# Steven Humphreys

> Steven Humphreys is Deputy CEO of the Hirsch Group (formerly Vitaprotech), a French-headquartered high-security technology company that emerged from the 2024 merger of Vitaprotech and Identiv. Over three decades he has run a string of companies at the seam where the physical and digital worlds meet - SCM Microsystems, ActivCard, and Identiv - building the smart-card readers, secure credentials, and access-control platforms that guard U.S. embassies, federal agencies, and sensitive sites worldwide. A Yale and Stanford engineer who started his career at General Electric, he has spent his life turning identity into infrastructure.

- **Role:** Deputy CEO at Hirsch Group (formerly Vitaprotech)
- **Organizations:** Hirsch Group (fka Vitaprotech), Identiv, ActivCard / ActivIdentity, SCM Microsystems, Caere Corporation, General Electric
- **From:** Sicily, Italy
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, M.S., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University, M.B.A., Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Led the development of early CAC/PIV smart-card readers and applications used across the U.S. federal government, Built Identiv into a supplier whose technology is deployed in roughly a third of U.S. embassies worldwide, plus NASA, DoD, DoJ, DHS and VA hospitals, Served on the Hirsch/Identiv board continuously since 1996

## Career timeline

- **1980s-early 1990s** — Spent roughly ten years at General Electric in a variety of roles
- **1994** — Became President of Caere Corporation, an optical character recognition software and systems company
- **1996** — Joined SCM Microsystems as President and Chairman; later CEO. Also joined the Hirsch/Identiv board
- **2001** — Appointed Chairman and CEO of ActivCard (later ActivIdentity), a digital identity management software provider
- **2015** — Appointed CEO of Identiv in September
- **2024** — Vitaprotech merges with Identiv; relaunches the Hirsch brand. Humphreys named Deputy CEO in September

## Achievements

- Led the development of early CAC/PIV smart-card readers and applications used across the U.S. federal government
- Built Identiv into a supplier whose technology is deployed in roughly a third of U.S. embassies worldwide, plus NASA, DoD, DoJ, DHS and VA hospitals
- Served on the Hirsch/Identiv board continuously since 1996
- Helped engineer the 2024 Vitaprotech-Identiv merger that created a ~700-person, ~$185M-revenue security platform with 100+ software engineers

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Named Deputy CEO of the Hirsch Group following the Vitaprotech-Identiv merger and the relaunch of the Hirsch brand.

## Links

- Website: https://vitaprotech.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenhumphreys/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hirschsecure/

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