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.
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Antonio MugicaChief Executive OfficerElectronic 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. |
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Roger PiñateChief Operations OfficerElectronic Engineering, Simon Bolivar University. Responsible for the creation and supervision of Smartmatic's production strategy and industrial design processes. |
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Armando YañesChief Financial OfficerMaster in Business Administration, University of Tampa (Florida, USA) and Economist from the Catholic University of Argentine. Over 32 years of international experience in finance and strategic planning with Verizon (successor of GTE), a leader in telecommunications in United States. Yañes held the senior positions of CFO & SVP in CANTV –the largest telecommunications company in Venezuela (2000 – 2007), and of CFO & SVP in China (1995-2000). Before, he held positions of increasing responsibilities in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and United States |
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Robert CookVice PresidentBusiness 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. |
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Edgar ZorrillaVice President, Business DevelopmentMr. 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. |
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Ramón RamírezInternational Sales Region VPElectronic Engineer, Simon Bolivar University (Caracas, Venezuela), enrolled in the Management Development Program for Senior Executives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ramirez has more than 30 years of experience, especially in the Telecommunications area in multinational companies such as Cantv, Movilnet, Caveguias, Siemens, among others. |
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Jorge M. VásquezVice President, External OperationsComputing 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. |
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Eduardo CorreiaProgram Management VPComputing 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. |
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Víctor RamírezInternational HR DirectorIndustrial 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. |
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Cesar ManducaSFS DirectorBachelor of Science in Business Administration from Metropolitan University (Caracas, Venezuela) and MBA from Yale University (New Haven, USA). Manduca counts with more than 12 years of experience in investment banking, in such important organizations as the Deutsche Bank AG in London and Citibank in Venezuela, where he arranged financing for Supranational Development Banks as well as Venezuelan Corporations in the domestic capital markets, developed and assembled the acquisition financing for an important telecommunications company in Venezuela and structured several derivatives transactions for investor and corporate clients. |
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Chandler MolinaLegal DirectorAttorney from Central University of Venezuela, with studies in Civil Procedure and Taxation, Master in Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University (USA) and Advanced Management Program from IESA School of Management (Caracas, Venezuela). Molina has worked in the legal departments of important companies such as PDVSA, CANTV and Movilnet through 18 years. |
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Carolina CarusoInternational Business General ManagerAttorney from the Andres Bello Catholic University (Caracas, Venezuela), to which she added a Fiscal Planning Management Program in Metropolitan University (Caracas, Venezuela), In Smartmatic, Caruso has led the legal and tax structure for the International Business Company. Previously, Caruso worked in an important law firm where she focused on corporate and tax legislation and regulations. |
Blas G. MorosConsulting TeamBusiness 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. |
Cristina DolanConsulting TeamMaster 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). |
