by Leah Thompson | Jan 27, 2021 | Business Basics, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised, Social Enterprise
Barbara is the CEO of the Low Carbon Hub, a group of social enterprises that all work together in Oxfordshire. One of them is a Community Benefit Society, the Low Carbon Hub IPS (IPS). This company takes investment from shareholders, develops renewable energy...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 26, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, General, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised
Sarah Barratt Ball is the Director of Oxford’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a programme that runs in nine business school locations globally, founded in Toronto in 2012. CDL is a global program that mentors massively scalable, seed stage, science and deep-tech...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 22, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Education & Knowledge, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, General, People & Organisations, Personalised
Chibugo Okafor is the founder and CEO of Kendake Honey, a social enterprise focused on utilising the apiculture sector to provide job opportunities for women and youth turning them into sustainable income generators, enforcing food security and wealth creation for the...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 13, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Education & Knowledge, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, General, Health & Wellbeing, People & Organisations, Personalised, Social Enterprise
Zeenith Ebrahim is the founder of Jamii Life, a technology platform that connects health workers with people that can’t care for themselves in low-income South African and African communities (‘Jamii’ means community in Swahili). Jamii Life seeks to redesign home care...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 8, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, General, Growing my Company, IT & Digital, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised, Science & Technology
Natalia Efremova has a PHD in Computer Science from the University of Kyoto, and an MBA from the University of Oxford. She has also previously worked as an Associate Professor in computer science, in Russia. Her research focuses on using AI and machine learning to...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 8, 2021 | Business Basics, Consumer & Retail, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, General, Health & Wellbeing, People & Organisations, Personalised
Kate Thiers is the co-founder of I-Drop Water Holdings, along with her husband James. I-Drop Water Holdings is an innovative social impact company in the African retail drinking water market, where purified bottled water is simply not affordable for millions of people...
