Howard Anderson is a founding partner and the Senior Managing Director of YankeeTek Ventures. He is also the founder of The Yankee Group, a high-technology research and consulting firm, where he served as President and CEO from 1970 until 2000. The Yankee Group was sold to Reuters, a New York Stock Exchange firm.
In addition, Howard is the William Porter Distinguished Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches courses on salesforce management and entrepreneurship. He is widely quoted in top business and industry publications, including The New York Times, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Fortune and Forbes. He is also a contributing columnist to Network World magazine.
Howard was also a founder of Battery Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm specializing in investing in technology companies including Akamai, Fore Systems, InfoSeek, Nextel, and Qtera. He has served as a Managing Partner and a Special Limited Partner since the company’s inception.
Network World recently selected Howard as one of the 25 most important people in communications. He has presented keynote addresses at both COMDEX and NetWorld+Interop. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the University of Pennsylvania.
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