IBM Executive Hired as Chief Operating Officer at ODIN technologies

Former lead of IBM's Global Wireless and RFID Services business joins ODIN.

Dulles, VA (PRWeb) March 19, 2007 -- ODIN technologies, the leader in RFID design and deployment services and optimization software, has named former IBM executive Diana Hage as Chief Operating Officer. Ms. Hage comes to ODIN technologies after being Director, global wireless and RFID services since 2005 and a more than twenty-year career at IBM.

"We are extremely excited about Diana joining the ODIN executive team to help us navigate through a period of rapid growth," said Patrick J. Sweeney II, President & CEO of ODIN technologies. "Diana's business experience in managing large, global services organizations and her background in RFID make her an ideal fit for our growing organization. She is already making an impact by expanding our software business and strategic alliances with partners such as IBM."

In her new role, Ms. Hage will be responsible for managing ODIN's services and research units, and expanding ODIN's presence in the Retail and Pharmaceutical industries. ODIN is already the recognized leader in RFID for Defense, Aerospace, Consumer Goods and Manufacturing.

"As an executive who has been responsible for driving growth in a new business in a rapidly emerging market, I understand the challenges of growing a start-up business in a highly competitive environment," commented Ms. Hage. "I was attracted to ODIN technologies because it is keenly focused on innovation and is leading the RFID industry in leveraging RF physics to design and deploy accurate and scalable RFID networks. ODIN has invested in developing products to automate services delivery and optimize performance that are highly differentiated and well ahead of the competition. I look forward to bringing my experience to this world-class team of innovators and RF engineers."

Ms. Hage has an MBA from the Darden School of Business and a BA from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

About ODIN technologies

ODIN technologies is the leader in the physics of RFID for solution design, deployment services and optimization software. RFID is all we do. Global corporations on five continents leverage ODIN technologies' expert engineers and patented RFID optimization tools to achieve accuracy, speed and visibility in their RFID deployments. In addition to client deployment services, ODIN technologies is the publisher of the RFID Benchmark Series™, the industry's first and most referenced head to head performance analysis of RFID equipment. ODIN's RFID optimization software suite, EasyRFID™, has been successfully used at dozens of companies across more than 100 sites to ensure accurate RFID implementations. ODIN's President and CEO, Patrick J. Sweeney II, is the author of RFID for Dummies and CompTIA RFID+ study guide, both published by John Wiley & Sons. ODIN serves clients from offices in Dulles, Virginia, USA, Tokyo, Japan and Budapest, Hungary.

www.ODINtechnologies.com

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