ABOUT US

Technical and Creative.  Lifelong Learners.

Innovative.  Collaborative and Result-oriented.

Developing and delivering technical training solutions of every scale imaginable to financial and technology giants worldwide, IT Mentors has been training for over 20 years in all kinds of modalities from traditional instructor-led training to animated videos for wide distribution.  We guide students through end-to-end technology projects, helping them learn how to become successful members of successful technology teams.

LEADERSHIP

TIM KASHANI

As co-founder of IT Mentors and of Apples and Oranges Arts with his wife, Broadway actress Pamela Winslow Kashani, Tim creates work environments where people with diverse artistic and technical skills unite to create innovative and entertaining products in business and the arts.

With IT Mentors, Tim designs global technology training solutions, helping major corporations understand and apply training and technology to increase business productivity, and providing meaningful advice to CEOs, senior executives, and business leaders. Always eager to learn and share his technical knowledge, Tim co-authored or contributed to several books including PerformancePoint Services 2010 Unleashed (SAMS), Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Wiley), and Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution (Wiley).

Tim believes that technology and the arts should work hand-in-hand to move people forward. Fostering new Tech and Arts startups, Tim incubates ideas that exponentially foster a collaborative learning environment through human driven stories.

Tim has used his passion for both theater and technology to co-found Apples and Oranges Arts. His vision was to create an incubator for new musicals, Tim and his team created THEatre ACCELERATOR, seeking to apply the methods, processes, and mindset of the startup world to the performing arts. This includes data-driven ticket sales, marketing, and social media, and most importantly, a call to rethink the entire developmental and distribution cycle of new stories and explorations in how AR/VR/MR expand past the fourth wall.

In addition to his non-profit work, Tim’s production company, now called Apples and Oranges Studios, develops new works for stage and screen. Chief visionary and CEO for the company, Tim also writes, directs, and produces company projects.

Tim graduated from the University of California at Irvine with a Bachelor of Sciences in Information and Computer Sciences, later returning to finish his M.B.A. there. He also holds a M.F.A. in Film Production, with a specialization in directing from Chapman University.

TIM KASHANI

As co-founder of IT Mentors and of Apples and Oranges Arts with his wife, Broadway actress Pamela Winslow Kashani, Tim creates work environments where people with diverse artistic and technical skills unite to create innovative and entertaining products in business and the arts.

With IT Mentors, Tim designs global technology training solutions, helping major corporations understand and apply training and technology to increase business productivity, and providing meaningful advice to CEOs, senior executives, and business leaders. Always eager to learn and share his technical knowledge, Tim co-authored or contributed to several books including PerformancePoint Services 2010 Unleashed (SAMS), Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Wiley), and Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution (Wiley).

Tim believes that technology and the arts should work hand-in-hand to move people forward. Fostering new Tech and Arts startups, Tim incubates ideas that exponentially foster a collaborative learning environment through human driven stories.

Tim has used his passion for both theater and technology to co-found Apples and Oranges Arts. His vision was to create an incubator for new musicals, Tim and his team created THEatre ACCELERATOR, seeking to apply the methods, processes, and mindset of the startup world to the performing arts. This includes data-driven ticket sales, marketing, and social media, and most importantly, a call to rethink the entire developmental and distribution cycle of new stories and explorations in how AR/VR/MR expand past the fourth wall.

In addition to his non-profit work, Tim’s production company, now called Apples and Oranges Studios, develops new works for stage and screen. Chief visionary and CEO for the company, Tim also writes, directs, and produces company projects.

Tim graduated from the University of California at Irvine with a Bachelor of Sciences in Information and Computer Sciences, later returning to finish his M.B.A. there. He also holds a M.F.A. in Film Production, with a specialization in directing from Chapman University.

PAMELA KASHANI

As an actor Pamela has created such varied roles from Ensign McKnight on Star Trek: The Next Generation to the original Rapunzel in Into the Woods on Broadway. Also, on Broadway Pamela played Lucille in Meet Me in St. Louis, Babette (the feather duster) in Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella in Into the Woods. In addition to her roles on Broadway, Pamela has played leading roles at many regional theaters and has made many TV guest appearances as well as hosting her own TV show, Arts Coast to Coast. Change Happens, her one-woman stage show, has played across the country, and her CD of the same name is available on cdbaby.com. Her show Love and Sax premiered on both coasts and she recently headlined on the Disney Magic. Embarking on a new hybrid of theatre and film, Pamela played Mrs. Weston in the musical film Emma which is available to stream @emmathemusical.com. She is continuing to explore this new model with No One Called Ahead, playing Bernice. Next up, Pamela is developing the role of Minerva in The Next Fairy Tale.

As a producer, Pamela won a Drama Desk Award for the Broadway revival of Hair in 2009, gained another Drama Desk, an Outer Critic’s Circle and Tony Award for the Best Musical Memphis in 2010, and co-produced the four-time Tony winner An American in Paris, which is currently playing in Tokyo. For the past few years she has been flexing her musical muscles in a new way as composer and lyricist for the musical Higher Education.