Board of Directors

The GlobalPlatform Board is led by three Board Officers, elected annually: Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer. The Board consists of up to eleven directors, elected from Full Member organizations to serve two-year terms, who represent the interests of all GlobalPlatform member organizations. The Board oversees the strategy and management of GlobalPlatform, controls the budget and provides final approval of specification changes.

Sebastien Tormos – GlobalPlatform Chairman
Datacard

Mr. Tormos serves as Vice-President of Marketing at Datacard Group. He is responsible for product marketing activities and also drives business development initiatives for the company. In the early 1990's, Mr. Tormos, then at Schlumberger Smart Cards & Systems, pioneered the deployment of smart card programs in the financial and telecom sectors, including the emerging GSM market. He joined Datacard US in 1996 as a Project Manager and then moved to the marketing group. Most recently he managed Datacard operations in France for five years, before moving to his current position.

Mr. Tormos was elected as Chairman of GlobalPlatform in 2008.

Marc Kekicheff - GlobalPlatform Vice-Chairman
Visa Inc.

Mr. Kekicheff currently serves as Senior Business Leader of Product Technology at Visa Inc. and is responsible for Visa Inc.'s smart card technology compliance worldwide, covering contact and contactless cards and terminals as well as mobile handsets. A highly regarded smart card expert worldwide, Mr. Kekicheff has authored several patents, is well acquainted with IT security and frequently addresses the industry through high profile speaking engagements. Throughout his career he has been a driving force in the development of global smart card technology, worldwide standards and compliance programs. He currently sits on the EMVCo Board of Managers and chairs the Card Approval Working Group for the same organization.

Mr. Kekicheff has been an active member of GlobalPlatform since its inception in 1999 and was a co-architect of the original GlobalPlatform Specifications. Since that time, he has held a number of posts: he was GlobalPlatform's Technical Director between 1999 and 2005, when he stepped down from this role and was elected to the Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of the organization. Mr. Kekicheff has made a significant contribution to GlobalPlatform over the years and has been responsible for the following initiatives, among many others: shaping consortium strategy, initiating industry outreach efforts, obtaining ISO recognition for GlobalPlatform by acting as a technical expert liaison for smart card standardization and providing technical support for implementers of GlobalPlatform technology.

Yves Moulart - GlobalPlatform Secretary/Treasurer
STMicroelectronics

Mr. Moulart serves as Director of Cards, Technology and Architecture within STMicroelectronics' Smart Card Products, Software Engineering division. He is in charge of cryptographic, security, smart card technology and product architecture activities, following the acquisition of Proton World International by STMicroelectronics in 2003. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Moulart was the Chief Technology Officer of Proton World International.

Mr. Moulart has served on the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors since his appointment as a Board Director in 2000.

Dominic Fedronic
ActivIdentity

Mr. Fedronic is the Chief Technology Officer of ActivIdentity and is responsible for leading and directing strategic technical decisions regarding the company’s products and services. Since joining the company in 1995, he has held senior roles of increasing responsibility in the engineering organization, most recently as the Senior Vice President of Research and Development, managing the ActivIdentity Research and Development organization of over 150 engineers on five continents. Prior to that, serving as Chief Architect, Mr. Fedronic has made major contributions to the design and standards development of the U.S. government’s GSA Smart Card Interoperability program and the U.S. Department of Defense Common Access Card program. Prior to joining ActivIdentity, Mr. Fedronic was part of the design team working on a DTMF security token program with FINTEL. He held previous positions at the Société Force-Informatique, S.A. and at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Mr. Fedronic holds a masters degree in telecommunications engineering from the Université de Paris Nord, Galileo Institute in Paris, France.

Mr. Fedronic has served on the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors since 2007.

Dr. Christoph Siegelin
Gemalto

Dr. Siegelin serves as Director of Marketing and Business Development in the Financial Services and Retail division at Gemalto. In this role, Dr. Siegelin is responsible for developing and promoting Gemalto’s product and services offering, defining value propositions and advising customers on the implementation of their card programs.

Dr. Siegelin joined the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors in 2008.

Uwe Wittig
Giesecke & Devrient

Mr. Wittig joined Giesecke & Devrient in 2000 and currently serves as the company’s Group Vice President within the Payment Division of the Smart Card Unit. In this role, Mr. Wittig is responsible for the Products & Solutions Center, including the product management and managed services departments, which oversee all technical activities of Giesecke & Devrient's Cards & Services business unit within the financial industry.

Mr. Wittig joined the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors in 2008.

