Andrew B. Zimmerman

Andy Zimmerman is global managing director-communications industry for Accenture. Prior to his current position he was the managing director, North American communications client group.
Prior to joining Accenture, Andy Zimmerman was Chief Executive Officer of Predictive Systems, a network and security consulting and information services company headquartered in New York City. Predictive Systems, founded in 1995, was a public company (NASDAQ—PRDS) with approximately $60 million in revenue in 2002 and its significant investors include General Atlantic Partners, SAIC, Cisco, and Bellsouth. He joined the company in July 2001, replacing the founder and CEO. In 2003, he sold Predictive Systems in a two-part transaction.
Prior to joining Predictive, Andy Zimmerman was the chief operating officer of idealab! New York and was responsible for operating the idealab! New York facility and its resident companies. idealab! creates, builds, and operates companies in the interactive communications business. All of idealab’s satellite incubator sites were closed down in 2001.
Before idealab!, Andy Zimmerman was the Global Leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' E-Business Consulting Practice. He was responsible for planning and marketing e-services, alliance development, thought leadership, training and support, and equity investments in ebusiness ventures and partners. During this period, PwC’s ebusiness revenues grew from $300 million to $1.7 billion. Prior to the E-Business role, Andy Zimmerman served as the Global Industry Leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Information and Communications practice.
Mr. Zimmerman has been a pioneer of Internet related activities for more than a decade. In 1986, he co-founded Reach Networks, one of the earliest Internet companies, which pioneered the use of IP based knowledge sharing networks. This technology was initially implemented as the Knowledge Network at Coopers & Lybrand, grew to 30,000 users, and was hailed in an article by Tom Peters, which he called “one of the most important stories we have ever run.”
Mr. Zimmerman authored the New York New Media Industry Survey in 1995, the first in-depth study of the new media industry and its impact on New York's economy. The study, which received widespread coverage including The New York Times, L.A. Times, and CNN Headlines News, quickly positioned New York City and Silicon Alley as a major hub for new media businesses.
Andy is a speaker at industry conferences, including the United States Telephone Association, Information Industry Association and Supercomm. He has been interviewed and quoted by CNN, CNBC, BBC, Fortune, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times on topics ranging from the Internet to complexity theory to disruptive technologies.
Andy Zimmerman received a B.A. from Haverford College in three years and was subsequently awarded a Thomas J. Watson post-graduate Fellowship during which he travelled and studied with circuses in Western Europe and the Soviet Union. He received an M.S. from New York University and is a certified public accountant.

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