Alfredo de Cárdenas joined Syniverse in April 2008 and serves as executive vice president responsible for the North America, and Caribbean and Latin America regions. He brought to Syniverse more than 20 years of experience in the global telecommunications industry. Before joining Syniverse, Mr. de Cárdenas was with Nortel Networks, most recently as general manager of converged multimedia networks. He also held a number of other key leadership roles since joining Nortel in 1992, including vice president positions in carrier support and operations, sales, marketing, customer care, and network operations as well as assignments in Columbia and Brazil. He began his career as a senior engineer for Southern Bell. Mr. de Cárdenas earned his master’s of business administration degree from Nova Southeastern University and his bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from Florida International University. He is fluent in English and Spanish, and conversational in Portuguese.