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Aistis Šimaitis is the co-founder and CEO of Onodrim Industries, a European defense manufacturing company that acquires quality manufacturing and critical mission system businesses across Europe rather than building a new defense prime. He previously led Palantir Technologies' Central and Eastern European government business and was one of the company's earliest European hires, helping deploy the Foundry platform. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and served as Chief Advisor for Analytics and Data Management in the Lithuanian government during the COVID-19 pandemic and as Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence and Security Service. He is best known for his thesis that volume and mass production capacity matter more than technological perfection in European defense, a lesson drawn from the war in Ukraine.