Executives

Gerhard Schedler began his career in 1994 at GANTNER ELECTRONIC when he joined the RFID development and project management group. During that time, Mr. Schedler was involved in the development of diverse RFID systems including the LEGIC system (market leader in access control) and the BENZING system (world market leader for carrier pigeon tracking).

In 1997 he took over the responsibility of the long range RFID division of GANTNER ELECTRONIC. Later, when GANTNER was spun off into IDENTEC SOLUTIONS (in April of 1999), Mr. Schedler became Chief Technology Officer. Since 2002 he has overseen the global sales and marketing initiatives of IDENTEC SOLUTIONS. In 2005 Mr. Schedler was appointed to the Management Board as the COO/Vorstand, and as of January 1st 2006 took on the role of global CEO & President of IDENTEC SOLUTIONS.

Mr. Schedler holds both a technical degree from University of Applied Sciences of Technology Buchs (Switzerland) and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Economics in Strathclyde (Scotland).

Peter Linke is a co-founder of IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Inc., and currently heads the American operations and is responsible for global sales and marketing.

Prior to rejoining IDENTEC SOLUTIONS in March of 2006, Mr. Linke was the VP of Sales for I.D. Systems, Inc. (NASD:IDSY), a New Jersey based RFID firm focused heavily on mobile asset tracking.  In the three years Mr. Linke held that position, annual revenues rose from $6.8M to $19M and market capitalization of the company rose from US$52M to well over US$200M.

Prior to his time at IDENTEC SOLUTIONS, Mr. Linke held a number of senior level positions, including President and CEO of Ward Laboratories, Inc, Vice President, Western Region of CCSI.

Mr. Linke holds a Masters of Business Administration from Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. 

Coming originally from the textile machinery and production line industry, Stefan Schwiers was in charge of building up a new technical support in Alexandria, Egypt before becoming a sales manager for Turkey and Greece with power of attorney at Trützschler GmbH & Co KG., a market leader in fiber preparation plants.

Stefan entered the Auto ID industry in 2002. Starting as technical support manager for the German operations of SATO, an industrial barcode printer manufacturer, he was appointed technical manager for the new European operations in Brussels. There he played a key role in the development of the first European spectrum compliant UHF RFID printers and is a holder of a patent in RFID label application.

Subsequently, he held the position of CTO for TagStone, a newly formed systems integrator in Dubai/ UAE. As a result of his efforts, TagStone won a large development project at DHL in the UAE, which has gained international interest throughout the DHL group. In February 2007, Stefan accepted the position of VP Technology ILR at IDENTEC SOLUTIONS and is currently in charge of the entire research and development in the ILR product line.

Stefan Schwiers has broad international experience and is holder of a national German engineer’s degree.