Hol­ger Roess­ner — CEO

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Cur­ricu­lum Vitae

  • Joined ACG in 1998, glob­al MD of AdvanIDe since 2007, CEO of AdvanIDe since 2017
  • 28 years of expe­ri­ence in the smart card and RFID indus­try
  • Leader of suc­cess­ful buy-outs, founder and major­i­ty share­hold­er of IDen­tivest, the Hold­ing Com­pa­ny of AdvanIDe

Mr. Hol­ger Roess­ner is the CEO of AdvanIDe Hold­ings Pte Ltd – Advanced ID Elec­tron­ics and Man­ag­ing Part­ner of IDen­tivest Part­ners Pte Ltd. 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 25 years in senior man­age­ment posi­tions in the smart card and secure ID indus­try. He is hold­ing mul­ti­ple relat­ed invest­ments in Europe and Asia and par­tic­i­pat­ed in var­i­ous IPOs and M&A trans­ac­tions. Hav­ing start­ed his career as Management/Sales Trainee at Siemens Semi­con­duc­tor (today Infi­neon Tech­nolo­gies), Hol­ger 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 (MOBY ID, Car­dOS).

In 1998, Hol­ger 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. In 2001 Hol­ger led a pre-IPO invest­ment in ITE Hold­ings Ltd. (HK) as part of the ACG part­ner invest­ment fund, which he exit­ed in 2016 when he also ceased to be an inde­pen­dent advi­sor.

ACG was acquired by 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, Hol­ger 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, Hol­ger exe­cut­ed a man­age­­ment-buy-out of AdvanIDe, which led to the invest­ment in the com­pa­ny by the Japan South-East Asia Growth Fund L.P.

In 2022, Hol­ger found­ed IDen­tivest Hold­ings Ltd, that acquired all shares of AdvanIDe from RISA and hence­forth AdvanIDe has been ful­ly employ­ee and man­age­ment owned.

Dur­ing his stud­ies, Hol­ger received schol­ar­ships from the HANNS-SEIDEL Foun­da­tion as well as Siemens AG. He grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences in Schwe­in­furt, Ger­many, with degrees in Elec­tri­cal Engineering/Information Tech­nol­o­gy and Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion & Engi­neer­ing with numer­ous awards. He holds mul­ti­ple patents with more pend­ing.