Tucker Edmundson Joins Blue Line

 
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 16:51 — Adam Thier

 

Press Release
November 11, 2009
 
 
Director of Gartner Invest Joins Blue Line Planning
Partner & EVP of Business Development
 
 
Allentown, NJ – Blue Line Planning today announced that Tucker Edmundson has joined as Partner and EVP of Business Development.
 
Mr. Edmundson comes to Blue Line with 25 years of management and sales experience, having most recently as a Director and founding team member of Gartner Invest, the direct channel of Gartner Inc. to Wall Street.
 
“Tucker brings Blue Line a world class business development capability, one based on years of experience dealing directly with the senior most IT executives at the worlds’ largest corporations,” said Craig Thier, Blue Line CEO. “He is also the perfect person to guide us as we develop and deliver more packaged solutions like our Integrated Forecasting, Planning, and Reporting Solution for Healthcare.”
 
Prior to Gartner, Mr. Edmundson was an institutional equities broker on Wall Street with First Albany. Before his time on Wall Street, Mr. Edmundson was the SVP of Sales at the Meta Group, an information technology research firm later acquired by Gartner. Mr. Edmundson is a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia Business School’s Arden House Executive MBA program.
 
Mr. Edmundson resides in Greenwich, CT and is also a world class athlete – holding sailing world championships in multiple classes and was a member of the U.S. Sailing Team.
 
Blue Line -- In just under five years, Blue Line has implemented over 400 Planning, Financial Consolidation, Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse solutions to over 130 Global 1,000 clients such as Pfizer, AIG, Primerica, MetLife, HealthNet, Genentech, and many, many others. Dedicated 100% to the IBM Sofware stack, Blue Line also has developed and introduced 3 packaged solutions:
 
  • Integrated Forecasting, Planning and Dashboards for Healthcare Providers
  • ABC for IT Chargeback
  • Compliance Dashboard