Palantir alum
John Bristow
Business Development, Handshake AI at Handshake AI
Business development at Handshake AI. At Palantir he built and led a top-performing strategic accounts sales team and ran commercial for Saudi Arabia from Riyadh.
Bristow was the first employee at Slingshot Foods and a four-time President's Club winner at BrightEdge before joining Palantir in 2021. After Palantir he worked in solutions at Altana and as VP of business development for biopharma at Vi, then joined Handshake AI in August 2026.
At Palantir
- Strategic Accounts
- Strategic Accounts, Sales Lead
- Head of Commercial, KSA
- 2021-07 to 2023-12
Career
- 2013-2016: Slingshot Foods, sales manager and first employee
- 2017-2021: BrightEdge, enterprise account executive
- 2021-2023: Palantir, strategic accounts, sales lead, head of commercial for Saudi Arabia
- 2024-2025: Altana, solutions
- 2025-2026: Vi, VP of business development, biopharma
- 2026-now: Handshake AI, business development