Role: Director, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), confirmed 2025; previously managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

Status: Active Senate-confirmed OPM Director as of June 2026.

Basis for Inclusion

Subject classification: Public Official (Senate-confirmed federal agency head).

Anchor met: Public Official. No private-citizen anchor required.

Background

Kupor spent over a decade as a managing partner at a16z, where he led the firm’s investor-relations and operations functions. He authored a widely read book on venture capital and was a public advocate for capital-markets deregulation. Marc Andreessen publicly described coordinating Kupor’s transition into government.

DOGE Role

• Confirmed as OPM Director with explicit mandate to implement federal workforce reductions.
• Coordinated with DOGE personnel and OMB Director Russ Vought on the Vought/Ezell February 26, 2025 memo framework for agency RIF plans.
• OPM under Kupor approved the agency RIF submissions implementing the post-DOGE wave of workforce reductions.

Documented Actions

• Approved or implemented the Schedule Career-Policy reclassification framework affecting tens of thousands of career federal employees.
• Issued OPM guidance affecting probationary terminations, RIF procedures, and hiring freezes.
• Coordinated implementation of the Trump 2.0 federal workforce reduction targets following Musk’s departure.

Real-World Impacts

Federal Employees

• Direct authority over the OPM actions contributing to approximately 217,177 federal positions eliminated January–November 2025 (OpenFeds, November 2025).
• Formal RIFs surged from 46 in 2024 to 10,700 in 2025 — a 233x increase — implemented through OPM guidance under Kupor’s direction.

American Citizens (Public Services)

• Federal workforce reductions affected service delivery at SSA, VA, IRS, and other public-facing agencies.

Vulnerable Populations

• Reductions in workforce serving SNAP, Medicaid, VA benefits, and housing-assistance recipients flowed from OPM-approved agency RIF plans.

Privacy and Data Security

• OPM under Kupor granted DOGE personnel access to federal personnel records and security clearance data (multiple federal lawsuits, 2025).

Other Documented Harms

• AFGE v. OPM (N.D. Cal.): Judge William Alsup ruled OPM “exceeded its own powers” and “directed agencies to fire under false pretense” — a finding against the agency Kupor leads (Federal News Network, September 2025).

Conflicts of Interest

• a16z portfolio: Multiple a16z portfolio companies have federal-contracting and federal-policy exposure that intersects with OPM’s workforce decisions affecting regulatory agencies.
• Andreessen pipeline: Kupor’s appointment was part of a documented a16z-to-DOGE personnel pipeline coordinated by Marc Andreessen.

Sources

• White House announcement of Kupor nomination, 2025
• Senate confirmation hearing record
• Federal News Network, OPM coverage, 2025
• AFGE v. OPM, N.D. Cal.
• OpenFeds DOGE Impact Dashboard, November 2025
• NYT, Washington Post, a16z-to-government pipeline coverage