OUR TEAM - RFID EXPERTS

Dr. Ygal Bendavid is professor in Operation Management at the department of Management of Technology in the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). He is also the academic director and a co-founder of ACADEMIA RFID. He holds a Master's Degree in management of technology and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Since 2004, he has taught several courses on supply chain management, information systems, electronic commerce and project management. Dr. Bendavid is also a researcher collaborator at the ePoly Center of Expertise in eCommerce and at the Canadian Research Chair in Technology Project Management.
He has been invited as a speaker for international conferences on technology management and innovation and provided various seminars at RFID Journal Live. He is CompTIA RFID+ certified and co-author of RFID PRO certification.

Mr. Boeck is the founder and leader of the first Canadian chapter of RFID Tribe, a judge for the International RFID Journal Awards as well as a founder and academic director of Academia RFID. As a conference speaker and subject matter expert, Mr. Boeck has traveled worldwide to various industry events to speak about RFID technology (from supply chain to consumer applications).
Mr. Boeck is a professor of marketing at the Université de Sherbrooke, where he is responsible for the master’s program in e-commerce, and is CompTIA RFID+ and SAP Sales and Distribution Certified. As an educator, he’s taught at the HEC Montréal, the École des Sciences de la Gestion (UQAM) and at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Having received his degree in Business Administration, Marketing and Management from the University of Montreal’s HEC, Mathieu has worked for Liaison Can/U.S. in transport logistics, as an Event Coordinator for the Société de la Sclérose Latérale Amyotrophique du Québec (ALS Foundation, non-profit organization), and as an RFID analyst at Ship2Save.
Mathieu D’Amours is the Director of Administration for Academia RFID Centre of Excellence in Montreal.

Dr. Samuel Fosso Wamba is a senior lecturer at the School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT).
He earned an MSc in mathematics; from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, an MSc in e-commerce from HEC Montreal, Canada, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering for his work on RFID technology in the supply chain from Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada.
His current research focuses on business value of IT, inter-organizational system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption and use, supply chain management, electronic commerce, mobile commerce and e-government.
He published in European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Information Systems Frontier, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) and Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
Dr. Wamba is organizing special issues on RFID for the Journal of Medical Systems, the Business Process Management Journal and Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He has been served as mini-track chair on the same topic for the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), The 6th, 7th and 8th Workshops on e-Business, A Pre-ICIS Workshop Sponsored by AIS SIGeBIZ.
His paper entitled “A contingency model for creating value from Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) supply chain network projects in logistics and manufacturing environments” contributed to University of Wollongong’s equal 4th place world ranking for papers published in the European Journal of Information Systems during 2009 by IS Research Rankings.
Dr. Wamba is CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional, Academic Co-Founder of RFID Academia and Founder and CEO of e-m-RFID.

Upon completing his studies in Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Omsk in Russia, Sergey embarked on a career in telecommunications in Germany and Canada. Since 2008, he has worked in-depth with both fiber-optic and RFID technologies for large-scale innovation projects worldwide. Sergey is a Special Projects Manager for Academia RFID.

Having completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Option Information Systems from Concordia University, Eddie has worked on numerous RFID software development projects. Eddie is a certified Sun Java programmer and has experience managing the full life cycle of an RFID project, including conducting site surveys, identifying customer needs, analyzing pain points, developing custom RFID solutions and deploying and configuring a variety of RFID hardware including Alien, Impinj, Awid, Motorola, Psion TekLogix, Sato, Zebra, Printronix, Paxar and Aeroscout.
Eddie is the Director of Integration Services and part of the Technical Expertise and Software Team (TESTeam®) for Academia RFID Centre of Excellence.

Having graduated from McGill University in Mechanical Engineering and from ESADE (in Spain) with an MBA, Jebb has held product and project engineering positions at Kraft and General Electric, and is the President for Dominmarc/iCubic which specialises in marking devices, barcode labels, bar coding equipment and signage.

Having completed his studies at Concordia University in Management, Marketing and Financial Management, Anthony has worked extensively as a consultant in International Logistics (Liaison Can/U.S.), an Event and Festival Coordinator (Capital Events), Administrator and Executive Director (GB Productions, non-profit organization), an Educator with both the Lester B. Pearson and the English Montreal School Boards, as well as in the training and recruitment of Canada Customs Officials nationwide for the CCRA.
Anthony is the Director of Business Development for Academia RFID Centre of Excellence in Montreal and the co-chair of the GS1 Healthcare Sub-Committee.

Pankaj holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering and has recently completed his Masters of Engineering in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEEI) at McMaster University. He is the founder of the McMaster RFID Applications Lab. Over the last few years he has led multidisciplinary projects for RFID Applications in multiple verticals including healthcare, retail, transportation and manufacturing. In addition to two startups he has previously worked at Deloitte as a Consultant and at IBM as a Software Developer. Pankaj is an active participant in national and global standards organizations such as Standards Council of Canada (SCC), EPC Global and International Standards Organization (ISO) and is a Certification Instructor and Content Expert for Academia RFID.

Dr. Kenneth R. Traub is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture and EPC/RFID standards. Ken holds several leadership roles within EPCglobal, the international standards organization for RFID. Within EPCglobal, Ken serves on the Architecture Review Committee that oversees all technical specifications, as well as being an active contributor and/or co-chair of six technical working groups; in particular, Ken is the lead editor of the EPCglobal ALE, EPCIS, Core Business Vocabulary, and Tag Data Standard specifications. Ken Traub was a founder and CTO of ConnecTerra, an early pioneer in RFID software that was acquired by BEA Systems in 2005. Prior to founding ConnecTerra, Ken has been a founder and technical advisor to four other high technology startups in the Boston area. Ken received his B.S., M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.