BU Today – $50,000 in Prize Money Awarded at SHA’s Poyiadjis Hospitality Innovation Competition

Photo: Five men stand on a stage to celebrate the winner of a compeition. From left, a West Asian man wearing a black suit, a white man in a maroon blazer and black pants, a West Asian man wearing a blue suit with a black tie, an older West Asian man wearing a black suit with a purple tie, and a white man wearing a plaid blazer with tailored jeans and glasses. They are all smiling for the photo, looking to the left at another camera.
BU Today – Kaushik Vardharajan (from left), an associate professor of the practice and director of the innovation and entrepreneurship program at the School of Hospitality Administration; Alexios Poyiadjis, son of Roys and Donna Poyiadjis, the founding sponsors of the competition; Johar Singh (Questrom’24), cofounder of the winning team, Astra Wellbeing; Arun Upneja, SHA dean; and Robert Vail, senior head of innovation at the Boston Beer Company. Photo by Cydney Scott

Talk about dedication: two students studying abroad this semester in Sydney, Australia, woke up at 3 am (their time) last Friday to pitch their idea of how to improve the lives of healthcare workers for last week’s inaugural $50K Poyiadjis Hospitality Innovation Competition. And their commitment paid off: their team, Astra Wellbeing, took home the grand prize of $25,000

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