Andy Palmer is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has helped start, fund or advise more than 50 innovative companies, many involved with big data. Most recently, he co-founded Tamr with renowned database researcher Mike Stonebraker, PhD. Tamr enables enterprises to unify and enrich all their data, and is backed by more than $16 million in financing led by Google Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. Previously, Andy was co-founder and founding CEO of Vertica Systems (acquired by HP), a pioneering big data analytics company. Andy also founded Koa Labs, a start-up club in Cambridge, Mass.

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