Our people and culture make the difference. With more than 20 years’ experience leading product strategy and high performing teams, we have a track record of introducing award-winning innovations that create real value for our partners.

Matthew Cascio, Founder & CTO
Matthew Cascio

Matthew leads innovation and product strategy for some of the world’s top brands. He holds an award-winning track record of driving top-line growth and successfully adopting emerging technologies, including AI, cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, observability, and DevSecOps. Beyond the technology, Matthew is a dedicated people leader focused on building high-performing teams.

Matthew earned and an MBA from the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He is graduated with a BA in International Economics from Columbia University where he founded the International Students Coalition and earned a Varsity C in Football. While a student at Columbia, Matthew spent a year as a Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Previously, Matthew attended the prestigious Brooks School, an independent secondary school in North Andover, Massachusetts, where among other achievements, he earned the Samantha Smith Scholarship Foundation award as an inaugural participant in the first high school exchange between the United States and Hungary.

Matthew enjoys varied personal and recreational interests, including single-handed sailing and playing guitar. He resides in the high-tech mecca of Northern Virginia’s data center alley with his wife, daughter and three dogs.

ABOUT NāOM (“nay-AWM”)

Inspiration for our corporate culture and commitment to insightful analysis comes from Alaghom, the name of a Mesoamerican goddess, particularly with the Tzeltal people of the Mayan civilization, whose name means “bearer, goddess with children”, considered to be part of their mythological creator couple and when combined with the title naom, meaning “to spin” (as in spin cotton or thread), she’s known as the “Mother-of-Mind,” representing consciousness, thought, wisdom, and the creation of human intellectual abilities, often depicted as a source of wisdom for scholars. [1] [2]