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Alliance Management
Chairman, Smart Card Alliance Board of Directors
Neville Pattinson - CIPP, CISSP
Neville Pattinson is the Vice President for Government Affairs, Standards and Business Development at Gemalto, Inc. based in Austin, TX. Within that role Neville is also the registered lobbyist for Gemalto and constantly evangelizes the need to move to smart card based solutions to protect identity and privacy in US Government policy.
Neville Pattinson is a leading expert and thought leader on digital security identity solutions such as smart cards, electronic passports and tokens that use secure microprocessor chips to keep identity credential data and biometrics secure and private.
He’s been heavily involved in policy, planning and implementing a number of Federal Government security initiatives including the Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC); The HSPD-12, FIPS 201 PIV credentialing program; the State Department’s ePassport and Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative technology selection; Transportation Department’s Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC), the Transportation Security Administration’s Register Traveler program and the secure credentialing of First Responders.
Neville serves as a Chairman of the Smart Card Alliance and Chairman of the Smart Card Alliance’s Identity Council. Neville is a founding member of the Secure ID Coalition and is active within several other associations such as TechAmerica, AAMVA, INCITS & IAPP.
Neville, being a privacy advocate, is presently serving a 3 year appointment by Secretary Napolitano, as a Special Government Employee to the Department of Homeland Security’s “Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee” (DPIAC).
Previously Neville spent eleven years in the UK Utility Metering industry before being transferred to the US to work in Smart Cards. In the UK he was responsible for the introduction of electronic electricity meters in domestic and commercial markets replacing the long standing electro-mechanical metering technology. He developed a fully electronic domestic pre-payment token based electricity metering system resulting in over 5 million meters being deployed throughout the UK.
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. The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association of over 180 member firms working to accelerate the widespread acceptance of smart card technology in North America and Latin America. He came to the Alliance in January, 2002 and became the Executive Director in August, 2002. During his tenure as the chief executive, he has directed the transformation of the organization from primarily a networking organization into a diverse, education oriented, international, multi-industry organization that gathers industry stakeholders together to help stimulate the rapid adoption of all forms of smart cards (cards and other form factors) for electronic payments and digital security applications. In December 2008, Randy was named by Security Magazine to the list of the Top 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry.
Prior to joining the Smart Card Alliance, he was employed with 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. Previously, he served as on the Executive Board for the Alliance as a corporate member from 1998–2001. 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 (now Gemalto) 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 with a BS in Management Marketing. He received his MBA from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ.
Board of Directors
2009–2010 Executive Board
- Neville Pattinson, Gemalto - Chair
- Bryan Ichikawa, Unisys - Vice Chair
- Robert Merkert, Sr., CardLogix - Treasurer
- Wendy Humphrey, First Data Corporation - Secretary
- Willy Dommen, Booz Allen Hamilton - Assistant Treasurer
- John McKeon, IBM - Assistant Secretary
- Bob Gilson, U.S. Department of Defense/Defense Manpower Data Center - Technology Vice Chair
2009–2010 Directors
- Bray Becker, Lockheed Martin
- Iana Bohmer, Northrop Grumman
- Linda Brown, Infineon Technologies
- Roland Fournier, L1 Identity Solutions
- Greg Garback, chair emeritus observing member
- Dale Grogan, SMART Association
- Simon Hurry, Visa Inc.
- Stafford Mahfouz, Tyco International
- Ken Moy, MasterCard International
- Brian Russell, Giesecke & Devrient
- Garfield Smith, Oberthur Technologies
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@smartcardalliance.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.
