Andrew Quintero (1963 – May 4, 2014) was an American scientist and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of JumpStartFund,[1] a platform which provides crowdsourcing for start-up tech companies.[2]
Andrew Quintero | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 |
| Died | May 4, 2014 Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, US |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founder of JumpStartFund and patents in Space research |
| Spouse | Cristine Wolf |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Space and Defense |
Early life and career edit
Born in 1963 in Mountain View, California, Quintero was a member of the St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Palo Alto in his early years. He graduated from Palo Alto High School and continued on to earn his Executive MBA from Loyola Marymount.[3]
He was an architect of a Space Systems Engineering Database. Andrew also worked for Hughes Space and Communications , supporting anomaly and failure investigations. He patented a program named Smart Cow, an intelligent search engine.[4][5][6][7]
Death edit
Andrew was found unconscious and floating on his back 30 feet (9 m) offshore near a Waikiki Beach restaurant. He was taken to the hospital by local lifeguards and died there at about 8:40 AM of May 4, 2014 at the age of 51.[8]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Why we should support Elon Musk's Hyperloop". mnn.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "A Southern California Startup Is Trying To Jump-Start Elon Musk's Hyperloop". forbes.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Memorial". almanacnews.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "It's Patently Amazing". aerospace.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "The Aerospace Corporation". soleralabs.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Agilent Technologies, Aerospace Corporation to provide new applications for test solutions for aerospace, defense customers". aerotechnews.com. Archived from the original on July 12, 2003. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Andrew Quintero President and CEO". nacenters.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Tourist who drowned off Waikiki Beach identified". staradvertiser.com. May 5, 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-08.