RFID asset tracking solutions provider RF Code, Inc. has hired industry veteran Joseph (Joe) Dugan as president and chief executive officer. Dugan will lead the company's growth in logistics tracking applications in the supply chain, defense and healthcare markets, as well as develop the company's expansion in Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) solutions.

Dugan brings more than 20 years of RFID, supply chain and emerging technology vision to RF Code, previously serving as president and director of NexgenIX, Inc., a supply chain and RFID solutions company; chairman, CEO and president of Vizional Technologies, Inc., a global supply chain and RFID software company; and managing director of Answerthink Consulting Group. Dugan was also vice president of Worldwide Advanced Applications for Oracle Corp., and a senior vice president at Northrop Grumman Corp.

"With his thought leadership and deep industry experience, RF Code will build upon its eight-year track record of technical innovations and deployments that deliver on the promise of RFID," said Moshe Azoulay, chairman, RF Code Board of Directors.

"This is a remarkable time to be joining RF Code," said Dugan. "The RFID and RTLS markets are at a threshold and companies that know how to deliver ROI-based solutions have a clear advantage over solution providers just rushing to meet short-term mandates. RF Code's core technology and in-the-field applications make it a clear leader in this market."

Dugan's achievements include the development of NexvisionIX's intelligent wireless devices and RFID hardware and software solutions for federal government, U.S. military and homeland security applications. At Vizional Technologies, Inc., he played a key role in defining the RFID marketplace for the company's software products and services, producing one of the first RFID-based web-services infrastructures for global supply chain security and real-time supply chain management, said RF Code. Dugan served as executive director of the Global Benchmarking Center for Security and Trade, managing the National Defense Transportation Association's "Best Practices Committee." He also led a successful Operation Safe Commerce implementation funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Dugan holds three joint RFID patents and has worked in close alignment with the AutoID Center, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and EPCglobal Inc. to drive RFID innovations with these key industry groups.

Furthermore, to extend its global reach, the company is extending its Mantis II product line with the addition of its 433 MHz Mantis Asset Tag and 433 MHz Mantis reader.

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