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	Bruno Moreau, CEO, Board Member Graduated from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), Bruno Moreau has been working for more than 20 years in the smart card arena. He founded several companies in this sector and joined Innovatron in 1987 as Business Development director managing a venture capital activity specialized in smart cards where he was also a member of the board of smart card companies such as Gemplus and Activcard. He also initiated the early work on contactless technologies that led to ISO 14443 type B standard. In 1997 he co-founded ASK with Georges Kayanakis as Business Development Director and Deputy General Manager during 9 years. He then took over Georges Kayanakis CEO position in January 2007. Amand Cochet, Senior VP Business Lines & Marketing Amand holds a specific MBA program from INSEAD in Paris. He has more than 30 years' experience in Sales, Marketing and Management in the semiconductor industry in Europe and in the USA. After being Director of Sales Southern Europe for VLSI Technology (1986-1987), he moved to European Silicon Systems (ES2) where he was named Corporate Vice President Sales and Marketing. He joined IBM in 1994 where he subsequently held several Sales positions as Area Sales Manager and Director. He then moved to the US where he was worldwide Sales & Marketing Manager and held his last position at IBM as EMEA Sales Director in Geneva. Before joining ASK, he was the CEO of Europe Technologies, a fabless company specialized in the development of SOC based on ARM CPU. Michael Nitz, Senior V.P sales Michael holds a Master of Science from the Technical University of Munich and graduated from INSEAD, France. Michael has a very broad experience in the telecommunication and chip card industries and a well known track record of developing international markets in the B to B, Government and Military markets. He started his career at Standard Elektrik Lorenz (Alcatel-group) in 1980 in different positions of international sales and product management. In 1990 he took over the responsibility within the Mannesmann Group to gain new mobile operator licenses and to set up new operations of mobile telecommunication outside Germany. Further positions include managing director sales and interconnection at Télécom Développement S.A, Paris (J/V SNCF and Cegetel), Vice President at Nortel Networks, Executive Vice President Government and Identity at Giesecke & Devrient and Managing Director of Interprint-Group. He joined ASK in 2009 as Area Sales Manager for Central and Eastern Europe markets and is now Senior VP Sales. François Monteil, Chief Operations Officer François graduated from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC) and holds an MS from University of Santa Clara, USA, François Monteil has more than 20 years experience in the smart card industry. After 5 years in the semiconductor, he joined Schlumberger, Smart Cards and Systems division in 1987, where he held various R and D management positions, both in cards and terminals activities. In particular he initiated the first developments on GSM cards and was the R and D director of the payphone division. In 1999 he joined ASK as R and D director and then took over the Direction of Operations in 2006. Philippe Berthault, General Secretary, Human Resources Director After a first experience in an auditors company, Philippe joined Axime (now ATOS) as a Financial Controller for 8 years where he was in charge of banking and stock exchange activities. He then spent 8 years in Innovatron, where he held various financial positions (chief accountant then CFO) for the holding and its subsidiaries. In 1998, he joined ASK as CFO also managing the Human Resources and Legal departments. Since 2004, he holds the position of General Secretary of the company. Gilles Martinez, Quality Director Graduated from Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Paris as a Mechanical Engineer, Gilles has a strong experience in the industrial sector. After a first experience at Cegelec, he enters Altran Consulting as a project leader for Valéo, Philips, Renault and RATP where he validates the control system of Paris Line14 automatic metro. Before joining ASK, he was a Quality Director in Archos, an international SME involved in designs for electronic devices for MP3. He was in charge of enforcing the whole quality cycle of the Chinese factories and manage quality control in Europe and the USA. Christophe Halopé, R&D Process Director Christophe graduated from Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale (ESCOM) and holds a DEA in industrial process from Université de technologie de Compiègne (UTC). Christophe has a strong experience in R&D and in new products development in an industrial sector. 20 years ago, he joined ARJOWIGGINS a world's leading manufacturer of technical and creation paper as a research engineer for security paper and synthetic paper at the corporate research centre. He then spent 9 years as a quality and R&D manager in an Arjowiggins subsidiary. He joined ASK in 2000 to bring in his expertise of chemicals, polymers, papers and industrial processes (laminating, coating, printing, paper converting, extrusion).
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