California just implemented MANDATORY reporting of Parkinsons disease.
WHY?
"Liddle" Bob Corker…
Any red flags here?
Qadium Leadership Team
Dr. Tim Junio | Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman
Tim has over a decade of operational and academic experience in cybersecurity and large-scale distributed sensing. Prior to co-founding Qadium, he worked at DARPA, RAND Corporation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and CIA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and remains an affiliate, occasionally lecturing and mentoring students on cybersecurity. Tim holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Matt Kraning | Co-Founder, CTO & Director
Matt is an expert in large-scale optimization, distributed sensing, and machine learning algorithms run on massively parallel systems. Prior to co-founding Qadium, Matt worked for DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan. Matt holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, all from Stanford University.
Greg Toto | VP, Product
Greg joined Qadium with over 20 years of experience building enterprise products, most recently at Apteligent (acquired by VMware). Prior to Apteligent, Greg held management, product, and engineering roles at Moka5, Quantivo, IBM, and BigFix (acquired by IBM). Greg holds his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Carnegie Mellon.
Anthony Narducci | VP, Sales
Anthony joined Qadium with over 17 years of enterprise sales experience, most recently as VP of Sales at ThousandEyes, where he was responsible for leading worldwide field operations and solutions engineering. Prior to ThousandEyes, Anthony held various sales management and sales roles in early-stage and midsize companies, including ClearSlide, Meraki (acquired by Cisco), Aruba Networks (acquired by HPE), and Savvius. Anthony received his MBA at UC Davis and his Bachelor’s at Clemson.
Dan Quinlan | VP, Finance and Operations
Dan joined Qadium from Dropbox, where he worked on the Strategic Finance team. Prior to Dropbox, Dan worked at Meraki (acquired by Cisco). He began his career in investment banking, and received his Bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania.
Our Story
The original co-founders of Qadium — Matt Kraning, Shaun Maguire, Joe Meyerowitz, and Tim Junio – met while working at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm known for world-changing technology breakthroughs like the Internet, the GPS, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. With roots in foundational research and development, Qadium was established in 2012 with a simple yet lofty vision to assemble a small team of algorithms experts to prototype new technologies involving three common factors: massive scale data, advanced computational methods, and a high ratio of impact to likelihood-of-success. There was no plan for a commercial product offering, just raw tech. Over the next 3 years, Qadium secured over $12 million in competitively bid contract awards from DARPA based on the technical rigor and originality of its prototyping proposals.
In 2013, Tim and Matt recognized an important problem faced by large organizations, and realized that a solution might be possible. Large organizations could not thoroughly understand their computer networks due to high degrees of complexity, interdependence, and porousness. They also recognized this problem would only continue to get worse with the explosion of IoT devices, BYOD, shadow IT, and migration to cloud services. Consequently, Qadium wrote a proposal for DARPA to fund experimentation of a software architecture that could monitor the entire surface area of the global Internet and automatically generate analytic results about connected devices. In short, why have people monitor an imprecise map of one network (the state of the art at the time) when you could have computers monitor the entire Internet?
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Our Story (cont)
With a small team of engineers from Stanford, MIT, and Caltech, Qadium built a prototype of a persistent Internet monitoring platform. Initial testing resulted in the discovery of major Internet backbone security risks that could, if exploited by hostile actors, have resulted in a disruption of a substantial fraction of global Internet services. Convinced that the solution had merits, Qadium ran similar tests against large organizations. Just as expected, Qadium discovered network vulnerabilities that big companies and government agencies were unaware of, and devices they did not know were connected to the global Internet. Qadium began selling insightful external network exposure reports generated by the solution to large enterprises. This solution would later morph into today’s automated platform.
The idea that “the Internet is now small” and could be monitored in real time was perceived as potentially game-changing by top tier venture capitalists, including legendary early stage investor Peter Thiel, who led the first money in. The initial rounds of funding helped accelerate Qadium’s progress in bringing a product to market atop the core technology platform. Qadium capitalized on these investments to build Expander, a web-based user interface to empower the whole range of large enterprise users to explore their global Internet data, and to surface results “automagically” without their having to know what keywords to search on.
In the first year of having Expander on the market, Qadium closed sales with multiple Fortune 10 companies and enterprise customers in diverse sectors including banking, payment processing, information technology manufacturing, industrial site construction, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and retail. Our national security roots have also grown; Qadium is under contract with large US government agencies, including US Cyber Command, the US military’s preeminent cyber operational organization. We routinely surface information for our enterprise and government customers that they could not have found using labor or any other commercial software product.
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Ok so random contribution due to activated almonds while workfagging.
You Are Not Your Brain
Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz one of the world’s leading experts in neuroplasticity and the co-founder of the NeuroLeadership field, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz is a sought after speaker, best selling author, advisor to the film industry and consultant to organizations.
(DiCaprio pic related)
Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz is a research psychiatrist at the School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles and one of the world’s leading experts in neuroplasticity.
Decades ago, he began to study the philosophy of conscious awareness, the idea that the actions of the mind have an effect on the workings of the brain. Jeff’s breakthrough work in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) provided the hard evidence that the mind can control the brain’s chemistry. He has lectured extensively to both professional and lay audiences in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Digs on MKUltra programming mentions UCLA and "doctors".
Worth digging moar?
https://jeffreymschwartz.com/
Walmart, who put thousands of mom and pop stores out of business…
'Walmart Asks Some Beauty Suppliers to Consider Sourcing Outside of China
WALMART INC has asked some beauty suppliers to consider sourcing products from outside China, as it looks for ways to mitigate the impact of a new set of tariffs on Chinese products proposed by the Trump administration.
In an email sent to some beauty suppliers on Aug. 7, seen by Reuters, the retailer asks if they have facilities outside China, and if not, whether they would consider investing in them, to broaden their sourcing ability.
Many cosmetics products like shampoos, lipsticks and makeup fall under the most recent list of proposed levies on Chinese goods.
Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove did not comment on the letter. He directed Reuters to Chief Financial Officer Brett Bigg's statement on the trade tariff issue when Walmart announced quarterly results on Thursday.
Biggs told Reuters the potential impact of tariffs is difficult to quantify. He also said that one of the mitigation strategies for the retailer is understanding what suppliers' plans and alternatives are for sourcing.
"We are closely monitoring the tariff discussions and are actively working on mitigation strategies, particularly in light of potentially escalating duties," he said.
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-08-17/walmart-asks-some-beauty-suppliers-to-consider-sourcing-outside-of-china
NRA wins Washington case, stops gun control initiative from going to ballot
Organizers behind gun control Initiative 1639 did not comply with state signature gathering rules, according to a Thurston County superior court judge who ruled in favor of the NRA Friday. I-1639 will now be removed from the November ballot.
“The National Rifle Association is glad to see the court today recognized how negligent, if not worse, gun control advocates were in their signature-gathering for this ill-advised ballot initiative,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA.Gun rights advocates protested the manner in which I-1639 collected signatures in Washington state. Secretary of State Kim Wyman even commented that her office has never seen an initiative effort conducted in such a way — with tiny font, and without clear indications of how the initiative would change existing law.
“We’ve gone back and looked at initiatives that have been submitted before – we’ve never seen one with this format,” Wyman previously told KTTH Radio’s Todd Herman. “They literally included word-for-word everything they submitted when they first turned in their initiative. All the words are there, but it’s the way and the manner in which they presented them that is different … It’s the way they are presented that can be confusing to some.”
https://mynorthwest.com/1083992/nra-lawsuit-win-i-1639/?show=comments#comments