Brett A. Hurt is a renowned CEO, entrepreneur, innovator, and co-founder of data.world, a B Corp, and Public Benefit Corporation firm. With more than two decades of experience in the tech industry, Brett has a reputation as a successful entrepreneur who has launched global companies that have been recognized as leaders in their fields. He co-founded Bazaarvoice, the largest SaaS business in social commerce that went public in 2012, and Coremetrics, the no.1 rated Web analytics solution by Forrester Research, later acquired by IBM. Additionally, he is a Henry Crown Fellow and Braddock Scholar at the Aspen Institute, getting named Best CEO Legacy Award by the Austin Business Journal in 2017.

Brett is an advocate of conscious capitalism, a social philosophy that promotes a business model highlighting stakeholders' interests, including employees, customers, and the community. Under his leadership, data.world has developed a cloud-native data catalog that simplifies data interpretation, creating a unified body of knowledge for better decision-making. The firm is also home to the world's most prominent collaborative open data community, including COVID-19 public datasets, promoting data democratization and accessibility.

As a prolific writer, Brett has authored "The Entrepreneur's Essentials," a book on entrepreneurship and business leadership available on his Medium account. Brett is also a mentor at TechStars and a former General Partner at Hurt+Harbach. He is an MBA in High-Tech Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a degree in Management Information Systems from The University of Texas at Austin.