# Antonio Mugica

> Antonio Mugica is the Venezuelan co-founder and CEO of Smartmatic, an election-technology company established in Florida in 2000. An electronics engineering graduate of Universidad Simón Bolívar, he also leads SGO and is listed as a strategic advisor at Oxford’s Programme on Democracy & Technology. His public work combines election auditability advocacy with invention, investment, music and children’s writing.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Smartmatic
- **Organizations:** Smartmatic, SGO, University of Oxford Programme on Democracy & Technology, Smartmatic Foundation
- **From:** Caracas, Venezuela
- **Nationality:** Venezuelan
- **Education:** Electronic engineering degree, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas
- **Known for:** Co-founded Smartmatic and led its international expansion., Named co-inventor on granted US patents covering networking and election technology., Authored Húkiti-Túkiti-Tá, a Moonbeam gold-medal-winning children’s book.

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Co-founded Smartmatic in Boca Raton, Florida, with Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate.
- **2004** — Smartmatic provided voting technology for Venezuela’s presidential recall referendum.
- **2010** — Published the children’s book Húkiti-Túkiti-Tá.
- **2011** — Húkiti-Túkiti-Tá received a Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards gold medal in the Spanish-language category.
- **2014** — Launched SGO with Lord Mark Malloch-Brown as chairman, while Mugica served as CEO.
- **2015** — US patent 9,092,922 was granted, naming Mugica, Eduardo Correia and Roger Pinate as inventors.
- **2017** — At an August 2 London press conference, alleged Venezuela’s announced Constituent Assembly election turnout was inflated by at least one million votes.
- **2018** — Los Angeles County selected Smartmatic as manufacturing partner and systems integrator for VSAP.
- **2022** — Listed as a strategic advisor on election technology to Oxford’s Programme on Democracy & Technology.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Smartmatic and led its international expansion.
- Named co-inventor on granted US patents covering networking and election technology.
- Authored Húkiti-Túkiti-Tá, a Moonbeam gold-medal-winning children’s book.
- Strategic advisor at Oxford’s Programme on Democracy & Technology.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Smartmatic’s litigation update reports that a New York judge set October and November 2026 discovery deadlines in the Fox defamation case.
- **2026-05** — New York’s Appellate Division allowed additional business-impact discovery in Smartmatic’s Fox lawsuit while declining to stay it pending separate criminal proceedings.
- **2026-03** — Smartmatic sought dismissal of its parent company’s criminal indictment, alleging retaliatory prosecution. The motion was a company claim, not a judicial finding.
- **2025-11** — The EAC certified Smartmatic VSR1 2.1 to VVSG 2.0 on November 26.
- **2025-10** — US prosecutors charged parent company SGO in an alleged Philippine bribery and money-laundering scheme; the named individual defendants in the cited indictment do not include Mugica.

## Links

- Website: https://www.smartmatic.com/
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/antoniomugica
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/antoniomugica
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antoniomugica/

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Last updated: 2026-10-23