Since leaving University Tom has worked tirelessly as an innovator of ethical entrepreneurial ideas, exploring the roles that social entrepreneurship can play in supporting community centred conservation initiatives. Whilst at Edinburgh Tom founded the Entrepreneurial Society, which helped ignite his passion for social entrepreneurship. Tom also takes a leading role in the Zenopi network, which is a group of enterpreneurs connected by their work on internet based ideas.

I am VP of Business Development for Viadeo UK and Ireland, I am passionate about the internet, social networks, networking and generally building partnerships, meeting and connecting with people. As a connector, I think it is important to think about building a valuable business network from the day we start out on our careers because we now have the knowledge and technology to access a wealth of contacts, information and opportunities that we would otherwise not realize or be lost. As the old saying goes ‘It’s not what you know but who you know!’ Having joined Viadeo since 2007, Viadeo is one of the world’s largest business social networks with over 1.6 million members across Europe and allows you network in 7 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese). The network is free to join and members use Viadeo to find clients, suppliers, business partners, jobs and employees from all over the world online. Viadeo also allows you to post ads, participate in business forums and to organise and manage offline networking events. Originally founded in 2003 by 200 high-flying entrepreneurs in France, Viadeo started as a private network of business people who realised that they could share …

Internet entrepreneur and blogger. Having been a sporting fanatic throughout his life, becoming a national champion and member of the English table tennis squad as a junior, David caught the entrepreneurial bug aged 20. After founding GroupSpaces Ltd (formerly ClickUni Ltd), winning places on courses and internships with McKinsey & Company, Lehman Brothers and JPMorgan, and leading various university sports clubs, David was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition in 2007. David is currently CEO at GroupSpaces Ltd, a funded Internet start-up addressing the pains of group management and communication online. In his spare time he enjoys writing “Freed from The Matrix” (www.davidlanger.co.uk) – a blog giving an insight into the lives of young entrepreneurs and also the entrepreneurship section for national student newspaper, The Gateway.

I have been the CEO of bmedi@ for over 4 years now. bmedi@ is a network of over 600 “new media” businesses. Prior to being at bmedi@ I was General Manager of Remarc Professional Recruitment (setting this up from scratch) and prior to this I worked for Bradford & Bingley Plc for 21 years. My last role there being Group I.T. Training Manager responsible for the I.T. training of 8500 staff. In my spare time I like to play golf and am currently Captain of my local club. I also like watching football and spending time with my two young sons.