# Anduril Leadership Roster of [[Anduril]]'s executives and known board. An index that links out to People pages — not biographies. > **Private company.** Unlike [[Palantir]], Anduril files no proxy statement, so its full board and ownership are not publicly disclosed. What follows is the publicly reported leadership; treat board composition as partial. ## Governance shape Anduril is **founder-controlled and privately held**. All five 2017 co-founders remained with the company as of 2026 — unusually durable for a startup this large. [[Trae Stephens]] serves as **Executive Chairman** while also being a partner at [[Founders Fund]], which makes the chairmanship itself a founder-investor interlock: the board chair represents the company's largest early backer. [[Palmer Luckey]] is the public face; [[Brian Schimpf]], the engineer-CEO, has run the company since inception. ## Executive officers | Name | Role | Notes | |---|---|---| | [[Brian Schimpf]] | Co-Founder & CEO | Engineer-CEO since 2017; ex-[[Palantir]] | | [[Trae Stephens]] | Co-Founder & Executive Chairman | [[Founders Fund]] partner; ex-[[Palantir]] | | [[Palmer Luckey]] | Co-Founder / Founder | Public face; founded Oculus | | [[Matt Grimm]] | Co-Founder & COO | Operations / manufacturing scale-up | | [[Joe Chen]] | Co-Founder | | | [[Christian Brose]] | President & Chief Strategy Officer | Ex-SASC staff director; author of *The Kill Chain* | | [[Matthew Steckman]] | President & Chief Business Officer | Revenue / business development | ## The Palantir / Founders Fund lineage Anduril is a direct descendant of [[Palantir]]'s and [[Peter Thiel]]'s defense-tech vision. [[Trae Stephens]] and [[Brian Schimpf]] both came out of Palantir; the founding idea took shape at a 2014 [[Founders Fund]] retreat. The capital and the leadership both trace back to the same network — see [[Palantir Mafia]] and [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]]. [[Christian Brose]] adds the policy axis: he ran Senate Armed Services Committee staff before writing the doctrine (*The Kill Chain*) that Anduril's products embody — a textbook revolving-door node. ## Known / reported board - [[Trae Stephens]] — Executive Chairman ([[Founders Fund]]) - [[Palmer Luckey]] — Co-Founder - [[Brian Schimpf]] — CEO - [[Brian Singerman]] — historically tied to the board via [[Founders Fund]]'s lead position (Full board not publicly disclosed — private company.) ## Open questions to track - Full board roster and any independent directors (rarely disclosed for private firms; may surface in an S-1 if Anduril files to go public). - Executive departures/additions as the company scales toward a possible IPO. - Governance terms attached to the [[Anduril Series H]] round. ## See Also - [[Anduril]] — company page - [[Anduril Dossier]] — dossier front door - [[Anduril Investors]] - [[Anduril Watch Log]] - [[Palantir Mafia]]