ACG Palm Beach Presents: From AI to ROI: Driving Value Through Automation & Digital Transformation in Private Equity

Cesar Costa is a product and business advisor at Somnio Software, a digital product agency ranked by Google among the world's top five Flutter development firms, with operations across the US, Latin America and Europe. Somnio has shipped more than 170 digital products in seven years, giving Cesar a perspective from the execution side of the technology conversation: the work that begins after the investment thesis is approved.

He works at the intersection of business strategy, digital products and AI, with a current focus on what happens after adoption. As AI tools become broadly accessible, Cesar believes the technology itself is becoming less of a differentiator than what organizations build around it: how they redesign workflows, define outcomes, evaluate quality and keep human judgment in the loop. Industry data points to the same tension: AI is accelerating delivery throughput, but those gains don't automatically translate into delivery stability or sustainable productivity.

For investors and business leaders, that gap matters: it's the difference between a company that genuinely became more productive and one that just got busier.

Tushar’s specialty is architecting and implementing agentic AI solutions that immediately impact a business's bottom line. He evaluate existing and potential portfolio company processes across $6billion in cumulative investments to uncover Ai efficiency opportunities. 

Tushar's experience spans software solutions across many industries including founding and successfully exiting four companies with two "startup to IPOs." 

Tushar is also a car collector and has reimagined and redesigned his own Ferrari FF and Mercedes G-Wagon to convert them into convertibles. He hosts a weekly poker night and enjoys early morning time on the beach to start the day grounded.

Vanessa Rousso is a Partner and Business Unit Leader at Kelley Kronenberg, focusing her practice on business litigation and complex transactional matters across commercial real estate, corporate, construction, and healthcare. Vanessa provides clients with forward-thinking counsel at the intersection of litigation, deal strategy, and business innovation. Her practice spans high-stakes commercial disputes, sophisticated transactional matters, and strategic advisory engagements for companies, developers, contractors, brokerage firms, entrepreneurs, and ultra-high net worth individuals, and increasingly extends into AI compliance and governance, making her a strong fit as lead counsel for a wide range of matters rather than one narrow specialty.

She is one of the pioneering AI compliance and governance practitioners in South Florida, advising on risk before, during, and after AI deployment. Her Python proficiency gives her genuine technical credibility in this space. She works with clients across the full AI adoption lifecycle, from pre deployment risk assessment through implementation oversight and ongoing compliance monitoring.

Her background includes a Duke economics degree and a magna cum laude JD from University of Miami (Order of the Coif).

Vanessa is fluent in French and proficient in Spanish.