Saffron Technology Taps Gary Jones to Head Government Business Unit
North Carolina-based Saffron Technology today announced the promotion of MGen (USA Ret) Gary M. Jones, former head of the U. S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne), to Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the company's newly established Government Solutions business unit.
Research Triangle Park, NC (PRWEB) November 20, 2008 -- Saffron Technology, Inc., the leader in associative memory analytic solutions, announced the promotion of Major General Gary M. Jones (U.S. Army) to Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Saffron's Government Solutions Business. In this role, Mr. Jones continues his current leadership responsibilities for Government Sales and will oversee the operations and direction of this strategic business unit as it continues to deliver next-generation solutions for investigative and predictive analytics to government organizations.
"We're honored to have General Jones on staff, offering his great customer knowledge and experienced leadership to Saffron," says Dr. Manuel Aparicio, Saffron's CEO. "His role in leading a very special team in our Government Solutions Business Unit further solidifies our commitment to customer missions. Under Mike's direction, this unit will be even more tuned and responsive to our customers' highest needs. I am delighted by this promotion and the continued honor to have Mike on board."
Gen. Jones joined Saffron in January 2008 as Senior Vice President of Sales responsible for leading Saffron's government sales and business development initiatives. With over 28 years Military experience, Jones has managed programs and deployments at the national and international levels, with extensive operational expertise in Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, the Caribbean, Central America and the Middle East. Previous roles include Deputy Director of Military Operations for the Central Intelligence Agencies Counter Terrorism Center as a principal advisor to the Director, Sub-Unified Commander of Special Operations Command Europe and Commander of the United States Army Special Forces Command, a 9,700-person force with worldwide responsibility for fighting the Global War on Terrorism.
Prior to joining Saffron, Jones served as Senior Vice President for Performance Materials, Inc. a company providing armor solutions and security solutions for the Department of Defense. Jones is an alumnus of Louisiana State University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the Army War College and the Conflict Management and Negotiation programs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Readers can view a free, interesting and informative, 30-minute interview with MG (USA Ret) Mike Jones, in which he talks about SaffronAnalyst 5.3 and actionable intelligence from a soldier's perspective. Conducted by Saffron Technology CEO Dr. Manuel Aparicio, the interview focuses on supporting professionals on the front lines whether military, law enforcement, or first responders. Viewers can hear Jones and Aparicio discuss how to:
| | - meet the needs of the intelligence community in wartime,
- improve collaboration between geographically distributed analysts,
- distinguish between good intelligence and bad,
- realize the benefits of database assimilation vs. database accretion,
- address the changes in intelligence information with alerts to tell you what's new AND interesting.
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The free video can be downloaded in three ten-minute segments at Aparicio / Jones Interview: Getting Quickly to Actionable Intelligence.
About Saffron Technology:
Saffron Technology's Natural Analytic solutions for government and business meet and exceed the needs of organizations challenged by massive volumes of structured and unstructured data stored in multiple sources that require unified analysis in order to achieve their objective. Saffron dramatically reduces the time to get to "actionable intelligence" with their SaffronAnalyst™ and SaffronMemoryBase™. Government agencies in national security and businesses in highly competitive and risk-intensive markets rely on Saffron to help them ask the right questions and find the unknown unknowns in their data.
Company headquarters are in Research Triangle, North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.SaffronTech.com or call 1-866-472-3376.
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