Team Wanderlust

Nick Harvey
Age	29
Birthday	February 28th
Home town	Philadelphia, USA
Degree:	BS Chemical Engineering – Lafayette College, USA MBA – London Business School, UK
Favourite book:	The Lord of the Rings (just to tick Maria off)
Favourite movie:	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Favourite song:	Say It Ain’t So – Weezer, though for the Rally it might have to be Low Rider
Ambition:	To own his own company and to never stop adventurizing
Ideal co-driver:	Phileas Fogg
Nightmare co-driver:	Anyone with bad BO or who insists on playing Enya
Worst car moment:	Putting a borrowed car into a 720 degree spin on black ice, going 80 mph down a highway, trying to avoid a deer which lept into the road. Straighened the car out, didn’t hit anything, pulled over to the side of the road, and proceeded to puke my guts out
First car:	1989 Honda Accord LXi
Dream car:	Honda S2000 – yes, apparently I don’t dream big enough
Driving offenses:	too many to count. I used to speed when I was younger – I think there may be a warrant for my arrest in the state of New Jersey
No. of crashes:	1.3 – one major one, and a few fender benders

Despite being born and raised in Philly, Nick has a dirty old secret, which he hides well behind his American accent and baby blues. You wouldn’t know it from looking at him, but he’s actually English! He spent his childhood, teens and early twenties in Philly, eventually studying Chemical Engineering, before moving to Yantai, China. After a brief stint at a General Motors factory, Nick met a business partner and built a small cargo trailer factory, which he ran for the next three years. He then decided to come to the UK, where he spent the next two years studying for his MBA at London Business School. To top it all, he set his mind on one more adventure before going on to bigger and better things.

Maria Novatschkova
Age	31
Birthday	August 7th
Home town	Sofia, Bulgaria
Degree:	BA Hons European Business BA Hons International Business MBA
Favourite book:	Momo – Michael Ende South of the border, West of the sun – Haruki Murakami
Favourite movie:	ET, Gun shy, The red violin
Favourite song:	Don’t stop me now
Ambition:	To look back on my life and think, yeah, I did it all and didn’t settle
Ideal co-driver:	A combination of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and the Stig
Nightmare co-driver:	Peter Griffin
Worst car moment:	Driving from Germany to Bulgaria in the summer of 1984, 6 people in the back of a Lada, sitting on top of 2 smelly sacks of peppers with no air con
First car:	Renault Twingo
Dream car:	Porsche 911
Driving offenses:	0
No. of crashes:	1

Born in Germany, but raised in a number of different countries, Maria has never lived anywhere longer than in the UK, with a current total of 12 years. She finished her MBA in 2004, and has since worked as a Project Manager specialising on marketing and communications on a variety of projects. She thrives on the challenge of change, and her friendships are the only constant in her life. She can’t wait to hit the road and take a gazillion photos, while crossing her fingers that not too many things will break, go wrong or Nick can’t fix’em.

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