Brian Doyle has more than 20 years experience managing technology companies and providing leadership across a diversity of fields. Brian first founded Coincard International Inc., (Farelogistics) the world's leading capacitive data card company. Co-invented and patented by Brian, capacitive WORM memory data cards found a niche market as disposable stored value cards in the vending and fare collection industries. The company was the first company to roll out contactless smart cards in the US public transit sector and deployed throughout the USA with transit properties as diverse as Mass Transit Authority of Flint, MI and Disney Transit in Anaheim, CA. Manufacturing partners included Matsushita, Material Science Corporation, 3M, and Scanlabs. Previously, Brian led the development of fault-tolerant concurrent session IP payment gateways or “fast switches” for banking applications. Brian served as both managing director and the system architect for an end to end mini payment solution being piloted in Beijing China. This system built upon core Java/Unix/Erlang open source languages utilizes a fully IFX compliant clustered Oracle data base back end to connect cell phone, POS and PDA to bank intermediaries via a fully distributed web services platform supported by application switches, GPRS modems and mesh networked wireless routers. Brian serves or has served as a director on several international boards, including both Chinese and Japanese venture companies.