Andy Palmer
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Andy Palmer

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Andy Palmer is chairperson and CEO of Tamr, Inc., which he co-founded with fellow serial entrepreneur and 2014 Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker (MIT CSAIL). Previously, Andy was co-founder and founding CEO of Vertica Systems, a pioneering big data analytics company (acquired by HP). Vertica is used by many of the world’s most advanced companies (including Facebook and Uber) to manage many hundreds of petabytes of data. In 2010 Andy founded Koa Labs, a seed-stage fund focused on first-time entrepreneurs with technical backgrounds from underserved communities. Notable Koa companies include Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), PillPack (Acquired by Amazon), Carta, and Recorded Future. Andy holds a Research Affiliate position at MIT CSAIL. He has served as a founding investor, board member, and advisor to more than 120 start-up companies in technology, healthcare, and the life sciences. He also served as Global Head of Software and Data Engineering at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) and as a member of the start-up team and Chief Information and Administrative Officer at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INFI). Andy previously held positions at innovative technology companies Bowstreet, pcOrder.com, and Trilogy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English, history, and computer science from Bowdoin College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
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