Mr. Holger Roessner is the CEO of AdvanIDe Holdings Pte Ltd – Advanced ID Electronics. He is an experienced entrepreneur in the field of secure identity, electronic governance, smart cities, transport and ticketing, IoT with a proven track record of more than 20 years in senior management positions in the smart card and secure ID industry and he is holding multiple related investments in Europe and Asia and participated in multiple IPOs and M&A transactions. Having started his career as Management Trainee at Siemens Semiconductor (today Infineon Technologies), Mr. Roessner moved from Europe to Asia in 1996, where he was the Business Manager Asia Pacific for Siemens Automation overlooking the sales and business development activities of the Siemens Identsystem division. 

In 1998, Mr. Roessner joined ACG AG as Managing Partner and set-up the Asia Pacific operation of ACG, which grew to become the leading provider for ID and chip card semiconductors in Asia. ACG was acquired by leading Swedish access solution provider ASSA ABLOY in 2003 and subsequently, in 2007, he was appointed the Global Managing Director for a newly created entity called AdvanIDe – Advanced ID Electronics. Within ASSA ABLOY, Mr. Roessner served as a member of the Executive Committee at HID Global from 2012 to 2017. HID is a global leader for secure identity solutions, headquartered in Austin, Texas.

In 2017, Mr. Roessner lead – together with the management team – a management buy-out of AdvanIDe, which led to the investment in the company by the Japan South East Asia Growth Fund L.P.

He graduated from the University of Applied Sciences in Schweinfurt, Germany, with degrees in Electrical Engineering/Information Technology and Business Administration & Engineering.

About AdvanIDe:

AdvanIDe – Advanced ID Electronics – is one of the leading semiconductor providers focused on components and value-added services and products that are typically being used in RFID transponders and readers, chip cards, security access modules, NFC, and IoT devices. AdvanIDe works with leading card manufacturers, security and state printers, transponder manufacturers, OEMs, and system developers. The company’s clients supply their products and solutions into applications such as access-management, hospitality, loyalty, automated fare collection, smart city applications, object identification, eGovernment, financial services, M2M security, authentication, and IoT. 

AdvanIDe had revenues of USD 160M in 2019 and operates from 15 locations in international locations and three representative offices in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. AdvanIDe is jointly owned by key employees and the Japan South East Asia Growth Fund L.P.