Mr. Valentino has more than 24 years of experience in building, financing and managing companies in the data communications, telecommunications, streaming media and retail management industries. He has founded, built and sold several innovative technology companies. 

In 1998 Valentino founded SmartConnect Inc.  - SmartConnect provides software that heightens the level of video surveillance to a true loss prevention tool that gives clients the ability, using their POS or other data collection systems, to pre-select potentially problematic situations and record them. This, in turn, makes surveillance useful and less labor intensive while allowing management to monitor employee performance and actively deter theft. SmartConnect customers have reported revenue increases in excess of 10% following installation of the SmartConnect solution. 

In 1999, Valentino sold Digisys, a data communications company to CenturyTel, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the U.S. Prior to that, Fiber Services Inc., a telecommunications service firm, was sold to Verio in 1998. In addition, Valentino founded GV Communications, a telecommunications software company, in the late eighties and sold it to Lottery Player Magazine in 1990. He is a student of sales, the process, and the creation of high powered sales organizations, continually studying the works of great sales trainers like Zig Ziglar, Tommy Hopkins, Napoleon Hill