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Kate Cassino is a Chief Executive Officer at Fusable based in New York City Metropolitan Area, United States, North America. Accomplished strategic and operational leader with consistent success delivering growth, driving turnarounds and transforming cultures in diverse environments – from large publicly traded corporations to mid-size private equity backed portfolio companies. Experience with both B2B and B2C businesses. - Strategic Leadership: As appointed CEO, led process to re-shape Hobsons’ portfolio to focus on high growth businesses. Led divestiture of non-core product lines. Developed strategy and implemented plan to return business to EBITDA growth and secure position as leader in K-12 and Higher Education student success sectors. - M&A Transactions: Led successful sale of Hobsons to Vista Equity-backed PowerSchool and EAB, in two transactions, totaling $410M (3.7x revenue and 22x EBITDA). Executed all aspects of the $320M sale of Dodge Data & Analytics to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group. Identified/actively pursued numerous acquisition targets. - Financial Management: Transformed cultures to become performance/metrics based. At Hobsons, streamlined organization identifying 12% annual expense savings. At Dodge, developed capital allocation strategy, increased automation of data collection and drove other cost reduction initiatives to increase EBITDA 17 points. - Growth Accelerator: Achieved CAGR of 10% on organic revenue and +20% on EBITDA at Hobsons. Evolved products from low-cost, niche, single-point solutions to holistic, premium offerings. Developed go-to-market strategy targeting largest 25 U.S. school districts resulting in 60% penetration. - Functional Diversity: Diverse and unique management background in leadership positions including CEO, COO, President, CIO, and head of Product Development & Sales.