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ActivCard has changed its name to ActivIdentity. Stockholders approved the name change at the annual meeting in February 2006

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The ActivIdentity Team

Management Team

Grant Evans
Chief Executive Officer. - Mr. Evans is a seasoned senior executive with over 22 years of operating experience ranging from building start-ups to senior level management of multi hundred million dollar private and publicly traded companies. Mr. Evans served from January 2003 to March 2007 as the Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of A4Vision, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of machine vision technology for identity security. Prior to this, he served from March 1999 to March 2002 as the Executive Vice President at Identix, a publicly traded developer and manufacturer of identification technology solutions. Mr. Evans was also previously Vice President and General Manager of Identicator Technology and was responsible for leading that company's strategic direction and launching the commercial biometric market. Mr. Evans is a member of the board of directors of 3VR and Bioscrypt and has served on the following advisory boards: Congressman Honda's Blue Ribbon Security Board for Homeland Security, American Electronics Executive Advisory Committee and the Comdex Advisory Board on Security.

Yves Audebert
President, Founder and Chief of Engineering. Mr. Audebert co-founded ActivCard in 1985 and has guided the company toward continued growth through several leadership positions including Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Before founding ActivCard, Mr. Audebert developed international defense systems for Thomson-CSF. Mr. Audebert holds an engineering diploma from Ecole Polytechnique de Paris and an advanced diploma from the Ecole Supérieure des Télécommunications.

Mark Lustig
Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Lustig brings 20 years of experience in financial leadership, reporting, domestic and international accounting and management of mergers, acquisitions and integrations. He joined ActivIdentity from Sanmina-SCI Corporation, where he was employed from 1998 to 2005 as Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller.

Board of Directors

Grant Evans - Chairman
See above.

Robert Brandewie
Mr. Brandewie has served since November 2007 as the Senior Vice President, Identity and Security Solutions of Telos Corporation. Previously, Mr. Brandewie served as our Senior Vice President, Public Sector Solutions, from July 2006 to October 2007. From July 2004 to July 2006, he served as the Director, and from August 1982 to July 2004 as the Deputy Director, of the Department of Defense's (DoD), Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) in Monterey, California, where he was architect of the DoD's Common Access Smart Card (CAC) system. During his tenure with DMDC, he was also responsible for the oversight of the largest and most comprehensive automated personnel data base in the DoD, and management of a dozen major operational DoD programs. He has also served as technology liaison to visiting governments from around the world as they planned their large scale smart card implementations. Mr. Brandewie was awarded with the Smart Card Alliance's Outstanding Smart Card Achievement Leadership Award for 2005 and has three times been the recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service.

James Frankola
Mr. Frankola was elected to the Board of Directors in February 2006. Mr. Frankola has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Ariba, Inc. since December 2001. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Frankola held various positions with Avery Dennison Corporation, a manufacturer of pressure-sensitive materials and office products, most recently as Vice President of Finance and IS, Fasson Roll Worldwide. From 1986 to 1997, Mr. Frankola held various financial and executive positions with IBM. Mr. Frankola holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. degree from New York University.

Jason Hart
Mr. Hart was elected to the Board of Directors in August 2005. Mr. Hart is an independent investor and previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company from February 2006 until November 2007. From August 2005 to February 2006, Mr. Hart served as our Senior Vice President, Sales, with his commencement of service starting with the Company's acquisition of Protocom Development Systems Pty. Ltd. In August 2005. Prior to his joining the Company, Mr. Hart was the Chief Executive Officer of Protocom, which he founded in 1989.

Steven Humphreys
Mr. Humphreys has served as a director of SCM Microsystems since July 1996 and was Chairman of the Board of Directors of SCM from April 2000 to March 2007. Since October 2003, Mr. Humphreys has served as chairman of Robotic Innovations International, Inc., an acquirer and developer of technologies for broad-based applications of robotics, service automation and automated companion devices. From October 2001 to October 2003, he served as our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. From July 1996 to April 2001, Mr. Humphreys was an executive officer of SCM, serving as President and Chairman of the Board from July 1996 until December 1996, at which time he became Chief Executive Officer and served as President and Chief Executive Officer until April 2000. Previously, Mr. Humphreys was President of Caere Corporation, an optical character recognition software and systems company. Prior to Caere, he spent ten years with General Electric Company in a variety of positions. Mr. Humphreys is also a director of several privately held companies, a limited partner and advisor to several venture capital firms and in 2007 he was elected to the public school board of Portola Valley, California and has served on the school board of Summit High School, a public charter high school, since 2002. Mr. Humphreys holds a B.S. degree from Yale University and M.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University.

James E. Ousley
Mr. Ousley was elected to the Board of Directors in September 1996. Mr. Ousley served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vytek Wireless Corporation from 2000 until Vytek's merger with CalAmp in April 2004. From September 1991 to August 1999, Mr. Ousley served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Control Data Systems before it was acquired by British Telecommunications in August 1999. From 1968 to 1999, Mr. Ousley held various operational and executive roles at Control Data Corporation (renamed Ceridian). Mr. Ousley serves on the Boards of Savvis Communications, Inc., Bell Microproducts, Inc. and Datalink, Inc. He also serves as the non-executive Chairman of Savvis. Mr. Ousley holds a B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.

David B. Wright
Mr. Wright has served since August 2006 as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for Verari Systems, Inc., a leading provider of high performance computing systems to the financial services, service providers, entertainment media, oil and gas, government and EDA industries. Prior to joining Verari, Mr. Wright was Executive Vice President, Office of the CEO, Strategic Alliances and Global Accounts of EMC Corporation from July 2004 until August 2006. From October 2000 to July 2004, Mr. Wright served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of LEGATO Systems before EMC acquired the company in 2004. Prior to joining LEGATO, Mr. Wright had a 13-year career with Amdahl Corporation, where he had served as President and Chief Executive Officer since 1997. Before joining Amdahl, Mr. Wright spent 11 years with IBM, serving in variety of staff and management positions. Mr. Wright also serves on the board of directors of SourceForge, Inc., a publicly traded corporation that owns and operates a network of media web sites, serving the IT management and IT professional, software development and open source communities and other consumers. Mr. Wright graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he received his B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics.

 
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