Michael R Palmeter

Experience

Quartermark Partners

Head of Product Management Practice 2017 - 2019 (over 1 year)

Co-founded Enterprise Technology product & industry consultancy & private investment firm (family office).

Built a substantial Tier-1 consulting client base... more

Entropy

Sr. Director of Product Management, Intelligent UX

2019 - Present (over 7 years)

Sr. Director of Product Management, Cloud and Engineered Systems

2013 - 2017 (over 4 years)

Led the Product Management team that conceived, defined and delivered multiple releases of Oracle SuperCluster, MiniCluster and Oracle's IaaS offering for mission-critical... more enterprise workloads.

Achieved high-double-digit gross margins & parabolic revenue growth to a run-rate greater than $100M and total gross profit exceeding $1B during my tenure.

Enlisted, motivated and coordinated an extensive cross-functional team, from engineering and support to sales and marketing.

Director of Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware

2008 - 2013 (almost 5 years)

Ran the Product Management team that drove the inception, launch and scale of Oracle's Engineered System for Java applications (Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud) and mission-critical... more private cloud implementations.

Guided the Fusion Middleware Engineered Systems strategy and delivered an outstanding product line that broke numerous technical (performance, operational) and revenue growth & profitability records.

Exit

BEA Systems

Sr. Principal Product Manager, Weblogic Communication Platform 2005 - 2008 (about 3 years)

Headed the Product Management team that founded the BEA WebLogic Communication Services BU.

Managed strategic products which generated more than $100M in direct revenue... more

Employee

BEA Systems, Entropy, Quartermark Partners

Education

About

Achievements

Co-founded 2 companies, 1 Business Unit and led the Product Management teams for 7 product lines from inception to scale, generating combined direct sales & support revenue greatly exceeding $1B.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Business Development Communications Consulting Engineering Forecasting Information Technology Infrastructure Integrity Management Middleware Oracle Packaging Pricing Product Management Software Software Development Telecommunications Enterprise Software Marketing Management Messaging P&L Product Marketing Technical Requirements Startups Venture Capital Equity VSTO Operating Systems Sales Servers Private Equity

Locations

San Francisco

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Thinking Fast and Slow.

What's your favorite non-business book?

You Are Not So Smart.

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Studying human cognition and playing with machine learning.

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Persevere. Be nicer to people, even when they don't like you.

What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

Wrote and recorded a solo album.

Which founders or startups do you most admire?

Musk/SpaceX, Horowitz

What's your super power?

Finding the right stories to communicate the value of technology to non-technical people and make them excited, confident.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Email.

What words of wisdom do you live by?

You know you're on the right track when working hard feels good. And don't be an asshole.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Producing great stuff that people like and use.

What was the most impactful class you took in school?

Principles of Software Development with Forth.

What's something you wish you had done years earlier?

Stopped chasing money.

What's an obstacle you've overcome?

Dyslexia and ASD.

Michael R Palmeter

Product Management leader with 18+ years experience delivering technically & commercially outstanding IT products to F5000 enterprises.

Co-founded 2 companies, 1 Business Unit and led the Product Management teams for 7 product lines from inception to scale, generating combined direct sales & support revenue greatly exceeding $1B.