Boston, MA -- (SBWire) -- 02/11/2014 --The Cavan Group is pleased to announce five new employees recently hired for key positions at the professional services company; Senior Project Managers, John Manning, Stephen Harlow and Victor Caggiano; Project Manager, Itesh Shah and Assistant Project Manager, Anna Evans. These new hires have occurred over the past several months in response to Cavan’s success and the continued growth of their client portfolio.

“We are excited to have these highly qualified professionals joining our team,” said John Martin, President of The Cavan Group. “Each brings a depth of industry experience that will ensure our ability to continue to provide exceptional service for our clients.”

John Manning comes to The Cavan Group with over 20 years of experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Data Center Operations and Data Center Administration and Expansion. He will serve as a Senior Project Manager for Cavan. Previously John was a Sr. Project Manager with EMC Consulting and prior to that an Associate Partner at Harvard Partners, Management Consulting specializing in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Operational Resilience.

John has also held positions at Wellington Management Company, LLP, State Street Bank, The Boston Company and State Street Global Advisors.

Stephen Harlow also joins The Cavan Group as Senior Project Manager, bringing 15 years of experience in project management and software development. Recently Global Project Manager for Dentsply Implants, he has extensive experience in partnering with technical experts to understand applications architecture, interdependencies and constraints. Prior to that, Stephen was Project Manager for Axeda Corporation, working for their divisions in Italy and Austria.

Victor Caggiano is joining Cavan as Senior Project Manager with 12 years of IT experience, including data center management, corporate IT strategy/execution and Project Management skills. Prior to joining Cavan, Victor worked at Alan Gray, Inc., an international financial services and insurance consulting firm, as the Director of Information Technology where he not only managed the organization’s network infrastructure and data center, but also performed as a Program Manager for a number of consulting projects with leading insurers and Fortune 500 companies.

Itesh Shah joined the Cavan Group as Project Manager with 14 years of experience in IT Infrastructure management. Most recently Itesh worked for Network Health in Boston and has managed projects in a variety of enterprises, including healthcare, retail, and government. These projects included the planning and management of data center migrations, IT business continuity planning, IT DR infrastructure build and application testing, network monitoring, IT infrastructure assessment and application migration.

And finally, Anna Evans is joining Cavan as an Assistant Project Manager. She recently got her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University’s College of Engineering after previously graduating Cum Laude from Boston University with a BS in Electrical Engineering.

The Cavan Group is a Boston-based professional services firm specializing in IT Project Management and Consulting and is one of the most respected and competent organizations in the technology services arena. The company was founded in 1994 and has four main Practice Areas: Data Center Services, Disaster Recovery/BCP, IT Project Management and IT Consulting & Advisory Services.

For more information visit http://www.cavangroup.com/ or contact COO Judy Skeffington at jskeffington@cavangroup.com