Management Team

Robert DeVincenzi, President and Chief Executive Officer
Robert DeVincenzi is president and chief executive officer of LaserCard Corporation. DeVincenzi’s career spans more than 25 years of senior management in the high technology, secure networking and software industries. Most recently, DeVincenzi was senior vice president of Corporate Development for Solectron Corporation, a global contract manufacturing business. Prior to Solectron, DeVincenzi was president and CEO of two successful start-ups: Inkra Networks, a secure networking company, which was acquired by Nortel, and Ignis Optics, a developer of precision optical components, acquired by Bookham Technologies.

Previously, DeVincenzi served as senior vice president of Ditech Communications and vice president of Sales and Systems Engineering in government and commercial markets at Bay Networks. Mr. DeVincenzi received his bachelor's degree in business administration from California State Polytechnic University and holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University.

      Dr. Christopher Dyball, Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Christopher Dyball is chief operating officer of LaserCard Corporation.  He joined the company in 1982 and has worked on all stages of development and production of the LaserCard^® optical memory ID card, including card design, selection of materials, design of manufacturing processes and specification of equipment.  Prior to LaserCard, he held a number of management positions at Diamond Shamrock Corporation, most recently serving as manager of research and development.  Earlier in his career, he was with Pennwalt Corporation's Lucidol Division, as group leader in the applications department.  In 1975 he received a Ph.D. in polymer science from Lancaster University following a BSc in 1972 from the National College of Rubber Technology, London, England.  He holds multiple U.S. patents and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.

From 1992 to 1996 Dr. Dyball chaired the ANSI NCITS B10 committee, which is responsible for the development of card-related standards. He also participates, as Document Editor, in ISO standards committee SC17/WG9, which prepared the current ISO/IEC 11694 series of standards for optical cards.

Steven G. Larson, Vice President Finance and Treasurer

Steven G Larson is vice president, finance and treasurer of LaserCard Corporation.  Prior to joining LaserCard in 1983, Mr. Larson was controller of Precision Monolithics, Inc., in Santa Clara, California.  He became LaserCard's corporate controller in 1984, treasurer in 1986 and vice president in 1987.  He holds a degree in business administration/accounting from Arizona State University.

Stephen Price-Francis, Vice President of Marketing

Stephen Price-Francis is vice president of marketing at LaserCard.  Since joining LaserCard 1999, he has been directly involved in the development and implementation of some of the largest secure government ID card programs in North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Prior to LaserCard, Price-Francis was senior manager, business development for Canon Inc.’s Optical Memory Card business development activity in the Americas. He was previously general manager and executive vice president of Optical Recording Corporation, a research and development company based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to this he spent 20 years in sales and marketing management with Olivetti in the U.K., Italy and Canada, where he was most recently vice president of sales.

Price-Francis is a founding director and past president of the Advanced Card Technology Association of Canada and has participated in the development of international standards for optical cards, biometrics and travel documents. He is the inventor of a patented identity verification process and is a regular contributor to industry conferences and publications.

Uwe Ludwig, Vice President of Sales, EMEA

Uwe Ludwig is vice president of sales, EMEA at LaserCard.  Since joining LaserCard in 2004, he has been directly involved in the development and implementation of some of the largest secure government ID card programs in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.  In addition, he oversees sales and marketing of plastic cards, card printers and complete ID card solutions, as well as turnkey factory consulting. 

Since 2000, Ludwig has also been managing director of Cards & More Plastikkarten GmbH, a German systems integrator and card distributor acquired in 2004 by LaserCard.  He combines these roles with that of managing director of CCD Challenge Card Design GmbH, a German card manufacturer and consulting organization which was acquired by LaserCard in 2004.

Prior to Cards & More, Ludwig held international sales and marketing positions in card industry companies including Intraproc Industrieanlagen GmbH and Kanematsu GmbH. 

Ludwig is a graduate in electronics, engineering and computer science of the Technical University of Wuppertal, Germany.  He is a German delegate for WG9 for the German Institute of Standardisation (DIN).   

David Oller, Vice President of Sales, Americas

David Oller is vice president sales, Americas at Lasercard Corporation. He joined LaserCard in 2007.  Prior to LaserCard, Mr. Oller served as vice president of sales with start-up organizations in the security software space including SafeWeb, and with large security firms including Symantec. From 1990 to 1997, he was director of sales in North America for IBM Global Services.  From 1980 until 1989, Mr. Oller held sales positions at GTE and CompuServe. He received a BS from UCLA and a BA from UCSB in 1980.