Alfredo José Anzola

Alfredo José Anzola Jaumotte (11 June 1974 – 28 April 2008) was a founder and the former CFO of Smartmatic, a multinational electronic voting company. Anzola was one of the architects of the SBC consortium, a strategic alliance between Smartmatic, the Bitza Corporation and Venezuela's telephone provider, CANTV, for managing the technology platform of elections in Venezuela. Alfredo José Anzola was born on 11 June 1974. His father was Alfredo Anzola Mendez, and his mother was Christina Jaumotte de Galavís. He was a grandson of Alfredo Anzola Montauban, a prestigious end affluent engineer, university professor and writer, who had a mixed Venezuelan-French ascent. Alfredo José was childhood friends with Antonio Mugica, with whom he founded Smartmatic in 2000. Alfredo José Anzola held a degree in Industrial Engineering from Andrés Bello Catholic University. He also began the TRIUM Global Executive MBA program which is offered jointly by the New York University Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and the HEC School of Management, Paris. In 1997, Alfredo José Anzola, along with Antonio Mugica and Roger Piñate, began collaborating in a group while working at Panagroup Corporation in Caracas, Venezuela. Smartmatic was officially incorporated on 11 April 2000 in Delaware by Alfredo José Anzola. Smartmatic was then a fledgling technology start-up. Its registered address was the Boca Raton, Florida. In March 2005, with a windfall of some $120 million from its first three contracts with Venezuela, Smartmatic then bought the much larger and more established Sequoia Voting Systems, which by 2006 had voting equipment installed in 17 states and the District of Columbia. On Monday, 28 April 2008, about 14:25 universal coordinated time (UTC), a Piper PA-31-310, N6463L, was destroyed during impact with residences, shortly after takeoff from the Simón Bolívar International Airport, Maiquetía, Venezuela. The certificated airline transport pilot, two passengers, and five people on the ground were fatally injured.