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CAST Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Lev Lesokhin, EVP of Strategy and Analytics at CAST, has joined APMdigest's Vendor Forum.

Lesokhin is responsible for CAST's technical direction, software analytics, thought leadership and product strategy. He serves on the boards of industry standards consortia and is deeply involved in security, architecture, and development governance topics with CAST’s largest customers. Lesokhin comes to CAST from SAP, where he was a Senior Director in the rollout of the company’s first SaaS product. Prior to SAP, he was one of the leaders of the Applications Executive Council at CEB, where he worked with heads of applications at Fortune 1000 companies to identify best management practices. Lesokhin also served three years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, dealing with issues of business and tech strategy, IT management, metrics and outsourcing. He began his career as a Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation before moving to the private sector, where he spent several years as a software developer and managing engineering programs for a regional systems integrator. Lesokhin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

CAST is a provider of Software Intelligence. Backed by almost $200 million in R&D, CAST technology drives IT automation at the world’s largest systems integrators and generates insight into complex systems by scanning and understanding software structure, architecture and composition. Customers rely on CAST to make fact-based decisions, see their architectures, detect security threats and ensure the safety and soundness of business applications and software products.

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CAST Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Lev Lesokhin, EVP of Strategy and Analytics at CAST, has joined APMdigest's Vendor Forum.

Lesokhin is responsible for CAST's technical direction, software analytics, thought leadership and product strategy. He serves on the boards of industry standards consortia and is deeply involved in security, architecture, and development governance topics with CAST’s largest customers. Lesokhin comes to CAST from SAP, where he was a Senior Director in the rollout of the company’s first SaaS product. Prior to SAP, he was one of the leaders of the Applications Executive Council at CEB, where he worked with heads of applications at Fortune 1000 companies to identify best management practices. Lesokhin also served three years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, dealing with issues of business and tech strategy, IT management, metrics and outsourcing. He began his career as a Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation before moving to the private sector, where he spent several years as a software developer and managing engineering programs for a regional systems integrator. Lesokhin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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