Palantir Technologies Inc., the data-mining company that has become a quiet force in government, policing and business since its founding in 2003, is adding the first woman to its board ahead of a planned public stock listing.
The Silicon Valley company named a journalist, Alexandra Wolfe Schiff, as director, along with two men, according to an email sent to investors that was seen by Bloomberg. Wolfe Schiff is the daughter of novelist Tom Wolfe, who wrote “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” and has been a reporter at the Wall Street Journal since 2013. A spokeswoman for the paper said late Tuesday that Wolfe Schiff will be resigning before joining Palantir’s board.
