BIOGRAPHY

Kurt Schmid has more than 25 year of business experience in the Security, Smart Card and RFID industry: He is co-founder and CEO of NEXPERTS, a solutions provider using NFC and mobile phones for tracing and tracking, m-marketing, m-payment, m-ticketing and couponing.

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.

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.