CEO & co-founder, Palantir Technologies
Est. net worth: ~$15B (public estimate, 2026)
Palantir's CEO, who runs the company most responsible for fusing government data for defense, policing, and immigration enforcement. He holds a doctorate in social theory and is an outspoken champion of U.S. military primacy.
Palantir's case-management systems have been central to ICE operations targeting people for arrest and removal. Amnesty International warned the work risks contributing to human-rights violations.
Palantir quietly ran predictive-policing programs feeding person and location data into risk scores criticized for automating and entrenching racial bias.
Palantir took a contract to build ICE a system for near-real-time tracking to accelerate deportations — the most explicit surveillance-for-removal product yet.