Scheinman Career Networking in San Francisco

Durham University alumni, supporters and friends are invited to join us for a career networking event in San Francisco. 

This reception will offer an opportunity to build connections with fellow Durham University alumni and colleagues from your Development and Supporter Engagement team. 

Light refreshments will be served.

Speakers:

Esther Crawford (MA International Relations, Ustinov College, 2007) is Director of Product Management at Meta and an angel investor for Sequoia Capital. She started her career as a content creator, then went on to found her own company, Squad, which was acquired by Twitter in 2020. As an angel investor, Esther typically writes $25k checks in pre-seed and seed stage startups.

Joshua March (LLB, University College, 2007) is a serial entrepreneur with two exits to his name. He was the co-founder of Conversocial, a digital care platform for messaging that integrates with many of the world's leading brands, which was acquired by Verint (VRNT). He is also the author of Message Me, a book about the future of customer service in the era of social messaging and AI that has been featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, and NPR, amongst others. He was the co-founder and CEO of SCiFi Foods, a cultivated meat company backed by a16z that used high-throughput genetic engineering to develop high-performance animal cell lines.

Matthew Perkins (Politics & History, Van Mildert, 2001) is Founder and CEO of Macro Oceans, a startup transforming seaweed into low-carbon chemicals for use in materials, food, cosmetics and many other applications. He is an experienced entrepreneur, having built and sold his first company, Yield Pop, to The Climate Corporation. He has more than a decade of experience in terrestrial agriculture and was the first business hire at Inari, a gene editing technology company, where he helped raise more than $100M in venture capital.