Gemplus' Gilles Lisimaque Receives Smart Card Industry Recognition At Smart Card Forum 8th Annual Meeting.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 Lisimaque's Years of Industry Leadership and Support Help to Pave the Way for Widespread Smart Card Acceptance in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Gemplus, the world's number one provider of smart card based solutions for security, wireless and e-business applications announced that Gilles Lisimaque, the company's Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, was recognized with the "Industry Champion Award" at the recent Smart Card Forum 8th Annual Meeting, in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA. More than 400 smart card and mobile e-commerce industry professionals gathered to witness Lisimaque, along with fellow award recipient Bill Barr, Executive Director of Telcordia Technologies Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Communications Research, Inc. or Bellcore, is a telecommunications research and development (R&D) company based in the United States and created on January 1 1984 as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up , receive praise for their extensive efforts in developing and building awareness for smart card technology in the United States. "The level of commitment Gilles has offered the Smart Card Forum, and the smart card industry as a whole, has been nearly unparalleled," commented Donna Farmer, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Smart Card Forum (www.smartcardforum.org). She continued, "His outreach efforts within the Forum through his involvement in the Educational Institute and as a Board Member, as well as his continuous speaking engagements at important security and privacy conferences have really boosted the awareness and acceptance of smart card technology among a wide range of professionals in the United States." Lisimaque, one of Gemplus' five co-founders, is currently responsible for overseeing the technical support provided to customers for the design and application of Gemplus smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. , hardware and systems, and customized services. In addition, Lisimaque serves as Vice Chair of the Smart Card Forum, having been a Board Member since 1997 and just recently re-elected for another three-year term. Lisimaque also serves as Vice Chair of the Smart Card Industry Association (SCIA SCIA Smart Card Industry Association SCIA South Central Industrial Association SCIA Semiconductor Industry Association SCIA Simultaneous Converging Instrument Approaches SCIA St. ). Lisimaque represents Gemplus as a speaker at the National Defense University, as well as a variety of conferences including CardTech/SecurTech (CTST CTST CardTech SecurTech CTST Community Traffic Safety Team (Florida) CTST Combat Trauma Sustainment Training ) and National Information System Security Conference (NISSC NISSC National Information Systems Security Conference NISSC Nineteenth-century Interdisciplinary Studies Students' Collective NISSC Network Information and Space Security Center (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado) ), just to name a few. He is also a member of the Biometric Consortium The Biometric Consortium is a US government sponsored consortia created by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). and the International Security, Trust and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA ISTPA International Security, Trust and Privacy Alliance ), of which he is a founding board member. Prior to joining the Gemplus team, Lisimaque was Technical Marketing Director in SGS-Thomson's research and development group. He was architect of the company's family of smart card components and helped develop the first chip operating system for smart cards. Additionally, he was MIS manager of the SGS-Thomson MOS (1) (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) See MOSFET. (2) (Mean Opinion Score) The quality of a digitized voice line. It is a subjective measurement that is derived entirely by people listening to the calls and scoring the results from facility called Eurotechnique, a joint venture between Saint-Gobain and National Semiconductor. There he developed an integration system connecting HP mini-computers, IBM mainframes and DEC semi-conductor test equipment. Lisimaque is a graduate of the French engineering school, Arts & Metiers, where he specialized in automation and electronics. "I'm extremely pleased and honored to receive this recognition from the Smart Card Forum during such a pivotal time in the smart card industry," stated Lisimaque. "Smart cards have come a long way and will soon become the electronic purse certificate that we need to identify ourselves in the digital world. This achievement would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication shared by a large team of professionals within the smart card arena who have offered their knowledge and expertise to promoting and developing smart card technology." About Gemplus Gemplus (www.gemplus.com) is the world's number one provider of smart card based solutions for security, wireless and m-commerce applications. Offering consulting services, design, software, hardware, personalization and full implementation, Gemplus works with its customers around the world to deliver comprehensive, integrated and tailor-made smart card based systems. Gemplus's customers use Gemplus memory and microprocessor smart cards, smart contactless cards, electronic tags, smart objects and magnetic stripe cards to simplify and secure a wide range of applications. From Web based and mobile commerce to financial transactions, loyalty, transportation, education healthcare, identity, pay TV and physical and logical access control, Gemplus provides intelligent end-to-end solutions that bring security, convenience and ease-of-use to millions of people worldwide. Founded in 1988, Gemplus had sales of over 767 millions of Euro ($US 817 millions) in 1999, and employs 6,300 people in 17 manufacturing facilities, 7 R&D centers and 44 sales and marketing offices located in more than 37 countries. Note to Editors: Gemplus is a registered trademark. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. 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