Call HOB a conspiracy theorist if you must but it does put the scares on us when we see how easily corporate USA and the militrary and intelligence communities get along . Not saying there’s a blanket evil going on here but when we see the words information and military & intelligence “community” in the same sentence alarm bells ring in a Burroughs Orwell sort of way.
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Anyway here’s the press release
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ObjectFX Appoints Bill Pardue Chief Executive Officer
Bill Pardue to lead geospatial intelligence solutions provider, ObjectFX.
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Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) September 20, 2011
ObjectFX, a leading provider of geospatial intelligence solutions, today announced that Bill Pardue has been named Chief Executive Officer.
Bill brings more than 25 years of general management, product development and marketing experience to ObjectFX in the information-technology and publishing sectors, ranging from multi-billion-dollar global enterprises to startups. He also is a partner in TransVoyant LLC, the Alexandria-based private equity firm that purchased ObjectFX earlier this summer.
In his new role, Mr. Pardue will lead the company in identifying market needs in the defense, intelligence, security and transportation logistics sectors, and decide how ObjectFX solutions can best fill those needs through the advancement of new and enhanced technologies, partnerships and through acquisitions.
?Bill brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in building outstanding decision-support information products,? said Tim Fleischer, Chairman of ObjectFX. ?His strong leadership, business management background and market knowledge will help both accelerate ObjectFX?s growth and support our customers in delivering on their missions.?
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Pardue previously was President & CEO of LexisNexis for its corporate and federal markets in the United States and also the Chief Global Product Officer for LexisNexis worldwide. He organized and launched the LexisNexis Risk Solutions business unit and also LexisNexis Special Services Inc.
In 2005, Pardue founded Qbase LLC, which delivers data-analytics solutions to the U.S. intelligence community, military services and federal agencies. Bill also served previously as president of Gartner Intelligence, a unit of global IT market research firm Gartner Inc., and was director of marketing for The Washington Post. He formerly practiced law in Washington, D.C.
?It?s great to join ObjectFX at such a strategic time in its development,? said Pardue. ?The company has a fantastic track record in delivering unique tools to integrate, dynamically analyze, and make sense out of massive volumes of geospatial data. I look forward to working with Tim and the rest of the team as we invest in ObjectFX solutions and advance the company to its next phase of growth.?
Pardue is a member of the Trust Committee of the Miriam Rosenthal Memorial Trust Fund and of the American Bar Association and District of Columbia Bar Association. He is a magna cum laude graduate of McNeese State University. Mr. Pardue previously served on the founding Executive Board for the Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology and on the Board of Directors of Congressional Information Service Inc.
