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Walt Bonneau Jr. is an Executive Sr. Vice president/chief technologist and general manager of Transportation and Security Systems for Cubic Corporation, a world's leading supplier of smart card ticketing, revenue management and security systems for public transportation and military training systems. He is responsible for guiding the company's engineering, technical and scientific vision and overall strategy, as well as the technical performance of the company's security systems activities. Under his leadership, Cubic has attained multiple patents benefiting public transit and revenue collection and security systems. He is a frequent speaker and author for transit industry technical conferences on issues of smart card standardization and other emerging electronic media multi-application technologies, including security and related biometrics. He has actively participated in UFTS-APTA transit standards and author of the Regional Interoperability Specification (RIS). He is also serves as a U.S. delegate to the International Standards Committee on ISO/IEC 14443 & 10373 compliance (SC17/WG8). In addition, serves as the Vice-Chair of the US ANSI/INCTS B10/B10.5 delegation for smart cards. He most recently authored the Limited Use contactless smart card proposed ANSI-410 standards specification. He held previous technical and management positions at Texas Instruments, Sony and National Semiconductor. He has received engineering degrees from DeVry Institute of Technology, Chapman University and has completed advanced executive management studies at Stanford University.

Cubic Transportation Systems Inc is the world's leading turnkey solution provider of automated fare collection systems for public transport including bus, bus rapid transit, light rail, commuter rail, heavy rail, ferry and parking. Cubic's solutions and services include system design, central computer systems, equipment design and manufacturing, device-level software, integration, test, installation, warranty, maintenance, computer hosting services, call centre services, card management and distribution services, financial clearing and settlement, multi-application support and outsourcing services.