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NFC Forum Board of DirectorsMohamed Awad, BroadcomMohamed Awad is responsible for NFC at Broadcom. Prior to Broadcom, Mohamed was responsible for founding Ember Europe, where he brought ZigBee to the EMEA region, and served as a director on the ZigBee Alliance board. He has also held various marketing, business development, and engineering management roles for several semiconductor and networking companies including Avici Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks. Mohamed holds a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Data Communications from the University of Massachusetts. He has also mastered advanced Data Communications course work from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Philippe Martineau, Inside SecurePhilippe Martineau is responsible for developing INSIDE's worldwide emerging NFC business line in various market segments such as mobile telecommunication and the consumer market. His task is to position INSIDE within this strategic market. Previously, Philippe spent 17 years in the smart card industry working for Gemplus in France, moving from technical to management positions. As Director of Marketing, he was based in the US for three years, working to develop the North American GSM market. Back in France, he managed the Product Line of the Telecom Business Unit and later became Vice President 'Strategy'. He has been involved in GSM standardization since 1989 and has developed strong knowledge and connections in this industry. He has extensive knowledge of the operators’ ecosystem and the embedded software world for mobile phones, and has a vast international network in the Telecom Industry. Ed Agis, Intel CorporationEd Agis is Senior Wireless Engineering Manager in the Standards and Wireless Engineering Group for Intel. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing specifications development and certification processes in mobile wireless communication technologies. Over the past 27 years in the semiconductor industry, he has held numerous management positions in product development, business development, engineering and marketing. Ed has also served in various capacities as a liaison representative between standards bodies and in chairing technology consortium workgroups. James Anderson, MasterCard WorldwideJames Anderson is group head and senior vice president for Mobile Product Development Payments, based in Purchase, NY. In this role, he is responsible for developing all mobile payment products, including proximity payments, mobile web payments and mobile remote payments. In addition to leading MasterCard’s mobile product development, he also leads commercialization efforts and supports sales and business development activities around the world. James has spent his career at the intersection of mobile, payment, and Internet technologies in the functional areas of Product Development and Business Development. Miller Abel, MicrosoftHideya Yamaki, NEC CorporationHideya Yamaki is a Manager in Personal Solutions Busibess Unit at NEC Corporation and is in charge of promoting global standards related to mobile phones and other portable electronic devices. He has more than 10 years experience in managing research & development of mobile handset application and middleware. Teuvo Järvelä , NokiaNorio Nakamura, NTT DoCoMoMartin Bührlen, NXP SemiconductorsMartin Bührlen is Technology Licensing Manager in Business Unit Identification at NXP Semiconductors and serves as Treasurer of the NFC Forum. With more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductors industry, he has held several engineering, marketing and communications positions for identification technologies such as smart cards, RFID and NFC. Kenichi Takahira, Renesas Electronics CorporationClint Chaplin, Samsung ElectronicsClint Chaplin is a Principal Engineer for the Standards & Technology Enabling group of the Advanced Technology Lab of Samsung R&D. In this position, Clint participates in and represents Samsung at various Standards Development Organizations and alliances focusing on wireless technologies, such as ECMA, NFC Forum, and IEEE 802.11 and 802.15. Clint has many years experience in the electronics industry, in areas ranging from Wi-Fi and UWB to personal computer design and IC patent analysis. Yo Tabayashi, SonyYo Tabayashi works for the Global Standards and Industry Relations Department in the FeliCa Business Division of Sony Corporation. He has more than 6 years experience in Sony FeliCa Contactless technology from market planning to strategic alliance activities, and also has over 10 years experience in the smart card industry. Yo joined the NFC Forum activities in 2006 in San Diego, and has held key NFC strategy roles in Sony. Laurent Sourgen, STMicroelectronicsLaurent Sourgen is currently director of Strategic R&D programs for Microcontrollers, Memories & Secure Group within STMicroelectronics, and he is also involved in strategic partnerships. After graduating in Electronic Engineering, he started working with silicon integrated circuits. Over the past 20 years, he has been in charge of the team developing smartcard and other secured integrated circuits, where he designed and supervised work for different secure contact and contactless product generations. With good knowledge in related technologies and architectures, he is also involved in various cooperative R&D programs as project leader and expert. He represents STMicroelectronics in different professional organizations such as NFC Forum and Eurosmart. Erick Wong, Visa, Inc.Erick is Head of Mobile Contactless at Visa Inc. Erick has more than 15 years experience in product and technology innovation in mobile and electronic payments. Prior joining Visa in 2000, Erick was with Ernst & Young and Shell. After earning a BASc in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Erick completed an MBA at the University of Toronto.
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