Richard Ng
Co-founder & CTO at Greenworkx- Claim this Profile
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Greenworkx
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United Kingdom
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-founder & CTO
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Sep 2022 - 1 year 4 months
At greenworkx, we're tackling the green skills emergency. To deliver net-zero, 30 million more green workers are needed globally by 2030. So, we're on a mission to get 10 million more people into green jobs in 10 years. Through the greenworkx app, we're creating green job discovery, training and role-matching for the next-generation net-zero workforce, and the 90% of green jobs that are skilled, manual trades.
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Ada Ventures
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United Kingdom
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Ada's Angel
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Mar 2023 - 10 months
Ada Ventures is the inclusive venture firm. Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We are investing out of our second fund and we invest £250,000 - £1m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing. Ada Ventures has chosen a second cohort of 20 Ada's Angels who are seed-series A specialist operators & founders in their sectors. As an Ada's Angel, my focus is on… Show more Ada Ventures is the inclusive venture firm. Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We are investing out of our second fund and we invest £250,000 - £1m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing. Ada Ventures has chosen a second cohort of 20 Ada's Angels who are seed-series A specialist operators & founders in their sectors. As an Ada's Angel, my focus is on climate and economic empowerment. Show less
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Included VC
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Fellow
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Sep 2019 - 4 years 4 months
London, United Kingdom The Included VC Fellowship is a one year venture capital programme, including executive coaching, deep dive masterclasses and practical simulations. Mentors are drawn from some of Europe's top VC firms, including Notion Capital, Creandum, Seedcamp, Daphni and Point Nine Capital. As an Included VC Fellow, I have been: • creating dealflow for the Fellowship, sourcing startups and pitch decks • writing investment memos for simulated investment committees
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Academy
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United Kingdom
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Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Education
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Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
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Head of Programme
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May 2021 - Dec 2021
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Programme Lead
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Aug 2020 - May 2021
Academy is making a high-impact career in technology more accessible than ever before, unleashing the potential of those who deserve to go further, faster.
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Black Codher Bootcamp
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Mentor and Instructor
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Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Black Codher unlocks careers in tech for Black women with a part-time coding bootcamp, as part of West Midland Combined Authority’s initiative for economic empowerment for both the unemployed and the employed to progress into digital occupations. As an Instructor, I've been remotely teaching back-end development - Node.js, SQL and MongoDB - to classes of 15-25 women.
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Participant
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Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
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CodeYourFuture
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United Kingdom
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Civic and Social Organizations
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100 - 200 Employee
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Teacher Trainer
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Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Code Your Future is a non-profit organisation supporting refugees and disadvantaged individuals with the dream of becoming developers. I've been supporting the CYF Education team by: - developing a 'teacher training' module for the industry volunteers who work with trainees - delivering teacher training sessions to volunteers from London to Cape Town - providing feedback to volunteer teachers to develop their practice
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Multiverse
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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300 - 400 Employee
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Software Engineering Coach
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Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
London, United Kingdom WhiteHat is one of Europe's fastest growing startups. The WhiteHat mission is to create a diverse group of future leaders by building an outstanding alternative to university. As a Software Engineering Coach, I have been: • Collaborating with engineering managers at clients (e.g. Starling Bank, Publicis Sapient and Facebook) to ensure apprentices are set up to thrive • Empowering software engineering apprentices through workplace coaching and leading multi-week coding… Show more WhiteHat is one of Europe's fastest growing startups. The WhiteHat mission is to create a diverse group of future leaders by building an outstanding alternative to university. As a Software Engineering Coach, I have been: • Collaborating with engineering managers at clients (e.g. Starling Bank, Publicis Sapient and Facebook) to ensure apprentices are set up to thrive • Empowering software engineering apprentices through workplace coaching and leading multi-week coding bootcamps (both remote and in-person) • Building, tailoring and delivering full-stack JavaScript curriculum materials to WhiteHat apprentices, internal employees, and on schools outreach Tech used/taught: JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, HTML, CSS, object-oriented programming, functional programming Show less
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One Maths
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United Kingdom
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E-Learning Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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COO & software developer
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Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
London, United Kingdom OneMaths was a startup building an intelligent maths tutor, Emmi, teaching secondary mathematics through a conversational UI. I was promoted to Chief Operating Officer to do heavy-lifting in strategy and management, whilst maintaining significant engineering responsibilities (having started as a software developer). As OneMaths COO, I: • Led the product pivot to a chatbot tutor and headed up the front-end development team • Pitched the company to diverse audiences… Show more OneMaths was a startup building an intelligent maths tutor, Emmi, teaching secondary mathematics through a conversational UI. I was promoted to Chief Operating Officer to do heavy-lifting in strategy and management, whilst maintaining significant engineering responsibilities (having started as a software developer). As OneMaths COO, I: • Led the product pivot to a chatbot tutor and headed up the front-end development team • Pitched the company to diverse audiences (investors, teachers and prospective hires) • Initiated and drove product development through whole-team design sprints Tech used: JavaScript, React, Redux, Redux-Saga, Firebase, Python, Rasa NLU, Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails Show less
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Teach First
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United Kingdom
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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Teacher of Mathematics
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Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Walsall, United Kingdom
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Teach First
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United Kingdom
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Education Administration Programs
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700 & Above Employee
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Brand Manager (Graduate Recruitment)
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Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Centrica
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United Kingdom
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Utilities
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700 & Above Employee
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Student Consultant & Team Leader
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Jan 2015 - May 2015
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Festival Director
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Jan 2015 - May 2015
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Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Insight Programme participant
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Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
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Director-Producer-Writer
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Mar 2014 - May 2014
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Education
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University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Politics and Economics -
Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall
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