QSS Founder; 1105 Gov't After selling QSS for $250 million last year, Frank Islam tells us he's supposed to be retired, but as we found out earlier this week, he is anything but. He's running FI Investment Group, hosting a television show, and recently signed on as chairman of the State Democracy Foundation, a Bowie-based non-profit portal providing comprehensive voter registration information, online voting tools, and connecting citizens with national and state legislators. But will it connect … [Read more...]
PREDICTIONS!
FI Investment Group CEO Frank Islam, who sold QSS last year for $255 million, gave us these tech predictions: Outsourcing will be closer to home; corporate governance and social responsibility will become a consideration in choosing outsourcing partners. The video game industry will be a bright spot for tech in 2009, with casual gaming companies and "indie" game publishing companies leading the pack. Companies will increasingly use distributed R&D models. Thin … [Read more...]
WINNING THE TECH LOTTERY!
Frank Islam sold QSS, his 13-year-old government contracting business, to Ross Perot last January for a whopping $250M. What does someone with that much money do now? We paid a visit to Frank in his Tysons office to find out. One thing’s for sure: Frank is happy. He was all smiles as he ushered us into his 11th floor office and offered iced green tea, which he says he drinks every day. Since selling QSS, Frank definitely has more free time: His regimen went from 16-hour days, six or seven … [Read more...]
BLACK TiE!
Haha. That headline’s a play on words. See, “TiE” is the illustrious former Indian CIO Council, for those of you who go way, way back to the late 90’s of the last century. It rebranded and (this could be our imagination) seems to come up at different times with different words that TiE stands for, the most recent being “The Innovative Ecosystem.” Anyway, we don’t care to overanalyze, we just want to party. So we went Monday night to the Swiss Embassy “Black-TiE” holiday bash where they not … [Read more...]