Founding Partners

Speaker Bios

Patrick Sweeney, CEO, ODIN Technologies

Patrick is a proven entrepreneur and technology visionary. He is the author of RFID for Dummies, published by John Wiley & Sons. He is well recognized as a thought leader in the RFID industry with several patents in various stages of approval. He has been interviewed in CIO Magazine, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, and ABC News, among others. He is a frequent speaker industry conferences and web casts. His combination of technical and business background help him form the vision and understand the direction of the emerging RFID industry, his involvement in many governing bodies and standards committees effectively transfers those ideas into policy.

In the late 90’s he founded ServerVault, a secure managed hosting company, and led the company as CEO, through fourteen quarters of consecutive sales growth. At ServerVault, he recruited world-class talent, developed novel technologies and earned loyal customer relationships from the likes of Capitol One, Hartford Life Insurance, Raytheon, the NFL and scores of others. He successfully sold ServerVault to affiliates of Western & Southern Financial Group.

Patrick finished second in the 1996 Olympic trials in the sport of rowing, and graduated from the Colgate Darden School of Graduate Business at the University of Virginia, where he currently sits on the Alumni Board. He received his bachelor of science from the University of New Hampshire. He is the only North American member of Trinity College, Dublin’s Advisory Board, and is on the advisory group for RFID Business and a member of the AIM Global RFID Experts Group. He believes in building companies based on innovation, integrity and a focus on client satisfaction.