Danny Rittman named Chief Information Security Officer at Avant Technologies, Inc.

Avant Technologies, an artificial intelligence technology company trading as OTCQB: AVAI, named Danny Rittman as Chief Information Security Officer. Rittman joins from GBT Technologies, where he served as Chief Technology Officer. He will lead Avant's information security and technology risk management program.

According to the release, Rittman is to implement an information security culture within Avant and to develop and facilitate annual training on information security at the corporate level. The company's regulatory filing says Avant, formerly Trend Innovations Holding Inc., entered into an employment agreement with Rittman on July 27, 2023, retaining him as CISO.

The release says Rittman has more than 18 years of cybersecurity experience and has held senior posts at Alpha EDA and GBT Technologies. According to the release, Rittman has also been a director of GBT Technologies since 2014. At GBT, the release says, his work covers cybersecurity governance across the company, including its metrics, processes, policies and structure. Before GBT, the release says, Rittman was Senior Cybersecurity Consultant for the Integrated Circuits Design Group at Alpha EDA, which develops EDA software tools. The filing says Rittman founded Micrologic Design Automation and was its Chief Technology Officer from 2005 through 2010, directing development of its EDA software tools. Between 2002 and 2007, the filing says, IBM had him as an Integrated Circuit CAD / Software Senior Consultant managing back-end integrated circuit projects. From 2012 through 2014, the filing says, Qualcomm / Max Linear engaged him as a Senior Integrated Circuit Consultant managing teams of integrated circuit designers in mobile technology.

The filing says he received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bridgeport in 1992 and an MS in Computer Science from La Salle University in 1996. He went on to receive a PhD in Computer Science from La Salle University in 1998, the filing adds. According to the release, he has recently completed, at the University of California, Berkeley, a master's degree in information and cybersecurity.

The company says it plans to develop new AI-based cybersecurity technologies to help individuals and businesses protect themselves from cyberattacks. The release says Avant Technologies recently acquired two technologies that operate in multi-billion-dollar industries. According to a company release distributed by PR Newswire, Avant announces that Rittman has been promoted to Chief Information Officer.