Students and Alumni

For most people, Tenerife means a holiday postcard: ocean views, beaches and year-round sunshine. Our student Nela sees the island through a very different lens. What does everyday life look like in a place where the pace of life has something in common with the famous Blue Zones? And why can the connections you make at university become one of the best investments you make in your life?

As the daughter of a successful fashion brand founder, she watched brand building from the front row. After high school, she chose Digital Marketing. Today, she has completed a prestigious Master’s program in Milan and works in visual merchandising for the Parisian fashion house Louis Vuitton. In this interview, Anna Blažková shares her journey, the behind-the-scenes of a demanding recruitment process, and her perspective on how Generation Z is changing the perception of luxury.

He started at fifteen with a camera in his hand and a vision that the world has no limits. Today, he has collaborated with giants such as Microsoft and Allwyn and is behind the ambitious project Mindfall Protocol – the first Czech mid-length AI film. In this interview, NEWTON University graduate Gedeon Drapák shares his journey from the streets of Prague through London startups to the technologies reshaping the rules of the game. Why does he believe the future belongs to “vibe marketing,” and how did his studies help him realize that success is not only about skills, but also about connections and the courage to fail?

At a university fair, she was captivated by students dressed as pilots; today, she coaches top-tier managers and athletes. NEWTON alumna Juliana Potoczká talks about her journey from Brno to the prestigious Middlesex University in London, and why a managerial mindset is an unexpected competitive advantage in the field of health and fitness.

Barbora Nováková, a third-year student at the Brno campus of NEWTON University, shows that elite sport and higher education don’t have to compete with each other. The alpine skier secured her place at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games at the very last moment. Yet between training runs at speeds of up to 130 km/h, she still finds time to work on her bachelor’s thesis and think about her future in business.

What really drives success? In this interview, NEWTON University graduate Matěj Žák explores the idea of self-imposed limits and explains why they often exist only in our minds.

Zuzana Ševčíková je absolventkou profesního zaměření Marketing na NEWTON University. Marketingu se věnuje více než deset let, vede vlastní agenturu Suzzie.cz a stojí za knihou Re: E-mailing, který funguje. V rozhovoru pro NEWTON Today otevřeně mluví o realitě agenturní práce, rozdílech mezi výkonem a strategií, roli AI i o tom, proč marketing nikdy nebude zázračné tlačítko.

Founding a company at the age of twenty, obtaining financial licences abroad and building an international fintech group from Czechia may sound unrealistic. David Kašper, CEO of Purple Holding and a graduate of NEWTON University, has done exactly that. His journey, however, was marked by major crises and moments close to burnout.

In its article “From a School Project to a Promising Start-Up. Men’s Grooming Has Potential, Says the Founder of Bogroti,” Finmag presents the story of Michael Gründler, a NEWTON University alumnus who transformed Bogroti from a simple student project into a real business.