Katano Kasaine
Director
Katano Kasaine serves as the Director of Finance/Treasurer for the City of Oakland overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Finance Department which includes the Treasury Bureau, Controller’s Bureau, Budget Bureau, and Revenue Management Bureau. She has over 22 years of high-level organizational management experience in a wide range of municipal government including areas of fiscal management, personnel administration and information technology. In this capacity, she managed the City’s investments, debt, fiscal controls and strategies, and preserved the City’s strong credit ratings from national credit rating agencies during a decade of challenging budgets and through the global recession and most recently got a rating upgrade to AA which is just one notch below AAA rating. She has also led or played a key role in various high profile organizational efforts critical to local government performance.