Blake Newman (blakenewman)

Founded photographer.com (1995-2005), inqbation.com (2009-2014), Agileana.com (2015-present). Served in the 82d Airborne Division as an Infantry Paratrooper (1982-1985), former Infantry Captain (1995), Defense Information Systems Agency (1991-1995), Department of Homeland Security (2008-2009).

Currently CEO of Agileana, a lean, agile, Drupal shop serving federal government agencies.

There are millions of companies around the world, but only a few are genuinely great. Agileana is a great company and a great place to work. We respect, trust, and care for our employees. We have worked hard to build a company that inspires an intense emotional attachment to the business. We are a close-knit organization where team members spend time together, experience significant and important events together, and know what is going on in each others’ lives.

We spread the money around. There is not a huge disparity between the lowest and highest paid person in the company. We offer the best health insurance that money can buy, fully paid for you and 80% paid for your dependents.

Our hope is that employees love what they do, enjoy the people with whom they work, get compensated appropriately, and have time for other passions in their lives. Not everybody wants to work for the rest of their life. And nobody wants to worry about money, especially in their later stages of life. So, we are striving to create a company that allows people to stop working while they are still relatively young and healthy and have some kind of nest egg to carry them forward.