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Kurt Schmid

Kurt Schmid has more than 20 year of business experience in the Security, Smart Card and RFID industry.

Before NEXPERTS Kurt Schmid was CEO of OMNIKEY, a company he grew to one of the world’s top three players in the smart card reader business. Previously Kurt worked as CTO at Utimaco Safeware AG, a security and encryption specialist, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. NEXPERTS is a solutions provider using NFC and mobile phones for identification, payment and ticketing. The company, based in Hagenberg, Austria, focuses on complete solution packages based on NFC enabled mobile phones.

Kurt Schmid, born in 1961, holds a Master in Business Administration and Computer Sciences from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and is holder of several patents.

 

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