- David Langer
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David Langer (born September 24, 1985) is an Internet entrepreneur, blogger and a former national table tennis champion for England, as well as having featured on UK TV game shows including ITV1's The Krypton Factor,[1][2] Channel 4's Countdown (game show) [3] and Channel 5's BrainTeaser.
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Career
David read Mathematics at St Anne's College, Oxford, and came 22nd in the Graduate of the Year (UK) awards in 2007 [1]. Whilst at Oxford he attended McKinsey's Discover Programme and interned at JPMorgan and Lehman Brothers.
He then went on to become Co-Founder & CEO of GroupSpaces [2], a website that claims to help in the management of groups and clubs, targeted towards university societies and charities . In January 2008, the company raised six figures of investment from a consortium of Angel Investors,[4] and saw David and his business partner, Andy Young [3], feature in The Spectator as rising stars in the business world.[5]
Elsewhere David's blog 'Freed from The Matrix' [4] explores the lives of young entrepreneurs and he is a columnist for national newspaper The Gateway (student newspaper)[6] where he has interviewed the likes of James Murray Wells, Michael Smith (Founder & CEO, Mind Candy & Firebox.com) and Jan Sramek (banker).
Sport
David was a national champion and member of the English table tennis squad as a junior,[7] and competed in the 1998 UK National Finals for yo-yoing.[1] At Oxford University he was President of the University Table Tennis and Motor Drivers' Clubs,[8] and is currently training for several triathlons.[9]
References
- ^ a b http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/quiz/TheKryptonFactor/Contestantprofiles/David/default.html
- ^ http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/01/08/groupspaces-extends-its-franchise-to-the-krypton-factor/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbb55TWJWeQ
- ^ http://www.oxin.co.uk/news/oxford-start-up-groupspaces-raises-six-figure-funding-to-revolutionise-group-management-systems
- ^ http://www.spectator.co.uk/business/the-magazine/entrepreneur/3058216/part_3/2020-vision-tomorrows-stars.thtml
- ^ http://www.thegatewayonline.com/davidlanger
- ^ http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlanger
- ^ http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/STA/Documents/Annual_Reviews/Annual_Review_2006_pdf_version.pdf
- ^ http://groupspaces.com/outric/pages/committee
External links
Categories:- 1985 births
- British table tennis players
- British television personalities
- British bloggers
- Living people
- Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford
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