and each year a growing number of our students go on to start or
scale up new ventures all over the world. Here are just a few of them.
Oxford Saïd was recently ranked #1
Alok MathurMBA 2007Alok founded Soul Tree Winealong with classmate MelvinD'Souza in 2009 with the intention of puttingIndian wine on the map. Soul Tree is now onthe way to becoming a global brand with salesnot just in the UK, but in the USA, Germany, anda growing number of countries.
Birmingham, UK
Andrew HuntMBA 2008Andrew co-founded Aduna, anAfrica-inspired health andbeauty brand and social business whosemission is to create demand for under-utilisednatural products from small producers inAfrica - starting with the extraordinary baobabfruit.
London, UK
Carlos SilvaMBA 2008Carlos Silva is President, COOand co-founder of Seedrs,Europe's leading equity crowdfunding platform.He is also a co-founder of Beta-I, a Portuguesenon-profit organisation that promotesentrepreneurship and innovation, is a mentorat several acceleration programmes and servesas an advisor to multiple innovative startups.
London, UK
Candice MotranMBA 2008Candice is an InvestmentDirector at Big Society Capital,the world's first social investment bank with amission to grow the UK social investmentmarket. By growing this market, BSC aims toincrease the social impact being deliveredby hundreds of thousands of brilliant charitiesand social enterprises.
London, UK
Vinay NagarajuMBA 2008Vinay is COO and acting CFO atRiders for Health, a NGO whichaddresses the problems of access in thelast-mile of healthcare delivery in eightSub-Saharan African countries, throughinnovative and sustainable transport logisticssolutions, reaching over 21 million people.
Northampton, UK
Husayn KassaiMBA 2008Husayn is Founder and CEO ofOnfido, a service that useshigh-end technology to automate thebackground checking process and revolutionisethe recruitment industry. Having secured$4.5million in funding, Onfido is looking torapidly expand its global footprint.
London, UK
Matthew RichieMBA 2013Matt is Director of BioCarbonEngineering, an early stageventure begun while at Oxford Saïd, with themission of planting 1 billion trees per yearusing emerging unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)and remote sensing technologies.
Oxford, UK
Steven RenwickMBA 2010Steven is the founder of Satago,a payment and creditmanagement system which aims to changethe culture of late payments on invoices sothat businesses get paid on time.
Berlin, Germany
Elizabeth FillipouliMBA 2010An international journalistturned entrepreneur, Elizabethis now the Founder & CEO of a leadership& business development firm Global Thinkersand also Global Thinkers Forum, a think tankwith international operations that aims tocreate better leaders and positive socialchange.
London, UK
Will DigbyMBA 2012Will is the founder of privateequity firm DCE Partners, whichhas analysed, helped and invested in manybusinesses spanning the width and breadthof sub-Saharan Africa.
London, UK
Greg FitzgeraldMBA 2012Greg and Mike co-foundedclean tech ventures, CarbonAnalytics, focusing on building a scalablesoftware product that allows small businessesto easily measure and improve their environmentalimpact. This is helping companies all over theworld to share their green credentials, and iscreating greater exposure and demand forresponsible business.
London, UK
Srinivas MadipalliMBA 2012Srin is co-founder / leaddeveloper of Accomable, an‘AirBnB’ style web portal that helps disabledand elderly people with limited mobility to findaccessible short-let or holiday accommodationaround the world.
London, UK
Michael ThorntonMBA & Skoll Scholar 2010Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Carbon Analytics,bringing automated, accounting based impact measurement and management toenvironmentally friendly companies.
Berlin, Germany
Tara RothMBA & Skoll Scholar 2004Tara is the President of the Goldhirsh Foundation where shefunds and supports social innovation inLos Angeles.
Los Angeles, USA
Ruthe FarmerMBA 2007Ruth is the Chief Strategy &Growth Officer at the NationalCenter for Women & IT, a change leadernetwork transforming the face of thetechnology workforce through research-basedchange programmes and initiatives.
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Sean MurphyMBA 2004Sean is Founder of InsightSignals, a service whichanalyzes the entire corporate email system tounderstand how employees are interactingwith key prospects and current customers, andto get a clear view of how everyone in thecompany is connected to external organizations.
Washington DC, USA
Keely StevensonMBA & Skoll Scholar 2004Keely is the CEO and Co-Founder of Weal Life, a digital health company focused on using mobile technology to help people care for eachother in times of crisis, illness and ageing.
San Francisco, USA
Yanev SuissaMBA 2004Yanev is in venture capital – heinvests alongside some of thetop firms in the industry, and his work linksSilicon Valley with DC to accelerate companygrowth and impact areas like national security,government efficiency, education, health andfinancial services.
Washington DC, USA
Ville LehtonenMBA 2004Ville founded Lab Minds, arobotics company, with peoplefrom the Biochemistry and Computer Sciencedepartments at the University of Oxford.
Boston, USA
Louis DorvalMBA & Skoll Scholar 2009Louis co-founded VOTO Mobile, a mobile engagementsocial enterprise based in Ghana which offers a platformto reach the 3 billion people who don’t have internet access.
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Brendan BakerMBA 2009Brendan has worked withGreylock Partners (a SiliconValley venture firm that has investedin Facebook, Airbnb, and LinkedIn),and AngelList, a platform that connectsstartups and investors.
San Francisco, USA
Jimmy JiaMBA 2004Jimmy is Founder and CEO ofDistributed EnergyManagement, which has a financial platformand a service that enables a "Chief UtilityOfficer" to work with the CFOs of energycompanies, enabling confident decision-makingaround utility operational and capital purchases.
