SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- WeatherBill (www.weatherbill.com) today
announced Jeff Palmer, a leading Internet industry executive with more than a
decade of experience developing and deploying successful technology products,
has been appointed Vice President of Engineering. Before joining WeatherBill,
Palmer was Vice President of Engineering at Orbitz, a leading global online
travel company. Palmer will be based in WeatherBill's San Francisco
headquarters and will report to CEO and founder David Friedberg.
"Jeff comes to us with an impressive record of growing companies and
successful software engineering organizations," says Friedberg. "His
experience makes him the perfect fit for WeatherBill. Our technology platform
is making weather coverage accessible to a broad range of industries and Jeff
can help us manage the demand for our products as we scale our core technology
platform, software development efforts, and our team."
"It's exciting to be working at such a challenging and significant company,"
says Palmer. "Technology is the foundation of WeatherBill's solution and the
company's open and flexible environment enables innovation and rapid
development of new tools and concepts. We are working with one of the largest
datasets available, the weather, to create unique financial services that
global users can use to protect their bottom line."
WeatherBill clients come from a wide-range of weather-sensitive industries.
The company is particularly active in the travel and leisure sector, providing
weather coverage and weather-based promotion and refund programs to travel
retailers, tour operators, sports teams, major outdoor events, outdoor venues,
and ski resorts. Current clients include Priceline.com, Viagogo,
itravel2000.com, and many other large and small businesses globally.
"Jeff is a strong advocate for innovative software development methodologies
and will be applying that expertise at WeatherBill to help our engineering
organization scale in a rapid and effective way," says WeatherBill CTO and
founder Siraj Khaliq. "We have heterogeneous development and production
environments, and ensuring our team is highly productive as we grow is
critical to maintaining our long-term technology advantage."
WeatherBill, Inc. (www.weatherbill.com) provides the only online service that
allows businesses to protect revenue and control costs from the impact of bad
weather. Founded by CEO David Friedberg and CTO Siraj Khaliq, former members
of the Google team, WeatherBill is funded by New Enterprise Associates, Index
Ventures, and Allen & Company and is backed by Nephila Capital, one of the
world's largest weather risk and catastrophe reinsurance fund managers.
SOURCE WeatherBill, Inc.
Regina Sinsky of WeatherBill, Inc., +1-415-762-4378, regina@weatherbill.com
