Henry Fleches
Co-Founder
President & Chief Executive Officer
Under the leadership, persistence and dogged determination of Henry Fleches and high school friend and co-founder Gerard Amaro, UDT has grown from a dream start-up in 1995 to become a leader in high-performance IT systems and solutions.
Henry credits his business acumen to his father, a machinist and owner of the Miami-based commercial kitchen repair business where young Henry landed his first job handling parts and installing the company’s first computer. Henry soon left to launch UDT. Concurrent with running his fledgling business, Henry enrolled in Florida International University to earn his Bachelor's degree in business administration.
Fifteen years after launching UDT, Henry remains involved in operations, sales and marketing, consulting engagements, and is the company’s chief visionary. Henry lives with his family in Miami Lakes.
Gerard Amaro
Co-Founder
Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Since co-founding United Data Technologies (UDT) with childhood friend, Henry Fleches, in 1995, Gerard Amaro has been integral to the company’s strategic planning and aggressive growth. From the start, Gerard was involved in addressing customers’ support and high-level networking issues, first as a Novell Engineer, and later as a business solutions counselor.
Over time, Gerard's responsibilities expanded to include sales and overall strategic direction of UDT. Gerard currently is responsible for managing all aspects of the UDT sales force, including sales strategy, structure, goals, revenue generation, marketing, training, and development.
Gerard earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Florida International University in Miami. He lives with his family in Miami Lakes, Florida.
James Cline
Chief Financial Officer
James Cline serves as the Chief Financial Officer at UDT. In this role, James is responsible for all aspects of UDT’s finance functions including financial reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, financial planning and analysis.
Before joining UDT, he held the post of CFO with a commercial real estate development company. James has more than 20 years of financial management experience, including with Hilton Hotels and CBS Interactive where he served as Vice President of Finance and played an instrumental role in the development and success of the CBS Sports.com website.
James earned his Bachelor degree in Business Administration with a specialty in Accounting and Management from University of Texas at El Paso. James serves on the Advisory Board of Keiser University, Board of Advisors of the CFO Alliance and on the Executive Leadership Team, American Heart Association 2012 Broward Heart Walk. James currently resides with his wife and three children in Weston, Florida.
Daniel Rodriguez
CTO and Vice President of Technology Services
Daniel Rodriguez, CTO and Vice President of Technology Services, is responsible for all UDT technical services and solutions, including professional services engineering, technology consulting, client services and operations center, Instructional Technology and Professional Development solutions, Audio Visual solutions, internal information technology infrastructure, facilities, and project management.
Prior to joining UDT, Daniel was the Global Alliances CTO at EMC Corporation, a $14 billion information infrastructure and storage provider. He was responsible for pre-sales systems engineering, client solutions, technology consulting, and strategic technology direction for many global Fortune 500 customers. Previously, Daniel was a managing director at StrataSys Corporation, a Miami-based systems and network integration firm.
Daniel attended Miami Dade College and Florida International University and received degrees in Computer Science and Management Information Systems.
Tony Cossio
Vice President of Public Sector
Tony Cossio is Vice President, Public Sector, overseeing UDT’s Public Sector Sales, including K-12, higher education, and government accounts. Tony joined UDT following a career at Hewlett Packard, where he was a Sales Representative and later was named Senior Account Manager. He rose to become District Sales Manager overseeing the public sector data center sales and services team for HP throughout Florida. and eventually led the Client Product Group / Personal Systems Group for all public sector clients in the Southeast U.S., including Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
Previously, Tony was a Sales Representative with NCR Corp., and before that spent three years as a high-school teacher and administrator.
Tony earned his bachelor’s in business administration from Florida International University in 1976, and later attended graduate school for a masters in business administration. He currently lives in Miami.
Scott Byers
Vice President of Sales and General Manager, Mid-South
Scott Byers has been Vice President of Sales and General Manager for the Mid-South U.S. since his arrival at the company in 2009. His strengths include building services organizations and professional sales teams at small to mid-sized companies and growing those companies to become large regional or national entities. He previously served as Executive Vice President at ProSys Information Systems, and prior to that was General Manager, Southeast Region, with Sayers Group. Scott also has served in business development in the technology consulting field.
Prior to entering the technology services industry, Scott played professional baseball for the Anaheim Angels. An Atlanta native, he earned his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.