Bill Brown
co-founder,
8 Rivers Capital
Palmer Labs.
Dr. Miles Palmer
co-founder,
8 Rivers Capital
Palmer Labs.
Bill Brown is a co-founder of Palmer Labs and 8 Rivers Capital. He is also a Visiting Professor at Duke University School of Law, where his teaching focuses on business law, business planning, and corporate finance.
A distinguished lawyer with an extensive career in financial services, Professor Brown has held leadership positions at Sidley & Austin, Goldman Sachs, AIG and Morgan Stanley.
Professor Brown earned two degrees from MIT, one in Biology and the other in Political Science. At MIT, he was President of Phi Delta Theta and Chairman of the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series Committee. He then graduated from Duke University School of Law, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal.
Professor Brown practiced law in New York City from 1980 to 1989, first at Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine and then at Sidley & Austin, where he was a partner.
Professor Brown began his financial services career in 1990 when he joined the currency and commodity sales group at Goldman Sachs & Co. At Goldman Sachs, he helped grow the foreign exchange product in the investor community, first in New York and then in London. In 1996, he was recruited to AIG International to become global head of sales for currency and fixed income and, one year later, was recruited by Morgan Stanley to become U.S. head of foreign exchange sales. During a part of this period, Professor Brown also ran emerging market and non-dollar debt sales. He then took over listed derivatives as global co-head, helping manage over 500 members of sales, marketing, information technology and operations teams in nine locations globally.
Professor Brown has served as a member of the Duke University School of Law Board of Visitors and on the School of American Ballet Corporate Advisory Board.
He is married and has two daughters in college.
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Dr. Miles Palmer is a co-founder of Palmer Labs and 8 Rivers Capital.
A distinguished innovator, engineer, and scientist, Dr. Palmer has four patents and over 40 publications in a broad range of fields, including biomedicine, aerospace, optics, communications, transportation, automotive technology, robotics, power, energy, fuels, and environmental chemistry.
After earning both an Electrical Engineering and a Chemistry degree at MIT, Dr. Palmer earned his PhD at the University of California, San Diego. He earned scholarship and academic society honors at both institutions. His bachelor's thesis at MIT led to advances in artificial skin materials for burn victims, and his PhD thesis included a credible alternative theory for the early evolution of the Earth's atmosphere that was published in the national press. Dr. Palmer was selected by NASA for final interviews for astronaut selection at Johnson Space Center while in graduate school.
Dr. Palmer joined the Air Force in 1981 to gain experience in flight testing and advanced aerospace technology. He received numerous awards in the Air Force and was nominated for astronaut duty in 1984. He left the Air Force in 1986 and joined SAIC.
Dr. Palmer's pioneering work in advanced aerospace technology at SAIC has been recognized nationally by his peers, and resulted in a press conference hosted by Sandia National Labs. His work has been cited by Business Week, the Chicago Tribune, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, and other media outlets.
Dr. Palmer served on the MIT Curriculum Committee, The Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative Rocket Technology Advisory Panel, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Aerospace Committee on Lasers and Plasmadynamics.
He is married and has two sons, one in college and one in junior high.
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