Andy Palmer
With a track record of five successful startups including two IPOs in the past 15 years, Andy Palmer specializes in founding and accelerating the growth of world class startup companies.
In early 2005, Andy and Dr. Michael Stonebraker co-founded Vertica Systems, a company that developed an innovative database engine specifically designed for data warehousing and cloud computing. Andy served as the CEO at Vertica as the company raised top tier financing (NEA, Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners), hired a world class team from scratch and successfully launched the Vertica DB Engine into the $20B database market. Prior to co-founding Vertica, Andy served as a key member of the startup team and the Senior Vice President of Operations and CIO at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INFI). Additionally, Andy has held executive positions and was a member of the core startup teams at Bowstreet (acquired by IBM) and pcOrder.com (acquired by Trilogy post IPO).
Andy earned his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and his undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College. In addition to serving as a Founding Board Member at CloudSwitch, Andy currently serves as a Founding Board Member of the following innovative startups: Goby, Vertica Systems, BlueFin Lab, and VoltDB.
