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Jeff Staples, Senior Director of Commerce Marketing, Blackboard Inc. Jeff Staples works closely with Blackboard clients and members of the Blackboard Commerce team researching and analyzing trends in auxiliary services market to help shape Blackboard's products.Mr. Staples joins Blackboard from Avisian Publishing, a company he co-founded, and is recognized as a leading industry source for information related to ID technology. He has more than fifteen years of experience working in the field of ID technology, with experience in higher education, commercial and Federal government sectors. Mr. Staples has a deep understanding of advanced ID technologies and applications including payment, physical and logical security, and secure authentication. He began his career with the Florida State University FSUCard program, and was part of the team that founded the FSU Card Application Technology Center. In this role, he assisted in the development of one of the first fully-integrated, multi-application ID card programs in the world combining financial, telecommunications, and administrative applications. Mr. Staples currently serves on the Advisory Board of the RFID and Privacy Public Information Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | 