Archive for the tag: "london"

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 business [...]

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 make jam [...]

Trafalgar Square Session with Whattookyousolong

A 15+ strong mix of Sandbox and WTYSL related talents joined forces on the 21st of June during a night long dinner event with discussions ranging from grass root brainstorming to heat problems in Rome.
Inaugurated by a photo-session at Trafalgar Square, some Sandbox members and WTYSL-adventurers manifested the new cooperation around great food and smooth [...]

Oriental Night at Kenza

25 Sandboxers, potential members, and some special guests met at London’s Kenza Restaurant to celebrate an oriental night around good food and brilliant people.
The topics were wide-spread, as it were the people. Fraser Doherty, Global Student Entrepreneur 2007, gave interesting insights into “storytelling”, a topic which was curiously debated by both practitioners and academics due [...]

SANDBOX DINNER IN LONDON

We were in London last week, mainly for meeting with potential partners. On Monday evening however Severin invited us for a Sandbox dinner, an informal meeting we organize with selected talents wherever we go. We use the excuse of good food for meeting new talents, exchanging ideas and telling them more about Sandbox.
And so the [...]