Palle Pedersen

Current

Partner at Boston Denmark Partnerships
Advisor at Black Duck Software
Co-founder and Managing Director at Spydre LLC

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Past

Chief Information Officer at RealCME
Chief Technology Officer at Black Duck Software
Vice President of Products at PLEJ

Chief Technology Officer at Wallaware
Technologist at Prospero Technologies
Chief Technology Officer at Healthology
Chief Technology Officer at Integrated Computing Engines
Mathematical Sciences at Thinking Machines
Software Engineer at UniComal
Software Hardware Engineer at Malling Kontrol

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Education

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Palle Pedersen’s Summary

Entrepreneur and executive with 20 years experience in bridging the gap between business and technology. Successfully launched new businesses in a variety of business areas using a wide range of applicable technologies.

If you have an intriguing idea to discuss, the easiest way to contact me is by email: ppedersen@spydre.com

Palle Pedersen’s Specialties:

Strategy, Innovation, New Business Launch, Rapid Idea-to-Market, Entrepreneur Mentoring, Venture Finance, Technology Business Models, Product Design, Product Development, Intellectual Property, Software Licensing, Patent Strategy, Mobile Applications, Video Special Effects, Open Source, SaaS, Social Media, Web2.0, Healthcare IT, Education, System Architecture, Scalability, High Performance Computing, Credit Card and Payment Systems

Palle Pedersen’s Experience

Partner

Boston Denmark Partnerships

(Market Research industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Boston Denmark Partnerships provide US market entry planning and business entry strategies. We specialize in the Danish-US business market and are open to all businesses looking to establish themselves in the US.
Advisor

Black Duck Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

See below.
Co-founder and Managing Director

Spydre LLC

(Investment Management industry)

1997 — Present (12 years )

Established a global hi-tech venture catalyst employing over 20 professionals focused on concept actualization, business development, marketing and technology creation.

Grew client base to over 25 companies on three continents (Europe, North America, and South America), received over $8MM in investment from and formed strategic relationships with WPP Group (www.wpp.com), Merrill Lynch, and IBM while maintaining a profitable business model.

Advisor, board member, or interim executive for several companies, including: Justa Technology, Lydstrom, DoUWantIt.com, giftcertificates.com, Lineabox, and Vantage Technologies.
Chief Information Officer

RealCME

(E-Learning industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )

Led the creation of RealCME’s suite of online applications which allow medical education providers to create unique, collaborative, virtual patient-based CME programs and curricula, supported by an intuitive course authoring system, a powerful learner self-assessment system, and a robust data analysis tool set.

Created a launch strategy which took the company from product concept to first customer launch in 5 months, enabling a rapidly growing business which generated more than $1MM during the first year of operation.
Chief Technology Officer

Black Duck Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2003 — 2008 (5 years )

Instrumental in growing the company from an idea to the leader in managed use of open source and third-party code (Red Herring 100, SD Times 100) with 100 employees, over $30MM investment from VCs and industry leaders (Intel, SAP, Red Hat), and rapidly growing revenue from 100+ blue chip customers in 20+ countries.

Led the creation of products from idea to launch.

Created patent strategy and author of patents with more 200 claims.

Evangelized the company vision through speaking at conferences and speaking with customers.
Vice President of Products

PLEJ

(Financial Services industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

Led the productization of a flexible payment/loyalty platform designed to help organizations improve customer loyalty, stimulate transactions and unify payment offerings without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades.

Co-inventor of PLEJ’s patent pending payment/loyalty system technology.
Chief Technology Officer

Wallaware

(Wireless industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

Provided the technology leadership for one of the key wireless startups of 2001 (voted Wireless Top 10 by Wireless Internet Daily). The company raised $3.7MM in 2001, had operations in Europe, the US and Latin America with offices in Boston and Galway, Ireland, and had strategic relationships with IBM, CMG, Reuters, Accenture and ESPN.

Deployed solutions in several major wireless carriers including Cellular One and Telenor.

Co-author of three patents and over fifty claims in network proxy systems, telecommunications, and security solutions for the wireless Internet.
Technologist

Prospero Technologies

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

Drove the technology changes for that enabled fully brandable ASP (SaaS) social media functionality – resulting in establishment of relationships that grew Delphi’s reach from 10,000 members to a network of over 25 million in 18 months. Delphi (later Delphi Forums and Prospero Technologies) became the 15th stickiest ASP on the web and a MediaMetrix 100 ASP.

Company acquired by Mzinga in 2008.
Chief Technology Officer

Healthology

(Public Company; Internet industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Created the leading online health content syndication platform specializing in online video content. The content was branded and served from Healthology servers to appear in the health section of 1000+ of web-sites.

Company acquired by iVillage (NBC Universal) in 2005.
Chief Technology Officer

Integrated Computing Engines

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years )

Instrumental in growing the company from a small start-up with 2 employees to a leading supplier of video special effects products with $8MM invested by Sega, Marubeni, and Compaq.

Responsible for the technology strategy and parallel processing architecture, which turned a radar processing technology licensed out of MIT into a video special effects hardware/software product bundle working within standard video applications (Avid, Adobe After Effects, etc.).

Managed a 40 person hardware and software development group.

Co-inventor of the patent pending Compaq/ICE Internet acceleration technology.

Company acquired by Media100 in 2000.
Mathematical Sciences

Thinking Machines

(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

1991 — 1995 (4 years )

Created new parallel algorithms and designed parallel compilation techniques exploiting multi-level memory hierarchies.

Established multiple world record benchmarks – including capturing the top 4 entries on the Top500 site of fastest supercomputers in the world (top500.org).

Company acquired by Oracle in 1999.
Software Engineer

UniComal

(Computer Software industry)

1987 — 1991 (4 years )
Software Hardware Engineer

Malling Kontrol

(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

1986 — 1987 (1 year )