Rogers replaces chief technology officer amid the fallout from nationwide outage

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The company said early Thursday that telecom veteran Ron McKenzie will take over the post from Jorge Fernandes, who joined Rogers just over four years ago

has a new chief technology officer, veteran telecom executive Ron McKenzie, in a wake of a nationwide outage earlier this month that resulted in the company promising change and investment to ensure network reliability.

In an open letter to customers last week, Rogers chief executive officer Tony Staffieri apologized for the outage and said: “You have my personal commitment that Rogers will make every change and investment needed to help ensure that it will not happen again.” Mr. Fernandez joined Rogers just over four years ago from Vodafone Group plc, where he was chief technology officer for its U.K. division.

Mr. McKenzie joined Rogers’ technology team three years ago and led the company’s technology transformation projects during the pandemic. He has three decades of telecom experience.

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