Henry Warren

Social Entrepreneur

Henry is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur (Young Leader of the Year 2004, Enterprising Young Brit 2005 and HRH's Pioneer to the life of the nation 2005, Education Resource Award 2009). He is currently the newly appointed Head of Innovation at GEMS Education, where he is creating a series of web 2.0 tools to impact teaching and learning.

Previously Henry was the CEO of Gemin-i, a charity specialising in using innovation and IT to solve problems in the Education and International Development sectors. Gemin-i runs three successful social enterprises: Rafi.ki, the leading online schools community, which connects classrooms in 120+ countries. Reflections a software based toolkit for teacher training, developed with the TDA and MMU-IoE and Webtools, a consultancy and software design business that builds high-end websites for government, the BBC, British Council and a series of charities. In 2006 Henry Launched The Sucata Run a fund-raising rally race for charities that races cars worth less than £250 from London to Lisbon in fancy dress. Last year it raised over £100,000 for good causes. The sister events Sumo Run and Sucata Split followed in 2009.

Henry is the former chair of MyBnk. the award winning financial literacy and enterprise charity for young people and currently works as a consultant to a number of other businesses, charities and grant making trusts predominantly around business development, web 2.0 and entrepreneurship.