Christian Delporte
MasterCard Worldwide

Mr. Delporte is Vice-President, Head of Product Development, Chip Centre of Excellence at MasterCard. His team develops payment related solutions using new technology in support of the M/Chip, PayPass, transit, and mobile product lines. This encompasses the definition of requirements as well as the development of functional, technical and security specifications. In addition, Mr. Delporte oversees quality and approval process definition and management as well as provides technical implementation services globally.

Mr. Delporte has served on the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors since 2009.

Eikazu Niwano
NTT Corporation

Mr. Niwano currently serves as a Senior Research Engineer in the Service Integration Laboratories of NTT Corporation. He heads up innovation and standardization on the Smart Card Platform Development Project. Prior to this role, Mr. Niwano was the General Manager of the Europe Office of the Information Sharing Laboratory Group in Paris, where he was involved in a number of European standardization activities.

Mr. Niwano is currently a member of ISO/IEC SC17. He is the editor of eEurope/Smart Card Charter/TB7/WG4 (multi-application architecture) and a member of the CEN e-Authentication Workshop, and the CEN TC224 WG 15. He is additionally a NICSS Fellow and was the former Chair of the GlobalPlatform-NICSS Collaboration Expert Group.

Mr. Niwano has served on the GlobalPlatform Board of Directors since 2005. He is also an active participant on the GlobalPlatform Card Committee and has made a significant contribution to the development of the GlobalPlatform Card Specification.

Jean-Loup Depinay
Oberthur Card Systems

Mr. Dépinay serves as Program Manager, Research & Development Fundings (collaborative projects), at Oberthur Card Systems (formerly Delarue Card Systems). As a Java Card OpenPlatform Architect, Mr. Dépinay has designed and managed several Java Card platforms which have been deployed in banking, identity and mobile markets worldwide and which have focused on single market and converging market programs. He was also responsible for developing Java Card security improvements which led to the delivery of several security certificates, including common criteria and FIPS 140, for Oberthur's smart card products. Mr. Dépinay is currently a member of the Java Card Forum.

Mr. Dépinay has been an active participant in the GlobalPlatform Card Committee since 1999 and was elected to serve as Card Committee Chair in 2007.

Carmen Carnero-Silvo
Group of Companies ServiRed, S.A. / SERMEPA S.A

Ms. Carnero-Silvo currently serves as Deputy Managing Director for the Madrid-based group of companies ServiRed S.A. and SERMEPA S.A., which are leaders in the provision of payment services to the Spanish financial industry. She is in charge of operations, risk management and security, business development and sales and marketing for the group. Further to her full-time role, Ms. Carnero-Silvo is currently on the Board of Directors of Chip Card Salud, a Spanish company that processes transactions for insurance companies in the healthcare sector. She is also a member of the ServiRed/SERMEPA Management Executive Committee and heads up several Spanish domestic working groups, all related to the card payment industry. In addition, Ms. Carnero-Silvo participates in the National Commission for the Migration to SEPA, which is led by the Central Bank of Spain.

Sebastian Hans
Sun Microsystems Inc.

Mr. Hans currently serves as Senior Standardization Manager at Sun Microsystems Inc., where he is responsible for all smart card standardization activities with a strong focus on SIM and UICC technology. While at Sun Microsystems Inc, Mr. Hans has also headed up business development within the telecommunications market and has driven advanced pilot projects for the deployment of Java Card in the banking, insurance and mobile communication markets. Mr. Hans represents Sun Microsystems Inc. in ETSI SCP, 3GPP, OMA and is the Vice Chair of ETSI SCP TEC.

Mr. Hans has served as a GlobalPlatform Board Director since 2007.

At the discretion of the Board Directors, Strategic Directors may be appointed from time to time from individual member organizations, to provide the Board with additional advice or expertise on a particular strategic issue or market. Strategic Directors hold no voting rights. GlobalPlatform currently has one Strategic Director:

Shoji Taniguchi
Toshiba Corporation

Mr. Taniguchi currently serves as Chief Marketing Specialist at Toshiba Corporation and is responsible for overseeing the company's smart card business across the financial, government, mobile/broadcasting and transportation sectors. Mr. Taniguchi is an established contributor to and Director of the Next Generation IC Card System Study Group (NICSS) in Japan. NICSS is managed and led by a group of private companies and is responsible for developing contactless, multiple application smart cards, primarily for use in the Japanese public sector. He also represents NICSS as Vice-Chair of the Asia IC Card Forum (AICF). Through his various roles, Mr. Taniguchi has made a significant contribution to the deployment of smart cards in the government sector in Asia.

Mr. Taniguchi has served as a GlobalPlatform Strategic Director since 2006. In this role, he promotes and facilitates collaborative meetings between GlobalPlatform and NICSS and AICF. He also leads Board meeting discussions on public sector market trends in Japan and other Asian countries.