Christopher Persson

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Big Education Trust functions as a college or university. The non-profit company is based in London, UK.

Funding Circle Ltd. provides peer to peer small business loan lending services. It operates an online marketplace that helps small businesses to find finance. The firm’s marketplace enables people lend to businesses to finance working capital, expansion capital, asset finance and one off business expenses. The company was founded by Samir Desai, James Meekings, Andrew Christopher Arthur Mullinger, N. Alex Tonelli and Samuel H. Hodges in August 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Funding Circle Deutschland GmbH provides small and medium sized companies with a financing option. It offers companies customized financing solutions and investors with a risk-return profile. The company was founded by Andrew Christopher Arthur Mullinger, James Meekings, Matthias Knecht, Samuel H. Hodges, Samir Desai, Grobe Christian, and Alex Tonelli in 2010 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Emerge Venture Lab Ltd. (Emerge Education) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Jan Lynn-Matern. The firm is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Manchester Academy Ltd. provides world-class technology and leadership training. The company is based in Manchester, UK. The British company offers a full-time role at a leading tech firm and their program is grant-funded with no fees.

Fourthrev Ltd. is a British education technology company that partners with leading universities, technology companies, and employers to provide learning experiences that lead to qualifications and jobs in the digital economy. Fourthrev offers courses with multiple tech giants, including AWS, Salesforce, and Tableau, delivered through university partnerships in the UK and the US. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and has subsidiaries in the UK and the US. The company has partnerships with 11 higher educational providers worldwide, including the University of Coventry, RMIT, the University of Canberra, and the University of California, Irvine. Fourthrev aims to create economic and social value by providing access to high-growth digital careers through career accelerators that deliver technical, business, and human skills underpinned by the quality and rigor of university education. The company was founded in Melbourne in 2019 by Jack Hylands and Omar de Silva, who have been the CEOs since then.