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Christophe Duverne, NXP Semiconductors

Christophe Duverne is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Identification business within NXP Semiconductors, the newly independent semiconductor company founded by Philips. In this role, he is responsible for the global business management from strategy to R&D, industry & supply chain and marketing for the Identification business. Markets include radio frequency identification (RFID), smart cards, egovernment and near field communication (NFC). Christophe has more than 15 years experience, principally in the electronics industry, having held a number of senior international management positions in leading technology companies in Europe and Asia Pacific.

John Waters, Hewlett-Packard

John Waters is currently Programme Manager for HP Laboratories' Near Field Programme. With HP for the last 18 years, John has conducted and managed research in various communications and networking technologies including 3G, GPRS, WLANs, Bluetooth and RFID. His work has included active participation in a number of standards bodies, most recently as a Chair of the Bluetooth Printing Working Group. John holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bath, UK.

Simon Pugh, MasterCard International

Simon Pugh is Senior Vice President, Infrastructure & Standards for MasterCard International’s Advanced Payments Solutions group. In this role, he is responsible for MasterCard’s participation in smart card, electronic and mobile commerce standards groups, as well as the infrastructure necessary to support these activities, including smart card security evaluation.

Mr. Pugh works as a liaison with strategic business partners to promote the development of programs to support MasterCard’s advanced payments initiatives. He serves as President of the Mobile Payment Forum, an organization dedicated to the development of standardized infrastructure to support secure mobile payments. He is also the MasterCard representative on the Board of Managers of EMVCo (Europay-MasterCard-Visa Company).

In 2004, he was the recipient of the Ronald H. Brown Standards Leadership Award, bestowed by the American National Standards Institute and National Institute of Science and Technology.

David Turner, Microsoft

David Turner manages the Industry Standards & Leadership team within the Mobile & Embedded Devices Division (MED) at Microsoft. He is responsible for defining MED’s standards strategy and leading their engagements within industry standards organizations such as OMA, GSMa, NFC Forum, OMTP and CTIA. David is Microsoft’s primary Board member in the NFC Forum, alternate Board member in OMA and a member of the CTIA WIC Leadership Council.

Before working in MED, David was a principal driver of XML and Web services technologies in Microsoft’s Developer Platform Division since early 1998 and he was Microsoft's representative to the W3C Advisory Committee for over three years. Prior to joining Microsoft, David shipped a variety of SGML and HTML authoring products and other Internet development tools. In total, he has been working with XML and structured information for over 12 years.

David has a degree in Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Masaaki Ohara, NEC Corporation

Masaaki Ohara has worked on NEC’s standardization activities since 2000, primarily for the applications layer and interfaces around mobile handsets. He is a board member of OMA (Open Mobile Alliance), SD Card Association, MIPC (Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium), and MeT (Mobile Electronic Transaction), and he is Chairman of the Technical Committee of MCPC (Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium).

He worked previously in NEC’s Mobile Terminals Division, managing the development of handsets for NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode services. Earlier, he worked in Personal C&C Marketing Headquarters planning a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) for use with wireless communication. He first joined the Mobile Communications Division in NEC in 1991.

Gerhard Romen, Nokia

Gerhard Romen is the Head of NFC Market Development for Nokia. Mr. Romen has 20 years' experience in the IT / software industries. Prior to joining Nokia in 1999, he was VP for Borland International, and has held senior management positions with Sybase and SoftSwitch Inc. He started his career in application development at Data Organisation Services, Germany.

Norio Nakamura, NTT DoCoMo

Takatoshi Aoi, Panasonic

Kenichi Ishibashi, Renesas Technology

Dae Seok Kim, Samsung Electronics

Dae Seok Kim is the head of mobile application standards department which focuses on terminal side applications and core technologies within Samsung telecommunication network business unit. He has more than 20 years experience for research and project management in various telecommunications areas of wire-line/wireless switching systems such as TDX/WCDMA/WiMAX since he joined in Samsung Electronics. He is also responsible for mobile application related industry standards and fora activities including OMA, WPAN, Broadcasting, etc.

Koichi Tagawa, Sony

Koichi Tagawa is the General Manager of Global Standards and Industry Relations Dept. , that is in charge of technology standards and technology industry relations of the FeliCa Business. Since 2002, he supported the popularization of NFC and FeliCa as a headquarter member from the standardization point of view. He actively contributed to establish NFC Forum, and has been taking on the position of the vice chairman from the beginning and still today. He enthusiastically continues to contribute to the enhancement of NFC Eco-system throughout the contactless application industry.

Dave Wentker, Visa International

Dave Wentker is Head of Strategic Relationships for the Product Innovation and Development division of Visa Inc. Dave has more than 20 years experience in development and commercialization of innovative technology products and services. He first joined Visa in 1996 and has held a variety of management positions in product development, global strategy, and most recently led the team responsible for Visa's mobile platform activities. Before joining Visa, Dave worked at MDL Information Systems in marketing and development. Dave holds a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Carleton College.