Age: 23

Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur

Andy joined the Oxford Entrepreneurs team in spring 2006 and became Vice President in April 2007. In November 2007 he deferred studies for his degree in Computer Science in order to work full-time on the company he co-founded in February 2006, developing GroupSpaces.com - an online service for clubs and societies.

Andy has spent recent years developing to become an experienced web developer and internet entrepreneur. Given his first computer aged 7, he turned it on to be presented with nothing but a blinking cursor - this was 1992. Forced to learn to program it in order to create his own games, he grew up alongside the rise of the personal computer and was bugging his parents to let him connect his computer to online services via the telephone years before the Internet came along. By age 16 he had already created several accounting and database programs for his parents and family friends, and soon discovered building websites for local businesses to be far more lucrative than working as a waiter in the local hotel.

Before coming to Oxford, Andy had already latched onto the idea that creating something once in order to sell it repeatedly was better business than being paid by the hour, not to mention the discovery that working for himself could be far more challenging and rewarding. It was therefore natural that he joined OE. Having been inspired by talks from Sir Alan Sugar and Brent Hoberman he joined the committee in spring 2006.

Andy spent 2 years working for a web design agency where his work spanned development, project management and consultancy in e-commerce, real estate and the public sector. He was responsible for the online marketing and e-commerce strategy at WearFair, an Oxford-based company retailing fair trade jewellery imported from Chile, and built ClickUni.com - the Homepage for Students. He holds a Certificate of Higher Education in Music and Sound Recording from the University of Surrey and won a scholarship from St John’s College, Oxford for academic achievement in the first year of his degree.

In the immediate future, Andy’s plans are to build GroupSpaces into a successful web service used by millions of people, which should see the necessity to grow the team and future rounds of investment funding. Always ready for a challenge, for Andy these are exciting times..

Watch Andy and ClickUni co-founder David Langer interviewed on Silicon Valley video blog LunchMeet

Andy is happy to be contacted at andy@groupspaces.com