Andy Palmer is co-founder and CEO of Tamr. During his career as an entrepreneur, Andy has served as founding investor, BOD member or advisor to more than 50 start-up companies - a number of them solving big data challenges. Previously, Andy was co-founder and founding CEO of Vertica Systems, a pioneering big data analytics company (acquired by HP). He was involved in building out analytical informatics infrastructures as SVP and CIO at Infinity Pharmaceuticals; and as Global Head of Software and Data Engineering for Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR). He earned undergraduate degrees in English, history and computer science from Bowdoin College, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.