Andrew Palmer (born 17 June 1966) is an American technologist, Internet entrepreneur, and investor.

Biography

Andrew Palmer is CEO and co-founder of the data analytics company Tamr and founder of Koa Labs, a seed fund for first-time entrepreneurs. Previously he was co-founder of database software company

Vertica Vertica is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by the database researcher Michael Stonebraker with Andrew Palmer as the founding CEO. Ralph Breslauer and Christopher P. Lynch served as CEOs later ...

with computer scientist

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. Vertica was successfully acquired by Hewlett-Packard in March 2011. Earlier in his career he served as Global Head of Software and Data Engineering at

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Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) and as a member of the start-up team and Chief Information and Administrative Officer at Infinity Pharmaceuticals. Additionally, he has held positions at Bowstreet, pcOrder.com, and Trilogy. He earned undergraduate degrees in English, history and computer science from Bowdoin College, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. In 2023 Palmer co-authored the book ''Live for A Living'' with

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, which focuses on career development.

Awards and recognition

Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 New England by

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Boston Globe Tech Power Players 50 New England Venture Capital Association Angel Investor of the Year Patent: Data curation system with version control for workflow states and provenance

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Andrew 1966 births American businesspeople Living people Bowdoin College alumni Tuck School of Business alumni