Catherine Powell

Catherine Powell is a principal at Abakas, a software consulting firm. Her focus is on helping clients effectively build and use their technology organizations to further their strategic goals. Prior to Abakas, she worked at a number of Boston-area software firms, and spoke and wrote extensively on software development methodologies. Catherine is a member of the Board of Governors of the Handel & Haydn Society, and is active in several other New England non-profit organizations. She can frequently be found in the history section at the Athenaeum, parsing political science journals from the 1960s, or browsing 1930s detective novels. She holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in Boston with her husband Dan (also a member).