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Hugo Perez's Bio

Hugo Perez is a high-spirited entrepreneur and business professional with 20 years of experience in information technology solutions including management, business development, workforce recruitment, and partner channel management. His areas of strength include business management, new business development, and client/partner relationship management. Mr. Perez has a strong aptitude across a large spectrum of technology, including databases, enterprise storage management, application development tools, ERP/CRM/DW applications, networks and telecommunications. During his career, Mr. Perez has represented such organizations as IBM Corporation, Oracle, and Sungard.

Hugo is currently the Managing Partner at DATACORP - a full-service I.T. consulting and systems integration firm focused on High-Availability and Business Continuity. The firm offers Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco, and NetApp Solutions. DATACORP was recognized by Microsoft Corporation as their South Florida Partner of the Year in 2003-2006. The company engages in "I.T. Consulting and Systems Integration" which involves the practice of bringing smart people, best practices, and technology in the right combination, to solve the problems of systems high-availability and business continuity. DATACORP (www.data-corporation.com) provides Network Computing, Storage, Security, and Support Solutions, typically on a project basis, but also offers a pre-paid support program to help keep client systems in "Steady State."

He is a native to South Florida and serves the community as through several prestigious organizations including the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (GMCC), AeA, South Florida Technology Alliance Forum (SFTA), Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers, Leadership Broward, and is the new President of the International Association for Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP). In addition, Mr. Perez is an Advisory Council Member and an Alumnus of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. He is featured on the cover of eWeek's April 30, 2007 edition, and received a prestigious award from the GMCC in April 2008 as Infrastructure Resource Manager of the Year. Mr. Perez graduated with a high honors engineering degree from the University of Florida.

Angel Cicerone's Bio

Angel's diverse career spans various aspects of the communications field. She owned and ran a successful advertising agency in Fort Lauderdale and Miami for over a decade, before launching Women's Business Journal, a monthly newspaper for women in business, throughout Florida. In 1999, she began working with American City Business Journals (ACBJ), the largest publisher of metropolitan business journals in the country, starting as managing director of the South Florida Business Journal and Associate Publisher of LUXE Living Magazine. In May, 2005, she was tapped to create a new real estate product for 41 business journals across the country. She then began a whole new career with ACBJ in their New Media division, bizjournals.com. In this role, she created new revenue opportunities for the company's on line division.

In 1995, Angel founded WomenWatch, Inc., the company that launched Women's Business Journal, a monthly publication that focused on the issues of women in business in South Florida. In just two years, Women's Business Journal doubled in size and circulation and expanded to include a Central Florida, Jacksonville and a national edition. Along with the newspaper, WomenWatch also conducted conferences, seminars and other promotional events geared specifically for high-level women in business.

As founder and president of Cicerone and Company Advertising and Promotion, she gained a reputation for developing innovative marketing programs for a wide range of prestigious clients and received over 200 local and national awards for creative excellence. In 1995, Ms. Cicerone was invited by the Citizens Democracy Corps, a Washington, D.C. - based organization, to work in Olsztyn, Poland for two months as part of their program that pairs American entrepreneurs with like-businesses in Eastern Europe. Angel began her career as an advertising copywriter in New York City, working on national accounts including RCA, World Book Encyclopedia and American Express. She later worked as the advertising manager for a division of a Fortune 100 company.

A twenty-nine year resident of Florida, Ms. Cicerone has been the past president of the Advertising Federation of Greater Ft. Lauderdale, and Chair of the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Broward. She is the recipient of the "Up and Comers Award" in Advertising/Public Relations. the Women's Advocate Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Giraffe Award given by the Women's Chamber of Commerce to "women who stick their necks out," the Unsung Hero Award from Commercial Real Estate Women, Miami, The Glass Ceiling Award given by NAWBO, Palm Beach and the Small Business of the Year Award from the Women's Chamber of Commerce, Broward County.

Angel holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University and has lectured extensively in continuing education and development programs.

Bernard Paul-Hus's Bio

Mr. Paul-Hus began his career in 1986 as an electrical estimator. A short 5 years later, Bernard helped launch Hypower, initially focusing on the installation of Airfield Lighting and other related aviation construction activities. Bernard has since diversified the business into 6 operating groups, including: Airfield, Disaster Recovery, Commercial Electrical, Security and Telecom. These groups now make up a dynamic business operating across much of the U.S. and the Caribbean. With over 400 employees, Hypower has grown into one of the largest and most diversified electrical contractors in the Southeast U.S.

Mr. Paul-Hus is also the 2009 Chairman of the Board for the ABC East Coast Chapter.