Biographies

Pratik Gauri is the founder & CEO of 5ire.org, one of the world’s fastest growing unicorns that achieved the coveted billion dollar valuation less than one year from the day it was founded. He conceptualized the term 5th industrial revolution as a founding principle for shaping a for-purpose world that combines sustainability, innovation and business viability. According to him Most of the world’s complex problems can be solved if we create traffic on the bridge between key performance indicators and social impact.

Pratik’s genius was thinking through how a new kind of blockchain ecosystem would propel a revolution across industries and impact the lives of over a billion humans. The 5ire ecosystem is being built by a solid team of engineers and scientists and will include a layer 1 blockchain, 5ire exchange, NFT/Metaverse marketplace, 5ire Wallet, and 5ire Capital (a venture capital fund).

Pratik embarked upon this audacious mission with a sense of adventure and possibility. He built an iconic founding team, struck partnerships with world class visionaries and institutions, and worked relentlessly to get things going.

Today, in addition to having a world-class product team and global community of developers; Pratik and 5ire have been recognised for their impact by organisations like the World Economic Forum, Entrepreneur Magazine, Economic Times, Forbes, NASDAQ, TED, Hurun India etc. His vision for 5ire has resonated with leading companies and governments from around the world and has led to the Goa Police, Abu Dhabi University and Muzaffarnagar Police joining as early partners of 5ire before the Testnet launch. The iconic football player and Chelsea striker, Drogba and Google Venture capital Head, Mr. Apurva Chamaria has joined his team as a business advisor.

In addition to his work on 5ire, Pratik also serves as the co-founder of a leadership non-profit foundation called “India Needs You”. The goal of the organisation is to equip young adults with a leadership toolkit through programs and workshops. Through India Needs You, Gauri hosted more than 15 workshops that covered topics like law, entrepreneurship, public policy, and women’s empowerment, equipping over 25,000 young adults with leadership toolkits. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, India Needs You received funds from London-based One Young World, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Justin Trudeau, Desmond Tutu, and Emma Watson to tackle the spread of Covid-19 in India.

He has been recognised as Entrepreneur 35 Under 35, TIMES 40 Under 40, ET Now Leaders of Tomorrow, Greenbiz Global 30 Under 30, AsiaOne 40 Under 40 Most Influential Leaders, BusinessWorld Disrupt 40 under 40, British Petroleum Scholar, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Ambassador at One Young World, Al Gore’s
Climate Leader, Fellow at Startup Leadership Program, Winner of UNLEASH 2019, Asia’s top 50 Voices by Earth Day Network, Youth Icon of the Year, Changemaker at Global Action on Poverty and is also popular as the Mark Zuckerberg of India.

Gauri has also been recognized by Economic Times’ Global Indian Leaders ’22, has been nominated as one of the Top 25 Blockchain Technology CEOs of 2022, been listed at number 5 in Top 10 Blockchain Personalities to Follow, and has been awarded Entrepreneur India’s Creative Entrepreneur of the Year – Startup.

Pratik has spoken in more than 25 countries, including thrice through TEDx. Pratik has more than 1M followers across social media platforms. Across the length and breadth of his work, Gauri’s commitment to social impact on a massive scale remains central. Beneficially impacting a billion lives is the core vision of his career in
promoting the 5th industrial revolution and his leadership of 5ire.org