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Alien Technology® Expands Executive
Team Ronny Haraldsvik Joins as Vice President of
Marketing and Industry Relations
Morgan Hill, Calif.
May 7, 2007
Alien Technology Corporation, the RFID technology
leader, today announced that Ronny Haraldsvik has joined the company
as vice president of marketing and industry relations.
Haraldsvik
brings to Alien® over 17 years of global strategic
marketing and industry experience across a range of technology markets.
These markets include wireless and wireline networking and IP services,
personal computing, wafer fabrication, software, and consumer devices.
In this role, Haraldsvik will lead the market strategy, product
marketing, new market development, business partners, and industry
relations functions at Alien Technology.
“Haraldsvik has an exceptional background in strategy, global
marketing and business development for emerging markets and game-changing
technology companies. His expertise in building and expanding these
functions worldwide is key as Alien continues to address the growing
markets for RFID,” said George Everhart, CEO, Alien Technology.
Haraldsvik
joins Alien Technology from QUALCOMM where he held positions
as vice president of strategy and market development, and vice president
of marketing for mobile broadband. Previously, Haraldsvik was
vice
president, marketing at Flarion Technologies where he led all
marketing efforts in support of industry awareness for Flarion and
the introduction
of its FLASH-OFDM technology, a company acquired by QUALCOMM.
Haraldsvik was previously vice president of marketing with Nortel
Network's
Shasta IP Services business unit and director of field marketing
while with Bay Networks, prior to Nortel's acquisition.
"I am excited to join Alien at an important juncture in the
RFID industry, as we accelerate from early adoption to mainstream
support for RFID to improve productivity, investment return and
business intelligence, " said Ronny Haraldsvik, Vice president
of Marketing and Industry Relations. "Alien is an RFID innovation
leader and with our partners, we will scale this great company to
help RFID become an industry-wide success."
Haraldsvik holds
a BA in business from the University of San Francisco.
About Alien Technology®
Alien Technology
provides UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and
services to customers
in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing,
defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and other
industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services
to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their
supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's
products
include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional
services. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSATM) technology
and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to
enable the manufacture of high volume, low cost RFID tags.
Alien was
founded in l994. The company's facilities include: its corporate
headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; an RFID tag manufacturing
facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center, in the
Dayton, Ohio area, and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia.
Alien is
a member of EPCGlobal. More information about Alien is available
at www.alientechnology.com.
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