SCM Microsystems Names Ingo Zankel as COO
December 07 2004 - 2:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
SCM Microsystems Names Ingo Zankel as COO FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 7
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SCM Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMM;
Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the
Digital World, today announced that it has entered into an
agreement with Ingo Zankel to fill the newly created position of
chief operating officer, effective January 1, 2005. Zankel, 42,
will be responsible for product industrialization, engineering and
supply chain management (purchasing, production and logisitics). He
will play a key role in managing and coordinating SCM's development
efforts and manufacturing operations with the aim of optimizing
efficiency, quality, time to market and cost-competitiveness. "We
are very pleased to have Ingo Zankel join the SCM team," commented
Robert Schneider, chief executive officer of SCM Microsystems.
"Zankel's deep industry knowledge and background, as well as his
international experience in our industry were key to his
selection." "I am excited to be joining SCM Microsystems, which has
a well deserved reputation as a leader in secure access technology
and is providing innovative and robust reader devices for PC and
digital TV security," said Ingo Zankel. "The company's requirements
seemed a natural fit with my professional skills. I look forward to
taking up my role at the start of the new year." Zankel has worked
for more than ten years in senior management positions in the smart
card industry. For eight years, he worked for smart cards and
systems solutions leader Giesecke & Devrient, where he held a
variety of management positions in controls and efficiency areas,
most recently as COO Cards & Solutions business unit and senior
vice president for the Banking, Industry/Government segment. While
at Giesecke & Devrient, Zankel was responsible for the
development, implementation and improvement of business processes
and systems across the organization, including the areas of
logistics and production, research and development, sales and
marketing, and IT. His greatest achievements at Giesecke &
Devrient included significant improvements in operational metrics
such as on-time delivery, inventory management and quality control,
and in product development processes including project-to-plan
performance. Prior to Giesecke & Devrient, Zankel spent six
years at Siemens Nixdorf Informationsystems in Germany and
Singapore, where he was responsible for control and cost reduction
activities as well as purchasing, materials management and IT. Most
recently, he has served as an industry consultant and as COO and
managing director of ORGA Kartensysteme, a provider of smart card-
based products and services. Zankel holds a degree in operations
management from the Nuremberg Professional School in Nuremberg,
Germany. About SCM Microsystems SCM Microsystems is a leading
supplier of solutions that open the Digital World by enabling
people to securely access digital content and services. The company
develops, markets and sells its smart card reader technology for
network and physical access and conditional access modules for
secure digital TV decryption to OEM customers in the government,
financial, enterprise and broadcasting markets worldwide. Global
headquarters are in Fremont, California, with European headquarters
in Ismaning, Germany. For additional information, visit the SCM
Microsystems web site at http://www.scmmicro.com/. NOTES TO
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Microsystems CONTACT: Manfred Mueller, +49 89 95 95 5140, or , or
Darby Dye of SCM Microsystems, +1-510-360-2302, or , both of SCM
Microsystems Web site: http://www.scmmicro.com/
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