CRAIG PALMER
President & CEO, Gracenote
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Joining Gracenote at the beginning of 2003, Palmer brings over 20 years of high technology experience working with successful business-to-business software companies, including Aspect Development, a leader in Supply Chain Management acquired by i2 Technologies in 2000 for over $9 billion; as well as Cadence Design Systems and Hewlett Packard.

Prior to joining Gracenote, Palmer was Chairman, President and CEO of eWanted, an Internet startup company with an online consumer marketplace of over 750,000 users. From 1994 to 2000, Palmer held several vice president positions for Aspect Development, where he helped the company achieve a successful Initial Public Offering in 1996, and was instrumental in growing the company from $2 million in annual software revenues in 1994 to over $100 million in 2000. Aspect was acquired by i2, the leader in Supply Chain Management in 2000. From 1989 to 1994, Palmer held a range of senior marketing positions at Cadence Design Systems as it grew to become the leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) vendor. Prior to Cadence, Palmer spent seven years in marketing at Hewlett Packard, working for the division that spearheaded the company’s launch into the Unix workstation marketplace.

Palmer holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

Palmer has spoken at numerous financial events, as well as Global Wireless Forum (2004), Jupiter Plug-In (2004) and Digital Hollywood (2004), MIT Stanford Venture Lab, keynote speaker on “Building a Digital Entertainment Company”. He will also be speaking at the Mobile Entertainment Summit at CTIA (Oct 2004) and Mobile MusicCon (Nov 2004).