Willard Pardue

Former local snake oil salesman has a new gig: Bill Pardue to ObjectFX

After getting fired from LexisNexis and the Gartner Group, and then taking the local economic development chumps on a ride with QBase, Bill Pardue has found a new patron saint: ObjectFX, a leading provider of geospatial intelligence solutions, today announced that Bill Pardue has been named Chief Executive Officer. Bill brings more than 25 years Read More

Let the Qbase lawsuits begin: Barnard vs. Qbase

The Greene County Courts online system is even worse than Montgomery County’s- in that it makes you think you can link directly to a case, but you can’t. Then it gets even worse because you can’t access the PDF of the actual filing. So, I called and asked for a PDF- “What’s that?” the woman Read More

Qbase? or Qbust? Qbase has left the building.

The company that forced its employees to donate to political campaigns or risk losing their jobs- Qbase, is apparently coming apart at the seams. Major firings this week including CEO Willard Pardue’s executive assistant and the son of the company’s “president” or “CFO” depending on where you look. Also taking one for the team is Read More

The fall of Qbase?

Willard Pardue, CEO of Qbase, has been building a house of cards much like Bernie Madoff, the only problem was his deck was filled with jokers. He chose to scam local politicians and development agencies into handing him cash for the promise of “high tech” jobs. The jobs never materialized, and he left a wake Read More

Incentives are a zero sum game- unless you are a CEO or a politician

If we were in Georgia we’d be saying, our governor, sure did us a great favor- spending our tax dollars to bring that ATM/cash register company to our State. In Ohio, we have all the politicians saying “why wouldn’t they talk to us, boo-hoo.” Reality: Both States took a whupping. Georgia will find that in Read More