Thomas Palmer

Bio

Mr Palmer is currently a Venture Partner with Gazelle TechVentures. he is a General Partner of Adams, Harkness, & Hill Technology Ventures, an emerging growth technology venture capital firm. He focuses on leading and managing investments, management of fund operations, and raising capital. Former General Partner and Managing Director of Kansas City Equity Partners, an $120 million venture capital fund focused on Midwest investing. Mr Palmer was responsible for the firm's information technology and communications investments. Prior to joining KCEP full time, he was a Kauffman Fellow with the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership with KCEP as his resident firm. Previously, he was Associate Director, Investments and Acquisitions, for Ameritech in Chicago. He also served as Manager of Business Analysis for Trans National Group in Boston, where he performed strategic planning, international expansion, investments, and divestitures. Mr Palmer is a former Board Member for BeyondNow Technologies, Birch Telecom, NetSales, Vroom Technologies, Planet Alumni and iTravel. Mr Palmer holds an undergraduate degree in Economics/Computer Science from Dartmouth College and a Masters in Management, with emphasis in entrepreneurial finance and marketing, from the J L Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.