Mr. Bernabeu is Head of R&D and Innovation Funding at Thales DIS. In this role, he facilitates open collaboration on innovative funded projects to accelerate the Thales DIS roadmap and services.

Mr. Bernabeu was elected as GlobalPlatform’s Technical Director in 2005. His main role is to drive forward the development of GlobalPlatform’s specifications to deploy secure services. Mr. Bernabeu also acts as GlobalPlatform’s central technical liaison point, coordinating the efforts of the organization’s three technical committees – Secure Element (SE), Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and Trusted Platform Services (TPS) – and the GlobalPlatform Task Forces with external partners.

Mr. Amiel is an Associate Consultant of Monetech with on the field expertise. He is an expert consultant in smart card technology and is working on NFC deployments based on GlobalPlatform.

He contributed to the first NFC payment pilot in Europe and in the pre commercial launch of transport services in the French city of Nice. He is now contributing to larger NFC deployments with telecom operators leading projects including GlobalPlatform cards and OTA management.

Monetech is a Consultant Member of GlobalPlatform.

Mr. Le Philippe is a Senior Consultant with Nextendis. He has a strong background in the implementation of GlobalPlatform standards. Mr. Le Philippe has been involved in advanced smart card projects for more than ten years, and for the last five years has focused on near field communication (NFC) projects.

Over the last three years, Mr. Le Philippe has led the rollout of European SIM based NFC projects in complex environments. These projects have involved many parties including mobile network operators, service providers, SIM vendors, application providers and trusted service managers (TSM). Thanks to this experience, Mr. Le Philippe has real, hands on expertise in the main standards of the domain, including GlobalPlatform Card Specifications and TSM messaging.

Nextendis is a Consultant Member of GlobalPlatform.