Principal Biography

30 years experience...

Herbert Cano, President of CAVU Consulting LLC, has thirty years of hands-on management experience.  Mr. Cano is an innovative, results-oriented leader with a demonstrated ability to complete complex projects in a timely and effective manner.  A proven communicator with all levels of management, Mr. Cano has established a consulting track record in transitional situations requiring proactive leadership, vision, and fast and successful implementation. 

Mr. Cano's consulting experience encompasses government, large international corporations, small companies, non-profits and entrepreneurial startups.  Using his proven project management methodology, he has been able to consistently meet the clients’ desired results within the allotted timeframes and under budget.

During the last fourteen years, Mr. Cano’s consulting efforts for major institutions, smaller companies and entrepreneurs includes:

• Business/Operations reengineering,

• Process, SLA and metrics development,

• New Product Development in chip-based and automated services,

• Strategic Planning for Internet and non-Internet services,

• Business Plans and Pro-Forma Financials,

• Risk Management

• Divestiture/IPO project management,

• Major litigation project management,

• Investor sourcing for Start-ups, and

• Financial restructuring of ailing companies.

Prior to providing management consulting services, Mr. Cano was a corporate executive.  As turnaround CFO of a $22 million revenue generating computer services company, Mr. Cano financially reversed a more than two year loss trend within thirteen months, saving the company from bankruptcy.  As Managing Director of a corporate finance boutique, Mr. Cano was in charge of providing corporate finance services to start-ups, middle-market companies, and financial institutions.  As Chief Operating Officer of a Silicon Valley manufacturer, Mr. Cano strategically restructured the company and doubled revenues within a two-year period.

Mr. Cano began his career with Bank of America as a Credit Officer and rose to CFO and Chief Administrative Officer of BA Capital Markets Group, the bank’s then $4 billion investment banking unit.  In 1982, during his tenure with Bank of America, Mr. Cano was selected by Governor Brown as one of 12 individuals to serve as a Governor’s Executive Fellow.  Working with the Pension Investment Unit within the Governor's Office, Mr. Cano was involved in innovative strategies to foster new technology utilizing public pension funds, and in the development of  legislation that allowed public pension funds greater investment latitude resulting in the quadrupling of the funds’ investment returns.

Mr. Cano holds an MBA in Finance and International Marketing from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Marketing from San Jose State University. Mr. Cano is fluent in Spanish.