Ori Schnaps

Brilliant. Inspired. Caring. Ori Schnapps is a software engineer and founder of the free personal financial advice service Thrive. This site gives Americans the ability to better their lives by allowing users to make informed and actionable financial choices.

Ori is one of our generation's truly inspired ethical visionaries. When he noticed that his twenty and thirty-something peers had little access to credible financial planning, he sat down at a computer for two years, and, built a site to fix the problem!

Ori and his co-founder, Avinash Karnani, soon realized that young people are not the only people underserved by financial services, in fact, they quickly realized that most people are taken advantage of by financial industries! And they created the site not a moment too soon; just as the economy and nation were hit by the credit crisis, Thrive was launched to help Americans get back on their feet.

Ori is also a vegetarian and a life-long community volunteer! A visionary using his internet wizardry to help people make better life decisions.