Brian Schimpf

Brian Schimpf studied operations research and industrial engineering at Cornell University and worked on an autonomous vehicle team for the DARPA Urban Challenge. He spent years at Palantir Technologies, ending as a director of engineering responsible for deployments into active military theaters, which is where he learned how defense software is bought and fielded.

Brian Schimpf is a co-founder and the chief executive of Anduril Industries. Before starting the company in 2017 with Palmer Luckey and Trae Stephens, he was a director of engineering at Palantir Technologies, leading deployments of data integration software to war zones. As chief executive he has kept development privately funded and priced products as finished goods, the model behind Anduril's US Air Force collaborative combat aircraft work, its counter-drone contract with US Special Operations Command and the Ghost Shark program in Australia. He also approved the move into hyperscale manufacturing at Arsenal-1 in Ohio. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).