{"id":36220,"date":"2017-01-17T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loopup.com\/resource-center\/\/co-ceo-michael-hughes-receives-2017-new-years-honours\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:43:25","slug":"co-ceo-michael-hughes-receives-2017-new-years-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loopup.com\/us\/resource-center\/blog\/co-ceo-michael-hughes-receives-2017-new-years-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-CEO Michael Hughes receives 2017 New Year\u2019s Honours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that LoopUp co-CEO Michael Hughes has been honoured by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) on The Queen\u2019s New Year\u2019s Honours List for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was recognized for his founding of the Silicon Valley Internship Programme (SVIP) where computer science graduates from the United Kingdom are chosen to work one year abroad in the San Francisco Bay Area \u2013 right in the thick of the action.<\/p>\n<p>The exposure to the Valley\u2019s startup culture and entrepreneurial environment is a huge asset to developers fresh out of university. More than 60 graduates have made a success of the SVIP programme since its founding in 2013, and it\u2019s currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleyinternship.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taking applications<\/a> for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompanies in Silicon Valley are hungry for computer science talent, but competition for that talent is steep,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cAt the same time, there is a growing wealth of engineering grads coming out of the UK and Europe. What better way to give back to the UK startup community, and provide value to Silicon Valley companies, than to connect worthy UK graduates with companies who need them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes started the program, just 10 years after co-founding LoopUp alongside co-CEO Steve Flavell in 2003, where he has led global product development and platform operations out of our San Francisco offices. He holds a Masters of Engineering from Imperial College, an MBA from Stanford as an Arjay Miller Scholar, and was awarded a Sainsbury Management Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an incredible honour to be recognised by Her Majesty,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cI am very proud to be able to offer UK graduates the opportunity to work for and learn from some of the best tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley through SVIP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loopup.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/08\/micahel-hughes-300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10053\" src=\"https:\/\/loopup.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/08\/micahel-hughes-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loopup.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/08\/micahel-hughes-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/loopup.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/08\/micahel-hughes-300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that LoopUp co-CEO Michael Hughes has been honoured by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) on The Queen\u2019s New Year\u2019s Honours List for 2017.\u00a0Hughes was recognized for his founding of the Silicon Valley Internship Programme (SVIP) where computer science graduates from the United Kingdom are chosen to work one year abroad in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":36196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[281,18],"class_list":["post-36220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-news","tag-svip"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.2 (Yoast SEO v25.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Co-CEO Michael Hughes receives 2017 New Year\u2019s Honours! 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