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[ultimate_modal modal_title=”Full Bio” btn_size=”md” btn_bg_color=”#330066″ btn_bg_hover_color=”#ffffff” btn_text=”Full Bio” modal_size=”block” modal_style=”overlay-fade” overlay_bg_opacity=”80″ img_size=”20″ btn_txt_color=”#ffffff” button_text_font=”font_family:Montserrat|font_call:Montserrat”]Abel Silva

Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Validus Technology Group

Abel Silva, Jr., is chief executive officer of Validus Technology Group, an information technology (IT) consulting firm specializing in evaluation, assessment and solutions strategy for IT environments, technology applications and business operations.

Mr. Silva’s passion and career focus has been in enabling companies to best utilize their technology environments to support business functionality in highly complex environments.  He has served as a senior advisor to executive leadership in oil and gas, healthcare, retail, real estate, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications and marketing services.

Before establishing Validus Technology Group in 2009, Mr. Silva spent over 20 years in corporate information technology management and operations for international companies such as TEX/CON Oil & Gas/British Petroleum, Pennzoil, Enserch Exploration Inc., and Dalen Resources. He then joined his first IT consultancy, The Harbour Group, where he continued oil and gas IT integration and diversified his portfolio of industries.

His experience includes oversight of significant projects and corporate initiatives in the following areas:

• Risk and compliance assessments
• Strategy and standards development
• Enterprise systems integration
• Disaster recovery and business continuity
• Business intelligence
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Data warehousing
• Legacy system support and transformation
• IT budget preparation and management
• IT environment operations
• Software selection, development and package implementation
• IT managed services.

Mr. Silva received his Master of Science in Management, Computing, and Systems from Houston Baptist University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Corpus Christi State University (now Texas A&M at Corpus Christi).  He is based in Texas but finds that technology has taken him literally– and virtually–everywhere.[/ultimate_modal]