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Leah Spasova, Founder and CEO of LIFESEXPERTS
Leah is a social psychologist and educator, specialising in sex and relationships education for adults. She is the Founder and CEO of LIFESEXPERTS. Leah runs educational live events and webinars on all topics related to sex and relationships. Her company offers educational services as well as preventative interventions to institutions, like schools, colleges and universities as well as companies. Leah also works with individuals, offering sessions on a one-to-one basis. Leah teaches a broad in scope content with topics that educate individuals about the many interwoven factors that influence their psyche, sexual behaviour and relationships. She is passionate about social justice, personal growth, life relevant education and well-being.
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Abhinav Jain – CEO of PowerMarket
Abhinav Jain is the CEO of PowerMarket, an online renewable energy assessment and marketplace.
Adam Bacon – Co-founder of Fairfull
Adam is a co-founder of Fairfull, where every bite tastes great and does good. All their profits are used to fuel life-changing ...
Agne Milukaite – Founder of Cycle.land
Agne Milukaite, is the Founder of cycle.land, a peer-to-peer bike sharing social marketplace.
Alasdair Harris, Founder of Blue Ventures
Alasdair Harris is the founder of Blue Ventures, an award winning marine conservation charity and social enterprise.
Alastair Sussock – Co-Founder of SafeBoda
Alastair Sussock is the Co-Founder of SafeBoda, an innovative solution to motorcycle taxi transportation in Africa.
Alessandra Sollberger, founder and CEO of Evermore Health
Alessandra Sollberger is the Founder & CEO of Evermore Health, revolutionising the functional nutrition space with iconic products.
Alex Barnes, Co-founder of Lanterne
Alex is the co-founder of Lanterne, an online platform showing the safest routes in conflict zones.
Alex Caccia – CEO of Animal Dynamics
Alex Caccia is a serial entrepreneur, with start-ups in hardware and software, as well as sports equipment.
Alex Froom, Co-Founder of Zipabout
Alex Froom is the Co-founder of Zipabout, an Intelligent Mobility project.
Alex McCallion, co-founder of Greater Change
Alex McCallion is Co-founder of Greater Change, helping to provide a way of giving to the homeless.
Alexander Koelbl, founder of HEADING ON
Alex is the Founder of HEADING ON, described like a "Fitbit® for your car".
Alexandra Littaye, founder of Azure
Alexandra Littaye is the Founder of Azure, the first distributor of a Mexican superfood made of blue corn called 'pinole'.
Ali Cigari, co-founder and lead engineer at Wattson Blue
Ali is the Co-founder and Lead Engineer at Wattson Blue.
Andrew Beale, co-founder of Finden
Prof. Andrew Beale is the Co-founder of Finden, a scientific consultancy company.
Andrew Rimmer, CEO of Opsydia
Andrew Rimmer is the CEO of Opsydia, set to bring significant security advances to the diamond gemstone market.
Aniruddha Voruganti, co-founder of Students for Students
Ani Voruganti is a medical student at the University of Oxford, and Co-founder of Students for Students.
Aron Gelbard, CEO of Bloom & Wild
Aron Gelbard is the Co-founder and CEO of an online flower delivery company, Bloom & Wild.
Ben Davison, founder of Salient
Ben Davison is the Founder of Salient, a startup developing professional post workout clothing.
Ben Wilkins, cofounder of Fluid Motion
Ben Wilkins is the Co-founder of Fluid Motion, a water-based rehabilitation programme designed to be fun and beneficial.
Bhavini Patel, co-founder of Beam Data
Bhavini Patel is the co-founder of BeamData, a civic tech venture that improves the data capacity of social enterprises and local government.
Bunmi Ayeh, co-founder of The Loop
Bunmi Ayeh is a University of Oxford alumna, and fashion entrepreneur.
Cedric Maforimbo, Founder of Weed2Pesticide
Cedric is the Founder and Lead of Weed2Pesticide, a University of Oxford social enterprise working towards building a rural ...
Charley Darbishire – CEO and Founder of Educake
Charley is the Founder and Managing Director of Educake, an online homework and revision application for secondary school science.
Charlotte Stacey – Film Maker & Video Journalist
Charlotte is a freelance film-maker, journalist and media trainer based in Oxford.
