ACI Worldwide announced the appointment of Marco Bravo as vice president for Latin America.

With nearly three decades of international leadership experience, Bravo has held senior roles at Microsoft and IBM. Previously, Bravo led enterprise and partner group sales for Microsoft Brasil. At IBM, he led software solution sales and business development for IBM’s Latin America Software Group. Earlier in his career, he served as general manager for Rational Software, leading its integration into IBM.

“Latin America’s financial institutions, intermediaries and merchants are poised to participate in the reinvention of payments. Driven by the real-time expectations of today’s consumers both within this region and worldwide, ACI sees huge potential to equip customers to transform their payments systems—to take advantage of this disruption opportunity for real-time, any-to-any payments,” said Bravo. “ACI has a strong understanding of Latin America and its regional markets, and I’m excited to join this talented team and open new innovative business opportunities to the region’s economies.”