons and vehicles to buildings and venues. The Device Factory is responsible for the development of all SKIDATA Devices (like readers, barriers, Automated Sales Stations, Turnstiles etc.) throughout the lifecycle, including Product Management. Gregor has more than 19 years of working experience in the field of physical access control and in the field of RFID. Prior to his responsibility for the Device Factory, Gregor has been working in Firmware Development and Business Development. Gregor Graduated in Commercial Information Technology at the Technical University Vienna and is inventor in more than 30 patents.

Testing Working Group Chair: Sten Wendel, Sony Ericsson

Sten Wendel is Technical Manager at Sony Ericsson, working for the Type Approval department which is located in Lund, Sweden. Sten and his engineering team are responsible for certifying applications, such as BT, JAVA, MMS, WiFi, DM, etc. Before joining the NFC Forum, Sten actively participated in GCF (Global Certification Forum) and OMA (Open Mobile Alliance). Sten has more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and internet field.