Manny Cofresí Jr., Senior Advisor

Mr. Cofresí is Vice President, Corporate Development for Automatic Data Processing (“ADP”), one of the largest providers of a broad range of mission-critical transaction processing and information-based business solutions with nearly $9 billion in revenues and approximately 590,000 clients worldwide.  He serves as a Board Member for ADP’s operations in Mainland China.  Previously he served as Vice President and Head of International Business Development and Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development for ADP. Mr. Cofresí has extensive experience providing strategic and financial advice to technology companies as a Vice President of Merrill Lynch's Financial Technology Group and Salomon Smith Barney's Technology Investment Banking Group. He was a member of Salomon Smith Barney's Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group. Mr. Cofresí has executed a wide variety of transactions including equity and equity-linked offerings, corporate divestitures and buy-side and sell-side merger and acquisition assignments.

Mr. Cofresí has also worked as a Corporate Executive Fellow at Apple Computer, where his responsibilities included formulating Strategic and Business Plans and working on special projects within various departments. Prior to Apple Computer, Mr. Cofresí worked as a Device Engineer and Project Manager for Motorola Inc. in the Communications Semiconductor Products Division.

Mr. Cofresí holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Device Physics from Cornell University's College of Engineering.