Rob Woodward, M.A., M.S.
President

The Katana team is led by its CEO Rob Woodward. Mr. Woodward has over 24 years experience in software engineering, hands-on development and consulting spanning product R&D, applications development, and advanced enterprise systems deployment in several vertical industries including Financial Systems, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Health Care, and Biotechnology.  Recognized as a senior technology executive and consultant, Mr. Woodward has served as the CTO of several client and partnering companies to assist with specific product development efforts.  He holds a Bachelors degree in Neurobiology from the University of California Riverside and Masters degrees from USC and Pepperdine in Systems Management and Clinical Research Methodology/Statistics.  Mr. Woodward is a charter member of the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's program in Software Process Maturity, serving as a traveling national consultant for Carnegie Mellon's software auditing council for over 5 years.  In addition, Mr. Woodward has held seats on several national level technology boards including InfoTest, the nation's leading Internet Commerce Consortium and has served as the national technology committee lead for Reserve Preparers for the nation's largest community management trade association; CAI.