Brian Schimpf

Brian Schimpf is co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries, the defense-technology company he started in 2017 with Palmer Luckey and others; the company has grown to roughly 7,000 employees and a reported $30B+ valuation. He was previously Director of Engineering at Palantir and earlier led Cornell University's DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge autonomous-vehicle teams, where he earned a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.