Internet2 names CTO

Randy Frank joins Internet2 from the Fidelity Investments Center for Applied Technology

By Alpha Doggs on Fri, 06/19/09 - 12:09pm.

Internet2 has named Randy Frank as CTO, a job in which he'll help oversee the overall technology direction for the advanced networking consortium.

At Fidelity Investments Center for Applied Technology Frank was chief technologist for its research and development center, and worked on pilots of technologies including VoIP, wireless LANs and thin clients later used by Fidelity employees and customers. Previously, he was Executive Director of Information Technology for the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering.

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