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Altamira appoints Rod Fontecilla as CTO

By TechTaffy Desk

Altamira Technologies has appointed Dr. Rod Fontecilla as chief technology officer. Dr. Fontecilla will report to Ted Davies, Altamira’s chairman and CEO said the company in a statement.

Most recently, Dr. Fontecilla was a vice president at Unisys. He was SVP/CTO with Sevatec, and a principal with Booz Allen Hamilton in previous roles.

Dr. Fontecilla has a B.S. in Computer Science from Universite de Grenoble, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Rice University.

[Image courtesy: Altamira]

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