Monthly archive for December 2009
2009: The Sandbox year in review
Bubble Wrap Calendar (source Boingboing.net)
2009 was an amazing year for Sandbox and we wanted to share the highlights with you. In 12 months, we incorporated a company, have established one of the most active and valuable networks worldwide, started a business, and passed from 1 to 4 full time positions, enlarging the team to 9 [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Stephen Chen
Stephen Chen is a financial services professional and the former Vice President of Business Strategy at Bear Stearns where he helped launch BearXplorer™, an award-winning international hedge fund software company. BearXplorer was a macroeconomics analytics platform that helped asset managers quantify the impact of economic shifts on their portfolios. It was named Best Risk [...]
First Sandbox Dinner in Hong Kong
The Sandbox Hong Kong community celebrated its first Sandbox dinner on Tuesday, December 1st at the cozy Thai restaurant L16 in the middle of Hong Kong park. With all Sandboxers in Hong Kong and more friends joining, the discussion was hotter than the dishes on the table.
Coming back from promoting World AIDS Day, Sandboxer Sebastian [...]
Sandbox’ partner OYW in The Economist
Sandbox’ exclusive talent partner OneYoungWorld has been covered by The Economist’s The World in 2010. We are glad and proud that the event, for which Sandboxer Lucian Tarnowski does the social media search, is attracting the deserved global attention.
The summit of 1500 delegates from allover the world, which will (for the first time in history) [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Michael Radparvar
Besides beeing one of the co-founders of Holstee, an eco-friendly clothing company, Michael describes himself a NYC resident, avid bicycler, aspiring photographer, and lover of food- especially middle eastern.
Tell us the story of your latest project / occupation.
As of 6 months ago, my brother, Dave, and I began working full time on Holstee, an eco apparel [...]
One hour with Sebastian Lindstrom
Yesterday morning, Julian, Paul, Sara and I had breakfast with Sebastian Lindstrom at Zurich main station, where he was stopping by for one hour on his way to Copenhagen - Paris - Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea, where he should arrive before Christmas.
In one hour, we talked about COP 15 (Sebastian attended the Summit [...]
Congratulations, Paul!
Paul Gleger, our Washington DC Ambassador and Head of Business Marketing US, received today his M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Congratulations, Paul!
We take this occasion to announce that Paul will join our team full-time as of January and lead the development of a Sandbox consulting business [...]
A Ballot of Bolivian Identity: Today’s Presidential Election
In the US, presidential elections shift trillions of dollars and move armies across the globe. In Bolivia, the stakes are even higher.
El 6 de Deciembre nearly every citizen in the country – voting is obligatory here – will go to the polls for an election whose outcome is certain: a victory for the incumbent indigenous [...]
Congratulations!
We are happy and proud to announce that two Sandboxers have received important awards in the past week:
Susanne Jakob, from Berlin, was elected “Nachwuchskünstlerin des Jahres 2009 der Stadt Berlin im Bereich Darstellende Kunst” a prize given to the best junior performing arts artist in Berlin. Susanne is a stage and costume designer who is [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Humphry Akiseh Nnoke Ngite
Humphry is originally from Cameroon but right now living in Kristianstad/Sweden. He is a computer science student, activist in the non-profit sector and prospective entrepreneur. He believes that given the appropriate tools in life each individual can maximize his/her full potential. Hence he is determined to make use of his full potential and see others [...]
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