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Age: 23
Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur.
David is the CEO and co-founder of GroupSpaces, an Internet company revolutionising the way clubs and societies manage mailing lists, membership databases, file sharing, websites and events.
Having graduated with a degree in Pure & Applied Mathematics in 2007, David was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition for achievements throughout his student career. In addition to setting up GroupSpaces, these included receiving the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award, an Explorer Award for conservation work from the John Muir Trust and being selected as one of FreshMinds’ Ones to Watch for the future.
Prior to working full-time as an Internet Entrepreneur, David worked in Investment Management at Lehman Brothers, Complex Derivatives Trading at JPMorgan and completed the Discover course with McKinsey & Company.
In addition to spending much of his time organising the world’s groups with GroupSpaces, David is currently an Ambassador for the Make Your Mark scheme, the Entrepreneurship Columnist for national student newspaper The Gateway and he writes blog Freed From The Matrix about young entrepreneurs.
David is also a very keen sportsman. Since playing in the England table tennis squad as a junior, he played several sports for St. Anne’s College and was also President of Oxford University’s Table Tennis and Motor Drivers’ Clubs. He is currently training for his latest pursuit of triathlon.
You can follow David on Twitter at http://twitter.com/langer
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.
Age: 20
Occupation: Student / Founder of ESSA
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Rajeeb Dey is the Founder and National Co-ordinator of the English Secondary Students’ Association (ESSA), Co-Founder of Enternships™ and is an undergraduate reading reading Economics & Management at Jesus College, Oxford.
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Age: 22
Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur
Kirill graduated two years ago with a double first in a Mathematics BA from St. Johns. He was the first External Relations Officer and third President of OE. Since leaving Oxford, Kirill managed data and analytics at Slide.com, and in 2007 co-founded YouNoodle.com.
Some more information on Slide and YouNoodle are below. His other previous projects include AmIWorthit.com and Enternships.com.
Kirill welcomes contact from anyone interested in starting or helping early-stage companies. You can read his full bio and get in touch with him by following the link below:
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Occupation: Student / Managing Director of Boso.com
Harjeet Taggar is co-founder and Managing Director of Boso.co.uk, the first online marketplace exclusively for students in the UK. He is a final year undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford reading Law. You can read Harj’s blog at blog.harjtaggar.com
Age: 23
As a founding member of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Kulveer went on to establish the society as one the most enterprising in the country during his tenure as President. He founded Idea Idol, paved the way for future expansion by setting up the first successful rollout at LSE, and led the society on to a national profile.
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Age: 26
Occupation: D.Phil student in philosophy and co-founder of www.liveout.co.uk
Richard Price is a co-founder of LiveOut and a prize fellow of All Souls College, where he is doing a D.Phil in philosophy.
As cofounder and Chairman of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Bob is a leading contributor to the recent rise in entrepreneurialism at UK universities. Having set up profitable design and publishing companies as an undergraduate, he began a sabbatical from his masters degree in April 2004 when headhunted by PayPal cofounder Max Levchin to help start consumer technology companies at his San Francisco incubator, Midtown Doornail. Bob advises a number of student start-ups and welcomes contact from OE members.
Kaori did her undergraduate work looking at deployable structures in nature (things that fold away, such as a leaf in a bud), and her masters degree in medical equipment. While studying stents she visited a Japanese art exhibition and saw an origami fir cone, modelled to open and close. Inspired by this Kaori developed an original origami pattern to create a new type of “stent”.
