Carson Soule is CAS Severn’s CEO and founder. Mr. Soule incorporated CAS in 1978 with CAS' President, Doug Gerstmyer. For over 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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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 System Engineering, 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.

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.

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.