Bart van Hoek

Principal Consultant

UL

Bart van Hoek is a mobile payments expert and works as a principal consultant for UL’s Transaction Security Division. Bart has worked on many large mobile payments/TSM/NFC initiatives such as Euro5 and Sixpack in The Netherlands. Bart has been involved with Smart Card Alliance as the stream lead in the Mobile & NFC work stream, where he has organized the inventory of all mobile NFC standards.

Bart has also been involved with Softcard, previously known as Isis, prior to Softcard being acquired by Google. Softcard was one of the biggest NFC initiatives in the world and Bart was responsible for the product development. He performed the roles of functional analyst and systems integrator. Bart has hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge on TSMs, Secure Elements, GlobalPlatform, mobile payments and HCE.

Bart is currently working on several projects with financial institutions and handset manufacturers, to introduce mobile payment related services.