Members

Haaris Ahmed (2011, Economics and Management) is the Founder and Managing Director of UOWN, a platform on a mission to make investing in property simple, accessible, and profitable. Driven by a passion for entrepreneurialism, Haaris is focused on using technology to open up smarter, more inclusive ways to build wealth. (Founding Member)

Jason Bell (2010, MBA) is a Director of Know Your Pace, providing personal and professional development across startups, corporates and academia. He has held senior commercial roles at Amazon and three start-ups, one of which was acquired by Google. Jason is an active entrepreneur and also teaches the subject as Affiliated Faculty of Entrepreneurship for Syracuse University London.

Stanley Burnton (1961, Jurisprudence), former High Court Judge, Lord Justice of Appeal and latterly Arbitrator at One Essex Court.

Linda Davies (1982, PPE), a private equity specialist, best selling novelist and Jungian life coach. She is a director and consultant to an FCA company which has raised more than $7 billion in the Middle East. She particularly enjoys her work giving talks on financial literacy to students, literary festivals and corporates.

Dimitris Economou (2011, MBA), Partner and Portfolio Manager at MIO Partners, based in New York. In addition to finance, Dimitris has a background in Computer Architecture.

Christian Figge (2001, Economics and Management), Managing Partner of Armira Growth, a leading investment holding providing entrepreneurial capital for entrepreneurial partnerships with a long-term horizon. (Founding Member)

Eddie Gillow (2017, Geography), Previous founder now working on strategy and research at climate tech venture capital fund Energy Impact Partners, while also a Venture Fellow at venture capital fund Zinc.

Dr John Ho (2006, Engineering), began his career in investment banking after graduating from Oxford, specialising in structured finance. He later returned to medical school, trained as a surgeon, and went on to specialise in medical aesthetics, now operating clinics in Hong Kong. Dr. Ho is also the founder of SAISEICO, a Japanese regenerative technology company that develops stem cell‑infused skincare products, and recently acquired a pharmaceutical company in Japan as part of expanding his work in regenerative medicine and aesthetics.

Raveem Ismail (2005, DPhil Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics), Founder, Managing Director, Chief Underwriting Office at Trigger Parametric, a specialist parametric (re)insurer with a global remit. (Founding Member)

Marco Janezic (1989, Philosophy and Physiology), Founder and Managing Partner at Blue Ribbon Partners GmbH, a venture builder and investor in the deep tech space, particularly in life sciences. The firm works with scientists, corporates and research institutes to create technology companies with a positive impact on patient or planetary health. (Founding Member)

Sunil Kandola (2019, MBA), Former British Army officer turned fintech strategist and entrepreneur. After completing his MBA at Oxford, Sunil spent several years in corporate strategy roles at JPMorgan, focusing on blockchain innovation, before co-founding Lulu & Burdie with his wife, a mission-led maternity wear brand focused on sustainability and women’s health.

Liangxiao LI (2024, MSc Statistical Science), former VC Quant at Future Planet Capital and a member of the 2025 Oxford Venture Builder cohort, currently working as a Technology Analyst at Barclays while actively seeking co-founders to build new ventures.

Sylvia Lu (2021, PGDip Strategy & Innovation), Founder & CEO of YOOVIP, Deputy Chair of Cambridge Wireless (CW), Chartered Engineer and NED. A board-level strategist that help organisations turn deep tech (incl. 5G, IoT, AI) into profitable product and services across telecom, manufacturing, semiconductors and space. Currently mentoring semiconductor startups in the DSIT-backed ChipStart UK semiconductors accelerator.

Allan Marega (2024, PGDip Strategy and Innovation), an airline captain and founder and CEO of Global Supply Solutions, a B2B thermal biofuel manufacturing business that uses agricultural residue to produce an alternative to coal, heavy fuel oil and wood fuel. It is also developing sustainable aviation fuel from agricultural residue and the use of remote sensing and AI capabilities in a new innovation for agricultural mass, carbon credit and carbon emission reduction metrics in real time. The company seeks to scale the solutions across all continents.

Alberto Merchante González (2011, MPhysPhil Physics and Philosophy), Founder of Lain Biotech, a startup building personalised neoantigen vaccines for cancer using AI and bioinformatics.

Aymeric Monod-Gayraud (2003, MPhil International Relations), Co-Founder at LoanTube, a London-headquartered, FCA-regulated credit broker platform. LoanTube is the UK’s #1 loans marketplace for underserved borrowers – both non-prime consumers and SMEs – helping those historically overlooked by mainstream lenders find suitable loan offers in real time. (Founding Member)

Shantanu Nagpal (1990, PPE), Co-founder at Bluestone Capital, a Private Equity Fund.

Mark Owens (1981, History and Modern Languages), Founder of Otway & Orford, a Made in England accessory brand. Otway & Orford create unique silk pocket squares sold on a multi-channel basis.

Pernia Price (2013, History), Founder of Your Finance Travel Buddy, an educational business striving to teach people about personal finance so they can confidently make the best decisions for themselves, and a Chartered Accountant, leading finance functions in global startups and scaleups.

Peter Rogers (1972, Metallurgy), Principal at LA CFO, a senior finance executive with more than 40 years of diverse international management experience.

Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky (2001, Modern Languages), Founding Partner at NATO Innovation Fund, the world’s first multi-sovereign venture capital fund which empowers deep tech founders to address challenges in defence, security, and resilience. (Founding Member)

Jian Min Sim (2009, Engineering), Co-Founder of SourceSage, Asia’s largest AI-enabled Source to Pay Solution. (Founding Member)

Mahir Onat Topal (2023, MBA), Co-Founder and CEO of Mentanima, an agentic legal AI that reviews, drafts, and redlines contracts end to end. Mentanima builds the ontology of a legal team’s precedents, positions, and institutional memory, and the execution layer that acts on it, starting with a Microsoft Word add-in that applies precision redlines through native Track Changes.

Ben White (2018, DPhil Engineering Science), CTO and Cofounder of A and B Smart materials, an Oxford based startup bringing the world closer to a renewable, environmentally sound future through the use of nanotechnology, polymer engineering and smart materials.

Plus those who wish to remain anonymous.