Zwipe announced that Robert (Bob) Fee will help smartcard OEMs in North America, their integrators, and end-users to leverage the Zwipe biometric card, a contactless smart card credential with on-card fingerprint reading. With the Zwipe card, organizations can have users authenticate themselves directly on the biometric card through something they are, a fingerprint, without having to add biometric readers to their existing smart card readers.

Fee has more than 20 years of domestic and international sales and marketing leadership with technology manufacturers. He was most recently general manager, Americas with LEGIC Identsystems AG, located outside of Chicago. He holds a Smart Card Industry Professional/Government certification from the Smart Card Alliance. He earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

“The Zwipe biometric card already has a pent-up demand among users,” emphasizes Fee. “Eliminating the problems of solely deploying PINs and standard cards, the contactless Zwipe biometric card quickly reads the user