Paul Palmieri

Paul Palmieri is an advisor at Alef and a former executive at Millennial Media, which they co-founded in 2006. Paul served as the company's CEO from 2006 to 2014, during which time they helped grow the business from $0 to $341 million and position it for its $1.4 billion IPO. Paul also raised $69 million in venture capital and opened 17 offices in 8 countries.

During their time at Millennial Media, Palmieri developed a disruptive technologies and targeting platform that captured and utilized 300 million rich profiles, using location to determine audience segmentation and measurement. Paul also helped secure 91 of the Advertising Age 100 as clients, deployed SDK software inside 75,000 apps, and reached 750 million users worldwide.

Paul Palmieri attended the Aresty Institute for Executive Coursework at the Wharton School and received a Bachelor of Arts from Mount St. Mary's University.