Tom Hadfield

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birth_date = 1982
birth_place = Wakefield, England
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occupation = Entrepreneur
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Tom Hadfield (born 1982 in Wakefield, England) created Soccernet, a sports Internet company that was sold to ESPN for $40 million when he was 17 years old. cite news
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publisher = Time
date = 2001-03-28
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accessdate = 2007-01-03 ] Two years later, he and his father were able to raise millions of dollars to launch the education website Schoolsnet.com.

In February 2002, Tom was named a 'Global Leader of Tomorrow' by the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is also a Patron of the UK National Youth Agency, and was a youth advisor to the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in the UK. He is currently attending Harvard College.

In July 2006, Hadfield was selected as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader, and attended the Global Leaders Institute in New York.

References

External links

* [http://www.nesta.org.uk/about/operational_structure/tom_hadfield.aspx NESTA biography of Hadfield]