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Carson Soule, CEO
Carson Soule is CAS Severn’s CEO and founder. Mr. Soule incorporated CAS in 1978 with CAS' President,
Doug Gerstmyer. For close to three decades, Carson has led CAS Severn's growth as an IBM business partner.
Mr. Soule travels throughout the nation speaking and consulting on various topics within Information Technology.
With his combination of a highly technical background and extensive business experience, he often works with
high-level business managers as well as technical experts on various leading edge technologies. In addition to
his speaking engagements, you can find his technical writings in publications such as
iSeries News and
e-Pro magazines.
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Douglas Gerstmyer, President
Doug Gerstmyer is President of CAS Severn. He majored in business administration at the University of
Maryland. He left prior to graduating to expand a part time business in the automotive industry. While trying
to acquire software for an IBM System/32 computer, he realized how difficult procuring small business software
could be. This need spawned the idea for a software house to create software products and provide services for
small businesses. This led to the expansion and incorporation of CAS Severn, which he co-founded in 1978, with
Carson Soule, the CEO of CAS Severn. Doug has been involved in sales and marketing and has been active in growing
the company. For many years he functioned as the company's main salesperson. Today he oversees the sales and
marketing team. He developed the company's current headquarters facility in Laurel, Maryland and orchestrated
the company's move to that facility in 1995.
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John Blanchette, Vice President of Operations
John Blanchette has over 30 years experience in the I/T field, eighteen of which were in DP Management.
He began at CAS Severn in 1992 as Manager in charge of CAS Severn's Custom Application Development Group. In
1997, John was promoted to Vice President of Operations and took over the responsibility for fulfillment
of all services. He currently oversees a technical group of more than 65 Engineers and Developers. Customer
support and satisfaction are the highest priorities for he and his staff. His other roles include Human
Resource supervision and overseeing the daily management of CAS Severn's 31,000 square foot office building.
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Kate Benarick, CPA, Controller
Prior to joining CAS Severn, Ms. Benarick graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1980
and acquired her CPA that same year. She began her career in accounting as a Senior Accountant for a public
accounting firm in Washington, DC. Her clients included universities, non-profit corporations, and large
corporations in the greater Washington area. She later moved into the position of Business Manager for an
architectural firm that specializes in historic preservation. Ms. Benarick wanted to move to a larger
organization and thus joined CAS Severn in 1993 as Controller. Over the past 11 years, Ms. Benarick has and continues
to contribute substantially in financially steering the firm through growth including an office relocation, a
significant acquisition and various re-alignments.
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Roy Jackson, Vice President of Pre-Sales
Mr. Jackson started working with CAS Severn in January, 1986. Mr. Jackson has over 25 years experience with
a wide variety of computer systems with a heavy emphasis toward system architecture. Much of his efforts have
been spent managing project operations from initial design through completed implementation. As Vice President
of Pre-Sales, Mr. Jackson is responsible for the management of complex system integration and software development
projects. His focus is on the analysis and development of I/T infrastructure technology solutions.
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Tom Maskell, Vice President of Federal Sales
Tom Maskell has a BS degree from Towson University and an MBA from Loyola College. Prior to joining
CAS Severn, Mr. Maskell worked for SYSCOM, Inc in Baltimore, MD in a variety of roles including Chief Operating
Officer of a subsidiary, and as a Government Account Executive. At CAS Severn, prior to his current role, Tom worked
on the Education Team as an Account Executive. As VP of Federal Sales for CAS Severn, Mr. Maskell brings a broad
range of IT management and sales experience, as well as a knowledge of IBM's complete line of eServers, software
pillars and storage infrastructure. Mr. Maskell continues to guide his clients in purchasing complete, turn-key
solutions that solve real world business challenges and provide measured and significant return on investment.
Mr. Maskell collects wine as a hobby. He lives in Sparks, MD with his wife, Maria and his children Gina and Joe.
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Harris Jones, Director of Education & Public Sector Marketing
Harris Jones has extensive experience delivering IT answers for his customers. Mr. Jones joined CAS Severn in 1996 after spending several years working for IBM. A significant amount of his
experience includes servicing the state/local and education sectors. With this, Mr. Jones is uniquely qualified
to fulfill the Team Leader role that he obtained in 2005. He now leads a team of Account Executives who are
exclusively focused on these segments. With an MBA from Loyola College and many years of real world experience,
Mr. Jones is highly qualified to understand customer requirements and develop the right answers that will fit
their needs.
Harris is an active golfer and lives in Baltimore with his wife, Liz.
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Steven Drew, Team Leader, Commercial Sales
With over a decade of IT experience with IBM, Steve Drew joined CAS Severn in 1998. Mr. Drew joined CAS Severn
as an Account Executive working with Enterprise customers and assisting them in finding the best solutions. His
knowledge and experience spans across a broad range of IT initiatives and technologies. He has assisted customers
with ERP and CRM requirements to infrastructure optimization to application development. Through the years, Mr.
Drew has proven his diverse level of skill and knowledge with an enterprise-wide vision towards IT initiatives.
As a result, Mr. Drew has been promoted to the Commercial Sales team leader position in January, 2006 where
he continues to share his skills and experience. His growing group of Account Executives has a primary
focus on commercial accounts. In his new position, Mr. Drew is guiding his team with the philosophy of
"Our customers' interests come first and those interests are best served by providing every team member
with an opportunity to succeed by removing business process bottlenecks and making necessary resources
available on demand." The result is a highly successful group of customers, Account Executives and a
strong team contribution to the success and growth of CAS Severn.
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Kathy Evans, Team Leader, Commercial Sales - Virginia
Ms. Evans graduated from Hartwick College with a BA in Urban Studies. She also earned an M.Ed. in Higher
Education from The American University. She began her professional career with IBM as a Sales Executive within
IBM’s Office Products (OP) division. After a 20-year career that included numerous sales positions with IBM,
Kodak and ICL, Ms. Evans joined CAS Severn as an Account Executive.
Ms. Evans has experience in IBM’s complete line of eServers and software products. Employing consultative sales
methodologies and using the approach of “Best Practices,” Ms. Evans has helped her customers leverage the power
of technology to enhance their business practices. Being highly knowledgeable in technology solutions and having
a number of years of proven success, Ms. Evans was promoted to a Team Leader position in March, 2006. She oversees
the day-to-day sales for a team in Virginia.
Ms. Evans lives in Potomac, MD with her husband Mark and their son Jay.
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