Career profile
Danny Rittman
Chief Information Officer, Avant Technologies, Inc.
- Role as of 14 March 2024, the date of the latest source
- 14 March 2024
As of March 2024, Danny Rittman is the Chief Information Officer of Avant Technologies, Inc., having been promoted from Chief Information Security Officer at the AI infrastructure company.
Career path
Rittman's earliest documented role was Founder and Vice President of Research and Development at Bind-key Technologies from 1995 to 2002, where he led technological direction and development of EDA software tools for integrated circuits.
From 2002 to 2007 he served as an Integrated Circuit CAD/Software Senior Consultant at IBM, managing integrated circuit back-end projects and leading CAD and QA tool development, and he later described this period as including work on microchip development and Watson AI.
He was Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Micrologic Design Automation from 2005 to 2010, directing the company's architecture, design and development of EDA software tools, and he also held the titles of Director of Information Security and CTO/CIO there before moving to his next role.
From 2012 to 2014, Rittman was a Senior Integrated Circuit Consultant for Qualcomm/MaxLinear, managing teams of integrated circuit designers in mobile technology.
He also served as Senior Cybersecurity Consultant for the Integrated Circuits Design Group at Alpha EDA, where he built the group's information security strategy and oversaw its Security Operations Center.
Since 2014 Rittman has been Chief Technology Officer and a director of GBT Technologies, leading company-wide cybersecurity governance and AI-based technology development for IoT, Big Data, Computer Vision and Networks.
Avant Technologies announced his appointment as Chief Information Security Officer on July 25, 2023, a role in which he led the company's information security and technology risk management and built its security training program.
On March 14, 2024, Avant Technologies promoted Rittman to Chief Information Officer, a step that followed his earlier tenure there as the company's Chief Technology Officer.
Remit and published work
As CTO at Avant, Rittman led the design, development and commercialization of AvantAI®, and as CISO he directed the refactoring and expansion of that platform toward automated vulnerability management and data center operations frameworks.
Rittman said of the CIO appointment, "I am honored to take on the responsibilities of Chief Information Officer at Avant Technologies."
While serving as CTO of GBT Technologies, Rittman authored Enhance security at mass transit hubs with radio frequency technology, published November 17, 2022.
Education
Rittman holds a PhD and a Master's in Computer Science from La Salle University, a Doctor of Computer Science in Big Data and a Master's in AI and Machine Learning Technology from Colorado Technical University, a Master's in Information and Cybersecurity from UC Berkeley, and a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Bridgeport.
He has also earned a certificate in AI for Healthcare from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a certificate in Machine Learning from Stanford University.
