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Digital Reasoning Names Metcalf as New President and Chief Operating Officer
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Jan. 26, 2010 – Digital Reasoning® Systems Inc., the intelligence-software innovator, recently announced that Robert “Rob” Metcalf has joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Metcalf will be responsible for the company’s business and sales strategy.
Prior to joining Digital Reasoning, Metcalf helped build software and information services businesses for LexisNexis in Mexico City, Toronto and Raleigh. As Vice President, Metcalf oversaw numerous acquisitions and key investments at the forefront of the company’s solution strategy. Prior to LexisNexis, Metcalf worked in Boston and San Francisco with The Parthenon Group, a strategy consultancy. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his AB, Summa Cum Laude, from Princeton University.
When asked why he joined the Digital Reasoning team, Metcalf said, “I firmly believe in Digital Reasoning’s mission to build intuitive tools to help understand the world’s data. With nearly a decade of experience combating one of the intelligence community’s toughest problems—culling actionable data in real time from millions of documents—Digital Reasoning is poised to take a leadership role in the next wave of search, discovery and understanding. Against the backdrop of the acute problem of information overload, I am excited to join a world-class team and deliver Digital…
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Former US Air Force Chief Information Officer Joins Digital Reasoning as Special Advisor
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FRANKLIN, Tennessee – Feb. 4, 2010 – Digital Reasoning® Systems Inc., the intelligence-software innovator, today announced that Gen. William “Tom” Hobbins has joined the company as a special advisor. Hobbins retired from the United States Air Force as Commander, US Air Forces in Europe. He previously served, among many other notable positions, as Deputy Chief of Staff for War Fighting Integration and as the US Air Force’s Chief Information Officer. As the Chief Information Officer, Gen. Hobbins developed and implemented the Air Force’s roadmap for networks enabling predictive battle-space awareness and targeting.
“As the former Chief Information Officer for the United States Air Force, one of my great passions became knowledge management. The future lies in tying disparate databases into fuzed, consumable and structured information that yields decision superiority. Given that we have created digital landfills, with all the data we indiscriminately placed in storage, it must be transformed and made discoverable in actionable terms for decision makers. Digital Reasoning goes beyond knowledge management into knowledge discovery – being able to extrapolate meaning from unstructured data”, said Hobbins.
In his role with Digital Reasoning, Hobbins will advise on applications for Digital Reasoning’s technology in the defense and intelligence community. When asked…



