Technical Advisory Board
Kerry Brown
Kerry Brown is a serial entrepreneur and inventor in materials science and MEMS device structures, data security, and business models/enabling methodologies in the payments industry. He is accredited with over 50 patents or patent applications, in the MEMS, electronic payment card systems and manufacturing technologies, mobile and NFC/RFID financial transaction devices and software, fraud detection and analysis methodologies, novel mobile and payment card device cryptography, and more.
Kerry's experience in technological innovations in Silicon Valley dates back nearly three decades from when he worked as a Member of the Research Staff at the renowned Xerox-PARC from 1983.
Since the early 1990's, Kerry has been responsible, as founder or co-founder, for the successful start-up of a number of national and international technology solutions providers, including QSecure and ViVOtech.
Prior to founding ViVOtech, Kerry was Founder and CTO of I-Borg, an augmented reality wearable computer systems company, Vice President and co-Founder of TEMAC, a joint-venture elemental analysis laboratory, and Vice President of Hana Microelectronics (EASDAQ: HTL) and Founder of the engineering and marketing divisions.
From 2001, Kerry was the CTO, co-Founder and angel investor of ViVOtech, a provider of NFC proximity payment solutions, a partner with Google eWallet, and spin-off from the I-Borg Vivowallet division. Kerry's ViVOtech contributions have won many industry awards.
Following ViVOtech, Mr. Brown was CTO, Founder and angel investor of QSecure, a leader in the card-based payment industry, where he built a team of renowned scientists and engineers and initiated development of a novel MEMS device for magnetic stripe payment cards, and for in-situ programming that was demonstrated on a real-world transaction network in 2007.
Steve Marshall
Steve Marshall has been involved in the development, life cycle management and operation of Financial Services IT systems for over two decades within the UK; initially from an IT development, project and programme management perspective but in the last decade primarily from IT and Information Security and Security Engineering perspectives.
In the UK Credit and Debit arena Steve has been directly involved with UK Cards (formally APACS) for over fifteen years and chairing the UK Cards Card Security Group from 2006 to end 2010. His project and development experiences coupled to this industry activity has provided him with a valuable insight into the commercial and technical challenges facing Financial services and other organisations in harnessing, managing and successfully utilising Cryptographic techniques in IT systems.
Steve has for many years been involved in numerous project initiatives which make extensive use of cryptographic techniques. Whether they be individual IT applications projects or undertaking the challenging life cycle management activities associated with modernising cryptographic hardware and software facilities.
Originally, Steve obtained his degree in Engineering and worked for several UK aerospace and defence industry companies in a range of development IT roles before switching to Financial Services.