ChampionScott Partners is pleased to announce the appointment of Ranjan Bhattacharya as Vice President, Engineering at Penn Foster Education. Penn Foster provides career pathways for opportunity youth and adult learners through diverse and affordable online diploma, certificate and degree programs, offered via its high school, career school and college. Ranjan brings over 20 years of technology and engineering leadership and expertise to Penn Foster.

Ranjan was most recently the lead architect for Fidelity Investments Management Technology Group where he led the development of architectural and engineering standards for migration to cloud environments and cloud-based big data solutions. Before that, Ranjan was Director of Engineering for Altisource Labs, a technology accelerator building innovative technology solutions for the financial industry. Previously, Ranjan was Vice President, Product Engineering at Pinnacle ECS (a division of TTS), a Boston based startup providing innovative products for the M2M / IoT space.

Ranjan worked for Fidelity Investments twice prior in its Institutional Technology (FIT) and Technology Groups (FTG), and at Sanovi Technologies in progressive architectural leadership roles. Ranjan earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India.

About Penn Foster
Students, employers and partner organizations rely on Penn Foster to build the skills and knowledge to power the 21st century workforce. For over 125 years, Penn Foster has been dedicated to helping people lead more meaningful and productive lives and to improving social outcomes through education. Penn Foster provides career pathways for opportunity youth and adult learners through diverse and affordable online diploma, certificate and degree programs, offered via its high school, career school and college. For more information, visit www.pennfoster.edu.

About ChampionScott Partners
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