The executive president of the telecommunications giant Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Jorge Gutiérrez, has resigned after just four months on the job. The  resignation — said to be for health reasons — takes effect Friday.

President Óscar Arias Sánchez quickly named the No. 2 man at the government agency to lead it and said that he would present the name for confirmation today to the Consejo de Gobierno.

The new head of the electrical generating, telephone and Internet institute will be Pedro Pablo Quirós, an electrical engineer who was educated and worked for more than 20 years in the United States. He now serves as vice president of the institute board.

Quirós has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from St. Michael’s College in Winooski, Vermont, and one in electrical engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He also holds a master’s of business administration in applied math from the University of Vermont. His last position was with TMX International, in Miami, Florida, where he was general manager for five years.