Board of Directory

Smartmatic is a multinational company that specializes in the design and end-to-end deployment of complex purpose-specific technology solutions. With an unsurpassed technology base, continuous innovation, and quality in processes and results, Smartmatic is organized around three business areas: Electronic voting systems, intelligent and integrated security systems for large enterprises and governments, and advanced solutions for people registration and authentication for a wide range of government applications.

Antonio Mugica

Chief Executive Officer

Electronic Engineering, Simon Bolivar University. Mugica was previously the Director of Panagroup Corporation. He created Smartmatic's vision and holds over nine pending patents under his name in the United States of America.

Roger Piñate

Vice President, Special Operations

Electronic Engineering, Simon Bolivar University. Responsible for the creation and supervision of Smartmatic's production strategy and industrial design processes.

Robert Cook

Vice President

Business Administration, Wittenberg University. He was President of Unisys Corporation's Latin America and Caribbean Division, in addition to serving variously as President of Unisys Brazil, Unisys Mexico and Vice-President of Marketing Operations for Asia/Pacific and the Americas. Cook has over 36 years of experience in the areas of technology, finance, sales, and general management.

Edgar Zorrilla

Vice President, Business Development

Mr. Zorrilla has been involved in new business ventures across all of Smartmatic ’s business units. Prior to joining Smartmatic, he was Vice President of Latin America Division for Internet Security Systems ISS; Consulting Practice Director for Network Integration and Information Security Practice Director in the Latin America Division of Unisys Corporation. Mr. Zorrilla holds a bachelor in Computer Science and a post graduate degree in Business Administration from Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Jorge M. Vásquez

Vice President, External Operations

Computing Engineer, Simon Bolivar University. Over 25 years of experience in technology, information systems, business management, product design & management, procurement & manufacturing, technology-to-market business. Mr. Vasquez was the Product Business Director for Acer Latin America for several years, nowadays is a Senior Manager with a long experience working with an extensive chain of providers around the world, and servicing customers in USA, Latin America and Asian markets.

Eduardo Correia

Chief Software Architect

Computing Engineer, Simon Bolivar University. Co-designer of the Smartmatic Automated Election System (SAES) and the business management system Real-time Enterprise Suite. Within Smartmatic, his responsibility is to guarantee the application of the device networking vision in every company development, following cutting-edge practices on the market.

José Pérez

Vice President, Operations

Electronic Engineering, Tecana University of Florida. At Smartmatic, Mr. Pérez is responsible for planning, engineering and implementation of services, product DEMO and Pilot demonstration worldwide, providers and contract negotiations, as well as IT and Logistics management. Previously Mr. Pérez worked as Operations Vice-President of Digitel Venezuela, C.A., Ericsson. C.A. and Telecomunicaciones Movilnet C.A, where he achieved wide experience in Mobile Network business.

Víctor Ramírez

Vice President, Human Resources

Industrial Relations, Andres Bello Catholic University. At Smartmatic, Mr. Ramírez is responsible for definition and execution of human resources strategy; including the development and implementation of HR subsystems and policies within the global Organization. Prior to joining Smartmatic, he worked for Novartis Venezuela as C&B Manager for Andean Region and Compensation- HR Administration Manager, at Panagroup as Project Consultant and at Easy Survey Corporation (Current Mercer) as Consultant.

Cristina Dolan

Consulting Team

Master of Science, Computing Systems Engineering, and Bachelor of Science, Electric Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, USA). Dolan has over 17 years of experience with technology-related companies bringing, among others, Internet, eCommerce, and information systems business technologies to the market. She was Oracle's Director of eCommerce Sales Strategies and Director of Operations and Technology for ABC Multimedia Group (USA).

Blas G. Moros

Consulting Team

Business Administration, University of Innsbruck (Austria). Moros worked for over 15 years as an executive for the Microsoft Corporation in Latin America. He is credited by Microsoft for making significant improvements in their Latin and Asian operations.