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Impinj Appoints Leon de Ridder as Sales Director for Europe, Middle East, Africa
| Source: Impinj, Inc.
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - October 15, 2007) - Leading UHF Gen 2 radio frequency
identification (RFID) tag chip and reader supplier Impinj, Inc. today
announced the appointment of Leon de Ridder as Director of Sales for the
regions of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Based in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, de Ridder joins Impinj after more than
a decade at Omron Corporation (based in Kyoto, Japan), where he was most
recently General Manager of the company's European RFID Division. He also
held positions at Omron in Europe as General Manager, Advanced Modules
Business Division and Sales Manager, Electronic Components Division. He
holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration from
Saxion Hogescholen, the Netherlands.
De Ridder's primary responsibilities are to direct Impinj's EMEA sales
operations and growing channel support/reseller network. He will also
direct Impinj's EMEA field applications engineering group headed by Senior
Field Applications Engineer, Fabrice Zecca, who is based in Roquefort les
Pins, France.
"Leon's EMEA regional sales track record and extensive RFID knowledge make
him the ideal addition to Impinj's global management team," said Michael
Kastner, vice president of sales at Impinj. "We look forward to Leon's
contributions to Impinj's aggressive RFID technology deployment plans in
the region."
About Impinj, Inc.
Impinj, Inc. is a semiconductor and RFID company whose patented
Self-Adaptive Silicon® technology enables two synergistic business lines:
high-performance RFID solutions and semiconductor intellectual property
(IP). Impinj is the leading technical innovator in developing UHF RFID
solutions for both item-level and supply-chain tagging worldwide. Impinj
draws on its technical expertise and industry partnerships to deliver the
GrandPrix™ RFID solution comprising high-performance tags, readers,
software, antennas, and systems integration. Impinj also licenses
innovative IP products to leading semiconductor companies worldwide,
allowing them to seamlessly integrate crucial nonvolatile memory (NVM)
alongside analog and digital functionality on a single chip. Impinj's IP
products include the popular AEON® family of embeddable cores, which
provide rewriteable NVM technology in logic CMOS manufacturing. For more
information, visit www.impinj.com.
Impinj, Speedway, Self-Adaptive Silicon, GrandPrix, Monza, and AEON are
either registered trademarks or trademarks of Impinj, Inc.