Tom Savage

Tom Savage, who has founded several green businesses, is the managing director and co-founder of Bright Green Talent. For more information about the firm, visit www.brightgreentalent.com.

Tom received undergraduate and post-grad degrees in business and management from Edinburgh and Oxford. After turning down funding to continue with a Ph.D. at Oxford, and being frustrated after a short stint in investment banking, Tom took off on his own to pursue his passion for green business.

Tom started a social enterprise in 2002 called Blue Ventures (www.blueventures.org), which runs global conservation projects.

In 2005, BV won the SEED Awards at the UN and the 2007 UN Equator Prize, as well as four Responsible Travel Awards and a Skal Eco-tourism award. In 2005 Tom also founded Tiptheplanet (www.tiptheplanet.com) a green wiki site. In 2006, Tom ran Social Enterprise Day for the Cabinet Office, guest-editing their "Trailblazers Magazine" and advising the new minister for the Third Sector, as well as co-founding a new internationally acclaimed social enterprise, Make Your Mark with a Tenner. Tom co-founded Bright Green Talent in 2006.

In 2007, Tom received the "Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year" award. He was also selected as one of 30 "Everyday Heroes" in the British Prime Minister's book of the same title, with a chapter dedicated to his work.

Tom also was recently named one of Striding Out's Future 100 Young Entrepreneurs; one of the "Enterprising Young Brits;" and one of the 35 Young Guns by "Growing Business" magazine for which he was the only social entrepreneur listed.

Tom is also a recent explorer of simplicity. To read more about his journey, visit www.simpletom.co.uk. More musings from Tom can be found at http://twitter.com/brightgreen.