WeatherBill Expands Team with Vice President of Engineering
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
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