Chris Taggart is the co-founder and CEO of OpenCorporates.
Since it launched just 2 years ago, it has leveraged the open data community to grow to by far the largest open database of companies in the world with over 50 million companies in 70 jurisdictions, and is regularly used by journalists, anti-corruption investigators, civil society, even banks and financial institutions.
Now it is tackling the tricky task of mapping the complex and often opaque corporate networks that make up today’s global corporations, with surprising results.