From MV to ‘Brazil’s Bill Gates’: Moran family reconnects with foreign exchange visitor

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October 26, 2017 - 12:00 AM

MORAN — It’s safe to say Deb Tynon never envisioned a former classmate as a head of industry.
But today, the former foreign exchange student, Laercio Cosentino, is CEO of Brazil’s largest software company.
It was the autumn of 1976 and Tynon’s senior year at Marmaton Valley High School that her family — E.J. and Barb Seifker and sisters Jamie and Susan — hosted Cosentino.
A few years later and back in his homeland, Cosentino, then just 23, founded a small business dedicated to creating and maintaining software for small and medium-sized…

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