Entrepreneurs Society: Bloomsbury Startup Academy Director

Before I became BSA Director this year, BSA ran for just 3 weeks last year before abruptly ending. Since stepping in, alongside a stellar exec team, I rebuilt it from the ground up and delivered 10 intense weeks of workshops, fireside chats and socials that helped UCL’s brightest students go from a raw idea to a fully fledged startup they are now actively scaling after graduating from BSA.

This year, thanks to the help of my execs:

• BSA received 100+ applications and selected the top 30 for our cohort (peep the photo!)
• Organised 18 events, more than many societies run in a year
• Hosted 10 straight weeks of workshops, socials and fireside chats with YC, Techstars and Antler backed founders
• Delivered a London-wide student founder panel with 140+ attendees
• Secured critical partners including Claude, EWOR, Kickstart Global, Brite, Stanford ASES and more!

BSA has become THE launchpad for serious UCL students itching to build, but this is only the beginning. Next year is about scaling access by running two cohorts (instead of one), raising standards and cementing BSA as the home for ambitious founders at UCL.

If you believe we shouldn't have to wait until after uni to build something we care about, I would be honoured to have your vote for a second term leading BSA.

Through building my own startup, I’ve learned that entrepreneurship is practical. It’s problem-solving under pressure, testing ideas quickly, and learning fast from failure. That perspective has shaped how I’ve approached my role on the committee this year.

Already as an executive in the BSA division, I’ve helped plan and structure weekly workshops to make sure they’re genuinely useful, not just interesting. I’ve focused on bringing in people who add real insight, including reaching out independently to secure speakers like Sean Cook, CEO and founder of the Tea dating app. I saw an opportunity to raise the level and acted on it.

BSA should be the part of the society that founders rely on for tangible value. That takes organisation, consistency, and attention to detail behind the scenes. I’m comfortable doing that work. I enjoy it.

I work well in a team, communicate clearly, and care about delivering on what we promise.

I’m standing for BSA Director because I want to keep building workshops and opportunities that genuinely help our members move forward.

I'm standing because I think entrepreneurship and innovation in tech needs to happen in communities like ours, not just in corporate spaces.

I'm a Biomedical Engineering student, and I'm working on my own startup right now. When I started, I realized that the people who actually do things are just the ones who try. I reached out to professors about research gaps, applied for opportunities, and got a research internship at Stanford. It was not magic, it was just not being afraid to ask.

What I want to do is help other people in our society feel like they can do that too. I want to organize events where we actually hear from people building real things—founders, researchers, people who've taken risks. Not just networking for the sake of it.

More than anything, I want to build a culture where people feel like it's possible to pursue their ideas. Where they have connections, where they see others doing ambitious things, and where it does not feel impossible to try.

I think our society could be a place where people actually support each other in building things. That's what I want to create.