Sara Murray

Sara Murray
Sara Murray
Born	November 1968
Nationality	British
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Known for	Developer Buddi

Sara Elizabeth Murray OBE (born November 1968) is a British entrepreneur and businesswoman who developed buddi, a miniaturised tracking device for vulnerable people^[1] and founder of confused.com.^[2] She is member of the British Government’s Technology Strategy Board^[3] and Seedcamp - an organisation to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in the UK and Europe.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Education[]

Born in Lancashire in November 1968, Murray went to Malvern Girls' College and then read Physiology, Psychology and Philosophy at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Awards[]

Murray was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2009 Orange National Business Awards.^[10]

In 2008, Murray was a finalist in the and a finalist in the .

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to entrepreneurship and innovation.^[11]

References[]

^ Waller, Martin (January 3, 2009). "Sara Murray: the woman behind buddi, the personal tracking device". The Times. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
^ "Investors back Buddi's plans to save Government £2bn". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
^ "Government appoints new board members to its Technology Strategy Board". May 29, 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06.
^ The Daily Telegraph Archived 2011-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ The Times
^ TheWhereBusiness.com biography
^ The Malvern Gazette
^ The Times – supplement on Dementia, published 17 November 2009
^ Seedcamp
^ "Vince sticks knife into hopeless FSA (section "achelorette with a top idea")". December 11, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-11-14.
^ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 11.

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[1] Waller, Martin (January 3, 2009). "Sara Murray: the woman behind buddi, the personal tracking device". The Times. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 10 November 2017.

[2] "Investors back Buddi's plans to save Government £2bn". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-31.

[3] "Government appoints new board members to its Technology Strategy Board". May 29, 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06.

[4] The Daily Telegraph Archived 2011-03-11 at the Wayback Machine

[5] The Times

[6] TheWhereBusiness.com biography

[7] The Malvern Gazette

[8] The Times – supplement on Dementia, published 17 November 2009

[9] Seedcamp

[10] "Vince sticks knife into hopeless FSA (section "achelorette with a top idea")". December 11, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-11-14.

[11] "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 11.

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