Tim Smith
Vice President, World Wide Sales

Tim Smith is a respected semiconductor-industry figure who has managed, negotiated and delivered numerous high-value, multi-year, multi-national, collaborative business engagements yielding revenues of more than $500 million. Previously, he held VP of WW Field Operations positions at both Silistix and CoWare. Tim has also successfully launched new companies and products as VP of Sales at both Sonics and Triscend. Prior to these executive positions, he was Managing Director of Memec Design Services. Tim holds a BSEE degree from Arizona State University in Tempe Arizona.

Helena Handschuh
CSA, Chief Security Architect

Dr. Helena Handschuh is an internationally recognized expert on smart card security, cryptography and tamper resistance. She holds a PhD degree from ENST, France. She spent 9 years at Gemplus as scientific expert and team manager where she contributed to a broad range of smart card security projects. From 2000-2009 she was a member of the ETSI Security Algorithms Group of Experts (SAGE) that designs the cryptographic algorithms for mobile networks including 3GSM. In 2006, she joined Spansion as a Security Architect and Principal Member of Technical Staff, and defined their cryptography and security IP strategy for secure Flash and high-density smart cards. In 2009 she joined Intrinsic-ID as Principal Security Architect where she has led product security architecture in addition to actively engaging in solution architecture with end customers. She has published more than 30 academic papers and is inventor of 11 patents in cryptography and security. From 2005 to 2010 she served on the board of the IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research. She lectured at Royal Holloway University of London and she currently holds a position as part-time visiting research fellow at the COSIC group of the K.U.Leuven, Belgium.

Geert jan Schrijen
Vice President, Engineering

Geert-Jan Schrijen received his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente in December 2000 on the topic of `active noise cancellation with multiple loudspeakers‘. In April 2001 he joined the security group of Philips Research in Eindhoven where he worked on digital rights management, low-power authentication protocols, private biometrics and Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). Work on the latter topic resulted in the spin-off of Intrinsic-ID in October 2008. As a senior algorithm designer within Intrinsic-ID, Geert-Jan focused on the development of signal processing algorithms and security architectures for hardware-intrinsic key storage systems. In january 2011 he was appointed VP Engineering and is now heading the engineering team that is responsible for hardware and software development.

Tony Picard
Vice President, Business Development

Tony Picard brings 27 years of experience in sales, marketing and management in the semiconductor, EDA and IP business. Tony joins us from Silicon Hive where he worked as Vice President Sales.  In this role Tony established a strong track record of major account relationships with leading electronic companies such as Samsung, LSI and Intel. Tony played a pivotal role in the development of a strategic relationship with Intel, who eventually acquired Silicon Hive. Prior to Silicon Hive Tony worked as Commercial Director World-Wide for ARM’s Media Product Division where he provided a major contribution to the successful introduction of the Mali GPU family in many electronic systems.