Jim Fruchterman

Social entrepreneur, tech-for-good field leader, author, public speaker

Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, MacArthur Fellow and Founder of Benetech and Tech Matters, nonprofit technology companies based in Silicon Valley. He's helped create five world changing technology social enterprises (and isn't done yet). His 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 and has received numerous awards, including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, in recognition of his work. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).