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Impinj Adds Industry Veterans to Sales and Marketing Team
| Source: Impinj, Inc.
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - April 2, 2008) - Leading semiconductor and RFID technology
provider Impinj, Inc. today announced that RFID and supply-chain industry
veterans Philip Calderbank and Scott Medford have joined the company's
sales and marketing organization.
Appointed to the role of Senior Director of Marketing, Apparel Markets,
Philip Calderbank will help Impinj define market and product strategy for
the fast-growing apparel and fashion segments of the UHF RFID market. He
has more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience including 16 years
of RFID sales experience at Sensormatic, Global ID Technologies, Seeburger,
and Avery Dennison. Most recently, he was Director of Global Marketing RFID
& Security for Avery Dennison where he was responsible for RFID and EAS
product strategy and marketing working with apparel companies including
Marks & Spencer, Levi, Dillards, and METRO Group's Kaufhof. Calderbank has
been involved in a number of pioneering RFID industry initiatives including
the deployment of the fully integrated CCTV and RFID-based access control
system installed in sports stadiums for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Calderbank holds a B.A. in Business Administration with an additional major
in international marketing from Rochville University and Asbourne
University.
Filling the position of Senior Sales Director, North America, Scott Medford
will lend his extensive experience to serving key Impinj customers and to
developing the company's sales organization in the Americas. He has more
than 30 years of technical supply-chain and RFID sales and support
experience. For more than three years, Medford was vice president of RFID
at Intermec Inc. where he focused the company's efforts in product
marketing, strategy, business development and technical support. Throughout
his career, Medford has developed extensive VAR, solutions, and alliance
relationships throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Working through
standards bodies and industry forums such as IEEE, AIM Global (board
member), EPCGlobal, and through countless articles and interviews, Medford
has bridged the gap between the "what" of technology and the "why" of
implementation. He attended Arlington Baptist College and served in the
U.S. Navy.
"We are very pleased to welcome Philip and Scott to our growing marketing
and sales team," said William Colleran, president and CEO at Impinj. "With
more than 60 combined years of relevant experience, their contributions to
advancing Impinj's RFID market leadership position will be invaluable."
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.