Luiz Valdetaro

Mr. Valdetaro serves as their Chief Technology Officer since 2000. He has over 40 years of software development and management experience in diverse environments ranging from high transaction-processing mainframes to servers, PCs, and smartphones. In computer circles, previously CTO of Diversified Data Resources is best known for implementing the first PC to Mainframe in Latin America in the late 1970s. He is equally known for developing a product called ACE, an expert-based system made to automate the operations of IBM mainframes. ACE, which supplanted IBM as a competitor, was used by Fortune 100 companies such as American Express, Visa, Bank of America, Citibank, Prodigy, Federal Express, Singapore Airways, Qantas Airways, Thai Airways, IBM Canada, SNCF (The French Railroad), Worldspan as well as many others. Mr. Valdetaro, a member of Who's Who Executive Club prior to being CTO of Diversified Data Resources, was a Senior Systems Engineer for System/One. Prior to that, he was a senior systems engineer for Bank of America.

Mr. Valdetaro is a graduate of Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a BS in Electronic Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering.