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Mr. Asherman has over 30 years of software architecture and development experience, heavily concentrated in database application, distributed computing, and cyber security consulting, especially for large financial institutions. He holds U.S. patents for high precision database arithmetic, for secure, high performance, data access across the Internet, and for scalable, fault tolerant, grid computing. Mr. Asherman founded Base One in 1993 to create a new breed of commercial database applications and the programming tools to build them. He is system architect and lead programmer of Base One’s database and distributed computing product line, which was released in 1996. His work with large customers led to innovative approaches for doing secure distributed processing and storage that can exploit the under-utilized capacity in an enterprise’s IT infrastructure. Mr. Asherman’s specialties are designing, programming and leading the development of large-scale, high security, financial database applications. Clients have included: Aetna, Citibank, Cigna, Columbia Pictures, Deutsche Bank, Honeywell, IBM, Manufacturers Hanover, Marsh & McLennan, MCI, Morgan Guaranty and The New York Times. Recently, he assisted ManTech-Gray Hawk, a military contractor, in its counter terrorism security reviews of Niagara Mohawk Power and National Grid USA, and in the Critical Infrastructure Initiative of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Mr. Asherman has a Computer Science degree from Columbia University (honorary member - American Statistical Association) and is on the board of directors of the New York Software Industry Association. | 