Chau-Jean Lin, Co-founder of Marulin
Chau-Jean Lin is the Co-founder and Director of Marulin, a London-based company that sources tea from Taiwan.
Christer Holloman, CEO and co-founder of Divido
Christer Holloman is the CEO and Co-founder of Divido, a startup that lets consumers spread the cost of any purchase over a period.
Christoph Birkl, co-founder and CEO of Brill Power
Christoph is Co-founder and CEO of Brill Power, developing game-changing battery control technology.
Cristina de Sus, Founder of Miss Frida
Cristina de Sus is the Founder of Miss Frida, a social startup.
Dan Holloway, founder of Mycelium
Dan is the Founder of Mycelium, a creative thinking training tool and game.
Danae Maragouthakis, co-founder of Pod Health
Danae is a medical doctor and Co-founder of Pod Health.
Daniel Garcia & Jonathan Haralamabakis, cofounders of Pinboard.me
A platform where students and alumni can share their skills online and on campus, one-to-one.
David Jackson, founder and CEO of Oxtex
David is the Founder and CEO of Oxtex Limited, an early stage medical device company that was spun out from the University of Oxford in 2011.
Deqian Jia, cofounder of Schema
Deqian Jia is the Co-founder of Schema, a web-based note taking application.
Dominique Piche – Co-Founder of UPROSA
Dominique is the Co-founder and Creative Director of UPROSA, a brand that aims to bring real science into the consumer market.
Dong Xie, founder of CodeRobin Ltd
Dong Xie is the Founder of CodeRobin Ltd., a small software company based in Oxford.
Dr Alexander Reip, CEO of Oxford nanoSystems (OnS)
An innovative nanotech biz developing coatings to improve heat transfer in two phase systems.
Dr Andy Woods, CTO of Flying Fish Research
Dr Andy Woods is CTO of Flying Fish Research, which helps companies + startups use the crowd to make smart decisions.
Dr Colin Story – Co-founder and CEO of OxSonics
Dr Colin Story is the Co-founder and CEO of OxSonics, an Oxford University spinout company developing a new generation of ultrasound devices.
Dr Les Russell, CEO of OrganOx
Les has been the CEO of OrganOx, a University of Oxford spinout company, since its formation in 2008.
Dr llana Wisby, CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC)
Ilana Wisby is the CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits, an early stage Oxford University spin-out company founded by Dr Peter Leek.
Dr Mark Larkin – Founder and CEO of Vitaccess
Dr Mark Larkin is the Founder and CEO of Vitaccess, a digital health and strategic consultancy start-up based in Oxford.
Dr Michalis Papadakis, CEO and Cofounder of Brainomix
Dr Michalis Papadakis is the CEO and Cofounder of Brainomix, which automates the assessment of stroke damage on CT scans.
Dr Samantha Decombel – CSO and Cofounder of FitnessGenes
Dr Samantha Decombel is the Co-Founder and CSO of FitnessGenes Limited.
Dr Shisong Jiang – CTO of Oxford Vacmedix
Shisong Jiang is the CTO of Oxford Vacmedix, which has developed a technique to grow overlapping peptides in bacteria, for vaccines.
Dr Zsuzsa Mayer, co-founder of EcoSync
Dr Zsuzsa Mayer, is the Co-founder of EcoSync, a company which is revolutionising energy saving for large organisations.
Ekaterina Damer, CEO of Prolific Academic
Ekaterina (Katia) is the CEO and co-founder of Prolific, a crowdsourcing platform for paid participant recruitment.
Elizabeth Filippouli, Founder and CEO of Global Thinkers Forum
Elizabeth is the Founder & CEO of Global Thinkers Forum (GTF), an international organization that works as an agent for positive change.
Elspeth Briscoe, CEO Founder Learning with Experts
Elspeth Briscoe is the CEO and Founder of Learning with Experts.
Emily (Man Ting) Kwong, co-founder of InVent
Emily Kwong is a biomedical engineer and a co-founder of InVent, a solution for weaning hospital patients off mechanical ventilation.
