Soul Patel
Founder, Thrive Ventures
An entrepreneur, startup mentor, financial analyst, speaker and prize-winning poet, Soul founded Thrive Ventures, a disruptive innovation consultancy that helps scale impact startups and initiatives within globally listed companies. He has extensive consulting experience for publicly-listed international companies across a range of sectors, where his achievements include working with an energy company to prevent the annual burning of $300m in fossil fuels – by making a $6m software investment. Soul also mentors for impact startup accelerators and is a global Responsible Leader with the BMW Foundation.