Steven Asherman
President and Chief Technology Officer
Base One International Corp
Steven Asherman has over 25 years of software development experience and is recognized in the industry for his inventions in fault tolerant grid computing and database technologies. He has a U.S. Patent for high
precision database arithmetic and a Patent Pending for secure, high performance, data access across the Internet and scalable, fault tolerant, grid computing.

Mr. Asherman founded Base One in 1993 to create a new breed of commercial database applications and the programming tools to build them. His work with large customers led to innovative approaches for doing distributed
computing and for exploiting the under-utilized capacity in customers' IT infrastructure, resulting in the current Base One grid computing software.

Mr. Asherman's specialties are designing, programming and leading the development of large-scale, high
security, database and grid computing, financial applications. Clients have included: Aetna, Citibank, Cigna, Columbia Pictures, Deutsche Bank, Gray Hawk Systems, Honeywell, IBM, Manufacturers Hanover, Marsh & McLennan, MCI, WorldCom, Morgan Guaranty and The New York Times. Most recently, he assisted Gray Hawk Systems, a military contractor, in its counter terrorism security reviews of Niagara Mohawk Power and National Grid USA, and in the Critical Infrastructure Initiative of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Mr. Asherman has a Computer Science degree from Columbia University; he is on the board of directors of the New York Software Industry Association.