Daitan Labs management team offers a wide range of expertise in R&D, technology, product management, sales/marketing, business development and project management. With over 20+ years in leading telecom and IT companies such as Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, Airspan Networks, Accenture and IBM, we understand both operators and vendors needs and recognize the benefits of quality deliverables combined with speed. .

With experience in the creation and thriving operations of small companies, our leadership team successfully combines a Small Company Mentality with the strength of benchmark Processes and Methodologies of Fortune 100 companies. This allows us to offer you the capacity to address endless demands throughout the globe, necessary to drive a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Augusto S. Cavalcanti
CEO
Founding Partner

Prior to establishing Daitan Labs, he held the position of Bell Labs Brazil Vice-President, being responsible for all Lucent Technologies Research and Development activities in Brazil, for Wireline and Wireless products.

In 1987 he founded a Telecommunications Entrepreneurial System to address the small-to-medium Switching market in Brazil. At the time of acquisition by Lucent in 1999, the Zetax Entrepreneurial System encompassed 10 companies distributed throughout the country, had achieved a market share of around 30% and recognition for the fast time-to-market and unique technology it developed.

After acquisition, Augusto was responsible for integrating his team into Lucent Bell Labs' R&D community. He successfully merged the characteristics of a small company with that of Lucent, taking advantage of the best values of both worlds. After a few years into Bell Labs, the Brazilian R&D team was recognized as a solid, dependable asset for the company, and received many compliments as "business-oriented" and "can-do-attitude" R&D as well as “Reaching New Heights” awards in Architecture Solutions and R&D Management. Under his leadership, the Brazil R&D Team created many new products as well as new niches of opportunities for the company.

As a member of System Architecture Review Board (SARB), Augusto evaluated and reviewed many Lucent projects from the point of view of architecture, strategy and management.

Augusto has graduation in Electronics Engineering, from Unicamp University, Campinas/Brazil; and specialization in telecommunications equipment, from Ceselec in Paris, France.

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James S. Bergamini
President
Founding Partner

Prior to establishing Daitan Labs, he was employed for 20 years at Lucent Technologies. At Lucent, he held various executive positions including Vice President of international sales and marketing for Voice Messaging Systems, Convergence Solutions (Latin America Region) and Global Business Partner Program (Broadband Cable, State & Local Government and Messaging Solutions initiatives).

While heading Lucent’s Central America/Latin America Switching Solutions Group, he served as President of two Telecom Companies in Brazil, Batik and Zetax Tecnologia.

Prior to living in Brazil, he served as Director of Lucent’s Switching Joint Ventures in India, Taiwan and Indonesia. He also lived in Japan managing a number of wireless and wireline projects.

Prior to joining Lucent Technologies, he was Managing Director for Kemper Financial (Scudder Investments) and Goldman Sachs. In this capacity, he headed teams within the fixed income research and investment banking (debt/equity) divisions.

Jim received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Illinois State University, his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Executive Program Certification from Wharton’s School of Business. He is a member of the AICPA and resides on the board of the Starlight Foundation (Midwest US Region).

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Helio Kinoshita
Corporate Development Director
Founding Partner

Prior to establishing Daitan Labs, Helio Kinoshita held the position of R&D Technical Director for Bell Labs Brazil, steer-heading the Systems Conception and Architecture, System Engineering and Front-End Process of many Wireline and Wireless products for worldwide application.

During a 2–year assignment in Bell Labs US, Mr. Kinoshita successfully negotiated and further led the transfer of technology efforts of various projects in the areas of Data, Wireless, Optical, Switching and Access. Also under his leadership, extensions to Lucent portfolio of products were realized and market niches were created through complete conception and development of new solutions, such as Next Generation Services Switching and Gateways.

Prior to Lucent, Mr. Kinoshita held many executive and management positions at Zetax Tecnologia, an entrepreneurial system of 10 companies in Brazil, which was sold to Lucent in 1999. In Zetax Mr. Kinoshita was responsible for conception and development of the company’s ZTX Central Office product family. He had also championed the technical evaluation in many of the strategic partnerships with companies in US, Europe, India and China on technologies such as Transmission and Optical equipments, NGN products and Wireless local loop.

Additionally, Mr. Kinoshita had worked as Telecommunication Researcher participating on the design of the Tropico Switching System at the CPqD - Telebras Research and Development Center, as Hardware Circuit designer and Team leader on several boards as well as a key interface for technology transfer from R&D to manufacturing.

Mr. Kinoshita has BSc in Electrical Engineering, at the Unicamp University, Campinas/Brazil; Specialization in Telematics and Specialization on Strategic Management of Technology Innovation both at Unicamp University, Campinas/ Brazil.

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Fabio Matsumoto
CTO
Founding Partner

Prior to founding Daitan Labs, Mr. Matsumoto was one of the key System Architects at Lucent Bell Labs in Brazil, leading the System Conception, System Architecture and System Engineering activities of many Lucent products for worldwide application. Covering both Wireline and Wireless solutions, such as Switching Systems, Element Management Systems, Media Gateways and other Next Generation Networks (NGN) Telecommunications Systems, Mr. Matsumoto has built systems for both International as well as North American networks.

During his 2 year assignment in US, at Lucent Bell Labs in Napervile IL, he was the key interface for the successful technology transfer of various projects to Brazil.

Before Lucent, Mr. Matsumoto held key software architect and software developer positions at Zetax Tecnologia, a Telecommunications Entrepreneurial System in Brazil, acquired by Lucent in 1999. In Zetax, Mr. Matsumoto was responsible for the conception, design, implementation and deployment of Telecommunications Switching Systems and diverse Embedded/Real-time Systems developed by the company. Specifically on the Central Office products, being one of the company’s pioneers, he was directly involved in the coding of all modules of the equipment.

He was also a lead developer/designer for improvements in the software development processes introducing practices such as OOA/OOD, Coding Standards and use of Visual Modeling Languages such as SDL and UML.

Mr. Matsumoto holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Unicamp University at Campinas/Brazil.

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