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Carlos Cashman, Founder and former CTO Opus360
Carlos Cashman is a freelance consultant and speaker in the area of high tech business and entrepreneurship. He was most recently co-founder and CTO of Opus360 Corporation. He served as President and on the Board of Directors until becoming the Chief Technology Officer in December 1999. As President and CTO he has led the company product and technology direction and vision since the beginning, helping to pioneer the Professional Services Automation and Human Capital Supply chain concepts throughout the industry. At Opus360, Mr. Cashman oversaw the building of a team of over 50 engineers and the construction of an enterprise class software product and high-quality development environment in parallel, accomplishing this task in just over 18 months.
From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Cashman served as CIO and Director of Applications of startup Gray Peak Technologies which was sold to USWeb/CKS Corporation in 1998 to form their Networks Practice. At Gray Peak, as part of senior management, Mr. Cashman participated in the hyper growth of a high-tech startup, going from 20 to 160 people in just over a year, building a strong basis for the experience of starting and running Opus360 Corporation.
From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Cashman was Chief Technology Officer of Frankfurt Balkind Partners, an agency dedicated to strategic branding, advertising, and web design. At Frankfurt Balkind, he helped to build and sell some of the earliest web site projects in the industry just as the Internet was being popularized. Mr. Cashman worked directly with such blue chip clients as EG&G, MasterCard, and Towers Perrin, supervising multi-million dollar multimedia projects for them ranging from web sites to on-site multimedia exhibitions. It was during this time and soon after that Mr. Cashman also got involved as an advisor in the formation of global software development firm One World Software Systems (OWSS), helping develop and employ practices and procedures for effective distributed software development. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Cashman was Manager of UNIX Engineering for Conley Corporation, handling all aspects of software development, hardware engineering and OEM contracts for their Unix based storage products. Before that, Mr. Cashman attended MIT on full scholarship from AT&T Bell Labs, where he spent time as a software developer. He graduated from MIT with a custom degree in Information Systems Engineering in 1994, combining the best of MITs undergraduate computer science curriculum with the MIT Sloan School of Management’s high level IT and Management courses.
Mr. Cashman has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences such as Information Week CIO events, Talent2000, CMP’s Future of ASPs, and the Strategic IT Sourcing and Staffing conference, covering topics as diverse as strategic HR management to the future of technology and ASP Industry. He also serves on the advisory board of several high tech companies on both the East and West Coasts.
Mr. Cashman has many varied interests, and has actually spent time producing film projects in New York City and as a professional blackjack player and card-counter with a team of former MIT alumni.