Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer & Founder Primary Organization 
Meta Data Analytics 360
Location Fair Oaks, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Dr. Doug Stone is a retired Major General from the US Marine Corps. He graduated from the US Naval Academy, served on Active Duty for 6 years and joined the reserve component beginning his civilian career at Hewlett Packard as a design engineer. He ultimately became the data terminals division operations manager and was later recruited to ROLM
Corporation where he was the Division General Manager of the successful ROLM phone product line. Later he moved back to Silicon Valley where he was the CEO of three successful startups engaged in software and communications product and service offerings. Alternating tours of Active Duty in the USMC, Stone also served as the Senior VP of Business Development for Qwest Communications and SVP of Business Development for SAIC. Dr. Stone is widely viewed as the pioneer of the software as service in his creation of Qwest's Cyber Solutions Corporation where he was President.
After 911 Stone was promoted to General Officer and assigned to be the senior US Military Representative to Pakistan where he assisted in the war effort against violence extremists. Later stationed in Afghanistan, he was asked to return Stateside to head the largest USMC training base, in 29 Palms, as Commanding General where he oversaw the change in training for all Marine battalions going to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Viewed a cultural expert, fluent in Urdu, Farsi and Arabic, General Stone was selected by General Petraeus to be his Deputy Commander over of all forces in Iraq during the surge. In Iraq he oversaw all interrogation and detention. Creating a pioneering new approach to this area of war fighting, he won international acclaim. Today he is serves as a special advisor to the UN on counter-terrorism and has led a pioneering, and UN member nation signature document, named the Rome Memorandum, which provides guidelines for the management of violent extremists. Sought to speak and consult internationally, General Stone has been in the UK, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Italy, Algeria, UAE, Singapore, and other nations as he advances this new soft power method of dealing with the terrorist threat.
Upon retirement from USMC, General Stone co-founded Transportation Security Enterprises, with the focus to provide both security and services to the Metro Mass Transit market. In founding TSE, General Stone has melded his knowledge of mobile communications, with the software as a service business and his concern about terrorism at home against the Mass Transit market place.
Dr. Stone earned his doctorate from the University of Southern California in Political Science, and holds master’s degrees from Stanford in Business, Pepperdine University in Human Resources Management, the US Naval Postgraduate School in International Security, and USC in Public Administration.
