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FluroSat appoints new Chief Technology Officer following a strong vote of confidence from investors in its latest funding round

Announcement posted by FluroSat 06 Aug 2019

Sydney, Australia, August 06 2019 -- FluroSat today announced the appointment of Juan Delard de Rigoulieres Mantelli as its Chief Technology Officer based in its Sydney, Australia office. 


Juan will be responsible for leading FluroSat’s technology and data science teams across Canberra, Sydney and Kiev to deliver a strong technology and product roadmap, rich with science and partner integrations. Juan’s appointment will enable FluroSat to rapidly scale its advanced agronomic analytics engine, FluroSense, to meet the increasing customer demands, serving more agronomists and growers across the globe. 


Juan’s immediate goals are to deliver a new-generation scalable data science-focused system architecture that works in a multi-cloud infrastructure environment with an increasing number of partners and customer systems that FluroSense integrates with. A combination of FluroSat’s science, AI/ML algorithms and agile scalable infrastructure connecting the users’ silos will enable timely delivery of actionable insights to support agronomic recommendations and decisions.


“Against the backdrop of a successful funding round announced recently, we are thrilled to welcome Juan as our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who will be leading our technology development  by setting higher than ever standards for the company product innovation,” said Dr Anastasia Volkova, CEO & Founder of FluroSat. “Juan is a recognised leader with solid experience, knowledge and expertise combining hard-core data and infrastructure engineering and people-management skills in growing, leading and bringing distributed teams together. Our technology and data science teams are excited to welcome Juan onboard as he sets us on a new elevated growth trajectory.”


Prior to joining FluroSat, Juan had held several CTO and senior technology positions in companies such as Data Republic, Datalicious and Live Event Media. He has been instrumental in revolutionising technology strategies and deployments to drive product innovation and development for customers, growing and mentoring engineering teams and supporting companies in their high-growth phase.


Juan will drive the technical roadmap at FluroSat, engaging with FluroSat’s customers and partners to deliver the next generation of its science-based analytics engine, FluroSense, to help agronomists, growers and farmers monitor crop health and optimise management and production.