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Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2015

Adil Abrar
Founder at Mastered
Adil Abrar is the Founder of Mastered.com, an online fashion school. Previously he founded,
Sidekick Studios in 2009, a product design consultancy and incubator with $2m+ annual
revenues helping large organisations innovate like startups. Clients included RSA, Red Bull,
Unilever, Sky, NHS London, Which?, Cancer Research, Charities Aid Foundation, Carers UK, and
Flamingo International. In 2012, Adil was selected by The Observer as one of ‘50 New Radicals
Making Britain a Better Place’. He is also the Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director of of VCbacked Buddy, an SMS and web app enabling people with anxiety and depression to take
control of their own condition. Buddy has been adopted nationwide by NHS therapy services.
From 2012 - 2013, Adil was Projects Director at Sidekick School helping to creates spin-out
products and services from charities. The first cohort from Sidekick School included Vinspired,
Comic Relief, Carers UK and Inaura. He also co-founded The Amazings, a marketplace for retired
people to sell their experiences, skills and passions direct to their local community. Adil began
his career in advertising, before spending three years at Amnesty UK as the brains behind the
Protect The Human Campaign.

Tushar Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO - Hubble
Tushar Agarwal is currently, Co-founder & CEO at Hubble (formerly Spacious) - an online
marketplace for renting office space. His is an EF (Entrepreneur First) 2014 Cohort, selected as
part of a group of 35 to found and build a high-growth technology startup and was selected
as one of the top 100 students in the UK from 8,000 initial nominations in the FreshMinds ‘One
to Watch’ 2010. An Economics Graduate of the London School of Economics, he previously
worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Greenhill & Co. specialising in Mergers &
Acquisitions (M&A) for two years. Previous internship experience is in investment banking at
Barclays Capital, RBS Global Banking and Markets and Morgan Stanley

Rajesh Agrawal
Founder Chairman & CEO - RationalFX
Rajesh Agrawal is the Founder Chairman & CEO of London based commercial foreign exchange
company RationalFX. He was born and educated in India, completing a Master of Business
Administration at one of India’s leading business schools, the Prestige Institute of Management
& Research, Indore, before a job opportunity brought him to London in 2001. Rajesh founded
RationalFX along with Paresh Davdra in 2005 in a small office in Brighton providing foreign
exchange and wire transfer services to individuals. In the same year, RationalFX launched UK’s
first online currency exchange system for private individuals at real time prices. RationalFX
relocated to City of London later in the same year. In August 2012, Agrawal launched Xendpay,
an online money transfer platform aimed at remittance market, to cut down the cost of money
transfer and bring more transparency in the market. Rajesh Agrawal was featured in The
Sunday Times Rich List 2012 with a £90m fortune.

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