Jim Fruchterman
Jim is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, and CEO of Benetech. He is a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech. Jim?s dream is to bring Silicon Valley?s technology innovations to all of humanity, not just the richest 5%. He is a former rocket engineer who also founded two successful for-profit high technology companies. Under Jim?s leadership, Benetech has created and scaled multiple software for good enterprises and continues to develop and launch new software applications.