NAPLES, Fla. & SAO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today 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.”

About ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments (UP) company, powers electronic payments for more than 5,100 organizations around the world. More than 1,000 of the largest financial institutions and intermediaries as well as thousands of global merchants rely on ACI to execute $14 trillion each day in payments and securities. In addition, myriad organizations utilize our electronic bill presentment and payment services. Through our comprehensive suite of software and SaaS-based solutions, we deliver real-time, any-to-any payments capabilities and enable the industry’s most complete omni-channel payments experience. To learn more about ACI, please visit www.aciworldwide.com. You can also find us on Twitter@ACI_Worldwide.