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Alliance Management
Chairman, Smart Card Alliance Board of Directors
Greg Garback
Executive Officer of the Department of Finance for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Greg Garback serves as the Executive Officer of the Department of Finance for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA or Metro) in Washington, DC. He has served in this capacity for over seven years coming from twelve years of design and construction management experience on expansion of the Metrorail system in the Washington region.
Among many finance-based responsibilities, Greg was the initial program executive for deploying SmarTrip®, the Authority’s contactless smart card now used as an alternative form of payment for rail and bus system fares and parking lot fees. SmarTrip® was launched in May 1999 with the objective of providing utility and convenience to its customers and now has 1,800,000 cards in the field. Greg’s current focus on SmarTrip® is to strategically expand the multi-application concept for smart cards working with financial institutions to change the payment paradigm for transit and lay the ground work for transitioning from card-issuing organizations to card-accepting merchants. WMATA continues to lead the expansion based on SmarTrip® as the multi-operator, multi-modal fare media for regional the bus and commuter rail systems in the near future.
Greg currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Smart Card Alliance and is the immediate past co-chair of the Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council. Further, Greg performs peer reviews for the transit industry in the U.S. and abroad, assisting agencies in the planning and deployment phases of smart card based systems; serves on several committees within the American Public Transportation Association in roles focused on advanced payment systems and technologies; serves on the federal government Inter-agency Advisory Board (IAB); and, serves as the co-chair of the Electronic Payment Systems task force for the I-95 Corridor Coalition.
Executive Director
Randy Vanderhoof
191 Clarksville Road
Princeton Junction, NJ 08550
Email: rvanderhoof@smartcardalliance.org
Randy Vanderhoof is the Executive Director of the Smart Card Alliance. He came to the Alliance in January, 2002 and became the interim director in March. He was named Executive Director in August, 2002. He also served as on the Executive Board for the Alliance as a corporate member from 1998–2001.
Prior to joining the Smart Card Alliance, he was Senior Project Manager and Solutions Sales Manager for IBM Global Smart Card Solutions, an international product group supporting IBM’s smart card services to its global banking, healthcare, and government industry vertical teams. From 2000 to 2001, he was Vice President, Business Development, with First Access, Inc., a developer of contactless smart card technology for network access security and authentication. From 1995 to 2000, he worked at Schlumberger as Market Segment Manager, Campus Solutions, supporting the development and marketing of smart card-based identification and payment systems.
Randy is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA. He received his MBA from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. Randy is married with three children and resides in Mercerville, NJ.
Board of Directors
2007–2008 Executive Board
- Greg Garback, Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority - Chair
- Linda Brown, Infineon Technologies – Vice Chair
- Bryan Ichikawa, Unisys - Technology Vice Chair
- Carey Miller, BearingPoint - Secretary
- Robert Wilberger, PricewaterhouseCoopers - Treasurer
- Gerald Hubbard, Datacard Group - Assistant Secretary
- Neville Pattinson, Gemalto – Assistant Treasurer
2007–2008 Directors
- Bray Becker, Lockheed Martin
- Iana Bohmer, Northrop Grumman
- Willy Dommen, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Deb Gallagher, Department of Homeland Security
- Alex Giakoumis, Atmel
- Wendy Humphrey, First Data Corporation - Vice Chair
- Christian Juettner, Giesecke & Devrient
- John McKeon, IBM
- Ken Moy, MasterCard International
- Garfield Smith, Oberthur Card Systems
- Brian Triplett, Visa USA
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Smart Card Alliance Board of Directors
Alliance Staff
Cathy Medich
Director, Strategic Programs
cmedich@smartcardalliance.org
Cathy Medich is Director of Strategic Programs for the Smart Card Alliance. In this role, she manages strategic marketing and industry initiatives and directs all industry council activities, including the definition of new projects, the management of project teams, and the development of messaging and marketing programs to promote council positions in the industry.
As an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience in marketing and strategic planning for technology businesses, Cathy has completed projects for Hewlett-Packard, Diversinet, NACHA, Zantaz, Securify, ePatterns, RadarGolf, ViVOtech and VeriSign. Prior to launching her consulting practice, Cathy was Vice President of Product Marketing for PaymentNet (now part of PayPal), an Internet payment services startup. From 1996 to 1998, she served as Director of Marketing for VeriFone, managing marketing activities for VeriFone’s Internet Commerce Division and next generation Integrated Payment System.
From 1994 through 1996, Cathy was the founding Executive Director of CommerceNet, a non-profit industry association whose members were pioneers in Internet electronic commerce applications and usage. Prior to 1994, Cathy was the Division Engineering Manager for Teradyne in Walnut Creek, CA. She also held senior product marketing and strategic planning positions at both Teradyne and General Electric.
Cathy has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School.
Edgar Betts
Associate Director for Latin America
ebetts@smarcardalliance.org
Edgar Betts is the Associate Director for Latin America of the Smart Card Alliance. He came to the Alliance in March 2005 to help develop and complete the MDCP grant that the Alliance received for Latin America. In June of 2005, he worked with key organizations to create the Smart Card Alliance Latin American (SCALA) Chapter. On February 1st, 2006 Edgar Betts was appointed Associate Director for Latin America of the Smart Card Alliance.
Prior to joining the Smart Card Alliance, Edgar Betts was the Executive Director and co-founder of the Smart Card Division (03) for Integra Group Corporation based in Panama City, Republic of Panama. The mission of his division was to promote, distribute, and implement smart card and RFID systems in Central America and the Caribbean Region.
In 2002, Edgar Betts worked under the Director of Electronic Business Technologies at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). During this time he worked on the promotion of electronic business technologies and government policies for the United States government and the North Dakota Government Rural Outreach (NDGRO) Project.
Edgar Betts is a graduate of Florida State University with a B.A. in Economics and International Affairs. He communicates fluently in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, which allows him to effectively convey and promote the Smart Card Alliance throughout the region of the Americas.
