Winner
Nevine Coutry
Marketing Communications MA, 2005
Nevine Coutry is the founder of Playdate, the UK’s first dating app for single parents. After completing her Marketing Communications MA at Westminster, Nevine established her own marketing agency. Initially working with a few smaller clients from Egypt who wanted to break into the UK market, Nevine’s agency quickly grew and acquired clients from all over the world. As a travel and hospitality marketing agency, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Nevine’s business hard and she was unable to continue her marketing agency while homeschooling her son as a working single mother. Nevine took the closing of her marketing agency as an opportunity to enter a different industry and created Playdate. Drawing on her personal experience and marketing expertise, Nevine’s dating app Playdate now has nearly 50,000 users.
Finalists
Panagiotis-Zmpigknief Zavatzki
Computer Games Development BSc, 2012
Panagiotis-Zmpigknief Zavatzki, or Pazbi, is the founder of three companies. He founded Some Talented People, a digital marketing business, Wave Lettings, a technologically innovative lettings agency, and Creatre, a Web 3.0 community coworking and education business. Pazbi is committed to educating and helping others through student mentoring and his YouTube tutorials. He also launched BSL SLAM, the first Slam Poetry event entirely performed in British Sign Language, which has been featured on The One Show and praised by the BBC. Pazbi contributes to fundraising initiatives that support inclusivity and community service, and serves on Westminster’s Employability Advisory Board.
Raimonda Jankunaite
Business Management BA, 2011
Raimonda Jankunaite is the founder and CEO of Women Thrive Media and the Women in Business Club. Women Thrive Media is an inclusive women’s empowerment events and community platform, which has bestselling co-authored books, popular podcasts and a magazine. The annual Women Thrive summit every March is devoted to giving women the opportunity to share their stories and Raimonda makes sure to dedicate 30% of the speaking slots to first-time speakers. Raimonda personally mentors each speaker and helps to develop their speaking skills so they can feel empowered and supported in sharing their stories. Raimonda’s second business, the Women in Business Club, was founded in 2017 and is one of the most diverse global women in business membership communities. Women in Business Club supports female entrepreneurs in developing the skills, knowledge and resources they need to succeed in business.
Sanjay D'Humieres
Media Management MA, 2011
Sanjay D’Humieres is the founder of RTCX and CulturaSpace. After graduating in 2011, Sanjay worked in TV production and digital marketing before launching RTCX in 2015. RTCX provides marketing tools for large corporate organisations and now operates in France, Canada and Singapore. In 2020, Sanjay was appointed Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation master’s programme at the ESCE International Business School and took over the school’s start-up incubator. In 2023, Sanjay launched CulturaSpace. CulturaSpace is an innovative incubator and accelerator programme for start-ups in the culture and tourism sector in partnership with the French Chamber of Commerce.