Solomon Thompson Jr – CEO

Solomon Thompson Jr is the Founder and CEO of Blue Collar Objects, a cutting edge technology company, based in Fairfax Virginia.  The company developed a Software as a Service platform, based upon an abstract object model for business systems, which has been used to:

• Re-develop and re-platform, for the US Treasury, a Loan Management System
• Deliver a data warehouse solution for the US Department of Defense
• Deliver the first iteration of leveraging a digital twin model to provide an Innovation and Contract Management solution for a global telecommunication company’s Research subsidiary.

Internally, over the first 15 years of operation (starting in 2005), Solomon and his leadership team, pioneered doing both software delivery and company operations, using a 100% fully remote work force, applying Agile values and principles before the coining of terms and branding of methods like SAFe, Scrum@Scale, or Business Agility existed.

Having over 20,000 hours of running a fully remote, agile organization and having done over 20 years of Transformation Consulting for the US Department of Defense, NYC Federal Reserve Bank, US Patent and Trademark Office, Carbon Black, Fannie Mae, US Postal Service OIG (and more), Solomon has transitioned Blue Collar Objects from a government contracting business model to Innovation as a Service model, allowing large organizations to outsource their innovation to a company (Blue Collar Objects) and platform (NetVRP), stretching the possibilities of using Agile principles and values, AI, both to re-platform and re-develop outdated systems, and to add AI-powered UX innovations.  This secret sauce allows us to provide our 3D+V Value Proposition –

Dramatic reductions in:

1. Time to Discover
2. Time to Decide
3. Time to Deliver
4. Time to Value for our clients’ Customers as well as their own company

In 2020, Solomon co-launched DirekteDigital, a Global Technology Products and Services company, based in Delaware, and serves as a fractional CEO in his spare time 🤓.

Solomon is also on the Advisory Board for Gunston Ventures, an innovative Venture Capital firm in Northern Virginia.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Certificate Holder of Wharton’s Fintech Revolution, MIT’s Mastering Design Thinking, Applied Data Science, and Designing AI Products.  Additionally, he was one of the founders of College Tribe, a non-profit organization focused on mentoring African American boys.  He is the recipient of the Donna Noble Outstanding Incubator Client Award and the Karl Davey Community Achievement Award.

Advisory Board

Carl Eckstein

Venture capitalist, Mr. Eckstein served as a founder and Managing Director of Next Generation Capital Fund I and Next Generation II venture capital funds; participated in 22 investments, mergers and acquisitions, and replaced the CEOs of three struggling portfolio companies, steering them to successful exits. Initially for IBM and later as a Manager at Price Waterhouse, a principal with Arthur Young and through his own firm, Mr. Eckstein provided professional consulting and technology services to over 250 corporations, federal government and not-for-profit organizations. Among his technology accomplishments, Mr. Eckstein designed the first fully integrated ERP systems for manufacturing for AO Smith, the first Wiki for the Federal Communications Commission, and helped develop the first GIS system for transportation routing. He has lectured at several universities on the investment in early-stage companies. Mr. Eckstein holds a degree in Microbiology from Ohio State University.