David Cahn
As vice president of product strategy, David Cahn drives solutions for development through sales, marketing and services; helping execute the manufacturing, supply chain management and customer relationship management (CRM) road map by identifying marketing campaigns for sales and lead generation, among other things.
Cahn is a veteran of the software industry with strong business development,M&A skills and deep domain expertise across multiple industry verticals. Prior to CDC Software, he was;owner of Y2g Associates LLC, where he assisted software companies with capital funding, M&A, product strategies, and channel development. A former research director at AMR (Advanced Manufacturing Research), a leading industry market research firm, Cahn previously held managing director positions at KPMG LLP and Answerthink, and held several executive roles at Computer Associates. Cahn is a hands-on individual who is well known to press, analysts, software organizations and consortiums. He also has actively participated on software industry panels and conference key notes, relating to directions in distributed computing architectures and enterprise-wide supply-chain management.
Cahn has a B.S. in Business Administration and a strong minor in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.
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