Current Partners
Axess Technologies Ltd. (ATL)
Axess Technologies Ltd. is the leading independent technical consultancy in the area of Brand Protection, Supply Chain Protection and Document Security. The company works with suppliers, brand owners, associations and government agencies and supports its clients in building strategies, as well as identifying, evaluating, developing and implementing technologies and solutions. Axess Technologies publishes a range of independent technical books and reports, including "Effective Supply Chain Protection", a reference guide to existing security technologies. In addition, Axess Technologies operates Axess DATA, the brand protection industry's information service and organizes customized workshop sessions and seminars, such as the SAL (Smart Active Labels) Forum in November 2002.
Contact: info@axesstechnologies.com or +44 (0) 1264 369005
Reconnaissance International (RI)
Reconnaissance International is an internationally recognized publisher and consultant in the area of anti-counterfeiting and anti-tampering. Reconnaissance has organized a series of Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting Conferences, the most recent, September 22-25, 2002, in Geneva with the participation of the World Health Organization. Reconnaissance is an independent information company (with no financial ties to any solution provider). It has published the leading anti-counterfeiting newsletter Authentication News. (covering the issues, strategies and technologies for fighting counterfeiting) for the past eight years.
Contact: AdminAmericas@Reconnaissance-Intl.com or +1 303 628 5594
Sigma 4, Inc.
Sigma 4, Inc. is a multi-faceted technology services company, providing custom development solutions including database, software, internet, and hardware. Specialties include: C++ and 4th Dimension (4D) Relational Database Programming, as well as Web Site / ECommerce development. Sigma 4's client base has included Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.; US West/Qwest DEX; National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC); US Army at White Sands Missile Range, NM; US Navy at Point Mugu, CA; Italian Federal Police (Carabinieri); and Jet Propulsion Labs; as well as a number of local and regional clients.
Contact: +1 505 532 5768
Umbrella Point Consulting LLC
Strategic Solutions for Agribusiness. Jeff Smith is the Principal of the firm. He is an international agribusiness consultant working on issues concerning Homeland Security as well as other topical issues. He is a veteran of twenty-eight years in the international agribusiness industry. He has been president of a number of grain companies, most recently Nidera Inc., directed agricultural product trading for Phibro, Division of Salomon Inc., and developed a number of prominent strategic alliances within the international agribusiness arena. He is a past member of the Chicago Board of Trade, Kansas City Board of Trade, and Minneapolis Grain Exchange and a current member of the National Grain and Feed Association and National Futures Association. Mr. Smith received a B.S. magna cum laude from Boston College and a M.B.A. from Cornell University. Clients of the firm include the International Finance Company of the World Bank.
Contact: +1 914 833 9824
Inactive Charter Contributors
Lewis T. Kontnik Consulting
Lewis T. Kontnik Consulting Mr. Kontnik is one of the few international authorities on the global pharmaceutical counterfeiting problem and has been quoted widely in the press and on radio and TV. As co-author of Counterfeiting Exposed (Wiley, 2003), Protecting Medicines: A Manual of AntiCounterfeiting Solutions (Reconnaissance, 2002), and as the pharmaceutical facilitator for the recently completed FDA Product Surety Project (www.ProductSurety.Org), he has become familiar with virtually all aspects of the problem and helped to stimulate constructive solutions and countermeasures working with individual companies and industry associations. Based in Greenwood Village, CO, Mr. Kontnik is an active consultant and speaker on the topic, and is a member of the Washington, D.C. bar.
Contact: LewKontnik@aol.com or +1 303 506 3313