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Leonard Evans[edit]

Dr Leonard Evans (born 8th May 1985) is a British EdTech entrepreneur. He is co-founder of the tutoring companies The Profs and Spires as well as the online whiteboard Bitpaper. He is known as thought leader in the tutoring and EdTech industries . Evans won The Department for Education’s Open Data Competition in 2018, NatWest’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017 and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur in 2019.

Education[edit]

Evans is an alumnus of Imperial College London, where he achieved a BSc in Physics (2003)^{[citation needed]}. In 2006 he obtained a fully funded scholarship to complete a MSc and PhD at Imperial college business school^{[citation needed]}. He then went on to complete a Master’s in Finance (2007) and a PhD in Financial Economics (2011) at Imperial College Business School^{[citation needed]}. In 2010 he presented the title paper of his PhD thesis at the American Finance Association in Denver^{[citation needed]}, as was a winner of the prestigious [[AFA Doctoral Grant|AFA Doctoral Grant^{[citation needed]}]].

He attended Bryanston School between 1998-2003 on a full academic scholarship, a co-educational boarding school located in Dorset, South West England. Bryanston is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group.

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Evans became Vice President at J.P. Morgan, working in the global markets strategy team, within the bond trading division^{[citation needed]}. During his time at J.P. Morgan, Evans co-wrote several notable publications, such as the J.P. Morgan View, Flows & Liquidity,^{[citation needed]} and Global Markets Outlook and Strategy,^{[citation needed]} and was quoted in the Financial Times.

Evans returned to Imperial College London as a visiting lecturer in 2012 where he designed and lectured Master’s students^{[citation needed]}. He taught and lectured in Credit and equity derivatives, Financial Mathematics, Financial Engineering, Computational Finance, Econometrics, Macro Economics, and Statistics.^{[citation needed]}

EdTech Entreprenuer[edit]

Evans has helped to modernise the tutoring sector by developing technology that facilitates online learning and tuition.

The Profs[edit]

In 2014, Leo Evans co-founded The Profs, a tuition company specialising in university-level tutoring, alongside a group of experienced university tutors including his brother, Richard Evans. In 2017 The Profs was recognised as Best Private Tutoring Company at the Education Investor Awards, in 2018 The Telegraph’s Most Innovative SME Exporter^{[citation needed]} and in 2022 Best Customer Service at The Tutors’ Association’s National Tutoring Awards. In 2020, The Profs acquired London-based tutoring company Tavistock Tutors in a share purchase. In December 2018, The Profs was one of two winners of The Department for Education’s Open Data Competition.

Bitpaper[edit]

In 2015, Evans saw an opportunity to innovate the technology used in the education sector and founded Bitpaper, a collaborative online whiteboard now used by hundreds of thousands of teachers, tutors and students worldwide..

Spires[edit]

After the initial success of both The Profs and Bitpaper, Evans combined technology with tuition to create online tutoring platform Spires. Tens of thousands of students around the world now use Spires to work with thousands of teachers and tutors, and the company has a presence in over 80 countries. ^{[citation needed]}

EdTech & Education Awards[edit]

Through his work, Evans’s companies have won many awards including:

Best Customer Service at the National Tutoring Awards (2022)
The Telegraph’s Most Innovative SME Exporter (2018) ^{[citation needed]}
An Innovation grant from the Department of Education, presented by then minister of University Sam Gymiah
Best Private Tutoring Company at the Education Investor Awards (2017)
Made the The UK's Top 100 Startups list (2017)
Runner-up in the Guardian Start-up of the year (2016) ^{[citation needed]}
FSB WorldPay's Highly Commended Start-Up of Year (2016) ^{[citation needed]}

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^ "Richard Evans: Award-winning Tuition Company That Has Been Providing Top-quality Tutoring to Students Across the World". BestStartup.co.uk. 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2022-11-10.