The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.

The 'adaptive supply chain' has been the buzz over the last few years.

For me, creating a supply chain of what we should be eating is incredibly complicated. It's complicated to figure out how to change the food system in America.

CDC is made up of Pivotal, IMI, which is a supply chain player, and Ross, which is an ERP player. CDC has integrated none of these into a suite. This new entity was going to be made up of all these new pieces, plus Onyx. Our shareholders were going to walk away being a small, minority owner in CDC, as opposed to being 100 percent owners in Onyx, a company that is doing very well right now.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.