Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and Chairman of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. Taavet acted as CEO of TransferWise until 2017, and since then has stepped into the role of Chairperson.

One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet has acted as adviser to the former Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda and helped the European Commission on its digital and innovation programs. He’s also a mentor for the next generation of talent, leading TransferWise’s 20 Under 20 programme to support Europe’s brightest teen CEOs and having co-founded the Good Deed Foundation Education Fund in Estonia. Lastly Taavet is an active angel investor; his investments include Bolt, Zego, Veriff, Tweetdeck, Mendeley, Improbable and Cleo.

Taavet and Silvia live in London with their two young children. Silvia is the creative part of the family with her background in graphic design.