Valden Paes is Managing Director and Head of Enterprise Digital Solutions at DTCC. As the Head of Digital Solutions, he leads a dynamic team responsible for driving digital transformation across our organization. With a focus on innovation and efficiency, he oversees the development and implementation of cutting-edge digital strategies that enhance operational processes and improve customer experiences. His role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate advanced technologies, streamline workflows, and ensure the seamless delivery of digital services. In addition, Valden is responsible for several Enterprise Platforms that supports several of DTCC’s products and services.
Before this role, he was Managing Director and Head of Business Transformation at DTCC. The Business Transformation Office serves as the firm’s internal consulting group, supporting key strategic initiatives that impact people, structure, system, process and ultimately culture, continuously evolving the operating model across business, technology, and corporate functions to ensure DTCC is positioned to maximize value delivery for industry clients and partners. Earlier during his tenure at DTCC, Valden was Managing Director for the Information Technology group, responsible for providing secure, reliable, and high-performance communications, computing and cloud services for DTCC’s clients globally. In addition, his domain provided end user computing and collaboration services for DTCC’s global workforce.
Valden joined DTCC from PepsiCo, where he spent over a decade in various leadership positions. During his time there he was integral in transforming the company’s IT infrastructure across many of its international markets. Prior to PepsiCo, he was Infrastructure Lead at AT&T and played an active role in the start-up of AT&T in the Brazilian market.
Valden holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Universidade de Taubate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and has an AMP from Columbia Business School.
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