I. Vicente was born in New York City and lived in the South Bronx and Queens, eventually settling in East Elmhurst. After graduating from Newtown High School, he attended the City University of New York at Baruch College, where he studied journalism and was a reporter and features editor at Ticker, the college newspaper. Despite being raised in a family that did not encourage education, goal-setting, or planning for the future, I. Vicente developed a solid career in technology that spanned more than twenty years, and he is the founder and CEO of GCS, a software consulting company that has cons...