John Casano Email & Phone Number

Reston, Virginia, Us

As the Chief Technology Officer at Troika Solutions, I lead strategic tech development and oversee the execution of cutting-edge software solutions tailored for the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community. My role involves driving innovation in secure, scalable software, ensuring seamless integration with legacy systems, and fostering collaboration across teams to solve complex mission-critical challenges. With a focus on building efficient, intuitive products, I work closely with stakeholders to align technical strategies with business objectives, delivering impactful results in high-stakes environments.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Strike Labs consists of seasoned entrepreneurs and technology specialists.We are focused on solving very hard big data problems quickly, or building niche beyond state-of-the-art cloud based web app solutions for the government by implementing published academic research yet to be productized.The Strike Labs team implements practical solutions that would otherwise overwhelm larger, more bureaucratic organizations, and are specialists in predictive analytics, encryption, ADS-B signal, and implementing unsupervised learning AI agents (AI/ML).

Villanova, Pa, Us

New Haven, Ct, Us

Tsai CITY’s mentor network is a robust, engaged circle of more than 400 practitioners in all stages of their careers — from founders and social innovators to experts in finance, law, technology, education, and other fields — who can advise our growing student ideas, ventures, and creative projects. Selected mentors are invited every year to share their expertise, leadership, and personal approach to innovation. Selections of Yale alumni and friends of Yale are based on each mentor’s unique characteristics and how they match the interests of current student innovators on campus.

Risk-Mitigation Clearinghouse and Trading Platform for International Bulk PPE Transactions - The PPE Exchange is an international clearinghouse of end-buyers and sellers of personal protective equipment designed to be a radically transparent financial platform for institutional entities that decreases transaction friction and risk.

New York, Ny, Us

The National Medical Capabilities group was formed to gather capabilities of medical centers around the country, and to provide that information for free to entities who can help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.We are contacting every hospital in the US to determine their medical device needs, staff capabilities, and hospital capacity.Then we are providing this information to entities that can help these medical facilities for free.This includes state and federal government entities (such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Department of Health and Human Services, and United States Department of Defense) universities, think-tanks, non-profit foundations, and other responsible parties who are fighting to combat this disease.This is a program under Strike Labs LLC. We converted this program into the PPE Exchange.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

FinTech Mentor at MassChallange for the Spring 2020 Cohort.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

With the help of brilliant designers, agile engineers, and a visionary leader, I am responsible for the integration of the Novus & FDN applications into the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative platform for evaluating and monitoring hedge funds.I help set and communicate vision & strategy, gather user and market research, set product requirements, priorities & roadmap, curate beautiful UX/UI, push development, coordinate with Sales and Marketing as well as development, and releasing code early & often.Novus purchased FDN in December 2014, and I work with other partners on the management team.

Boston, Ma, Us

Took FDN from a concept through Seeding, A Round, and Exit. FDN – a rapidly growing dual sided private network – was the hub for permissioned due diligence information and workflow tools for many of the largest firms in the hedge fund industry.Were one of five teams out of 200 to be accepted into the Fresh Pond Partners accelerator program. Raised capital, hired and worked with gifted developers, captured users from most of the to 100 hedge funds and institutional investors, and successfully exited via a sale to Novus in December of 2014.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

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