Erik Abrahamsson, Founder and CEO of Digital Fineprint
Erik is the Founder and CEO of Digital Fineprint, a fintech startup that is turning social data into insurance data.
Fujia Chen, co-founder of Oxford Space Structures
Revolutionising baby products by using space technologies.
Georgina Atwell, Founder of Toppsta
Georgina Atwell is the Founder Toppsta, a children’s books website.
Grace Gibbons, founder of Bounce Video
Grace Gibbons is the founder/creative director of Bounce Video, a film and marketing company based in Oxford.
Hannah Pye, Founder of Hello Hann Photography
Hannah is an Oxford-based freelance photographer & designer with a passion for social enterprise and sustainable business.
Harry Hall, Founder of UniCups
Harry Hall is the Founder of UniCups, a startup aiming to eliminate single-use coffee cups and food containers on university campuses.
Helen Wright, founder and director of 9-2-3
Helen Wright is the Founder of 9-2-3, specialising in placing high quality professional candidates into jobs with flexible hours.
Irina Fedorenko, cofounder of the Kindness Collective
Irina is a Weidenfeld Hoffman Trust scholar, and Co-founder of a social enterprise named Kindness Collective.
Jake Backus, co-founder of Common Ground Cafe and Study Space
Jake Backus is a Visiting Senior Member of Linacre College, Managing Director of Empathy Sustainability, and co-founder of Common Ground.
Jake Schofield – CEO and Co-Founder of Labstep
Jake Schofield is the CEO and Co-Founder of Labstep, a platform to help scientists capture and record their research experiment steps.
James Nettleton -Founder of the Central Research Laboratory
James Nettleton is the Founder of the Central Research Laboratory (CRL) Programme.
Jamie Dundas, CEO of The Refinery London
Jamie is the CEO of The Refinery London, a collection of workspaces across London.
Jemma Phibbs and James Lloyd – Co-Directors of School Space
Jemma and James started School Space while running events in high school.
Jessica White – VP of Meet’n’Learn
Jessica White is the VP of Meet'n'Learn, a platform for online & offline tutoring.
John Miles, Founder of InkPath
Dr John Miles is the Founder of Inkpath, a skills tracking and career planning app.
Jose Miguel Alfaro Gomez, founder of s.e.e.d
José Miguel Alfaro Gómez is an Attorney at Law in Costa Rica and Founder of s.e.e.d, a boutique law firm targeted to social impact ventures.
Julian Jost – CEO of Spacebase
Julian Jost is the CEO of Spacebase, an online booking-platform for workshop spaces and meeting rooms.
Karl Loo – Co-Founder and CEO of ServisHero
Karl Loo is the Co-founder and CEO of ServisHero, a mobile application that links consumers with local service providers.
Kate Nightingale, founder of BackApper
Kate is currently working on her start-up, BackApper, a social media app designed to help solo-travellers meet others when abroad.
Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes, CEO of Latent Logic
Kirsty is the CEO for Latent Logic - using state-of-the-art machine learning to develop VR test environments for autonomous cars.
Lampson Leung, inventor and founder of Clipmatic
Lampson Leung is the Founder of Clipmatic, a company that specialises in spiral notebook accessories.
Leah Spasova, Founder and CEO of LIFESEXPERTS
Leah is a social psychologist and educator, specialising in sex and relationships education for adults. She is the Founder and CEO of ...
Lilia Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify
Lilia Stoyanov is Chief Executive Officer and Angel Investor at Transformify.
Lily and Violet Adams, co-founders of Nerd Pirates
Lily and Violet Adams are twin sisters and Co-founders of Nerd Pirates, a creative agency.
Liz Eden, Co-founder of OpenBenches.org
Liz Eden is the Co-founder of OpenBenches.org, a way to record and celebrate the existence of memorial benches across the world.
Lucy Gadkari – CEO of MooDoo
Lucy is the Co-founder of moodoo, an app that lets you know which friends are nearby and what they’re in they're in the mood to do.
Macarena Hernandez and Ana Maria Ñungo, founders of Language Amigo
Macarena Hernandez and Ana Maria Ñungo are the founders of Language Amigo, connecting language ’Learners’ with native speaking ‘Amigos’.
