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Justin Chen Appointed to RadioActive Board of Advisors
Toronto , CA - 08/30/05 Justin Chen, President of the Pan Pacific RFID Solutions has been appointed to the RadioActive Board of Advisors and has been placed in charge of RadioActive Development in China.
Mr. Chen has a large amount of experience with RFID and the Chinese Government. His experience includes heading a number of RFID organizations in both Silicon Valley and China. He is currently the executive vice director of Guangdong Province Information Association RFID Professional Committee and executive vice chairman of Pan Pearl Triangle Region RFID Industry Consortium, member of China RFID National Standard Working Group (currently the group activities are suspended). He is director of information department at Guangdong Province Defense Transportation Emergency Response Center. He is also one of the invited experts of Guangdong province logistics expert group, serving as chairman of International Supply Chain Visibility and Control Association. He is also consultant for China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and its Pallet Professional Committee, participating revision of China pallet national standard. Currently he is working with department of information industry at both Guangzhou province and both Hubei province to develop RFID lab, RFID pilot projects and RFID training programs etc for promoting RFID industries. He is also heavily involved in a number of national and provincial large scale logistics and IT projects. In Silicon Valley he was former Chair for Silicon Valley RFID SIG.
He is leading a number of companies in both Silicon Valley and China into RFID reseach and application development including RFID chip/reader devices, middleware and application fields, supply chain visibility and control, global data synchronization, sensor network, wifi-wimax, logistics information platform, and other logistics system related effort such as pallet national recycling system. He is also on board of Logistics and IT Associates, Derivative Electronics, Beijing Pallet System Ltd, Hao Ding Science and Technology, Guangzhou South China Security Information Park; focusing on various aspects of RFID solutions for logistics and IT industries in China. Currently under his leadership, there are three teams in China working on RFID related projects and products independently. He believes that RFID serves as key roles for modernizing China various logistics and supply chain systems.
"I am delighted to be a part of the RadioActive Foundation", said Justin Chen. "I believe that China has a huge upcoming RFID market and that open source software is the key to this market. I look forward to working with the foundation in delivering its goal of low cost, open source RFID software. I will be using a couple of resources that I have China to help expedite the development process."
"We have received a surprising amount of inquires and interest from China and Asia in general", said Shaun Ricci, Co-CEO of N4 Systems, Inc. "The RFID market is growing fast in China. If you consider the huge amount of manufacturing that is done in China, this is no surprise."
"There is a huge affinity between China and open source software", said Somen Mondal, Co-CEO of N4 Systems, Inc. "We believe that with Justin's participation, we will be ready to be actively involved in China's increasing RFID market."
Justin Chen's initial task will be to promote the RadioActive Foundation in China, help provide resources to aid in the development of an open source RFID middleware software suite, and to act as a project manager in managing the development.
About the RadioActive Software Foundation, LLC
The RadioActive Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for RFID and EPCglobal Network related open-source software projects. The Foundation is incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation. It's purpose is to ensure that the RadioActive projects are supported beyond the participation of individual members, to enable contributions of intellectual property and financial support, and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal exposure while participating in open-source projects. For more information on the RadioActive Software Foundation, please see radioactivehq.org
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