Palantir Technologies executive team & leadership
Palantir Technologies's executive team includes 10 tracked leaders as of August 2026, led by Alex Karp (Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
Palantir Technologies executive team overview
Palantir Technologies has 10 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, a key function, technology strategy and engineering, financial strategy (as of August 2026). Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American software company that builds platforms for data integration, analytics and operational artificial intelligence, used by government agencies and large commercial enterprises. It was founded on May 6, 2003 by Peter Thiel, Stephen Cohen, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale and Nathan Gettings, and sells four main platforms: Gotham for defense and intelligence work, Foundry for commercial and civil government operations, Apollo for continuous software delivery, and AIP, its Artificial Intelligence Platform. The company started in Palo Alto, moved its headquarters to Denver in August 2020 and in February 2026 moved it again, to Aventura in the Miami area, at 19505 Biscayne Boulevard. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the ticker PLTR and joined the S&P 500 on September 6, 2024. Palantir reported 4.475 billion dollars of revenue for fiscal year 2025, up 56 percent, and in August 2026 raised its fiscal 2026 revenue guidance to between 8.150 and 8.158 billion dollars after a second quarter in which United States commercial revenue grew 149 percent year over year. Alex Karp has been chief executive officer since the company was founded, Stephen Cohen is president, and Peter Thiel chairs the board.
Palantir Technologies executive team org chart
Alex KarpCo-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director- SCStephen CohenPresident and Secretary, Co-Founder and Director
- SSShyam SankarChief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
- DGDavid GlazerChief Financial Officer and Treasurer
- RTRyan TaylorChief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer
- PT
Peter ThielCo-Founder and Chairman of the Board - AJAkash JainU.S. Government President and Global Chief Technology Officer
- TMTed MabreyHead of Commercial
- JHJosh HarrisExecutive Vice President
- JBJeffrey BuckleyChief Accounting Officer
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Employees by management level
| Name | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Executive officers and C-level | 10 | 0.2% |
| President, EVP and SVP | 40 | 0.7% |
| VP and head of | 150 | 2.5% |
| Director | 450 | 7.6% |
| Manager | 900 | 15% |
| Individual contributor | 4,350 | 74% |
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Leadership team
| Leader | Location | Profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKAlex KarpCo-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| SCStephen CohenPresident and Secretary, Co-Founder and Director | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| SSShyam SankarChief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| DGDavid GlazerChief Financial Officer and Treasurer | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| RTRyan TaylorChief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| PTPeter ThielCo-Founder and Chairman of the Board | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| AJAkash JainU.S. Government President and Global Chief Technology Officer | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| TMTed MabreyHead of Commercial | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| JHJosh HarrisExecutive Vice President | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → | |
| JBJeffrey BuckleyChief Accounting Officer | ••••@palantir.com | Profile → |
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Palantir Technologies executive team roles
Alex Karp · full profile →
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Alexander Caedmon Karp is a co-founder of Palantir Technologies and has led it as chief executive officer since its founding in 2003. He studied philosophy at Haverford College, law at Stanford Law School and earned a doctorate in social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt. After his doctorate he worked as a research associate at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, then founded Caedmon Group, a London-based money management firm. He co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel and others and took it public in 2020. In February 2025 he published The Technological Republic, co-written with Nicholas Zamiska, which argues that software companies should work with governments on their hardest problems.
Stephen Cohen · full profile →
President and Secretary, Co-Founder and Director
Stephen Cohen is a co-founder of Palantir Technologies and serves as its president and secretary, and he has sat on the board since 2005. He is credited with building the first prototype of Palantir in eight weeks, and he has since interviewed more than 4,500 candidates as part of his long involvement in hiring. Before Palantir he worked with Peter Thiel at Clarium Capital, and he advised BackType before its acquisition by Twitter in 2011. He holds a bachelor of science in computer science from Stanford University.
Shyam Sankar · full profile →
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
Shyam Sankar is the chief technology officer and an executive vice president of Palantir Technologies, which he joined in 2006 as employee number thirteen. He is credited with shaping the role of the forward deployed engineer, the model in which Palantir engineers work directly inside customer operations. Before Palantir he was an early employee at Xoom, the money transfer company. Born in Mumbai and raised in Orlando, he holds a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University and a master's degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University. In June 2025 he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve, and in March 2026 he published Mobilize, a book on rebuilding the American industrial base, co-written with Madeline Hart.
David Glazer · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
David Glazer is the chief financial officer and treasurer of Palantir Technologies. He has held several positions at the company since 2013 before taking over its finance organisation, and he oversaw the period in which Palantir's revenue grew 56 percent to 4.475 billion dollars in fiscal 2025. He holds a bachelor of arts in history from Santa Clara University and a juris doctor from Emory University School of Law. Outside Palantir he sits on the board of directors of Playlist.
Ryan Taylor · full profile →
Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer
Ryan Taylor is the chief revenue officer and chief legal officer of Palantir Technologies, a rare combination of the commercial and legal functions in one executive. He has held various positions at the company since 2010. He holds a bachelor of science in computer science and a master of science in management science and engineering from Stanford University, as well as a juris doctor from Harvard Law School. Together with the chief financial officer he is named as a proxy holder for the company's annual meeting of stockholders.
Peter Thiel · full profile →
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board
Peter Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir Technologies and chairs its board of directors, on which he has sat since 2003. He is a German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who also co-founded PayPal and the venture firm Founders Fund, and he was the first outside investor in Facebook. His role at Palantir is governance rather than day-to-day management, which sits with chief executive officer Alex Karp and president Stephen Cohen.
Akash Jain · full profile →
U.S. Government President and Global Chief Technology Officer
Akash Jain, known as Aki, is president and chief technology officer of Palantir USG, the part of the company that serves the United States government. He joined Palantir in August 2005 as a lead software engineer, when the company was still a start-up, and has spent two decades there. His work centres on putting data and artificial intelligence to use in defense settings, including command and control software, defense data integration and secure deployments at the edge. He was named to the Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in government contracting in 2026, his second appearance on the list.
Ted Mabrey · full profile →
Head of Commercial
Ted Mabrey leads Palantir's commercial business, the part of the company that sells to private enterprises. Since joining in 2010 he has helped take Palantir into new industries including energy, banking, insurance and manufacturing. He has argued that the company's national security work taught it to be directly accountable for real-world outcomes, an approach it carried into its commercial deployments. Before Palantir he worked at Cambridge Associates and the Hudson Institute, and he holds a bachelor's degree in political economy from Princeton University. Fortune named him to its 40 Under 40 list in 2020.
Josh Harris · full profile →
Executive Vice President
Josh Harris is an executive vice president of Palantir Technologies, where he oversees commercial activities globally and leads the company's philanthropy practice. He joined Palantir in 2013. Before that he was director of projects at Richard Attias and Associates, the strategic communications and events firm.
Jeffrey Buckley · full profile →
Chief Accounting Officer
Jeffrey Buckley is the chief accounting officer of Palantir Technologies. The board appointed him on February 27, 2025, effective March 24, 2025, which was a return to the company: he had already held the same role from September 2020 to February 2023, the period of Palantir's public listing. In between he was chief accounting officer of Human Interest, a private financial services company.