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 | Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, General, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised, Students
Maria is the current MD of the Oxford Seed Fund, a student-led VC (Venture Capital) body that invests in Oxford-affiliated startups every year. Maria leads a team of 11, and throughout the academic year, during the MBA, they scout and find, and invest into startups...
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 21, 2021 | Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, Oxford, People & Organisations, Science & Technology
Alan is an organic and physical chemist by training, receiving his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Cornell University. After working for the pharmaceutical company Merck in the US in drug discovery, he obtained his PhD in organic synthesis from Columbia...
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 | Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, General, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised
Laura Johnson Blair is chief strategy officer of Farmforce, a Norwegian technology company and cloud-hosted web and mobile platform that enables NGOs and multi-national organisations to transparently source from smallholder and medium-scale farmers in developing...
