Andy Palmer

Current

Founding BOD Member at Bluefin Lab
Founding BOD Member at CloudSwitch
Founding BOD Member at Goby

Founding BOD Member at N of One

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Past

CEO & Co-Founder at Vertica Systems
SVP of Operations & CIO at Infinity Pharmaceuticals
VP of Sales & Marketing at Bowstreet

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

17 people have recommended Andy

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Andy Palmer’s Summary

With a track record of 5+ successful startups in the past 15 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, Analytics, Startup, Entrepreneurship

Andy Palmer’s Experience

Founding BOD Member

Bluefin Lab

(Computer Software industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Provided counsel and advice to startup team from concept through start-up and funding.
Founding BOD Member

CloudSwitch

(Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Provided counsel and advice to startup team from concept through start-up and funding.
Founding BOD Member

Goby

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Provided counsel and advice to startup team from concept through start-up and funding.
Founding BOD Member

N of One

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Provided counsel and advice to startup team from concept through start-up.
CEO & Co-Founder

Vertica Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — May 2009 (4 years 5 months)

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; Information Technology and Services 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

(Privately Held; 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