Henry Li
Chairman of Manchester University Entrepreneurs
| Headline: | Club Leader |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.manchesterentrepreneurs.org.uk |
| Industries: | Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Nanotech, Real Estate, Retail, Sports, Travel |
| Skills: | Business, Chinese, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Guerrilla marketing, Investment, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Retail, Sales, Viral marketing |
| Location: | Manchester,UK |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Tags: | university of manchester enterprise society. we are about change and actions. |
| Schools: | University of Manchester |
FEATURED STARTUP
Manchester University Entrepreneurs
Manchester University Entrepreneurs
THE WAVE
- Startup type: Social Enterprise
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Manchester University Entrepreneurs |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | May 2008 - Present |
| Description: | • Organised recruitment events in Freshers Fair, managed to sign up 150 students in four days
• Organised two information sessions introducing our programmes • Successfully established client base: Manchester University Career Service, Manchester University Enterprise Centre, SIFE Manchester University, MBA Entrepreneurship Club; providing them the opportunity of mentoring, networking and conferencing. • Established Business Advisory Board from clients’ and students’ representatives involved in the decision makings of this society |
| Employer: | SIFE (Student In Free Enterprise), The University of Manchester, Manchester UK |
| Position: | Marketing Manager |
| Time period: | August 2007 - Present |
| Description: | • Organised six SIFE workshops for Manchester university students introducing SIFE’s principles and objectives
• Managed to have 20 core members developing three large community projects helping local people getting financial independent. (E.g. ‘Next generation’ is designed to help active elderly people learning IT skills lectured by local college students) • Led IT students developing online marketing tools such as developing a website and using interactive media to promote the organization, e.g. facebook and youtube. • Won HSBC financial literacy grand in our fundraising drive and developed team of presenters to be able to confidently present our team to businesses and government bodies. |
| Employer: | Future Foundations, London UK |
| Position: | Student Leader |
| Time period: | August 2007 - Present |
| Description: | • Worked as part of the exhibition team in G-Mex (Manchester, UK) setting up the exhibition area and answering different career related queries
• Managed to sign up around 500 new prospects who wants to get further career advices from us • Helped organizing the ‘mind the gap’ road show in Bath University aimed to help students to bridge the gap between education and working world, set up tables, delivering leaflets and communicating with media crews. |
| Employer: | Honda Automotive Company, Suzhou, China |
| Position: | Operations Manager |
| Time period: | May 2000 - August 2006 |
| Description: | • Supervised a team of six about the day-to-day selling of Honda cars as well as high level of customer service.
• Secured major clients including the local taxi companies by focusing on creativity and innovation of the sales and marketing strategy. • Helped running promotional beer festival event catering for over 800 people |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Manchester |
| Time period: | 2005 - 2009 |
| Degree: | Management, BA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Travelling:
• To three continents: Asia, Europe and North America • Had work experiences of at least five months in three continents, love experiencing different culture and adventure Sport: • Basketball – played since age 10 and member of college 1st team • Horse Riding – took this up for a year whilst at school and had developed from beginner to 1st team • Caving – Went to several trips to Yorkshire and Ireland whilst at university Music: • Played saxophone for my school at the annual music competition |
| Clubs: | • Member of Manchester Business School Entrepreneurs club and Tie entrepreneurs club |
| Memberships: | • Participated ASES (Asia-pacific Entrepreneurship Society) Conference set up by Stanford University in Zhejiang, China consists of entrepreneurial lectures from successful businesses, company visits and networking
• Member of Manchester Leadership Program, designed to engage students with the local community while boosting their personal and professional development. Volunteered for 60 hours and had great insight from CEOs of major organizations like BP and Co-op |
| Awards: | • Won Rookie National Champion of The Year 2008 as part of SIFE University of Manchester team in SIFE UK National Competition in London
• Won the Judge’s Commendation of Venture Out Competition sponsored by AstraZeneca, Barclays, Eversheds, Thread Creative, Ideas to Market and the University of Manchester Incubator Company • Participated FLUX 2008 northwest regional final competition sponsored by KPMG and Working Knowledge as team leader of University of Manchester team |
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Ian Moss
Computer Science graduate from Victoria University of Manchester. Currently working as Consultant / Developer at Liquid Bronze.
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Shahzad Younas
From Manchester, graduated from Manchester University, now working at a London Investment Bank.