Andy Palmer
| Andy Palmer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Andrew Hunt Palmer June 17, 1966 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| 🏡 Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 🏫 Education | Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth |
| 💼 Occupation | CEO and Co-Founder of Tamr Angel investor |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Amy |
Andy Palmer is an American technology entrepreneur and seed investor. He co-founded Vertica, an early provider of column-store data management, that was later sold to Hewlett-Packard.[1]. Currently, he is active in the Boston, Massachusetts start-up eco-system where he has founded or funded more than 40 start up companies[2]. He was recognized by the New England Venture Capital Association as Angel Investor of the Year in 2013.[3]
Early life
Palmer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan June 17, 1966 and later moved to Barrington, Illinois with his family.
Education
Palmer graduated from Bowdoin College in 1988 with a BA in English, History and a minor in Computer Science[4]. He earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 1994[5].
Early career
After graduation from Tuck, Palmer joined Trilogy of Austin, Texas, where he became director of marketing. Later he joined pcOrder.com, a spin-off of Trilogy as its VP of sales and marketing. Palmer was a member of the start-up team and the senior vice president of operations and CIO at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INFI). He also held executive positions at Bowstreet (acquired by IBM)[6][7].[not in citation given] [8].[not in citation given]
Vertica
Palmer met computer scientist Michael Stonebraker in 2004. They collaborated on founding Vertica, where Palmer became CEO. Vertica was an early Big Data analytics company with focus on column-store DBMS technology [9] that was founded in 2005 and acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011[10]. A number of experts in the database field were involved in Vertica, including: Dr. Jerry Held, former senior vice president at Oracle (chairman of Vertica) and computer scientists Daniel Abadi, David DeWitt, Donald Haderle, Samuel Madden, and Stanley Zdonik (advisors)[11]
Start-ups
Palmer has since been involved in other projects to advance the use and management of Big Data, including the creation of SciDB, an open-source database management system for scientific research.[12]
In total, Palmer has helped start, fund or found more than 50 companies[13] involved in enterprise software, analytics, Internet, ecommerce and biotech [14], including two that resulted in IPOs (pcOrder.com[15] and Infinity Pharmaceuticals[16]).
To promote a start-up ecology in the Boston/Cambridge region, Palmer founded Koa Labs Start-Up Club, located in Harvard Square.[17]
Most recently, he co-founded Tamr with Stonebraker. Tamr enables enterprises to connect and leverage all their data, and was originally backed by more than $40 million in financing led by Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. In the summer of 2015, HP Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and Thomson Reuters participated in a second round of financing for $25.2 million.[18]
Investment
Palmer has been a founding Board of Directors (BOD) member, BOD member, investor or advisor for companies involved in big data, cloud computing, crowdsourcing and biotech. Most recently he has served as a founding board member for Firecracker (co-founded by entrepreneur Ben Williams, who previously founded Firefly Health with Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin)[19]; JobFig; Recorded Future [20] (founded by computer scientist Christopher Ahlberg with backing from Rich Miner of Google Ventures); and Upstart. Additionally, he is a BOD member of Cloudant, which was sold to IBM in 2014[21]
He is an investor in Rest Devices (maker of Mimo Baby Monitor), Apptegic (now Evergage)[22], GiveForward, Sharespost, VoltDB, and Yapstone; and an advisor to Affectiva, BlueFin Labs (acquired by Twitter)[23], Forma Therapeutics, Medio Systems (acquired by Here)[24], Syapse, and Uptown Networks.
Research
The Computer Science and Artificial Laboraty (CSAIL) has appointed Palmer in the fall of 2015 as a Research Affiliate in Computer Science focusing on database systems.[citation needed][25]
Awards and recognition
Palmer was recognized as 2013 Angel of the Year by the New England Venture Capital Association[26].
CIO Magazine included Palmer in its CIO 100 list for 2004[27]
Personal
In, 1993, Palmer married artist Amy Dunham. They have four children.
