A press release this morning notes that Brigadier General (Retired) Jack Pellicci, who most of the geospsatial community knows from his work in the public sector side of Oracle, has joined Intergraph as senior vice president of Intergraph’s Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) division and general manager of the company’s Federal Solutions and Military & Intelligence business units. Pellicci is also an important figure in our space due to his contributions to the Open Geospatial Consortium and his work on the education side of USGIF.

Intergraph is attracting quite a crowd of thought and management leadership even as it morphs back into a private company. I suspect the up and coming generation of geospatial technologists will find Intergraph very appealing with CTO Peter Batty and Jack Pellicci running key parts of the company.

In other Intergraph personnel news, Terry Keating, who spent the last few years leading some of Intergraph's imagery and photogrammetry efforts (and was most helpful to me when I became editor of EOM) now serves as president of Lucerne International, a GIS management firm.