Seattle, USA
Santiago AlvarezMBA 2009Santiago is an InvestmentManager with Bamboo Finance,focusing on Financial Inclusion and Access toEnergy in Latin America and is responsible forsourcing, structuring and executing transactions.Santiago is also responsible for monitoringportfolio companies and is Director of the Boardof Banco Popular Honduras and CFE Panama.
Bogota, Colombia
Barbara VerardoMBA 2012Barbara is Founder and CEOof Village Invest, which providesfair, affordable and sustainable financing to theunbanked poor of India and Sri Lanka throughits online lending platform.
Washington DC, USA
Karan RaiMBA 2008Karan is the founder of RedPanda Innovation Labs, asoftware product incubator in Mumbai,co-creating technology products in partnershipwith industry leaders.
Mumbai, India
Ruchika SinghalMBA 2005Founding Director at SAM &SARA home, a lifestyle furniture& decorative accessories firm focused onworking with artisans & craftsman andcelebrating traditional skills - in turn empoweringthem by confluence of hand craft skills andedge modern design.
India
Dhruv LakraMBA & Skoll Scholar 2007Dhruv founded Mirakle Couriers to provide employment and skills for deaf employees. He has since been awarded the National Award from the President of India.
Mumbai, India
Grace Sai
MBA & Skoll Scholar 2009Grace is the CEO andCo-Founder of The HubSingapore, a collaborative platform forentrepreneurs in Singapore and the Directorto the Malaysian Government (MaGIC) on itsnational initiative for social entrepreneurship.
Singapore
Daniel LestonMBA 2009Daniel co-founded the AfricanYouth Guild (AYG), a youthempowerment association with a Panafricanistethos aimed at training and developing youngleaders with technical, artistic andentrepreneurial skills.
Accra, Ghana
Jesse MooreMBA & Skoll Scholar 2006Jesse co-founded M-KOPAwhich provides affordableenergy to Kenyan citizens and is currentlyserving over 150,000 homes with 500 morebeing added daily.
Kenya
Erica MackeyMBA 2010Erica is Co-Founder and COOof Off:Grid.Electric, which hasnow raised over $30M million in venturefinancing to light Africa within the next decade.Before this, she was the Executive Director fora rural health service provider in East Africa.
Arusha, Tanzania
Elizabeth SzymanskiMBA 2010Elizabeth was Co-founder ofTower59, a financial servicescompany for early stage enterprises, andcurrently CFO of TENA Recycling, a companybased in Tanzania with a mission to change theperception of waste and to provide theopportunity for people to earn a sustainableliving above the poverty line from the recyclingof waste materials.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Aunnie PattonMBA 2011Aunnie is the Innovative FinanceLead at the Bertha Centre forSocial Innovation and Entrepreneurship at theUniversity of Cape Town and an AssociateFellow at Oxford Saïd. She drives the BerthaCentre's Innovative Financing initiative, whichincludes projects on Social ImpactBonds / Development Impact Bonds, impactInvesting and sustainable philanthropy.
Cape Town, South Africa
Sara LeedomMBA 2012Sara is the co-founder ofAfrican Entrepreneur Collective(AEC), which works to provide youthentrepreneurs the skills and resources neededto create jobs through their own enterprises.AEC is an umbrella organization that owns oroperates a network of business accelerators -- all with the same impact of creating sustainablesocial change through private enterprise.
Kigali, Rwanda
Holden BonwitMBA 2013Holden is a Project Leader forOpen Capital Advisors, providingfinancial and management consulting to EastAfrican SMEs, investors, and market innovatorsto help grow businesses, deploy capital, andincrease value chain efficiency.
Nairobi, Kenya
Jesse KirkeyMBA 2009Jesse leads a team responsiblefor managing informationrelated to World Vision's programming withall of its field partners.
Melbourne, Australia
Chris RaineMBA & Skoll Scholar 2013Chris Raine is theFounder and CEO of HelloSunday Morning, an organisation which provides a simple and effective way for individuals to change their relationship with alcohol.
Sydney, Australia
Meagan Sutton-Bonwit
MBA 2013Served as a Kiva Fellow andnow is Manager of ProductDevelopment at Living Goods, a social enterprisethat innovates on last mile distribution ofhealth- and wealth-promoting products to thebase of the pyramid in Kenya and Uganda.
Nairobi, Kenya
Emma CaddyMBA & Skoll Scholar 2006Emma has directed the Low Carbon Enterprise Fund and launched her own social enterprise, Tiny Totos Daycares Kenya, to support centres in deprived areas of Kenya.
Kenya
Mike QuinnMBA & Skoll Scholar 2007Mike is CEO of Zoona, a leading African mobile money operator that helps people send and receive money when they need to most so that communities can thrive.
Kenya
in Europe for Entrepreneurship*,
*Source: FT ranking of ‘Top 10 MBA programmes forentrepreneurship’, published June 2015
Jyot ChadhaMBA 2011Jyot joined the WorldResources Institute as a ShellFoundation fellow. She now works full timewith the organization, where she has set upan innovation initiative within WRI Cities tosupport entrepreneurs who are addressingissues of urbanization, such as mobility.
Mumbai, India
Leanne ViviersMBA 2009Leanne is the CEO andCo-founder of Mintor, atask-based micro-internships platform thatconnects students with businesses to efficientlycollaborate on high impact projects. Thisempowers tertiary students with far moreopportunities to build market-relevant skills andcredibility, and businesses to affordably tacklegrowth tasks while vetting students as potentialfuture hires.
Cape Town, South Africa
