Dom Jackman and Rob Symington are two of our favourite guys, as they started Escape the City (which is brilliant). Rob studied History at Edinburgh University before joining Ernst & Young’s graduate recruitment scheme. While there, he met Dom, who had started a blog for those in corporate jobs who …

Alex has cool hair. He also loved software from a young age, and was always keen to start his own company at some point. He studied computer science at Manchester University, and interned at Merrill Lynch while he was studying. After he had his degree, he joined Merrill Lynch’s graduate …

Olly got a first class honours degree in Geography and a distinction in her Masters at Oxford University. She then joined the World Bank in Washington DC where, amongst other achievements, she was awarded the World Bank Youth Innovation Fund. Afterwards, she moved to London and worked for Accenture Strategy, and …

Nick Troen and Frank Yeung met during their first term at Oxford University. They spent the next three years living together, talking about going into business one day. Although Troen went on to work for KPMG, and then Innocent, and Yeung worked for Goldman Sachs – in the height of the …

Liana Stewart is the director of Step2TV and a factual filmmaker working within the TV Industry. Liana had her first network broadcast straight out of university (BBC1) and headed to London to pursue a career in TV. Step2TV allows Liana to not only work alongside leading production companies but also the …

Christoph Warrack started up Open Cinema, an inspiring organization that shows films to an audience of homeless people. The initiative began years ago in Soho – in a room of St. Patrick’s church, just a couple of blocks from Bar Italia – and soon expanded to the network it is …

Alan Long runs Sane and Able, a London creative agency that offers a complete range of design skills all in one compact little package. He graduated from Kingston University and worked with a small design business before leaving to start his own. In this clip, Alan talks about what he …

Will Orr-Ewing studied History at Oxford University, and after graduation, took up tutoring. He also wrote a novel, but claims that it was ‘tedious and largely plotless’ (which we highly doubt - Will is freakishly intelligent). He set up Russell Group Tutors in 2006. During the process, he taught History part-time at …

Kathleen Alder left her Arts degree and instead chose to find out what she wanted to do through taking on work experience. After a few roles in the music PR industry, she set up her own agency: WildKat PR. WildKat PR is a boutique, full service, public relations agency specialising in classical …