Donald Farmer

Donald Farmer is the Principal of TreeHive Strategy, a strategic advisory practice specializing in data, analytics and innovation strategy. His background is very diverse, with over 30 years of deeply practical experience in industries ranging fro fish-farming to archaeology to advanced manufacturing. He has worked in award-winning startups in the UK and Iceland, and spent 15 years at Microsoft and at Qlik leading teams designing and developing new enterprise capabilities in data integration, data mining, self-service analytics and visualization.

Donald Farmer is an advisor to investors, venture funds, incubators and startups around the world. He mentors executives and speaks globally at events and private workshops.Donald lives with his wife, Alison, an artist, in a recycled-polystyrene house near Seattle with one of the world's most beautiful treehouses - the tree hive - in their wild garden.