Armando Ponce

Armando Ponce brings over 25 years of executive management, sales, and engineering experience as he takes on the role of Managing Director for the Southern US and Latin America territory. Prior to joining Transaccel, Mr. Ponce was the Regional Sales Manager for Forescout Technologies, managing the territory and was responsible for setting up distribution channels and managing the performance of resellers to maximize sales and profitability for the company as well as ensuring year after year revenue growth.

Before working at Forescout, Mr. Ponce served as CEO/ President of APCD Enterprises landing several contracts with Fujitsu's security business unit at PFU Mr. Ponce has assisted in creating a revenue stream to a few startup companies that were acquired or IPO, Roving Planet acquired by 3COM-Tipping Point, IDE acquired by Nortel and Forescout IPO in recent years. Some of the important achievements on his technology experience are: Design and Implemented the security policies at DFW airports for FBI & First responders, design and implement Security Access Control for Oxford University and was part of the team that design UCLA network infrastructure backbone 2nd largest in the US as well as several Network Security projects for Pearl Harbor Naval station.

His experience is vast of several verticals such as: Enterprise, Oil and Gas, Healthcare, Financial institutions, Government and Armed forces. Mr. Ponce has great International experiences in several continents from Europe, Asia, US, and Latin America. Mr. Ponce brings a great deal of experience in sales & engineering, with a strong focus on customer satisfaction.

Mr. Ponce holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with a major in satellite communications from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MIT affiliate. He has lived in Dallas, TX for over 20 years with his family, wife, and three children.