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title: "Who runs Palantir Technologies?"
description: "The leadership team of Palantir Technologies."
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category: "Company"
updated: "August 2026"
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# Who runs Palantir Technologies?

> 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.

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## Leadership

| Name | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Karp | CEO | 2003 |
| Stephen Cohen | President | Co-founder, director since 2005 |
| Shyam Sankar | CTO | 2006 |
| David Glazer | CFO | 2013 |
| Ryan Taylor | CRO | 2010 |
| Peter Thiel | Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board | Co-founder, director since 2003 |
| Akash Jain | U.S. Government President and Global Chief Technology Officer | August 2005 |
| Ted Mabrey | Head of Commercial | 2010 |
| Josh Harris | EVP | 2013 |
| Jeffrey Buckley | Chief Accounting Officer | March 2025 |

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## About Palantir Technologies

- **Name:** Palantir Technologies
- **Website:** https://www.palantir.com
- **Industry:** AI Platforms and Data Integration Software
- **Founded:** 2003
- **Employees:** 5,900
- **Headquarters:** 19505 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 2350, Aventura, Florida 33180, United States
- **Listed as:** PLTR (Nasdaq)
- **Specialties:** Data integration, Big data, Enterprise software, Data analytics, Data protection, Data engineering, Artificial intelligence, AI platform

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- **Data as of:** August 2026
- **Last verified:** 2026-09-25
- **Checks run:** Leadership, News, C-suite
- **Staff figures:** Estimated

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