Executive Team

Cassaundra Howell

President and Chief Executive Officer

She is a business executive with over 22 years of experience successfully leading teams, forging synergies, and maximizing organization-wide goals. From managing multi-billion-dollar budgets to strategic planning with Lean transformations, she is credited for wide-ranging experiences in Human Resources, Information Technology, Contract Management, Financial Management and Organization-wide Change Management. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Real Estate and Sustainability from New York University and a Master of Finance Degree from Pace University.

She previously held the position of Partner and Chief Financial Officer at Ichor Strategies where she worked in tandem with the CEO to set and drive the business’ vision and operational strategy by expanding the organization’s footprint nationally, formulating new business policies and adopting new technology.

Cassaundra also held the positions of Director of Discretionary Procurement and Assistant Comptroller at the NYS Governors’ Office of Storm Recovery where she had a direct role in managing HUD’s Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting System, maintaining HUD compliance for community development block grant funds and overseeing the financial management and budgeting of recovery funds totaling $4.2 billion dollars.