Speakers 2010

SIMalliance is a non-profit industry association made up of the world leading SIM card manufacturers representing 9 of every 10 SIM cards sold in the World.

Patrice Beaudou, ARC-SCT Chair, OMA



Patrice Beaudou was elected as chairman of the OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) Smart Card Technology sub-working group in August 2007. The Smart Card Technology Subgroup (SCT) primarily serves as the source of expertise for OMA on issues related to smart cards. The Enablers handled by SCT are the SCWS (Smart Card Web Server) and OBKG (On Board Key Generation, WIM).

Patrice is actually leading the Telecom Network Application standardization group in Gemalto. Patrice and his team are in charge of, among other things, the OMA standardization activity.

Before that, Patrice headed the Standardization & Technology department in Axalto for 5 years.

Patrice was previously a senior consultant for Schlumberger Wireless Consulting. As such, he had in charge of assisting clients to design WIM and Wireless PKI solutions, SIM Toolkit Applications and Value Added Services on SIM and Smart Cards, as well as defining logistics and personalization.

Until April 2000, Patrice headed the SIM Cards Department for 4 years at SFR, a leading French Mobile Network Operator and was mainly in charge of: SIM Toolkit Applications development, integration and validation; relationships with SIM card and mobile manufacturers; technical support on Smart Cards. Patrice and his team were also involved in different standardization comities dealing with mobile and smart card aspects such as ETSI/SMG9, 3GPP-T3, WAP Forum.

Patrice spent the 4 preceding years at ALCATEL Mobile Phone, a French mobile manufacturer, designing the digital hardware of the handsets.

Patrice dedicated one year and a half at CERN, dealing with heterogeneous mail gateways, Digital Network Switch to enable the interconnectivity between CERN and other research centers.

Patrice’s first year of professional experience was with a start-up dealing with A.S.I.C. (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design.

Patrice graduated from “Institut National des Télécommunications” (I.N.T.) and holds a postgraduate diploma in microelectronics from “l’Université d’Orsay” near Paris.



Steinar Brede, Research Manager, Telenor


Richard Copeland, Strategy and SIM centre of Excellence Manager, T-Mobile


Pierre-Yves Descombes, Solution Manager, HP Communications and Media Solutions(CMS), Hewlett-Packard


Frédéric Vasnier, Chairman of the Board, SIMalliance
Senior Vice President Telecom Business Unit, Gemalto

Cedric Gegout, CTO, Streamezzo


Stefan Gonnet, Marketing Director, e-Device


Heidi Graham, Head of Business Development, Toppan Printing


Marc van der Heijden, CEO, Teleena


George Held, Zain


Jose Ignacio Honorato, Mobile Broadband Devices Product Manager, Telefónica España


Johannes Hübner, CEO, RadioOpt


Cedric Huet, Global Account Marketing and Business Development Manager Product Line Telecommunicatio


Marc James, Global Account Director - Zain, Card Systems Division, Oberthur Technologies


Stefan Kaliner, Head of UICC Development, T-Mobile


Oleg Krainioukov, XPML Working Group Chairman, SIMalliance


Heiko Kruse, Chairman of the SIM/USIM Group, 3GPP


Hervé Pierre, General Secretary, SIMalliance
.General Secretary of SIMalliance

Simonetta Mangiabene, Project Manager at Telecom Italia, Innovation and Strategies department


Christophe Martin, SCWS Working Group Chairman, SIMalliance


Amit Mehta, Head, Sales & Marketing, VAS, SDP & Mobility Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services


Pawel Chobrok, Mobile NFC Workgroup Chairman, SIMalliance & Product Manager, Giesecke & Devrient


Hadi Nahari, Principal Security Architect & Principal Devices and Mobile Architect, Paypal


Mark Newman, Chief Research Officer, Informa Telecoms& Media


Alessandro Ossoli, SIM Technical department, Telecom Italia


Tim Raby, Managing Director, Open Mobile Terminal Alliance (OMTP)


Jean-Claude Perrin, LTE Working Group Chairman, SIMalliance


Gil Bernabeu, Technical Director, GlobalPlatform


Sergio Cozzolino, SCaG Chairman, GSMA


Bruno Basquin, Business Committee Chair, Java Card Forum


Remy Cricco, Global Account Marketing Manager, Sagem Orga


Alf Eriksson, Vice President Business Unit SIM OTA , SmartTrust


Tim Evans, Director & Technical Expert, Illuminismo Ltd


Stéphane Girodon, S[at]T Workgroup Chairman, SIMalliance


Javier Montaner, Engineer R&D, Vodafone Group


Xavier Piednoir, ETSI


Bob Pike, Partner, Major Deal Team (MDT)


Davide Pratone, Enabling Technology For Innovation (SIM Group), Telecom Italia


Bruno Prexl, Director of Communication, AFSCM (Association du Sans Contact Mobile)


Gary Waite, Technology Manager, Devices & SIM, Telefonica O2


Arnaud de La Chapelle, Board Director, SIMalliance
General Manager – Convergence Product Line, Oberthur Technologies

Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Chief Identity Integration Architect and Lead Technologist Communications, Sun


Marco Rossi, CEO, Movenda


Michele Scarlatella, Board Director, SIMalliance
Vice President Marketing - Incard

Donglin Shen, VP Strategy, ZTE


Tobias Steger, Product Manager, Giesecke & Devrient


Glenn Eric Tornow, Eastcompeace Europe