In 2019 I moved in with my 95-year-old Genevan father. He expects to make it to at least 100 and if working 2-3 hours a day in his garden is an indicator, he shall. I thought retirement was my next step. I got married to a sweet woman.
What we quickly learned is that we are not ready to retire. Therefore, Philip is writing to ask for your assistance. We hope you or one of your colleagues would be interested in what we can do to help drive innovation in such things as Electronic voting, digital payments, digital identity, cryptography, cybersecurity, FIDO, and/or distributed ledger.
Your help would be appreciated as we seek to identify people and organizations who can utilize my international, technical, and executive experience. We are interested in working with start-ups and successful enterprises; as they consider, debate, and focus on the strategic questions confronting us.
Our hope is to expand my consulting business to a wide array of enterprises trying to understand and exploit the disruption brought on by technology, the mobile phone, the internet of things, big data & analytics, AI & machine learning, and the demand for more secure and convenient solutions.
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I am interested in meeting individuals who could benefit from my experience and knowledge as they consider, debate, and focus on the strategic questions confronting them:
- The speed of change brought on by the fourth industrial revolution
- How the payment landscape must address the need for security, speed, and convenience
- Digital identity and strong authentication are capable of securing an increasingly dangerous world
- The value of standards, open-source, and co-opetition in this competitive market
- Continuous improvement, innovative and cost-effective processes, and solutions
- The implications of EMV, Tokenization, PCI, SRC, FIDO, 3D-Secure, verifiable credentials, and Multi-Factor Authentication
When I consider my experience and interests, I want to work with product managers, program managers, executives, and technologists who must understand in order to advance and assure success.
My hope is to develop a successful and mutually beneficial working relationship, wherein each of us can benefit from helping the other.
I look forward to hearing back from you and arranging a conversation.
Yours sincerely,
Philip Andreae
415 Colley Ln
SSI, GA 31522-9778
+1 (404) 680 9640
Philip@Andreae.com
www.Andreae.com
linkedin.com/in/pandreae
www.andreae.com/philip-andreae-resume
1976-1991
I graduated from Emory University with an interest in finance, marketing, telecommunication, and computers.
While working at National Data Corporate, I effectively received a 4-year course in computer sciences. The key to my role was to look after the interests of our clients and make sure we always put them first. We provided our clients with money transfer, cash management, and call center services allowing them to provide cash management services to their commercial customers.
The next step in my education – project management. Specializing in the design 
and integration of voice, video, and data into new trading rooms on Wall Street and the City of London. As the program manager, my priority was to make sure the architects, construction engineers, and systems providers had everything ready for Monday morning allowing my clients, the FX, stock, bond, and commodity traders simply to appear at a different address. Bankers Trust, Citibank, Shearson Lehman are a few examples of the floors I built.
The next mission, “right-sizing” and further automation of business and back-office processing. As a member of the management committee, we had to address the over-investment after the 1986 deregulation of the London Market and the effect of Black Monday, October 1987. Our focus was on frugality, retaining the best members of a shrinking team, and simplification. All while maintaining the highest standards of market data and trading services.
1991-2012
During this period initially based in Brussels and then in Toronto, I shifted from capital markets to consumer payments. As a member of the management committee and Director of Information technology of Europay International, I focused on investing in payment technology and new payment products.
The rise in card fraud and the need to manage risk required us to get Mastercard, and Visa to agree to work together to define an interoperable international standard for the security of credit and debit payment cards. I won the naming battle, it was collectively agreed to name this specification EMV, Europay, MasterCard, and Visa.
With EMV as my focus in 2002 Visa Canada asked me to come to Toronto and drive EMV market adoption.
After publishing the EMV specifications, PA&A was formed and I focused on offering interim management, mentoring, and consulting services to entities such as Oracle, AT&T, IBM, GlobeID, Philips, Unicate, Unisource, NatWest, Visa Canada, American Express, Lowe’s, and Accenture.
2012-2019
Back in the USA, I shifted my focus to completing the work of implementing EMV. As the Godfather of EMV and Vice President at Oberthur Technologies, my focus was to educate and drive the United States to migrate all payment terminals and debit and credit cards to EMV. I was also asked to sit on the Board of the FIDO Alliance and drive the development of global standards for digital authentication.
Today I function as a mentor and subject matter expert supporting lawyers involved in a major lawsuit and FinTech start-ups.
Today, I am a:
- Subject Matter Expert in payment systems & digital identity
- Advocate for the use of blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- Advocate focused on finding solutions to digital identity
- A leader in the development of international standards
- Thinker on the evolution of mobile payments
- Product evangelist and public speaker
March 2020 – Present Voatz – Advisor to the CEO of a start-up on a journey to change the way we vote by exploiting the security of start of the art mobile phones, biometrics, cryptography, Digital identity, and Blockchain.
Oct 2017 – Present PA&A – Consultant focused on driving solutions to the questions surrounding digital payments & identity, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and innovation. IPSIDY, Infineon, Paul Wiess more recent clients.
Sea Island, GA
May 2013 – Sept 2017 – Oberthur Technology now IDEMIA – Vice President and evangelist promoting the use of EMV as a means of securing credit and debit cards
Atlanta, GA
Sept 2013 – Sept 2017 – Secretary of the FIDO Alliance driving global standard for digital authentication
Atlanta, GA
Feb 2012 – May 2013 – Accenture – Subject matter expert in payment systems
London, England; Atlanta, GA; Houston TX
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 – American Express – Global Product Manager & member of EMVCo
New York, NY
Jan 2004 – Dec 2010 PA&A – Mentor to various merchant and financial Institutions focusing on EMV deployment strategies. Lowes, CCUA, CUETS, to name a few.
Toronto Canada; East Coast of the USA
Sept 2002 – Nov 2003 – Visa Inc. – Vice President focused on driving the community and Board to embrace “EMV” chip smart cards and deploy 3D-Secure to secure card payments
Toronto, Canada
July 1996 – Aug 2002 – PA&A – Advisory, interim executive and strategic consultant to a variety of firms considering their role on the Internet, in payments and cryptography
La Hulpe, Belgium; St Paul, MN
June 1991 – June 1996 – Europay International Now MasterCard – Management Committee member focused on driving new technologies, payment strategy, and industry standards
Waterloo, Belgium
June 1990 – June 1991 – Smith New Court – Program Manager responsible for integrating voice, video, and digital services to serve capital market trading professionals
London, England
June 1987 – May 1990 – Shearson Lehman Hutton – Vice President Telecommunications – Right-sized the operation, reducing CAPEX, FTE, and OPEX by >25%
London, England
June 1986 – June 1987 – Salomon Brothers – Vice President responsible for designing and implementing the technology for the largest London Security trading floor
London, England
Feb. 1982 – June 1986 – PA&A – Subject matter expert responsible to design and implement the data, voice and video technologies for the trading rooms of Shearson Lehman, Citibank, EF Hutton, Prudential Bache, Bank of Montreal, Chemical Bank, MBank, Bankers Trust. I also helped to design elements of the original Bloomberg trading service
New York, NY
July 1980 – Feb. 1982 – Manufacturers Hanover Trust – Project analyst supporting the design and implementation of a network to interconnect all MHT offices & data centers
New York, NY
June 1976 – July 1980 – National Data Corporation– Crisis Manager responsible to respond to client-related events while learning all about information technology & telecommunications
Atlanta, GA