Chip Pearson

Chip Pearson is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is best known as a founder and former CEO of JAMF Software.[1]

For the politician, see Chip Pearson (politician).

Biography

Pearson is a longtime resident of St Paul, Minnesota. Pearson co-founded JAMF Software (now Jamf) with Zach Halmstad in 2002.[2] At the time Pearson owned an IT services company[3] that could use the work being done by Halmstad at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to streamline information technology administration. Those tools became a product known as Casper, sold by a company formed to support the product called Jamf Software.[4]

Jamf Software

Pearson ran Jamf with Halmstad until 2016, taking $30 Million in Venture capital financing from Summit Partners.[5] Pearson and Halmstad recruited and hired Dean Hager as the CEO prior to leaving the organization.[6] In 2017, Jamf was acquired by Vista Equity Partners and the founders departed the company.[7]

Prior to selling Jamf, the organization generated over $52 million in annual revenue, served more than 5,500 customers,[8] had nearly 500 employees.[9] And they had just opened the eighth office around the world. At that point, JAMF had an estimated valuation of $225 million.[10]

Since the sale, Jamf has grown to over 1,500 employees.[11] Jamf is now traded on NASDAQ under the symbol JAMF.[12]

Current

Following Jamf, Pearson was involved in the 2017 project DocuMNtary about software companies in Minnesota.[13] Pearson now runs the Minnesota investment firm Bootstrappers and is on the Board of Directors at software companies like When I Work and Kipsu.[14]

References
  1. Bridge, Author Tom (May 10, 2017). "Episode 35: Into the Past with Chip Pearson". Mac Admins Podcast. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  2. Dunn, Darrell (May 31, 2007). "Apple continues to mostly ignore the enterprise, observers say". Computerworld. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  3. Edge, Charles; Trouton, Rich (December 17, 2019). Apple Device Management: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, iPads, iPhones, and AppleTVs. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4842-5388-5.
  4. "iPad, iPhone Challenge Management Orthodoxy". eWEEK. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  5. "JAMF Software Receives Established Software Company Award at the 2012 Tekne Awards". CNBC. November 2, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  6. www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/morning_roundup/2015/06/jamf-software-ceos-step-down-dean-hager-ceo.html. Retrieved January 29, 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "MacIT 2013 kicks off with admin overview, nostalgia". Engadget. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  8. Strauss, Karsten. "No Money, No Problem: Bootstrapping Off Of Apple". Forbes. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  9. Wakabayashi, Daisuke (January 10, 2014). "Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  10. "How Two IT Guys Turned Their Love For Apple Products Into A Multi-Million Company". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  11. Kapko, Matt (September 17, 2015). "Why Apple and Microsoft are suddenly playing nice". CIO. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  12. www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2017/04/21/jamf-co-founder-pearson-joins-when-i-works-board.html. Retrieved January 29, 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. Ojeda-Zapata, Julio; Sep 22nd 2016 - 12pm, St Paul Pioneer Press |. "Minnesota tech scene on display in 'DocuMNtary'". Duluth News Tribune. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
  14. Bort, Julie (December 11, 2013). "How Two IT Guys Turned Their Love For Apple Products Into A Multi-Million Company". Business Insider Australia. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
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