Winner
Siobhan Miller
Psychology MSc, 2015
Siobhan is the founder of The Positive Birth Company, and her mission is to make antenatal and postnatal education and support more accessible for everyone. Her offering includes a growing range of online courses on topics including hypnobirthing and conception, and free resources shared through social media.
She has also written a book which has been a number one bestseller in multiple categories on Amazon, and created the Freya app which has been listed as one of the top paid apps of the year by the App Store for two years running. Through her book, app and courses, she has been able to help over 100,000 people in the last year alone, and the business made over £1,000,000 in its fourth year of trading. Siobhan has grown the business alongside raising three young boys.
Finalists
Paul Vincett
Illustration BA, 2007
Paul is the Creative Director of his company Stitches and Glue. He began his career making character mascot costumes out of a workshop in Crystal Palace, and has gone on to become a puppet maker and character designer for a number of leading puppet studios as well as designing and making puppets for international stage shows. Alongside this, the world of Stitches and Glue was created.
First conceived during his degree at Westminster, Stitches and Glue grew into a company and platform for his own artistic-led puppet and designer toy project ventures, supplying to small boutiques as well as Urban Outfitters. Paul’s company has successfully built puppets, props and costumes for film and stage, including Jim Hensons’s Dark Crystal, Star Wars films, Assassins Creed, Kick Ass 2 and Fantastic Beasts.
David Wall
Graphic Information Design BA, 1992
David is Director & Co-Founder of Dusted, an award-winning B2B branding agency. His career started within the newly founded multimedia division of Dorling Kindersley and he held roles at other leading global publishers before going on to start his own interactive business, Wallop.
David then founded Dusted in 2004 – a London-based, award-winning B2B agency specialising in corporate branding, digital delivery and marketing. Dusted has grown from very humble beginnings (two people in a basement in Bermondsey) to become a Top 100 UK agency, employing over 20 people and turning over nearly £2m annually. The business serves clients across the world in a diverse range of sectors. Over the years, David has supported non-profit, charitable and community organisations helping them establish their online presence, providing free world-class digital consultancy and ongoing web management.
Raveen Wijetilleke
Information Systems with Business Management BSc, 2017 (Informatics Institute of Technology)
Raveen is CEO & Founder of Eyeris Private Limited, one of Sri Lanka’s leading service design consultancies and modern media organisations. He founded the business while studying at IIT in 2014 to fill a gap in the marketing communications industry in Sri Lanka. At the start Eyeris had just three employees working in a range of areas, but their focus now is on video, software and consultancy,
Raveen and his co-founder (another IIT student) started with around five clients in their first year, but now have over 250 client accounts onboard, with 95% of new acquisitions through customer referrals and recommendations. These clients include government institutions, multibillion-dollar corporates and many other local and international SMEs. Eyeris have been recognised for their creativity and technical prowess, and are now a 30MM LKR company.