The Company's company gets a Poindexter upgrade

In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, has hired Christopher Darby, a veteran executive with experience building companies and a background in Web security, as its new chief executive.

...Darby comes to the CIA position after several changes over the past year. Gilman Louie, who was very present here in Silicon Valley, left to launch his own venture capital firm here (we'll let you know when the firm opens its doors), and then Amit Yoran was in the In-Q-Tel spot for less than four months, replaced in April by interim CEO Scott Yancey....

This is not a Silicon Valley guy... He joins In-Q-Tel from Intel, but was only at Intel for a year, after Intel had acquired his Illinois company, Sarvega. He was CEO of Sarvega, which supplied "XML networking and security products." Before that, Darby was chairman and chief executive of Cambridge, Mass.' @stake, an Internet security consulting company acquired by Symantec. Before that, he was president and CEO of Interpath Communications...



In-Q-Tel used to be all Star Wars all the time, but the ex-CSC/ DynCorp CIA/ CEO rocket scientist who headed it in those days moved to head NASA at Darth Rumsfeld's bequest.

Now with the old Clinton-era elements largely purged, the Company seems to have decided to set up its own TIA in its private proxy.

Its primary job, of course, will likely be to spy on the NSA. Its secondary priority will be the DNC. When they aren't busy trying looking at your hardrive, anyway.