Mansour Aaron Karimzadeh is President and Managing Director, USA
Mansour Aaron Karimzadeh is one of the UK, and America’s best known and experienced authorities on smart cards and payments systems, having implemented systems at International Stock Exchange, NatWest, Midland/HSBC, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, J P Morgan Chase, Citigroup and a number of institutions in Latin America with five implementations in Venezuelan Banking Systems. He has held a number of board memberships at various organizations, latest as a Board member and Chair of the Marketing Center at Global Platform – an international organization setup to develop smart card standards with membership from many different countries.
He previously managed a smart card consultancy and software company (Smart Card Integrations Ltd) that was acquired by a ACI Worldwide, a global financial payments systems company. He was VP of Operations and Director of Smart Cards Unit at ACI Worldwide.
Other roles have included, varied program management roles within major USA, Canada, Latin America and UK banks and payment systems with strong implementation experience in financial and smart card projects.
David Rogers – Managing Director, Canada
David Rogers is a leading industry expert in the Financial Services Industry, specializing in the fields of Smart Card/Chip Technology management, and overall Payment Systems Transaction Processing.
He has worked in these areas for over 30 years, and has acted as an advisory member to many financial institutions globally, including several major banks in Canada, US, UK, Asia-Pacific region, PRC, Africa and currently is a member of the European Corporate Finance Association, American Academy of Financial Management, and the Prince of Wales Trust Leadership committee.
He was also a member of a Governmental multinational banking committee, ‘Futurebank’, charged with the responsibility of developing interlinked banking regulations and standards for the Mercosur countries.
His primary focus is on the strategic and tactical planning associated with adopting and integrating new technologies into major banking operations’ infrastructures, seamlessly and with minimum risk and disruption.
Walter Lemon – VP, Communications and Industry Relations
Mr. Lemon is an experienced executive and consultant with over 35 years of management and marketing experience in the Information Systems industry, primarily with IBM and Visa. The last 9 years of his career have been focused on credit card and smart card initiatives, as VP, Emerging Products at Visa Canada Association and as a consultant. Walt has implemented Stored Value programs, plus developed strategies and business cases to migrate the Canadian credit card market to smart card. Walt also understands the global and domestic payments systems. He represented Visa Canada on global policy committees for 5 years, leading to a strong knowledge of many emerging applications, technologies and methodologies.
Walt is located in Toronto, Canada.
Fred Namdar – VP Technology
Fred has 8 years experience in leading edge technologies of today. He has designed developed and implemented systems for financial transactions, smart card payments, high resolution digital imaging and distributed internet applications. He has implemented high throughput e-commerce web based systems and is currently heading our technical team in the development of the SCIL solutions.
