First Breakfast
Shyam Sankar, Eliot Pence, Nathan Mintz, Madeline Hart, Greg Little, Evan Loomis, Jordan Blashek, Tom Balish, Ethan Copple, Hunter Scott, Yoel Margolis, Arthur Herman, Stuart Lodge, Jason Nichols, Nick Miller, Aaron Jaffe, Michael Brown, Daryl Wieland, Scarlett Swerdlow, Max Streeter, Matt Brien, Morgan Hitzig, Lucas CristaldiFrom Last Supper to First Breakfast: The Defense Tech Ecosystem
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CTO, Palantir Technologies
Founder, Dominion Dynamics www.DefendTheDominion.com
2x founding CEO and Serial Entrepreneur in Deep Tech, Angel investor, failed political candidate, systems engineer and father. Strong opinions on cocktails, mexican food, aerospace & defense and the insanity of CA politics.
Defense at Palantir. Co-Author of MOBILIZE: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III (Out March 17, 2026)
Senior Counselor at Palantir
Evan Loomis is an early-stage venture investor at Overmatch, with a focus on critical technology, space, and defense. He also co-founded ICON, a construction technology company revolutionizing human shelter through robotics, AI, and 3D-printing.
General Partner at Overmatch Ventures; Co-Chair of Endless Frontiers; Marine Combat Veteran with two tours in the Horn of Africa and Afghan. Writing about capital, industry, and the race to secure the future.
Retired Army Aviator/Tanker. Once the Chief of Cavalry, later ran UAS in G-8. Now I poke at Army modernization, drone realities, and bureaucratic fiction—trying to help the Army stop tripping over itself.
Ethan Copple, Ph.D. is a systems engineer and applied anthropologist focused on solving coordination problems in complex operational systems. Copple is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Principal at Systems Intelligence Consulting.
Founding engineer at Reach Power (reachpower.com)
Law & Government @ Reichman University | Palantir Technologies
Author of "Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II" CEO, Freedom's Forge Solutions LLC
Co-founder & CEO at Lodge Systems. We make structural airframe components for drones. lodge.tech
Jason has been leading commercial R&D efforts for 20+ years in AI and RPA.
Founder & CEO of Pellucid Network. Former AWS Marketplace leader ($1B+ growth) and In-Q-Tel investor. Army veteran (Iraq/Afghanistan). Former CIO of Arlington National Cemetery. Based in Cary, NC.
Co-Founder at Supply Energetics
Data enthusiast, Civil War dork, pizza lover, world traveler
Senior Director of Partnerships at Palantir and Adjunct Professor of Finance at George Mason University
Defense tech employee. USAF Reservist. Amateur craftsman. Avid runner. Still learning all four.
Morgan is a GP at Overmatch and former Venrock investor with early leadership roles at Peregrine Technologies and Dataminr. She served in the NYPD's Counterterrorism Bureau and is an Officer in the United States Navy Reserve.
Builder and Veteran. Growing on good rain and black loam.
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