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STEMettes, an award-winning social 2009
initiative dedicated to inspiring and
promoting the next generation of young 2019
women into STEM sectors. Two years later
she left her job at Deutsche Bank to run
STEMettes full time. The organisation is
funded through corporate partnerships.
Since its launch it has impacted the
lives of more than 38,500 young people
across Europe who have become part of
Anne-Marie’s vision for a more diverse and
balanced science and tech community.
In March 2018, STEMettes hosted Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle at their
International Women’s Day event.
Since graduation, Anne-Marie has
received Honorary Doctorates from Open
University, Glasgow Caledonian University
& Kent University and an Honorary SAMUEL KASUMU
Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford. In
2017 she was awarded an MBE in the
EDWIN BRONI-MENSAH Queen’s Honours list.
over 100 people.
alternative. During his time at Cross SAMUEL KASUMU Samuel is currently managing director
Boundary, the company announced a Director, Inclusive Boards of Inclusive Enterprise Solutions.
‘landmark deal’ with Unilever Tea Kenya to Samuel made our top 10 in the 2010-11 Previously known as EN Campaigns,
‘install and run a 600kW peak solar power edition of the magazine, having featured it is now the fourth largest delivery
plant at the Kericho tea plantation’. in our 2009-10 teaser edition – which partner of the government’s Start-Up
included just 30 students. At this Loans initiative – a £160 million
ANNE-MARIE IMAFIDON MBE time, he had already graduated with campaign focused on helping 60,000
Founder and CEO, STEMettes a 2:1 in Business and Management people in the United Kingdom to set up
Anne-Marie was featured in Accounting from Brunel University and a business through access to a low
the 2010-11 edition of the magazine. was completing a masters in Ethnicity, interest loan, mentoring, and training.
At the time she was known as a former Migration and Policy at Birkbeck In 2012, Samuel published his first book
child prodigy who had made headlines a College, University of London. He was Winning the Race.
few years earlier aged 11 when she was also the founder and CEO of Elevation He is a member of the Conservative Party,
the youngest girl ever to pass A-level Networks, a student-led organisation and previously sat on the board of the Tory
computing. She graduated from the dedicated to tackling graduate and youth Reform Group and the Bow Group.
university of Oxford with a Master’s unemployment, and was already making
Degree in Mathematics and Computer huge moves in this role including the SAMUEL AJILORE
Science and was just 20 years old when negotiation of a £650,000 contract with That Grape Juice: CEO / Editor-in-Chief
she graduated in 2010. Since then, her the Youth Justice Board for England and Sam Ajilore appeared in the 2010-11
career has gone from strength to strength. Wales which saw the creation of over 100 edition of the magazine at the completion
Having started out working at Deutsche jobs. Since 2010, the Elevation Networks of his masters degree in Media and
Bank as a Business Management Analyst brand has expanded massively. Now a Communications at Brunel University,
and then as a Enterprise Collaboration charity, it has over 30,000 student and a follow-up to his degree in Sociology
Strategist, in 2013 she co-founded graduate members and directly employs and Media Communications which he
also completed at Brunel.
Sam started entertainment news and
gossip website, ThatGrapejuice.net,
back in 2007, just as he started his
degree. He still runs it to this day. And
in a fickle industry where independent
media platforms come and go, his is still
one of the longest-running and premier
entertainment news websites in the UK
and internationally. With daily readership
in the high thousands, it is a trusted and
established source for urban news, music,
reviews, fashion, celebrity interviews
and much more. The site has garnered
coverage in Billboard, The Independent,
Huffington Post, New York Post, The Voice,
as well as on MTV, BET, AOL, BBC, and
E! News (TV).
Their interview archive includes huge
ANNE-MARIE IMAFIDON global artists such as Janet Jackson,
Mary J Blige, Ne-Yo, Destiny’s Child, Toni
Braxton and Ariana Grande

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