Andrew Quintero

Andrew Quintero
Born 1963
Mountain View, California
Died May 4, 2014(2014-05-04)
Waikiki Beach
Drown
Residence Greater Los Angeles Area
Fields Space and Defense
Known for Co-founder of JumpStartFund and patents in Space research
Spouse Cristine Wolf

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]

Early life and career

Born in 1963 in Mountain View, California, Quintero was a member of the St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in his early years. He did his graduation from Palo Alto High School, and received 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 has a patent for a program Smart Cow, an intelligent search engine.[4][5][6][7]

Death

Andrew was found unconscious and floating on his back 30 feet offshore of a restaurant at the Waikiki Beach. 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

References

  1. ↑ "Why we should support Elon Musk's Hyperloop". mnn.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "A Southern California Startup Is Trying To Jump-Start Elon Musk's Hyperloop". forbes.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Memorial". almanacnews.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "It's Patently Amazing". aerospace.org. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "The Aerospace Corporation". soleralabs.com. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Andrew Quintero President and CEO". nacenters.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Tourist who drowned off Waikiki Beach identified". staradvertiser.com. May 5, 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
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