A drive to change lives

Welcome to The Spectator’s Economic Disruptor of the Year Awards 2019, sponsored by Julius Baer. We’re waiting to hear from entrepreneurs in every business sector across the UK who are eager to tell us how their products are bringing radical benefits to consumers in terms of price and choice. We’re looking for disruptors who can make an impact nationally and globally. Meanwhile, we’ll be presenting inspirational stories about the people behind the UK’s fastest-growing entrepreneurial ventures. In the first of the series, Martin Vander Weyer meets Virraj Jatania, whose low-cost banking app Pockit was the overall winner of our 2018 awards. 

Virraj Jatania doesn’t need to be an entrepreneur. He’s a scion of a respected Asian business dynasty who made their fortune with Lornamead, the personal-care products empire which owned brands such as Vosene shampoo; the group was sold by Virraj’s father Danny and uncles Mike, Vin and George in 2012.