Norm Kashdan
Chief Technology Officer

 

 

 

Norm Kashdan has been the Chief Technology Officer at Phios Corporation for over 10 years.  He is a software technologist with over 30 years of experience in knowledge engineering, software strategy, software development, software engineering process, and software project management.  Mr. Kashdan has worked in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, military, aerospace, and consumer products.  Kashdan has successfully led numerous projects that produced software solutions that include health care portals, process repositories, health insurance systems, and the development of a semantic network and language for representing health insurance plans and provider contracts.

Mr. Kashdan’s work puts him at the nexus of technology and business.  He combines a deep knowledge of technology with an understanding of business systems and principles.  He currently assists companies in codifying their business knowledge and processes in order to invent, automate, and implement new business platforms and solutions.

He was the founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of Metacine, Inc., a firm that designed and built a next-generation system for automatically adjudicating complex contracts in the health insurance industry to support e-commerce.  Mr. Kashdan has worked for such diverse organizations as the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Energy, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Xerox Corporation, New England Business Systems (NEBS), eHealthDirect (deNovis), Proctor & Gamble, and Health Dialog.

Mr. Kashdan earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science at the City College of New York.