SD Card Association Selects Global Inventures, Inc. as Management Firm 

San Ramon, CA -- Global Inventures, Inc., announced the recent addition of the SD Card Association to its list of clients. The SD Card Association (SDA) encourages the development of products that utilize SD technology through its programs to extend and enhance technical specifications and certification programs for SD™, miniSD™ and microSD™ removable memory cards, SDIO devices and secure media applications for the SD technology.

SDA had been self managed since its inception in 2000, but decided to work with Global Inventures after a multi-vendor competitive bid, based on its reputation for operational efficiency and breadth of services.

“SD is the clear market leader in removable, secure flash memory for consumer devices, and we're very happy to have been chosen to support and work with the SD Association,” said Deepak Kamlani, CEO of Global Inventures. “With their large international membership and high profile, the SDA fits well with our other client communities and we look forward to helping them continue their growth and successes.”

Global Inventures will provide operational services, including Virtual Business Services for account management, financial management, membership services, and administrative support for SDA’s membership. In addition, Global Inventures will provide executive management which will work closely with the Board of Directors. In addition to SDA, Global Inventures manages collaborative communities representing a complete spectrum of complimentary technologies for networking in the consumer market, featuring MoCA™, the HomePlug® Powerline Alliance, HomePNA™, UPnP® Implementers Corporation, WiMedia® Alliance, WINA, and ZigBee™ Alliance

About Global Inventures

Global Inventures – “Accelerating Results Through Collaboration” (www.inventures.com) Global Inventures creates and manages organizations focused on the development of Information and Communications (ICT) technology standards. We provide the “people, process and technology” to enable collaboration among industry stakeholders developing ecosystems around new ICT standards. The organizations we manage represent more than 1,000 technology companies of all sizes around the world.

About The SD Card Association

The SD Card Association (SDA – www.sdcard.org) is an open industry standards organization established in January 2000 by Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), SanDisk and Toshiba, and is supported by a consortium of 828 companies. The SDA’s mission is to set industry standards and promote SD memory card’s acceptance in a variety of applications. SD memory card standards are currently being built into a wide range of digital products such as cellular phones, audio players, automotive multimedia systems, handheld PCs and digital video and still cameras.