Craig Hatkoff is co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, launched in 2002 aftermath of September 11th. In 2009 he co-founded the Disruptor Foundation with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, father of disruptive innovation theory.
Hatkoff is the chief curator of the annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards which he created in 2010 in collaboration with Professor Christensen. In 2017 Hatkoff brought the Disruptor Awards to Hiroshima, Japan for the first ever Disruptive Innovation Awards held overseas