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Carlos Jr. serves as the President, Chief Technology Officer and a Principal Shareholder of BST Global. In addition to helping drive the company’s business strategy execution, Carlos Jr. also focuses on mentoring and coaching the next level of BST Global’s future leadership. Carlos Jr. also works closely with the Operations and Product Delivery teams as a continuation of his responsibilities as Vice President.

Carlos Jr. joined BST Global in 1988 as part of the Documentation team, and in 1990, he became a member of the Design team for BST RDBMIS. In 1993, he was named Manager of the Training and Support teams. From 1997 to 2005, Carlos Jr. was the Manager of the Product Development team — when BST Enterprise was designed, developed and brought to market. In 2005, he was named the Director of Design and was involved in new product development. In 2016, Carlos Jr. was appointed Vice President, overseeing the Operations and Product Delivery teams to ensure they were supported to achieve their goals, and produce the most meaningful products possible. Carlos Jr. was appointed to President in 2020, and Chief Technology Officer in 2021.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida.

As BST Global's Director of AI & Analytics, Hank leads a team in evolving BST Global’s current solution set and creating new innovative solutions through artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data capabilities.

Hank joined BST Global in early 2019 and has 30+ years of extensive experience in building large-scale distributed systems and analytics solutions, IT consulting, SaaS software delivery, systems merger and acquisition, modeling and simulation, business process improvement, and client management spanning multiple industries including Healthcare, Financial Services, Department of Defense, Transportation and Telecommunications.

Prior to joining BST Global, Hank successfully led a $3.9B system merger and acquisition, delivered $100M in consulting and software development engagements, implemented process and data governance for a U.S. interdealer broker and provider of $2.3T in daily trading services, and secured $250M in investment by delivering real-time predictive analytic software.

Hank has held various leadership roles such as Chief Architect, Trusted Advisor and Managing Director at IBM, Motorola, Unisys, AT&T, Perot Systems and Dell.