Craig Schwartz

Legal Fellow

Craig Schwartz is General Counsel and Head of InfoSec at Nominal, a venture-backed software platform for the testing and validation of mission-critical hardware.

Previously, Craig was General Counsel at Covariant, an AI-powered robotics startup in Berkeley, CA that was acquired by Amazon in August 2024. Before that, Craig was one of the first lawyers for Palantir’s U.S. government business where he covered the Intelligence Community and Army TITAN program, and oversaw national security compliance.

Outside of Nominal, Craig is a Vice Chair of the ABA Section of Public Contract Law Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & Emerging Technology Committee (previously Co-Chair from 2020-2024), and is an advisor to startups including Cynalytica and Sykline Nav AI.

Craig holds a B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. After law school, he clerked for Judge Thomas Wheeler of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and Chief Judge Carl Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.