Maggie Chen, Co-founder of Girls in Charge Initiative
Maggie is a serial entrepreneur and a full-time Oxford student.
Mariana Morris, founder of Fruto
Mariana is Founder and Director of Fruto, a digital experience design studio.
Matthew de la Hey, co-founder and CEO of inploi
Matthew is Co-founder & CEO of inploi, a London-based employment marketplace for the service economy.
Max Inglis, Co-founder of Tekcapital
Max Inglis is an experienced entrepreneur and Co-founder of Tekcapital.
Mike Piddock – Founder of Glisser
Mike Piddock is the Founder of Glisser, a presentation software business designed to engage audiences and gather data at live events.
Montana Butsch, Founder of spotivity
Montana Butsch is the founder of spotivity, a double-sided marketplace that not only supports after school programs to increase ...
Naveen Sharma, CEO of Connido
Naveen is the CEO of Connido, a UK-based start-up which develops products to help parenting and baby monitoring experience.
Nicholas Russell, Entrepreneur-in-Residence on the Conception X programme.
Nicholas Russell is Entrepreneur-in-Residence on the Conception X programme. Conception X creates deep tech startups from PhD research.
Nicholas Shekerdemian, Co-founder of Headstart App
Nicholas Shekerdemian is the Co-founder of HeadStart App, a revolutionary graduate recruitment platform.
Nick L. Theodorou, founder of Autoshares
Nick L. Theodorou is an experienced technology entrepreneur and physicist.
Nick Pinks, CEO of Covatic
Nick is the Founder of Covatic, a company that helps broadcasters and publishers deliver the content their viewers want, when they want it.
Nicolai Thomson, founder of Tosca Money
Nicolai Thomson is the Founder of Tosca Money, an app which allows you to grow your savings faster by sharing your goals with friends.
Nix Ticehurst, founder of Nixercise – a breath of fresh air
Nix is the Founder of Nixercise, a refreshingly realistic approach to health, fitness and nutrition.
Noam Angrist, Founder of Young 1ove
Noam Angrist is the Founder of Young 1ove, a Botswana based not-for-profit organisation, providing evidence-based sex education.
Oliver Cox – Creator of Thames Valley Country House Partnership
A way of linking entrepreneurial ideas in the heritage sector with researchers.
Olivia Munk, Founder of Part of the Night
Olivia is the founder of Part of the Night, a theatre company that supports people who identify as female, trans and non-binary.
Olivia Sibony, Head Of Impact Investment at Seedtribe
Liv is an award-winning entrepreneur, founder of a food-tech startup, GrubClub.
Patrick Beattie, Founder of Redbird Health Tech
Patrick is currently developing Redbird Health Tech, a medical diagnostics distributor expanding access to health care in Ghana.
Peter Dobson, founder of Oxonica, Oxford Biosensors, and Oxford NanoSystems
Peter Dobson is the Co- founder of Oxonica, Oxford Biosensors, and Oxford NanoSystems.
Prabh Simran Badal, founder of Chirrup Foods
Prabh Simran Badal is the Founder of Chirrup Foods, an insect flour based cookie company.
Prof. David Edwards, founder of Oxford Enhanced Medical
Prof. David Edwards currently serves as Founder Director and Chief Technology Officer for Oxford Enhanced Medical Limited.
Professor Dame Carol Robinson, Co-founder of OMass
A company studying proteins in their native folded states.
Professor Hagan Bayley – Founder of Oxford Nanopore and OxSyBio
Hagan Bayley is the Founder of Oxford Nanopore and OxSyBio.
Professor Kieran Clarke, Founder of T∆S®
Kieran Clarke is Professor of Physiological Biochemistry and runs T∆S®, a spinout company.
Professor Tom Brown, co-founder of Oswel, ATDBio and PrimerDesign
Tom Brown is Professor of Nucleic Acid Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and Co-founder of several biotech companies.
Rajarshi Banerjee – CEO of Perspectum Diagnostics
Rajarshi is the CEO of Perspectum Diagnostics, detecting and quantitatively measuring of liver, gallbladder and pancreatic disease.
Renee Watson, founder of The Curiosity Box
Renee is the Founder and Head of Explosions at The Curiosity Box, the UK's first STEM subscription box.
