headquarters london area served united kingdom key people james uffindell ceo rachel spedding marketing & operations director website www.brightnetwork.co.uk bright network is a career oriented network of university students and graduates in the united kingdom . 1 it holds employability workshops networking events and recruitment fairs in central london . contents 1 history 2 activities 3 references 4 external links history edit bright network was founded by james uffindell in 2007 . 2 it was launched in 2010 and has worked with allen & overy 3 goldman sachs 4 innocent drinks the mind gym 5 and kpmg . 6 in march 2011 bright network attracted investment from a consortium of angel investors . 7 the company s board includes michael a. jackson venture capitalist and former chairman of sage group 8 and zach miles former ceo of vedior . jackson is bright network s chairman . 2 activities edit bright network launched its professional social networking website in october 2009 which was originally developed by the then cto adam hadley . the networking site was released to students and graduates in early 2010 with a series of soft launches . candidates applying to join the bright network are required to have at least 320 ucas points or equivalent and are expected to be studying at or have graduated from a top university . bright network holds events for its members network with professionals in the industry . these include bright evenings where a panel of experts from a selected industry gives talks to the attendees and the bright festival an annual event held in central london consisting of a commercial law network technology network investment banking network and an employers fair . 9 members network with representatives from major banking consulting and legal firms . 10 references edit http www.brightnetwork.co.uk bright a b social recruitment site bright network secures 300k in angel funding techcrunch . eu.techcrunch.com . retrieved 18 august 2016 . http www.brightnetwork.co.uk organisations 9 http www.brightnetwork.co.uk organisations 15 http www.brightnetwork.co.uk organisations 49 http www.brightnetwork.co.uk organisations 41 http www.recruiter.co.uk bright network wins angel investment 1009126 . article sage uk ltd software & solutions for every business . sage.co.uk . retrieved 18 august 2016 . bright network youtube . youtube.com . retrieved 18 august 2016 . http www.brightnetwork.co.uk events 403 external links edit official website bright network on twitter bright network at crunchbase retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bright network & oldid 735035893 categories professional networksemployment agencies of the united kingdomhidden categories use dmy dates from april 2015use british english from april 2015twitter username not in wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 august 2016 at 07 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view