Launch48 Kingston is organised by a team of volunteers together with a number of important sponsors, mentors, and other generous people who offered their assistance. The key people are:

David Kewal

Background

David Kewal is the current president of Kingston Entrepreneurs Society for the academic year 2010 – 2011. Having a strong interest in technology, he has experience building both websites and web applications. Currently, he is finishing off a a bachelors in International Business, with a minor in Information Technology at Kingston University, and has also studied at the University of North Carolina in the United States.

He currently interns as a back end developer for MinuteBox, a startup tech company based in the Silicon Roundabout area, Shoreditch. With his passion in Games, he hopes to one day start his own company producing Games for handheld platforms and eventually consoles.

Motivation for organising Launch48

Having attended a previous Launch48 event, David wanted to bring the same entrepreneurial buzz and excitement to students, hoping to increase the level of entrepreneurship at Kingston University.

Khotso Marumo

Background

Khotso Marumo is the Incoming President for Kingston Entrepreneurs Society, academic year 2011 – 2012. He currently studies Human Geography and Business with an Industrial Placement year at Kingston University. He is passionate about and is currently working towards a career in the aviation industry.

Motivation for organising Launch48

‘David Kewal and I are proud to be hosting a launch48 in Kingston and are really looking forward to this valuable experience it can provide to all attendants’

Launch48 Founders

Adil Mohammed

Background

Adil is an enthusiastic entrepreneur who has travelled widely. He currently lives in London, is consulting, and working on the online travel utility EnTrip which he co-founded in 2008. His background includes a Master in Computers and Information Systems certification and working in the telecom industry.

Motivation for organising Launch48

Having been involved with EnTrip, Adil is keen to be active in the web technology and startup community, and he attends numerous events around Europe. In 2007 he attended Startup Weekend and had a tremendous experience.

He truly believes that Launch48 can help and assist existing and upcoming entrepreneurs in learning new skills and meeting like-minded people. He loves the concept of rapid application development (RAD) and of starting something material and interesting over a weekend.

Ian Broom

Background

Ian Broom has been creating web sites since he was in high school in the 1990’s. Since then he has completed a Bachelor of Information Systems, worked for a project management consulting company, assisted a number of charity organisations with their web sites and internal IT. He moved from Melbourne, Australia to London in 2007.

He currently works for a digital agency managing technical web projects with some of the largest brands in the UK, runs a small web site development business call Weboo, and is currently building 3 web apps for release in 2009.

Motivation for organising Launch48

Having wondered what makes a successful web app, Ian helped organise Startup Weekend in 2007. The result was a very enjoyable, energy-fuelled weekend which saw a group of people create a fantastic web app and some great relationships were formed.

To experience the same fun and excitement, Ian wanted to create an event that offered the same opportunities to a new group of people, and experience the intensity and camaraderie that entrepreneurs and human spirit produces when focusing on a joint goal.