Beeliner management profiles

Amanda Trombley , President

Amanda manages our day-to-day operations as well as product development and marketing and sales programs. Amanda's career began at worldwide consulting group, Bain & Company where she completed the mini MBA-style BFEP (Bain Further Education Program) . She left Bain in 1995 for the Boston office of another worldwide consulting company, the Hay Group.

At Hay, Amanda managed the Creative Services group and was responsible for all marketing and product materials in the Boston office and many of Hay's domestic and international offices. The Creative Services department was unique within the Hay organization and was operated as a stand-alone entity, giving Amanda the opportunity to manage and grow a "small business" within a large corporation. She became one of Hay's first web masters and developed web sites for offices in Boston, London, and Milan.

A graduate of Simmons College of Boston (Dean's List) and Endicott College of Beverly, MA (Dean's List, Summa Cum Laude), Amanda was a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa and won departmental awards in Advertising and Psychology. In 1997, she received her Web development certification from Emerson College.

An annual presenter at the Girls Get Connected Conference, Amanda teaches Web animation to middle school girls Web animation. She also serves as a judge for the New Hampshire Internet Awards.

Outside of the office, Amanda keeps busy by writing for publications such as VegNews (a national vegetarian magazine) and by serving as Vice Chair of the City of Cambridge's Pedestrian Committee, a group dedicated to promoting walking as a healthy alternative to driving. She enjoys cooking and exploring, whether it's locally or internationally. She is in research mode for her first book on entrepreneurship. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband.

Heiko Glessmann, Vice President

Heiko manages and directs all Spinfish technology initiatives, including Beeliner software development, electronic security, and systems and hardware infrastructure design. He leads the development team with an extensive knowledge of the many technologies available, such as Java, Perl and C/C++.

Heiko began his career in software development--at age 15--when he developed, marketed and sold his first software product, a file indexer for MS-DOS. He incorporated his first business while in high school when he studied business and finance at the Will-Helpach Gymnasium school in Heidelberg, Germany, a professional business high school. During this time, he developed the initial software product for his family's software business.

Heiko came to the United States in 1993 to complete his master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts. He stayed in the U.S. and began work at Calypso Software in 1995 where he worked as a C++ software developer for a proprietary software product that was acquired by Seagate in 1996. Heiko left Calypso to work as a consultant at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance in Boston where he developed an annuities projection software system. He continued on to work as a project consultant at Fidelity Investments, also in Boston, for several years on their Y2K readiness efforts. He co-founded Spinfish in 1997 with partner, Amanda Trombley.

Heiko has taught classes in C/C++, Java, and HTML in the metro Boston area. German-born, he speaks both German and English fluently and is studying Spanish. A fan of hiking and the outdoors he loves to travel and explore new places, most recently Canada and Iceland. He lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife and visits his family in Germany at least once a year.