F4 Appoints Jon Sather As Data Intelligence Expert
Expanding its leadership team to apply big data analytics to open source intelligence, F4 adds Sather, a former Senior Intelligence Service Executive of the Central Intelligence Agency
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17 – AUSTIN, TX
F4, a strategic IT Services leader, announced today that Jon Sather has been added to its leadership team. Sather will manage big data service and product initiatives of F4 in the intelligence and defense markets. As the company enters 2017 with plans to expand its service offerings, Sather is key to creating a modern commercial intelligence practice.
“The intelligence community and market is changing,” says Sather. “Unclassified and open source data is no longer considered supplemental to classified data. Processing high volumes of open source data and fusing it with classified and other unclassified sources will be a game changer. The technical expertise at F4 can make this vision a reality.”
Jon has served the United States for over 30 years, with 25 years at the CIA in numerous leadership roles. Sather led CIA’s Counterproliferation Center, an interagency center comprised of talented analysts, technicians, operations officers, and detailees. Obtaining necessary and mission-critical information for these teams meant reliance upon trusted and sophisticated IT solutions to search, identify, gather, collate and structure large volumes of diverse sources of information. The F4 vision is to bring that world-class approach to the private sector with the additional value that machine learning and big data analytics can provide.
“Sather’s track record of successfully leading intelligence teams to manage physical, geopolitical, and organizational risk will provide valuable direction to service and product offerings,” stated Frank Quatro, F4 President. “By pairing Jon with our technical expertise in data science and analytics, F4 will provide an innovative solution to the commercial intelligence market.”
Prior to joining F4, Sather served as Chief Intelligence Officer for Stratfor where he developed geopolitical methodologies and analytics products.
To read more about Jon Sather visit the company’s leadership team bios or visit his LinkedIn profile.
About F4:
F4 is a strategic IT Services Provider enabling organizations to outcompete rivals in the global economy. While collaborating with clients during our transparent development process, we build custom-tailored solutions and protectable intellectual property that creates competitive advantages, permeates markets, and disrupts industries. Our customers receive the highest quality solutions with a focus on usability, maintainability, scalability, and lightning performance. We create sustainable value and ROI through innovation, strategy and execution.