Morgan Hill – SecureRF Corporation has named Mike McGregor, a top radio frequency identification (RFID) chip designer, to head its research and development team in Morgan Hill.
The company’s new R&D center in Morgan Hill will be located at 355 Woodview Ave., Ste. 300, and will open in October. McGregor, formerly a lead RFID chip designer at Alien Technology, is joining SecureRF as vice president of engineering.
McGregor is in charge of designing new chips, tags and systems based on a breakthrough in cryptography that is a lightweight yet highly secure solution – the foundation of SecureRF’s strategy – that makes it possible for the first time to provide strong authentication and data protection between passive RFID tags and readers.
“Mike is a fantastic addition to our team. He is among the world’s top RFID chip designers and just completed work on the next generation of Electronic Product Code(tm) (EPC) compliant RFID tags for asset tracking,” said Louis Parks, founder and CEO of SecureRF. “He is fully versed on current technology initiatives and state-of-the-art practices in both asset tracking and security. Mike will provide the strong design leadership and experience we need to create a new generation of EPC and ISO compliant RFID tags that will deliver unprecedented security price/performance.”
“When I reviewed the company’s methods for securing passive RFID tags and saw that they could fit on a current Gen 2 tag I knew then that I wanted to be part of their team,” said McGregor. “I had already spent nearly a year working to put one of the leading commercial security protocols on a passive RFID tag and realized it was not currently feasible, giving SecureRF a very unique opportunity.”
In his new position, McGregor will also manage product development, implementation services and technical support for clients.
During his four years at Alien Technology, McGregor led the development of passive and semi-passive RFID chips that meet the EPC standards for both Generation 1 and 2, the same standards used in the proposed ISO specification 18000-6C. These global standards provide the foundation for future RFID products used in asset tracking and identification for supply chain and related applications. McGregor has 24 years of engineering management and integrated circuit design and development experience covering a large section of the digital design arena, especially in the areas of cryptography, communications and digital signal processing.
SecureRF Corporation provides secure radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for high value asset tracking, monitoring and anti-counterfeiting applications in the pharmaceutical, defense and homeland security sectors.
The company’s technology, based on a breakthrough in cryptography that is lightweight yet highly secure, provides authentication and data protection security for passive, semi-active and active RFID tags that meet both EPCglobal and ISO standards. SecureRF solutions provide additional features for cold chain management and can also be licensed as a software toolkit, gates for a chip, or even a chip itself, addressing a wide range of applications and environments. More information about SecureRF can be found on its Web site at www.SecureRF.com.