Richard Benjamin Allen, executive director of PalaeoPi Ltd.
Richard is Executive Director of PalaeoPi Ltd, a small lean spin out company originating in the School of Archaeology, Oxford.
Richard Snow – Cofounder and CEO of Oxford Wood Recycling
Richard is the CEO of Oxford Wood Recycling Ltd, a social enterprise recycling wood waste.
Riham Satti – CEO and Co-founder of MeVitae
Riham is the Co-founder and CEO of MeVitae, a cognitive recruiting system that makes intelligent and personalised hiring decisions.
Ronit Kanwar, CEO and co-founder of Empower Energy
Ronit Kanwar is the CEO and Co-founder of Empower Energy, a social enterprise start-up which provides electricity in India.
Rowan Gardner, CEO of Ozo Innovations Ltd
Rowan Gardner is the CEO of Ozo Innovations Ltd (OZO), a company which develops oxidative solutions.
Samuel Conway, CEO of Zegami Limited
Samuel Conway is the Co-founder and CEO of Zegami Limited, an intuitive data discovery image technology platform.
Sarah Jordan, cofounder of Y.O.U. Underwear
Sarah Jordan is the Co-founder of Y.O.U Underwear, 100% organic cotton underwear where every purchase gives underwear to people in need.
Sergiu Matei, co-founder and CEO of TRAVOD
Sergiu is the Co-founder of Travod, a leading on-demand translation service platform.
Shrochis Karki, Founder of Samaanta Foundation
Shrochis is the Founder of Samaanta Foundation, an initiative that promotes equality and empowerment to poor students in Nepal.
Simon Breese, founder of Ground Data
Simon Breese founded Ground Data in 2017 to produce remote autonomous sensors for agricultural and other uses.
Simon Hombersley, CEO of Oxford Flow
Simon Hombersley is the CEO of Oxford Flow, an engineering innovation business developing industrial technologies.
Spyridon Pavlos, co-founder of IRmage
Spyridon Pavlos is the Co-founder of IRmage, an affordable remote sensing vision system.
Stephen Barnett, founder and CEO of Util
Stephen Barnett is the founder and CEO of Util, a company which seeks to lead the next generation of company assessment and valuation.
Stephen Patrick, CEO of Wireless Excellence
Stephen Patrick is the Founder and CEO of CableFree: Wireless Excellence, a leading Oxford based wireless telecommunications company.
Steven Zimmer – CEO of MitoDys Therapeutics
Steven Zimmer is the CEO of MitoDys Therapeutics, a drug discovery company.
Susan Burton – Founder of Classlist
Susan is the founder of Classlist, a vertical social network and platform for school parents.
Swati Kanoi, co-founder of Wallaroo
Swati is co-founder of WALLAROO, a food company dedicated to challenging our idea of clean snacking.
Sylvester Lewis, Cofounder and CEO of Suppa
Sylvester is Co-founder and CEO at Suppa, a social eating app that enables users to network with new people at restaurants, bars and cafes.
Tabitha Whiting, founder of Jarfull
Tabitha Whiting is the Founder of Jarfull, helping people start making changes to reduce their personal plastic waste.
Tiancun Xiao, Co-founder of Oxford Sustainable Fuels
Tiancn co-founded Oxford Sustainable Fuels with Prof. Peter Edwards, based on their research in chemical recycling of waste plastics.
Tobias Halloran, Co-founder of Pidge
Toby is the co-founder of Pidge, a software platform for the sports, fitness and wellbeing ecosystem.
Tom Fryer, founder of Write on Point
Tom Fryer is the Founder of Write on Point, a social enterprise that’s working to increase access to university.
Tom Shopland, co-founder of Trail Unknown
Tom is a co-founder of Trail Unknown, providing adventure tours for mountain bikers.
Trang Tran, COO of Archangel Imaging
Trang is currently working as the interim COO at Archangel Imaging.
William Cotton, founder and Managing Director of TrustonTap Ltd
William Cotton, is the Founder and Managing Director of TrustonTap Ltd.
Xan Varmuza, Founder and CEO of SportSide
Xan is the Founder of SportSide, the first global local sports club, enabling players to ‘meet their match’.
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