Clark Minor — HHS CIO with $1M-$5M Palantir Holdings, Former Palantir Employee
Chief Technology Officer / Chief Information Officer, Department of Health & Human Services. Responsible for all HHS technology procurement and infrastructure decisions.
Former Palantir Technologies employee. Held $1M-$5M in Palantir common stock, plus unvested restricted stock units, a 401(k) with Palantir, and an additional undisclosed Palantir position. Also holds $1M-$5M+ in cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum). Sold $1M-$5M in PLTR on July 9, 2025.
Clark Minor serves as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer at the Department of Health & Human Services, the official responsible for all technology procurement and infrastructure decisions at HHS. His disclosed net worth is $5.2M (asset range $5.2M-$20M+). Minor came to HHS directly from Palantir Technologies, bringing with him a massive financial stake in his former employer.
Conflict of Interest
Minor held $1M-$5M in Palantir Technologies common stock while serving as CIO of a major Palantir customer agency. This was not a passive index fund position – Minor was a former Palantir employee with multiple layers of Palantir financial exposure:
- Palantir common stock (PLTR): $1M-$5M
- Palantir restricted stock units: unvested (value undisclosed)
- Palantir 401(k): undisclosed value
- Additional Palantir Technologies position: undisclosed
As HHS CIO, Minor has authority over technology contracts, vendor selection, and IT infrastructure – precisely the domain where Palantir competes for government business. HHS is relevant to the detention pipeline because it oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which manages unaccompanied migrant children, and because health data systems intersect with immigration enforcement through information-sharing arrangements.
Minor sold his $1M-$5M Palantir position on July 9, 2025 – more than five months after taking office – and reinvested the proceeds into index funds (Vanguard 500, SPDR S&P 500, Schwab Large-Cap Growth) on July 14, 2025.
Financial Disclosures
Per OGE filing (ProPublica Trump Town):
- Total asset range: $5.2M-$20M+
- Net worth: $5.2M disclosed
- Palantir Technologies (PLTR) common stock: $1M-$5M (sold 2025-07-09)
- Palantir restricted stock units: unvested, undisclosed value
- Palantir 401(k): undisclosed value
- Palantir Technologies (additional): undisclosed
- Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF (BTC): $1M-$5M
- Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF (BTC): $100K-$250K (second position)
- Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (VTI): $1M-$5M
- FID 500 INDEX: $500K-$1M
- INVESCO NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM): $500K-$1M
- VANGUARD S&P 500 ETF (VOO): $500K-$1M
- Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF (ETH): $250K-$500K
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH-USD): $1K-$15K
- Coinbase: undisclosed
- Post-divestiture purchases (2025-07-14): Vanguard 500 (VOO) $1M-$5M, SPDR S&P 500 (SPLG) $1M-$5M, Schwab Large-Cap Growth (SCHG) $1M-$5M
- 32 total holdings, 4 transactions, 1 outside role, 1 agreement
Significance
Clark Minor represents the clearest revolving-door case in the Palantir-government pipeline. He moved directly from Palantir to the CIO role at HHS – the person who decides which technology vendors the department uses – while holding $1M-$5M in Palantir stock. This is the largest individual Palantir holding among known Trump appointees, dwarfing even Stephen Miller’s $100K-$250K position. The five-month delay before divestiture means Minor was making technology procurement decisions at HHS while holding a seven-figure stake in one of the department’s technology vendors. HHS connects to the detention pipeline through ORR (which manages detained unaccompanied children) and through health data systems that can be leveraged for immigration enforcement.