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Tony Valente is a former U.S. Navy submariner who holds a BA, cum laude, in literature from Columbia University.

A global thinker with formidable powers of concentration, Valente is noted for his ability to patiently pursue solutions to knotty technical and organizational problems, then act decisively.

He holds three assigned U.S. patents, products of the three high-tech companies he  founded—Quantum Industries (thin-layer and column chromatographic products); Telesonic Systems (milliwatt output radio devices for museums and national parks tours); American Gem Market System (international network gemstone trading).

Over time Valente has raised an aggregate of nearly $5 million for his three high-tech start-ups. He is also an accomplished network designer, administrator and SQL developer who has architected and lead engineered multiple e-comm businesses.

When he established AGMS in 1980, Valente became an early pioneer for the possibilities of commercial transactions over computer networks. By the late 1980s, AGMS was recording $100 million of trading a year over a proprietary computer network, a foretaste of the high dollar-volume amounts now generated by Internet sites.

"...but the real news today is that networking, communications and web technologies are more than great business models for small businesses, they are enablers in ways never before imagined—from remotely managed desktop networks to efficient organizing "cloud" applications, which return us to the cost-effectiveness of yesterday's Time Shares."