Andy Palmer

Current

• Co-Founder & BOD Member at Vertica Systems
• Founding BOD Member at CloudSwitch
• Founding BOD Member at ByLedge

• Founding BOD Member at SciLink
• Board Member at Animation Technologies

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Past

• Board Member at Stratbridge
• CEO & Co-Founder at Vertica Systems
• SVP of Operations & CIO at Infinity Pharmaceuticals

• VP of Sales & Marketing at Bowstreet (Purchased by IBM in Dec 2005)
• VP of Marketing at pcOrder.com
• Director of Marketing at Trilogy

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Education

• Dartmouth College - The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
• Bowdoin College

Recommended

18 people have recommended Andy

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• Previous Company

Andy Palmer’s Summary

With a track record of 5 successful startups in the past 13 years, Andy is a specialist in accelerating the foundation & growth of early stage companies. Andy’s unique blend of strategic perspective and disciplined tactical execution is suited to environments where uncertainty is the rule rather than the exception.

Andy Palmer’s Specialties:

Software, Sales & Marketing, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Drug Discovery IT/Informatics/Software, Database, Data Warehouse

Andy Palmer’s Experience

• Co-Founder & BOD Member

  Vertica Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Co-Founded company. Recruited team(including CEO), acquired first customers and partners, drove significant revenue growth, raised $23M+ from leading venture capital firms - NEA, Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital & Bessemer Venture Partners.

• Founding BOD Member

  CloudSwitch

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

• Founding BOD Member

  ByLedge

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

• Founding BOD Member

  SciLink

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• Board Member

  Animation Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2000 — Present (8 years 2 months)

  Independent board member.

• Board Member

  Stratbridge

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2001 — March 2008 (7 years 1 month)

  Independent Board Member

• CEO & Co-Founder

  Vertica Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — December 2007 (3 years)

  Co-Founded company. Recruited team, acquired first customers and partners, drove significant revenue growth, raised $23M+ from leading venture capital firms - NEA, Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital & Bessemer Venture Partners. Proactively hired top tier CEO.

• SVP of Operations & CIO

  Infinity Pharmaceuticals

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; INFI; Biotechnology industry)

  September 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 5 months)

  As the Chief Information Officer and SVP of Operations at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (INFI), Andy was part of the original startup team and responsible for information technology & informatics as well as the Finance, Administrative, Facilities, Organizational Development & Human Resource Functions as the company raised over $100M and grew from 3 to 100+ people.

• VP of Sales & Marketing

  Bowstreet (Purchased by IBM in Dec 2005)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1998 — May 2001 (2 years 9 months)

  As the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Bowstreet, Andy led the development and execution of all early sales & marketing initiatives and product definition as well as the recruitment of the company’s sales, marketing & professional services teams as the company grew from 4 to over 350 employees.

• VP of Marketing

  pcOrder.com

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; PCOR; Computer Software industry)

  September 1995 — September 1998 (3 years 1 month)

  Andy was the first Vice President of Marketing at pcOrder.com (NASDAQ:PCOR) where he was directly responsible for dramatic revenue growth and rapid customer acquisition in preparation for a successful initial public offering.

• Director of Marketing

  Trilogy

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1994 — September 1996 (2 years 4 months)

  Developed and implemented vertical sales and marketing programs as company grew from less than 50 to over 500 employees with revenue growth in excess of 100%/year.

Andy Palmer’s Education

• Dartmouth College - The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

  MBA, General Management, 1992 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Entrepreneurship, Technology

• Bowdoin College

  BA, English, History, Computer Science, 1984 — 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  Rugby, Theta Delta Chi

Additional Information

Andy Palmer’s Websites:

• My Company
• Previous Company

Andy Palmer’s Interests:

Rugby, Fly Fishing, Scuba Diving

Andy Palmer’s Groups:

W3C

•    Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
•    Trilogy Alumni
•    Bowdoin College Alumni
•    Data Warehouse - TDWI™
•    jaxtr user group
•    The Life Science Executive Exchange

Andy Palmer’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch