NEW YORK (AP) — Minerva Tantoco (TAN’-toh-koh) has been named chief technology officer for New York City.
Mayor Bill de Blasio made the announcement Tuesday.
Tantoco’s most recent position was with UBS. She’s also worked at Palm and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
She holds four patents in artificial intelligence and workflow systems.
Tantoco was raised in Flushing, Queens and attended Bronx Science High School.
While she was still in college she moved to Silicon Valley. It was there that she co-founded a technology startup, Manageware Inc. It was successfully sold five years later.
