Career
Cachette has published several books and writings regarding software contracts, software development, and early stage startup investing. Active in both the New York City and Silicon Valley startup communities, Cachette has been recognized for her work in both ecosystems as a developer, investor and leader in the female tech communities particularly with Women2.0. Born in Martinez, California, Cachette was raised with her father who contracted Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the early 1980s as part of a group of Hemophiliacs who were infected by recalled pharmaceutical products.
The recall, widely known in the medical communities, affected 20,000 American hemophiliacs and 100,000 worldwide and settled in 1997 for $660MM in damages to be paid to over 6,000 victims by Bayer Pharmaceutical and 3 other makers.
A single father, Terry Stogdell raised Cachette for most of her childhood before passing away due to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome complications in 2002. A notable Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome activist, Stogdell is well regarded as a public health advocate and part of the founding medical marijuana movement and crucial to gained support of California Proposition 215 in 1996.
These early years of struggle and concern over public health shaped Cachette in her philanthropic endeavors and active roles advising the Food and Drug Administration. A technical project manager by trade, Cachette led several large scale software developments in the early 2000s that shaped how health insurance and financial operating systems worked.
