Chip Pearson is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is best known as a founder and former CEO of
JAMF Software.
Biography
Pearson is a longtime resident of St. Paul, Minnesota. He co-founded
JAMF
Jamf is a software company best known for developing Jamf Pro (formerly The Casper Suite), a mobile device management system.
History
Minneapolis-based Jamf Software was founded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, by Zach Halmstad, Christopher Thon an ...
Software (now Jamf) with
Zach Halmstad in 2002. At the time Pearson owned an IT services company that could use the work being done by Halmstad at the
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to streamline information technology administration. Those tools became a product known as Casper, sold by a company formed to support the product called Jamf Software.
Jamf Software
Pearson ran Jamf with Halmstad until 2016, taking $30 Million in
Venture capital financing from
Summit Partners
Summit Partners is an American private equity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investing in technology, healthcare, life sciences and other growth industries.
Background
Summit Partners was founded in 1984 by Roe St ...
. Pearson and Halmstad recruited and hired Dean Hager as the CEO prior to leaving the organization. In 2017, Jamf was acquired by
Vista Equity Partners and the founders departed the company.
Prior to selling Jamf, the organization generated over $52 million in annual revenue, served more than 5,500 customers, had nearly 500 employees, and had just opened its eighth global office. At that point, JAMF had an estimated valuation of $225 million. Since the sale, Jamf has grown to over 1,500 employees. Jamf is now traded on NASDAQ under the symbol JAMF.
Following Jamf, Pearson was involved in the 2017 project DocuMNtary about software companies in Minnesota. He also runs the Minnesota investment firm Bootstrappers and served on the Board of Directors at software companies like When I Work and Kipsu.
References
Businesspeople from Saint Paul, Minnesota
American chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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