Michele Scarlatella, Board Director, SIMalliance

Ph. D. University of California in Physics, Michele Scarlatella has first held academic positions at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto, then in the High Tech industry for IBM and Silicon Graphics. In 1988 Michele moved back to Europe and worked first as a Product Designer then as a Product Marketing Manager in telecom equipments & payment terminals with the IPM Group. He started activities in Smart Cards in 1991, developing schemes for Point Of Sales and payphone services, card batch processing, fraud management, secure application module development and key distribution schemes. He was Founder and Chief Technical Officer of a network security start-up (eMaze Communications) serving several bluechip companies. He has been with Incard since 2003, as Product & Application Director. In 2006, he was appointed to the position of Vice-President Marketing. Michele has published several papers and holds several patents. He is a Member of the IEEE Communication Society, Computer Society Member of ACM/SIGSEC (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Security).