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Mr. Wade has held various positions for over ten years with Duty Free Shoppers, Inc. culminating in his attaining the positions of president of their Mid-Pacific Division and then president of their U.S. Division. In addition, he was chairman of various corporate merchandising committees and served as a member of the Executive Committee which oversaw long term strategic planning and budget approvals. Prior to that, Mr. Wade was a CPA and staff auditor with Peat, Marwick & Mitchell. Mr. Wade earned his BS in Accounting from Brigham Young University, a Master of Science in Business Policy from Columbia University Business School and received a certificate of recognition from the government of Guam.
William K. Mills has been a director since December 2000. Mr. Mills is a founding partner of Parker Mills & Patel LLP, where he specializes in complex commercial business representations, including transactional and litigation matters, such as legal malpractice, intellectual property and general corporate and governmental representations since 1995. Between 1991 and 1994, Mr. Mills was a senior attorney and partner with Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, prior to which he was a senior attorney with Radcliff & West from 1989 to 1991, senior associate with Buchalter, Nemer Fields & Younger from 1987 to 1991 and an attorney with Daniels, Baratta & Fine from 1982 to 1987. Mr. Mills holds a J.D. from UCLA Law School and an A.B. in American Government from Harvard College. Active in professional and community organizations, Mr. Mills has served as General Counsel to the California Association of Black Lawyers, a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Judicial Appointments Committee, and a Board Member of the John M. Langston Bar Association. Mr. Mills has also served on the boards of the Didi Hirsch Dental Health Foundation, the United Way's Los Angeles Metropolitan Region Board, the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, and the Los Angeles County Judicial Procedures Commission.
In computer circles, Mr. Valdetaro, previous 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 now called ACE. ACE originally TPEXPERT, an expert based system written in C and assembler using HLLAPI to automate the operations of IBM mainframes was sold to Diversified Data Resources in 1991. ACE, which supplanted IBM as a competitor, is currently being used by Fortune 100 companies such as American Express, Visa, Bank of America, Prodigy, Federal Express, Singapore Airways, Thai Airways, IOM Canada, Worldspan (the reservation system for Northwest, TWA and Delta Airlines) 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.
Mr. Braun is an accountant with over 24 years experience in a wide variety of accounting and finance roles. His career includes public accounting, large company internal audit, financial analysis, mergers and acquisitions, SEC reporting, general accounting and consolidations of both domestic and international companies. Most recently he was the Corporate Controller for a plastics injection molding company with plants in the United States, Mexico and Ireland. Prior to that, he worked for a healthcare provider where he was responsible for managing 24 employees with accounting responsibility for over 200 clinics. Previous experience includes working for a large chemicals manufacturing company where he assisted in implementing a worldwide version of SAP and created a finance shared services group for the US and Canada. He is a CPA and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Tetard joins Vertical Computer Systems, Inc. from Externet World, Inc. where he oversaw business development, managed software design projects and handled daily operations. His responsibilities included working with clients and strategic partners to develop business plans, implement strategies and methodologies to support software development. Combining his education and experience, Mr. Tetard has specialized in design, implementation, documentation and installation of Internet compatible applications. Prior to working with Externet World, Inc., Mr. Tetard was a Public Relations Officer with the French Air Force in Toulouse, France. Mr. Tetard is an honor's graduate of Ecole Nationale Superieure D'arts et Metiers (ENSAM), France with a BS in Engineering and an MS in Structural Engineering.
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