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.
April 29, 2009 – 6pm
Said Business School
Register: http://oe.wufoo.com/forms/mike-mason/
Mike Mason, Managing Director – Innovation, founded Climate Care in 1997 pre-Kyoto. Since then the company has become a market leader in the origination, development and retail of voluntary and compliance carbon offsets, pioneering methodologies and project standards in a number of areas and supplying everyone from consumers to some of the world’s largest brands. In April 2008 Climate Care was acquired by JP Morgan.
Mike also founded and continues to run Biojoule, a company developing new ways to use biomass for energy that doesn’t compete with food. Mike qualified as a mining engineer initially and worked mostly in Africa. He then gained an MBA and moved to business development in the oil industry. He left the oil industry to set up a computing consultancy and a number of healthcare ventures. In 1994 Mike went to Oxford to study Environmental Change and Management, where he also taught Environmental Economics for several years.
February 12, 2009 – 6pm Said Business School, Click here to register.
Julie Meyer has 20 years of investment and advisory experience, helping start-up businesses and industry standards to emerge and establish themselves. As Chief Executive of Ariadne Capital, she has overall general and financial management responsibility for the group which she founded in August 2000. Ariadne is an investment and advisory firm focused on the Software and Services, New Media, Communications and Life Services sectors. Julie is well-known for founding First Tuesday, the largest global network of entrepreneurs, which many credit for igniting the Internet generation in Europe. It was sold for $50 million in cash in and shares in July 2000. Julie has raised hundreds of millions of capital for start-ups in addition to overseeing another $150 million of seed capital found for start-ups through First Tuesday. Named a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum and one of the top 30 most powerful women in Europe according to the Wall Street Journal, Julie’s mission is to back the best entrepreneurs in Europe with global ambitions. She was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in October 2000 by Ernst & Young U.K.
May 6, 2009