References
- ↑ "Cloudant Names Andy Palmer to its Board of Directors," SIP Trunking Report,February 2012 http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.com/news/2012/02/27/6147525.htm
- ↑ "AngelList - Andy Palmer" https://angel.co/andy-palmer
- ↑ "Andy Palmer Angel Investor," http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/05/winners_of_the_2013_new_englan.html
- ↑ http://dailysun.bowdoin.edu/2013/05/andy-palmer-%E2%80%9988-wins-angel-of-the-year-boston-globe/
- ↑ http://cpee.tuck.dartmouth.edu/who-we-are/board/andy-palmer-t94
- ↑ "Bow Street, Inc., Expands Management Team with Former pcOrder.com, Parametric Technology and Trilogy Executives," Business Wire,December 21, 1998 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bow+Street,+Inc.,+Expands+Management+Team+with+Former+pcOrder.com,...-a053434294
- ↑ "IBM Acquires Bowstreet, Inc. to Help Customers Quickly Create Portals that Integrate Existing Business Applications," IBM Press Release,December 20, 2005 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19064.wss
- ↑ "Company Overview of Tamr, Inc." Bloomberg.com, December 9, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=23498709&privcapId=264098577
- ↑ "The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems, page 198," Foundations and Trends in Databases, Vol 5(3),2012 http://db.csail.mit.edu/pubs/abadi-column-stores.pdf Archived 2021-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "HP Makes Its Big Data Move; Buys Vertica," GigaOm, February 14, 2011 http://gigaom.com/cloud/hp-makes-its-big-data-move-and-buys-vertica/ Archived 2011-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Database Industry Veterans Don Haderle, Bruce Armstrong and Polly Sumner Join Vertica's All-Star Team of Advisors,PR Newswire,October 9, 2007 http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/database-industry-veterans-don-haderle-bruce-armstrong-and-polly-sumner-join-verticas-all-star-team-of-advisors-58478027.html.
- ↑ "Serial entrepreneurs launch Zetics as SciDB spinout," Mass High Tech, February 4, 2010 http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/02/01/daily38-Serial-entrepreneurs-launch-Zetics-as-SciDB-spinout.html
- ↑ "AngelList - Andy Palmer" https://angel.co/andy-palmer
- ↑ "On the Radar: VoltDB, Just the Latest Database Company from Mike Stonebraker," Boston.com, August 3, 2009 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2009/08/on_the_radar_voltdb_just_the_l.html
- ↑ "IPO is made to pcOrder," CNNMoney, February 26, 1999 http://money.cnn.com/1999/02/26/companies/[permanent dead link]
- ↑ " ," Bio-IT World,February 10, 2003 http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/021003/infinity_sidebar_1940.html
- ↑ "New startup space Koa Labs is up and running in Harvard Square," Boston.Com, December 11, 2012 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/12/new_startup_space_koa_labs_is.html
- ↑ "HP Ventures backs data-integration startup Tamr in $25.2M round," Venturebeat.com, June 19, 2015 https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/19/hp-ventures-backs-data-integration-startup-tamr-in-25-2m-round/
- ↑ "Facebook co-founder preps Firefly Health for launch," Boston Business Journal, January 17, 2008, http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2008/01/facebook-co-founder-preps-firefly-health.html
- ↑ "Recorded Future: It's like Google Meets Nostradamus," Boston.com, February 18, 2010 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/02/recorded_future_its_like_google.html
- ↑ "IBM to acquire Cloudant, firm's 22nd acquisition in Boston since '03," Boston Business Journal,February 24 2014 http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2014/02/ibm-to-acquire-cloudant-22nd.html.
- ↑ "Evergage, The Disrupt Finalist Formerly Known As Apptegic, Launches A Freemium B2B Service For Improving Website Click-Throughs," TechCrunch, August 8, 2013[1]
- ↑ "Twitter Makes Big Acquisition, Buys Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs," Business Insider, February 4, 2013[2]
- ↑ "Nokia’s Here Buys Medio Systems To Push More Personalised Location Services," TechCrunch, June 12, 2014 https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/12/nokias-here-buys-medio-systems-for-more-personalised-location-services/
- ↑ "Six steps to start-up success from serial entrepreneur Mike Stonebraker" MIT.edu, February 18, 2013, https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/six-steps-start-success-serial-entrepreneur-mike-stonebraker
- ↑ "Winners of the 2013 New England Venture Capital Association Awards," Boston.com, May 1, 2013, http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/05/winners_of_the_2013_new_englan.html
- ↑ "CIO Magzine Honors top 100 Agile Companies in 17th Annual CIO 100 Issue," PR Newswire, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/idgs-cio-magazine-honors-top-100-agile-companies-in-17th-annual-cio-100-issue-71629677.html
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