Archive for the tag: "london"
From the Sandbox: My Way or the Highway – My View on Career Choices
Every day, our community manager Katrin Winiarski, reads through her feed of all Sandboxers’ blog posts. Every Thursday, she chooses the most inspiring, funny or brilliant one and reposts it on this blog. This post has been written by Sandboxer Fredrik Hagenius. This is only a shortened version, the original version can be found here. For [...]
Meet a Sandboxer: Gustav Borgefalk
It was a gorgeous spring morning in New York, and the Bacchanal festival at Columbia University was in full swing when Gustav Borgefalk and I met for coffee. Gustav is currently a student at the Stockholm School of Economics. Mild mannered, friendly and easygoing, he told me all about his passion for essay writing and [...]
Meet a Sandboxer: Artur Majsterek
I had the chance to meet Artur Majsterek as he was passing through New York, and we had coffee at Columbia University on a beautiful day. Artur is a 20-year-old aspiring entrepreneur and management major at the London School of Economics, and his business card says it all: “I run things”. He is currently the [...]
TEDxVolcano: When a “Why not” turns into a “Hell yeah”
A team lead by Sandbox member, founder of Assetmap, and co-editor at change.org, Nathaniel Whittemore, has made conference history. Born out of the reasoning that most of the high-profile delegates of Skoll’s Social Entrepreneurship Forum and the TEDx Conference in Cambridge would be stranded in London, Nathaniel and his team turned Eyjafjallajökull’s ash into a [...]
Streaming live from TEDxVolcano
Free TV : Ustream “Explosive. Impromptu. Livestreamed. Tonight!” as TED puts it on its blog. Sandbox is a proud co-organizer of tonight’s TEDxVolcano in London. Watch the livestream here or directly on Ustream.tv. Speakers include: – Cara Mertes, director of the Sundance Documentary Film Program – 2006 TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant, president of Skoll [...]
First TEDx Volcano happening in London!
With volcanic excitement, we’re thrilled to announce that a team lead by Sandbox member, founder of Assetmap, and co-editor at change.org, Nathaniel Whittemore, has made conference history. Within 36 hours, Nathaniel rallied support of partners such as Sandbox and Ludic Group to put together a line-up that is undoubtedly fulfilling TED’s standard of thought leadership. [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Kyra Choucroun
“Kyra Choucroun is one of the editors of The Gopher Illustrated and a political fiend. Her interests range from International Political Economy to Development and Conflict resolution. Fresh out of a Masters from the London School of Economics, Kyra is hard at work in London.” That’s how Michu Benaim, co-founder and co-editor of The Gopher Illustrated [...]
London goes Wired
Following an old tradition, we recently organized another dinner at Obika, conjointly with our London ambassador Paolo Rigutto. We were excited about welcoming travelling Sandboxers from allover the world, from Delhi to NYC. Gustav Borgefolk, who recently passed the selection process, joined us from Stockholm with great energy, and we’re convinced that he’ll make the [...]
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 [...]
Meet a Sandbox member: FRASER DOHERTY
Fraser Doherty is 20 years old and comes from Edinburgh, Scotland. He runs SuperJam, a company making a range of 100% fruit jams and supplies all of the major UK supermarkets. He is a member of Sandbox since October 2009. Hi Fraser, what is the story behind Superjam? Aged 14, my Gran taught me to [...]
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