Ryan Taylor

Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer Palantir Technologies

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Ryan Taylor is Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Palantir Technologies, the Nasdaq-listed company whose Gotham, Foundry and Apollo platforms are used by defence and intelligence agencies, government departments and large commercial enterprises to integrate and act on data. He holds a combination that is rare at a company of Palantir’s size: the top commercial mandate and the top legal mandate at the same time, in a single role the board created for him in January 2023. The pairing is deliberate rather than accidental — for a company whose largest customers are governments and whose contracts are frequently procured, contested and politically scrutinised, the legal function and the revenue function are not easily separable. Taylor has been at Palantir since 2010, first as a lawyer, then as Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer through the 2020 direct listing, and since 2023 in the combined role. He is one of five named executive officers of the company.

Career Highlights

• Appointed by Palantir’s board on 29 January 2023 to the newly created role of Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer, a move the company described as “reflecting his focus on sales and revenue growth as well as his continuing leadership of Palantir’s legal team”.
• Named executive officer of Palantir for fiscal 2025, one of five, alongside co-founders Alexander Karp and Stephen Cohen, chief technology officer Shyam Sankar and chief financial officer David Glazer.
• Served as Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer through Palantir’s 2020 direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, the transaction that took the company public without an underwritten offering.
• Designated, with the chief financial officer, as one of two proxy holders for Palantir’s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders.
• Sixteen years with the same company, joining in 2010 when Palantir was a private government-software firm and remaining through its listing and its expansion into commercial markets.
• Began his career in private practice as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP.

Professional Journey

Taylor came to Palantir in 2010 from private practice at Covington & Burling, a Washington firm with a deep government-contracts and regulatory practice — useful preparation for a company whose principal customers were federal agencies. He joined as a lawyer and spent the next decade inside the legal organization as Palantir grew from a secretive Silicon Valley contractor into one of the larger privately held software companies in the United States.

By the time Palantir prepared to go public he was Chief Legal and Business Affairs Officer, a title that already fused legal responsibility with commercial deal-making. The company chose a direct listing in September 2020 rather than a conventional initial public offering, a route that put unusual weight on the legal and disclosure workstream: there were no underwriters to absorb liability and no traditional roadshow. Palantir’s filings show him reporting under that title through 2022.

On 29 January 2023 the board restructured its senior team. Shyam Sankar moved from chief operating officer to chief technology officer, and Taylor was appointed to a role that had not previously existed at the company: Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer. Palantir’s own explanation was that the title recognised where his work had already moved — toward sales and revenue growth — while keeping the legal organization under him. In practice it made the general counsel the owner of the commercial number, an arrangement most public companies avoid.

He has held that combined role since. Palantir’s 2026 proxy lists him among its five executive officers as of April 2026, gives his age as 44, and confirms he has served in various positions with the company since 2010. His most recent Form 4, filed in May 2026, still records the dual title. Over the same period Palantir’s revenue growth accelerated sharply — the company reported 56 per cent year-over-year growth for fiscal 2025 with GAAP profitability in every quarter — which is the number his half of the title is measured against.

Education

Stanford University

B.S., Computer Science

Stanford University

M.S., Management Science and Engineering

Harvard Law School

J.D.