Work Experience

June 2005 - today

Name of employer:	Stephane Pique, RFID business consultant
Type of business:	Business and process consulting, project management, solution design, business development and training
Position held:	Principle
Main responsibilities:	Business and process consulting, project management and educational training for companies such as the Swiss Railway (SBB), several Governments (Ministry of Transport of Marocco, Ministry of Defense of Sharjah, Ministry of Interior of Saudi Arabia, etc.), Phonak (Switzerland), Schleuniger (Switzerland), European Pallet Association – EPAL (Europe), MIGROS (Switzerland) and more. Business development for companies such as IER (France), ESPRiT Consulting (Switzerland), CBS (Malaysia), AsiaOverseas (Malaysia), Bluehill (Switzerland), SEEBURGER (France), Rodata (Switzerland), Omnia (India), NXP (Worldwide), GS1 (Europe), GS1 (Switzerland) and more. October 2009 – May 2010 I was mandated from the European Logistics Association (www.elalog.org) as the Chief Executive of the new daughter association called ELAbestLog to setup and successful launch the ELAbestLog platform (www.elabestlog.org). September 2006 – September 2009 I was mandated by GS1 in Europe (www.gs1.org, www.gs1.eu) as “European Director EPC/RFID” having the main responsibilities of the overall coordination and business development concerning EPC/RFID in Europe. Within this contract I supported 47 national GS1 organisations, public affairs activities to governments and was the main representative at public RFID events. I was managing several programmes such as “European Adoption Programme” helping the leading retailers and FMCG manufacturers in Europe to better adopt EPC/RFID, the GS1 internal “European EPC Project” and “Lab Network”, “European Media & Entertainment Pilot”, “EPAL EPC/RFID Programme” and the “EPC Europe Conference”. I was leading the submission and was responsible for the realisation of a support and action project funded by the European Commission (FP7) on worldwide coordination of RFID standards. I successfully initiated a FP7 proposal for the creation of a Thematic Network on RFID with total 25 project partners where I was leading the “Technical, Business and Policy Coordination” work package and also initiated and have been leading the “Global Traceability Infrastructure” project supported by the European Commission. DOWNLOAD the recommendation letter of GS1

January 2004 - May 2005

Name of employer:	SEEBURGER AG, Bretten, Germany (www.seeburger.de) with home office in Switzerland
Type of business:	Middleware provider and integrator of RFID Solutions
Position held:	Vice President Business Development RFID
Main responsibilities:	Development of the new business unit RFID, creation of worldwide partnerships, negotiation of quotations and contracts, building of strategic co-operations, creation of technical concepts, project leadership, member of the management, direct reporting to the CEO.

September 2000 - December 2003

Name of employer:	GLOBAL ID Technologies (Sokymat Group) September 2000 - October 2001 based in Wilmington DE, USA November 2001 - December 2003 based in Attalens, Switzerland
Type of business:	Solution Provider of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) Solutions
Position held:	Vice President Sales & Marketing From February 2003 on I took over the additional role as Distribution Manager of the Sokymat Group
Main responsibilities:	Development and realisation of sales and marketing strategies, creation of worldwide distribution channels, relationship-management, budget responsibility, negotiation of quotations and contracts, building of strategic co-operations, project leadership, customers such as Nestlé, Securitas, Rolex and HP, member of the management, direct reporting to the CEO.

August 1999 - August 2000

Name of employer:	NagraID SA (Member of the Kudelski Group), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (www.nagraid.com)
Type of business:	Manufacturing of Chip Cards and RFID transponder
Position held:	Sales & Marketing Manager
Main responsibilities:	Development and implementation of international sales and marketing strategies, creation of distribution channels, relationship-management, budget responsibility, negotiation of quotations and contracts, building of strategic co-operations, identification and realization of international projects, member of the management, direct reporting to the CEO.

April 1993 - July 1999

Name of employer:	Philips Semiconductor AG, Zurich, Switzerland (www.philips.semiconductors.com)
Type of business:	Manufacturing of Semiconductor Components (Chips)
Position held:	Account Manager, Market Segment Identification (including RFID)
Main responsibilities:	Commercial customer responsibility, negotiation of quotations and contracts, market analyses, budget responsibility over 4.5 mio EURO, design-in, project leadership, presentation of products, power of testation, member of the middle management and the European core-team, member of several Philips Management Development Programs, reporting to the European Market Segment Manager. Additional responsibilities as Customer Service and Logistics Manager and Head of apprenticeship Philips Semiconductors. DOWNLOAD the Performance Appraisal 1999 of Philips DOWNLOAD the attest 1997 of Philips DOWNLOAD the Performance Appraisal 1996 of Philips DOWNLOAD the attest 1995 of Philips

April 1989 - July 1992

Name of employer:	Philips Consumer AG, Zurich, Switzerland (www.philips.com)
Type of business:	Consumer Electronics
Main responsibilities:	Business Apprenticeship