Committee Leaders

Karl Eglof Hartel - Card Committee
Giesecke & Devrient

Mr. Hartel serves as Project Manager for New Technologies in the Telecom division at Giesecke & Devrient. In this role, Mr. Hartel represents Giesecke & Devrient in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) Smart Card Platform Technical Working Group and co-ordinates the division’s technical contributions to other standardization organizations. Mr. Hartel has played a key role in promoting GlobalPlatform technology within the ETSI specifications.

Mr. Hartel has been an active participant in the GlobalPlatform Card Specifications Working Group and the Mobile Task Force, and was elected to serve as the association’s Card Committee Chair in 2009.

Christophe Colas - Device Committee
Trusted Logic

Mr. Colas is currently Professional Services Manager in the Professional & Consumer Devices Business Unit at Trusted Logic. In this role he is responsible for technical marketing and leads customer integrations of the company's wireless security middleware. Mr. Colas has participated in the development of several software architectures including Visa Open Platform Terminal Framework which has since transferred to GlobalPlatform.

Mr. Colas has been involved with GlobalPlatform since its inception, and was elected to serve as the association's Device Committee Chair in 2009.

Eric Le Saint - Systems Committee
ActivIdentity

Mr. Le Saint is Director of Security, Intellectual Property and Standards Engagement at ActivIdentity. In this role, he is responsible for defining product security policies and approving product releases that meet these policies. Mr. Le Saint plays an active leadership role in the standardization of US government ID cards with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the International Organization for Standards (ISO) and the US Department of Defense, and is currently the editor of the ANSI Generic Identity Command Set (GICS) for defining future ID cards in the US.

Mr Le Saint has been an active participant in GlobalPlatform for over nine years, and was elected as Chair of the GlobalPlatform System Committee in 2009.