
Thomas Wolf
Co-Founder of Hugging Face
How an open research codebase turned a teen chatbot into the hub of the global open-source AI community.
A community unified in search of Benevolent innovation.

CEO, Starwood Capital

Co-Managing Partner, TPG Rise Fund

Head of Sustainability, Prudential PLC

Investment Manager, Baillie Gifford

Director, Generation Investment Management

Co-founder, QED Investors; Co-founder, Capital One

Chief Sustainability Officer, Standard Chartered Bank

Head of AIM & UK Primary Markets, London Stock Exchange

Former Head of Total Returns Sustainability, Pictet Asset Management

President, European Innovation Council Board

Vice Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, InvestCorp

Partner, Inovia Capital; Former CFO, Google

Former Chairman EMEA Technology Banking, Barclays

Former COO, Deutsche Bank

Co-founder, Sprints

Chief Investment Officer, Vencap International

Head of Private Market Client Solutions, TIFF Investment Management

Former Deputy CEO, Société Générale

Founding Partner, Generation Investment Management

Executive Chairman of the Global Private Bank and a Global Chair of Investment Banking, J.P. Morgan

Chairman, McKinsey & Company

President, Shopify

Co-founder, Whole Foods

CEO, Octopus Energy

Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind

Co-founder, OakNorth

Founder, Remitly

Co-founder & Executive Chair, Calm

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Marshmallow Insurance

CEO, Vinted

Founder, One Medical

Founder, Veriff

Co-Founder & CEO, Tessian

Co-Founder, Tegus

Chief Commercial Officer, Oura

Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face
Benevolent Disruptors is a podcast series, co-hosted by the Managing Partners of BNVT Capital, Rory Mounsey-Heysham and Chris Corbishley. In this series we interview leading founders, investors, allocators, and regulators on the role of business and technology in society.

Co-Founder of Hugging Face
How an open research codebase turned a teen chatbot into the hub of the global open-source AI community.

Founding Partner of Generation Investment Management
Why sustainability and long-term investment performance can reinforce each other, even through political headwinds.

Co-Founder of Remitly
How a frustrating experience in Kenya led to fairer cross-border payments, with regulation helping build trust.

Founder and CEO of Octopus Energy
How Octopus uses its Kraken software platform to make clean energy cheaper, faster and fairer for customers.

President of Shopify
Why Shopify calls itself an entrepreneurship company: lowering the barriers so more people can build businesses.