Oxford Entrepreneurs is proudly launching a prestigious new programme called “The Oxprentice” – a multi-stage business skills competition taking place in the 09-10 academic year, and climaxing with one Oxford student being crowned the first-ever, well, Oxprentice!
With lots of applicants vying for the prizes and publicity that will be showered upon the Oxprentice champion, competitors will be selected through a full-day audition in central Oxford on Saturday of 7th Week (June 13th). Please see The Oxprentice webpage for full audition details: http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/events/oxprentice/
Profits from the audition will be provided to OE’s partner in the event, The Oaktree Foundation UK, a youth-driven charity that supports educational development in sub-Saharan Africa.
May 8, 2009 – 7.30pm
Adam Street Club – The Strand, London
Registration Full
The crisp surroundings of the Adam Street Club on The Strand, London, play host to this year’s Oxford Entrepreneurs Alumni engagement on Friday 8th May. Oxford Entrepreneurs has a diverse and rich community of alumni, and the committee is keen to meet them in person over a few drinks in the relaxed surroundings of the Adam Street Club.
Alongside meeting other alumni and the committee, guests will also be able to hear from and talk to three high profile entrepreneurs, Rod Aldridge, the founder of Capita, Ben Elliot, co-founder of Quintessentially, and Syed Ahmed, founder of SA Vortex and more famously, a former contestant from The Apprentice, who will all be sharing their experiences on the evening.
The event, on the 8th May, begins at 7.30pm and runs until 10.30pm though the Adam Street Club is open until 3am, so feel free to make an evening of it – on Fridays there is often a nice party atmosphere in the club as the evening progresses. We’d love to see you there!
Brent Co-Founded Lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox and was CEO and took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in March 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak – the IPO was 40 times oversubscribed and the price increase during the process was a record for a UK company. Lastminute.com acquired 14 businesses after the IPO to supplement the annual growth of the core brand which was over 100% from 1998 – 2004. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.
Brent most recently founded another VC-backed internet based start-up, MyDeco, the online interiors site that will revolutionise the way we shop and design for our homes. He is a Governor of University of the Arts College, London and a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group. From January, 2007 he took on the role of Non-Executive Chairman of Wayn.com – a travel and leisure social network with over 13 million members. Brent is also an angel investor in several internet companies including Viagogo, Wayn.com and moveme.com.
May 6, 2009
