Axalto, formerly known as Schlumberger Smart Cards & Terminals, has steadily grown to become the world's leading provider of microprocessor cards. In all, the company has manufactured over 3 billion smart cards and 1 million smart card enabled terminals to date. The company’s range of smart cards, readers and development tools incorporate public key infrastructure (PKI) and other cryptography technologies to provide access solutions - everything from secure ID credentials to authentication solutions for network and information security functions on a single card platform.
The Beginning
Axalto was born with the invention of the chip card in 1979. Axalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 AXL) is listed on the Premier Marché of Euronext Paris.
The Success Team
Olivier Piou, Chief Executive Officer
Charles Desmartis, Chief Financial Officer
Philippe Cabanettes, Director of Human Resources
Jean-Pierre Charlet, General Counsel and Company Secretary
Claude Dahan, Chief Operational Officer of the Cards Division
Paul Beverly, President for North, Central & South America (NSA)
Philippe Cambriel, President for Europe, the Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
Teck Lee Tan, President for Asia (ASA)
Christophe Pagezy, Director of Strategic Development and the Terminals Division
The Products
Cards, which includes chip card products, software and services in mobile communications, finance, public sector, network security, access applications, phonecards and transportation
Point-of-sales terminals
"Two-factor authentication and advanced cryptography technologies are behind the success of Axalto products. Lower deployment costs and easy manageability factors make it a potentially better security solution."
Rick Justice, Chief Editor
What makes Axalto an Info Security "Hot Company" 2006
Products & Technologies
The only smart card manufacturer with a .NET architecture.
At the forefront of the development of new microprocessor card products and applications for the past quarter of a century, Axalto has been anticipating and shaping the trends of the smart card industry.
People & Investors
The company is led by Olivier Piou who has been a general manager and member of the board of directors of
Axalto since February 17, 2004. Olivier Piou began his career at
Schlumberger and held various technical, operational and marketing management
positions within Schlumberger.
Axalto practices a responsible approach to its business by developing products that respect people’s private lives and protect their identity.
Building on a culture of excellence, reliability and strong ethics, Axalto covers the entire chip card value chain up to the highest value-added applications.
The company is fully-listed on Euronext, the pan-European market.
Performance & Growth
The company recorded sales of over $960 million in 2004.
The company Microsoft turned to for building and IT access security. Microsoft Employees use Axalto Cryptoflex .NET Smart Cards everyday for secure access.
Some of the large government organizations that have adopted Axalto’s two-factor authentication include the U.S. Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Interior as well as the General Services Administration (GSA). Axalto is also providing cards for the Transportation Security Administration’s Registered Traveler pilots. Among the many corporate clients are the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Dell Inc., Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Customers choose Axalto because of a mix of market leadership, reliability and technical expertise.
The company has grown with the expansion of this market and in 25 years has shipped over 3 billion cards, corresponding to one card for every two people in the world.
Customer purchases of Cyberflex Access™ smart cards in the United States surged significantly in the last two years, including 5.7 million cards shipped for use by the Department of Defense.
Potential & Strategies
The Cryptoflex .NET smart card enables organizations to deploy smart card security at a significantly lower total cost of ownership and to spend less time and resources on developing the custom applications that run securely on the card.
Axalto is especially active in accelerating the acceptance of industry standards to facilitate new microprocessor card applications.
Axalto, Inc.
8311 North FM 620 Road
TX 78726 Austin, TX USA
Tel: (888) 343-5773
Fax: (512) 257-3881
www.axalto.com
