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 Covariant, 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 Cynalytica, a startup providing cybersecurity solutions for industrial control systems.

Craig holds a B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. For the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 terms, 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.