Meet the Team

Here is a brief introduction to the awesome team behind Save the Student! (read the story). As well as those of us on this page, we cannot forget the student contributors who have published a good number of the articles on the website in the name of helping other students. Thanks guys!

The Save the Student team

Owen Burek

The Head Honcho

OwenOwen set up SaveTheStudent.org as a 1st year student back in 2007. He graduated in 2010 from the University of Manchester (Geography) with a First class degree and is now dedicated to projects just like this one!

In his spare time Owen enjoys backpacking, writing, photography, webdesign, sailing, football, cycling and hand massages.

Guilty Pleasure? Buying things that he doesn’t need just because they are on special offer!

E-mail: owen [at] savethestudent.org

Twitter: @savethestudent

Jake Butler

The Student Finance Guru

JakeJake became a part of the team in November 2010. He is also a recent graduate from the University of Manchester (Geography) and is good friends with Owen.

He is a keen sports fan and a follower of Manchester United. He also enjoys walking, socialising and kisses in the summer.

Guilty Pleasure? Being a southern Man Utd fan.

E-mail: jake [at] savethestudent.org

Twitter: @jaketlbutler

Mark Rofe

The Deal Hunter/Editor

Mark

Mark joined the team as an Editor in Febraury 2013, and graduated from Kingston University in 2011, where he studied Business with Law.

Here’s a picture of Mark trying to look cool, successfully.

Mark is smart, handsome and modest too, and in his spare time he likes to try and play football and work on his own website projects.

Guilty Pleasure? Taking pictures of himself in the bath and posting them on the internet.

Email: mark [at] SaveTheStudent.org

 

Rowley Cubitt

That Marketing Guy

RowleyRowley was brought in for his ninja style communication skills and general creative flare, he is a business & marketing graduate from UWE. He has gathered experience from a media agency & a theatre, through to a environmental consultancy.

He loves snowboarding, socialising, photography and drawing, sometimes all at once but his main passion is music (in particular his ukulele).

Guilty Pleasure? An addiction to iPlayer and making bad videos.

Ashley Spink

Our Press Master

Ashley

Ashley joined Save the Student! in early 2012. Due to graduate from Salford University with a degree in journalism, his passions involve writing and music.

Writing for a select few sites, he endeavors to keep his music journalism tame and PR skills polished.

Guilty pleasure? That would have to be supporting Grimsby Town FC.

Danielle Middleton

Part-time Editor

Danni Dani studied Linguistics at University of Manchester and joined Save The Student in March 2011. She has been writing and editing for The Mancunion (Manchester student newspaper) as a section Editor since September 2010, and enjoys writing for as many fields and genres as she can.

She’s a huge literature geek and can tell you the year that most albums were released in the last half a century for absolutely no reason.

Guilty Pleasure? Her addiction to all things Starbucks, especially the Mochas! She also loves the music from Dirty Dancing and Spice Girls (but who secretly doesn’t?).

We would also like to give a shout out to the team of writers that contribute to the site on a daily basis! Without them there would be nothing interesting to read.