Yarrow Kraner
Yarrow is the Founder of HATCH and H360.ai, is an Aspen Institute Fellow, RSA Fellow, and named 2015 top 100 creatives in the U.S. by Origins. He is a pioneer of social networking and has been building communities for twenty-five years. He’s directed projects with Richard Branson, The Rock, Jody Watley, Rakim, and more. In 1999, Yarrow created an online network – The Hero Project, which grew to 1.5 Million users and was acquired by FOX Studios.
In 2004, Yarrow founded HATCH, connecting global influencers to accelerate solutions for the UN’s SDGs, which has led to thousands of collaborations, companies formed, and systems change at the policy level within the United Nations.
In 2016 Yarrow founded H360.ai, a machine learning impact collaboration platform. H360 connects people to resources and unlocks the potential of communities and organizations, powering a “Network of Networks.” Yarrow is featured in the book Talent for Humanity, is on the Advisory Board for the Water Innovation Accelerator (WIA), was honored with the Audfest Impact Award in 2019, and has led think tanks with Intel, Hasbro, Ernst & Young, NASA, spoken at TEDx, Vivatech, EarthX, Day One in Monaco, Business Innovation Factory Summit (BIF), and the Volcano Summit.