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Google & NASA select Sandboxer

April 30th, 2010 by Cathrin Lesslhumer

Sandbox Member, Zain Jaffer has been selected as one of the world’s top 80 future leaders by Google and NASA to be taught at the elite Singularity University.

Zain was chosen from a pool of over 1,600 candidates from 85 nations to spend the summer at the NASA Ames Research Centre where he will learn from hundreds of Nobel Laureates and Business Leaders including Larry Page. The students will work together to solve some of humanities greatest challenges using accelerating technologies and will participate in hands-on excursions to leading Silicon Valley labs and companies, Zero G sub-orbital flights and be exposed to NASA’s many technologies.

Zain is also one of the youngest on the program at only 22 yet has demonstrated an exceptional track record of achievement during his career. He launched his first internet company at the age of 15 and soon built-up an impressive list of clients including Google, Mozilla Firefox, MTV and Hilary Duff – all before his 18th birthday. At university, he founded one of UK’s top enterprise societies (KCLBC), was a Founding Member at a national organization for university entrepreneurs (NACUE), and won a national award for his charity endeavors abroad (SIFE).

He currently runs a profitable start-up in the technology industry and is in the process of launching an early-stage investment firm. He is also pursuing a part-time MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL and takes MBA electives at near-by London Business School.