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www anniversary in June and had our daughter, Lily, in April last year. She has just started nursery up the road in Fulham. Jimmy Taylor (B 09) is her godfather. I’ve been at Soho PR agency The PHA Group for five years. I’m an account director in the technology team, heading up our fintech division. I’m still heavily involved with the Oundle Ramblers cricket team and in November Jimmy, Oscar Paul (G 09), Nick Hennis (B 09), Greg Luetchford (Ldr 09) and I were just a few of our year group to go on a tour to Sri Lanka, which was an awesome experience. We also toured Norfolk in the summer and played a two-day ‘Test’ match down at the Valley of the Rocks.
Brian Kwok: After leaving Oundle, I completed an undergraduate degree at King’s College London and obtained a legal qualification in the UK. I am currently working at an international risk advisory firm and divide my time between Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Angus Lang: I finished Glasgow University in 2013 with a degree in Marine Biology and went back to Bermuda to work for a couple of months at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. I then returned to the UK to work in financial services for two years before taking time off to travel the world with my wife. We got married in Bermuda last summer and are currently living in Northern Ireland, where she is from and I am working at Citibank. I have been involved in the Old Oundelian Golf Society as well since I finished university and have played in several tournaments each year, including the Queen Elizabeth Cup in Edinburgh and the Halford Hewitt in Kent, which has been great fun. I am still just as obsessed with my golf and all things outdoors as ever, and am hoping to do a master’s in Conservation Biology this year too.
Peter Maxakov: The past 10 years of my life have been the most interesting, exciting and life- changing. I am happy to say that Oundle and all of the lovely people who surrounded me there have a lot
to do with it, as those years shaped me in the best way possible. After leaving Oundle, I went on to study Applied Psychology at the University of Durham, which was an amazing experience – full of hard work, fun and great people. After Durham, as most of my family still lived in Moscow, I decided to move back to Russia. The first few years were very tough, partly due to the fact that not too many companies in Russia appreciated foreign diplomas at the time. My first job was a lower management role at the Ministry of Construction, where I had the privilege of working with some of the biggest investment institutions, construction companies and influential politicians in Russia. As I grew professionally within the Ministry, I managed to get to know a lot of affluent people and I ended my tenure at this amazing institution two years later as the Direct Foreign Investment Department Director. This was about the same time that I met my future wife, Galina Yudashkina, the daughter of the most famous Russian fashion designer and chairman of the Valentin Yudashkin group of companies. Five years and three incredible jobs later that included a junior partner position at the Kremlyovskaya Vodka brand, a senior management position at SIBUR - the largest petrochemical company in Russia – and a senior management position at the Valentin Yudashkin fashion brand, I am proud to say that I currently serve as the Managing Partner of the Valentin Yudashkin group and Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Razvitie group that specialises in complex government IT security systems. My greatest achievement, though, is my beautiful family. I am a happy husband to my wife and a proud father of two incredible little boys, Anatoly (3) and Arkady (1).
Henry Middleditch: Since leaving Oundle, I have graduated from Edinburgh University and started my career in advertising in Hong Kong. After it failed to scratch my creative itch, I moved into banking. Following my early breaks in Flashpoint and
Warsy, I continue to pursue music, playing guitar, piano, vocals and backing vocals in the House band, managed by Jake Withers (F 09). In more recent times, I have developed a keen interest in languages. Having found French too complicated and Italian a non-starter, I’m now trying to take up Portuguese.
Olly Murphy: In the 10 years since leaving Oundle, I have been optimising my lifestyle, drawing on lean start-up principles, AB testing and personal organic growth strategies. These include reduction of holiday beyond annual offsite in Scotland, minimisation of (most) vices and standardising lunch options to reduce decision fatigue. As a result, I’ve secured an exciting marketing opportunity for a leading e-transport growth company. I now live in Camden, drawn back there by the fond memories of our Third Form day trip. Before that, I lived in King’s Cross, where the local police force knew me as somewhat of a vigilante, regularly calling in the forces to bring order to the streets below. My plan is to create a self-running business and focus my time on reinvigorating Patchwork in time for the wedding season.
Jake Withers: After leaving Oundle, I headed to Manchester University to study Criminology. I decided not to make new friends and instead spent three years living exclusively with OOs in the dodgy corners of Fallowfield. On graduation, I moved to the ‘Big Smoke’ and set up Forensic Property Search, a venture which combined my newly cultured criminal knowledge with my true passion for home ownership. To complement my new grown-up life, I ditched the ‘muff head’, opting instead for a crew cut, and purchased three navy suits from Moss Bros. During this period of personal experimentation I trialled living with non-Oundelians, but found this was a step too far. Luckily, I was saved by the Middleditchs and now live in the posh part of Clapham South. Love had eluded me, but as fate would have it, it was across Two Acre all along.
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