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= Richard Evans = Richard Evans (born 16th October 1990) is a British education entrepreneur. 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. He is co-founder of the tutoring companies The Profs and Spires as well as the online whiteboard Bitpaper. He is known as a thought leader in the tutoring industry and on education in England

Education
Evans attended Westminster School, a public school located in Westminster, London. He then attended London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he achieved a first-class honours degree in Economics and Philosophy.

The Profs
In 2014, Evans founded The Profs, a tuition company specialising in university-level tutoring, alongside a group of experienced university tutors including his brother, Dr Leo Evans, a lecturer at Imperial College London and former Vice President at J.P. Morgan. A year after co-founding The Profs, Richard also co-founded EdTech start-up, Bitpaper, an online whiteboard used by hundreds of thousands of teachers, tutors and students worldwide. Later, he also co-founded another EdTech startup, Spires an innovative online tutoring platform. 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 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.

Department for Education Open Data Competition App Winner
In December 2018, The Profs was one of two winners of The Department for Education’s Open Data Competition. Two contracts worth £150,000 were awarded to create a new app that would offer students a ‘personalised careers assistant’. Richard led the team to create TheWayUp - offering prospective students the chance to simulate a range of different graduate career paths through an innovative game. The contract was awarded through Innovate UK’s Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) for companies to develop digital tools that allow prospective students to access and compare earnings and employment outcomes from different degrees. In March 2019, TheWayUp was launched in a public beta.

The Tutors’ Association
In 2017, Richard Evans was elected the the board of The Tutors’ Association (TTA) as Non-Executive Director, and later in 2020 as Honorary Treasurer. The Tutors' Association is the only professional membership body for tutoring and the wider supplementary education sector in the UK. During his tenure on the board, Evans led on reforms to modernise the association and events focusing on the rise of online tutoring.

During the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, Richard arranged free online training programmes that retrained 600 tutors within weeks of the first UK lockdown.

Although supportive of the initiative, Evans was critical of the management of The National Tutoring Program in FE News ; in June 2020 he publicly criticised the programme for not requiring experienced tutors, instead allowing inexperienced university students to become the majority of tutors - raising “...concerns that…the National Tutoring Programme funding may go to the cheapest, not the most effective...in the tutoring world” In March 2022, Evans again publicly criticised the scheme for removing its targets relating to disadvantaged students, saying “...removing the focus on the most disadvantaged pupils, the National Tutoring Programme loses sight of its core purpose of helping those most in need.”

Tutoring industry advocacy and media
Richard Evans has often been interviewed as a Thought Leader for articles relating to education or the tutoring industry, in The Telegraph, The Times. The Sun, and Metro, newspapers. Richard is an advocate of the HeForShe gender equality campaign. Through his company The Profs and his work with The Tutors' Association, Evans has worked to professionalised the tutoring sector - in 2018, he launched the ‘Not In Our Name’ campaign to lobby the government to make essay mills and other unethical practices illegal. Essay mills were criminalised in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill in 2021.

Awards
Richard Evans has won several awards:


 * Forbes 30 Under 30 (2019) in the Social Entrepreneur Category
 * Great British Young Entrepreneur of The Year (2017) at the Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA)
 * Young Entrepreneur to Watch (2016) by www.startups.co.uk

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

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.

Early career
Evans became Vice President at J.P. Morgan, working in the global markets strategy team, within the bond trading division. During his time at J.P. Morgan, Evans co-wrote several notable publications, such as the J.P. Morgan View, Flows & Liquidity, and Global Markets Outlook and Strategy, 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. He taught and lectured in Credit and equity derivatives, Financial Mathematics, Financial Engineering, Computational Finance, Econometrics, Macro Economics, and Statistics.

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

The Profs
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 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
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
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.

EdTech & Education Awards
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)
 * 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)
 * FSB WorldPay's Highly Commended Start-Up of Year (2016)