Hi, I’m Mark Palmer. Time Magazine named me a Tech Pioneer Who Will Change Your Life. As CEO of StreamBase and data analytics CPO at TIBCO, my teams built products that led their category 21 times in AI, analytics, data integration, database, and streaming analytics.
Although I love technology, I love the humanities more. I love to write. I’m a semi-professional photographer. I’m obsessed with creativity. I love evangelizing cool ideas: keynotes, patent writing, live appearances on CNBC, writing for Forbes and StosselTV — I love sharing cool ideas to mainstream audiences.
I love building companies. I was a three-sport captain in high school and college, and apply that mentality to team building. I love M&A and combining cultures — I love searching for the 1+1=5.
About Mark Palmer
As Issac Asimov said, “Writing is thinking through my fingers.”
I write every morning on a never-ending pursuit to discover the elusive Spiky Point of View.
Writing
My wife was a linguistics major in college. I asked her: “I’ve been trying to name my website for months. It’s about where technology meets humanity.”
“Oh, like a “techno sapien?” She said.
I bought the URL.
Why “Techno Sapien?”
Awards
Award-winning is a team sport. Here are the ones I’ve been part of:
A Technology Pioneer Who Will Change Your Life, Time Magazine
15 Leading Innovators For the Next Decade, CNBC
CDO Magazine Leading Voice in Data, 2022
Institutional Investor's 40 Top Executives and Innovators of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013
Technology Pioneer, World Economic Forum, 2010
Forrester Wave leadership in streaming analytics (5X)
Gartner MQ leadership in data science and machine learning (4X)
Gartner MQ leadership in MDM (5X),
Forrester Wave visual analytics leadership in Spotfire (3X)
Forrester Wave leadership in data virtualization (2X)
Forrester Wave leadership in data integration (1X)
Gartner MQ leadership in iPaaS (1X)
