Indy faces: iMOCA board member Mark Palmenter
By Megan • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Konrad Marshall reports for Indy Star.com:
“He looks impeccable, what with the smart gray slacks and the fitted zip-up sweater, the thin black frames and pointed black shoes, his spiked hair and a mauve dress shirt the final flourishes of taste.
He’s diminutive, too, but is also clearly a man who rises to meet occasions.
Sitting on a stool inside the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, where he is a board member, 30-year-old Mark Palmenter begins the freewheeling history of his life and times, talking about design, entrepreneurship, Harvard, and coming back to Indianapolis from New York to start a design studio.
“New York is such an animal, like a totally different city in terms of how it operates,” said Palmenter, an Evansville native. “It was just fun to be able to come back to Indianapolis and have a chance to start up an entirely new company. It’s just all of my interests wrapped into one, because it’s a start-up, it’s contemporary and design-oriented, and it’s fun.”
Hotbed Creative, where Palmenter is a partner in business development, is a contemporary design studio that provides strategic consulting, market research, niche and guerrilla marketing and branding. The company is in part what drove him back to Indiana almost a year ago, after six years of undergrad and business school at Harvard, then three years working for American Express in Manhattan.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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