New CTO Halligan brings almost 30 years’ experience in software development and delivery, across bare metal, private cloud and public cloud environments, to Optiva, having previously served as CTO of Openwave Mobility (now Enea Openwave).
At Optiva, Halligan will look to accelerate innovation of cloud-native business support system (BSS) technology and telecom monetisation products.
During his time at Openwave, where he previously held the role of vice-president of software engineering, Halligan led an engineering team that developed and launched multiple award-winning products for Tier 1 mobile operators worldwide.
In addition, the new appointment previously served as CTO of IoT startup Reviver, leading hardware and software roadmaps, product delivery, patent portfolio and partnerships, as well as helping to develop its digital license plate.
Halligan’s tenure at Reviver also saw him establish a global R&D team to deliver solutions that spanned mobile applications, e-commerce, payments, IoT devices and private and public cloud platforms and services.
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Speaking on the appointment of Halligan as new CTO, John Giere, president and CEO of Optiva, commented: “I am delighted to welcome Matthew to Optiva. His leadership and breadth and depth of engineering experience will ensure that Optiva sets the pace to deliver on the technology and business promise of deploying a world-class cloud-native BSS platform.”
