Vertica

With a track record of five successful startups in the past 12 years, Andy Palmer specializes in founding and accelerating the growth of early-stage companies. In early 2005, Palmer partnered with Dr. Stonebraker to found Vertica®. Prior to co-founding Vertica, Palmer served as the senior vice... president of operations at Infinity Pharmaceuticals , where he was a member of the initial startup team. At Infinity, he was responsible for information technology, informatics, operations, finance, human resources, and organizational development as the company raised over $140 million in financing, grew to more than 100 employees, and put its first compound into the clinic for the treatment of cancer. Prior to joining Infinity, as a member of the startup team and vice president of sales and marketing at Bowstreet, Palmer led the creation and execution of all early sales, marketing, and professional services initiatives as the company grew from 3 employees to more than 300 employees. Before joining Bowstreet, Palmer was the first vice president of marketing at pcOrder.com , where he was directly responsible for dramatic revenue growth and rapid customer acquisition in preparation for a successful initial public offering as the company grew from 5 employees to more than 250 employees. Prior to joining pcOrder, Palmer served as marketing director for pcOrder's parent company, Trilogy Software, Inc. Palmer earned an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and bachelor's degrees in English, history, and computer science from Bowdoin College.
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Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES... relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Dr. Stonebraker was a professor of computer science for 25 years. More recently at MIT., Dr. Stonebraker was a co-architect of the Aurora stream processing engine as well as the C-Store high-performance read-oriented database engine. He is the founder of four venture-capital backed startups that have commercialized these prototypes: Ingres Corporation, Illustra Information Technologies , StreamBase Systems, and Vertica. Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on database technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software. He was awarded the 2005 IEEE John vonNeumann Medal as well as the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES. Additionally, he was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He is also an ACM Fellow. Dr. Stonebraker earned a B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University in 1965 and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1971.
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