Dream Big: Building a Global Business with Luke Nolan, founder & CEO of Student.comLuke Nolan, founder, and CEO of Student.com, will talk about his experience as an entrepreneur and how he built Student.com from a Shanghai-based startup into a global company.Luke is the founder and CEO of Student.com, the world’s leading marketplace for student accommodation. An entrepreneur at heart, Luke founded the first online marketplace for Asian students to access student accommodation in the UK - Overseas Student Living.Luke quickly realized there was an opportunity to help a rapidly increasing community of students around the world and the company re-branded to Student.com in 2014.A keen businessman, Luke was involved in the Chinese real estate sector prior to founding Student.com. Before moving to Asia, where lived for over 10 years, he had first-hand experience of being an international student, both in London where he received a bachelor’s degree in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School and in Milan, where he received a Master’s in International Economics and Management from SDA Bocconi.Though born in London to Irish-Portuguese parents, Luke grew up in Antwerp, Belgium so considers himself a truly international entrepreneur, speaking English, Chinese and Portuguese.
Dream Big: Building a Global Business with Luke Nolan, founder & CEO of Student.comLuke Nolan, founder, and CEO of Student.com, will talk about his experience as an entrepreneur and how he built Student.com from a Shanghai-based startup into a global company.Luke is the founder and CEO of Student.com, the world’s leading marketplace for student accommodation. An entrepreneur at heart, Luke founded the first online marketplace for Asian students to access student accommodation in the UK - Overseas Student Living.Luke quickly realized there was an opportunity to help a rapidly increasing community of students around the world and the company re-branded to Student.com in 2014.A keen businessman, Luke was involved in the Chinese real estate sector prior to founding Student.com. Before moving to Asia, where lived for over 10 years, he had first-hand experience of being an international student, both in London where he received a bachelor’s degree in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School and in Milan, where he received a Master’s in International Economics and Management from SDA Bocconi.Though born in London to Irish-Portuguese parents, Luke grew up in Antwerp, Belgium so considers himself a truly international entrepreneur, speaking English, Chinese and Portuguese.