Meet The Judges

The industry experts reviewing this year’s BIMA Awards

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BIMA Awards Judges:

The BIMA Awards are the UK’s longest standing and most prestigious digital and tech awards. We are looking for work in the British digital sector that is truly pushing the limits of what is possible, making a difference in business, culture and society.

Meet our BIMA Awards judges for 2024 (more to be announced!):

Joanne Reid, Managing Partner - Service Delivery, Cactus

Rich Evans, Founder, Get Better Limited

Lisa Cousins, Venture Strategy Director, Accenture Song

Mario Anchorena, Global Creative Director, Digitas UK

Chantel Jordan, Marketing Director, Human First Collective / Reflect Digital / LAB

Matt Simpson, Managing Director, Candyspace

Polly Jones, Group Head of Digital, ODEON Cinemas Group

Victor Woode, Creative Director, Athlon

Priscilla Li, Vice President, frog

Charlie Lycett-Smith, COO, Organic

Sara Chapman, Executive Experience Strategy Director, adamandeveDDB

Michael Wells, Client Services Director, TMW

Florence Bundy, COO, Tomorrow Group

Oliver Zammit-Tabona, Managing Director, Tommy

Liana Fricker, Founder & Head of New Ventures, Inspiration Space

Chris Lewis, Chief Client Partner, CACI Digital Experience - formerly Cyber-Duck

Anthoula Nolan, Senior Creative Copywriter, Digitas

Sepas Seraj, CEO, Founder, Pixeled Eggs

Rachael Sutherland, Director of Design, manifesto

Alex Buxton, Global Business Development Director, The Mill

Sofia Loreto, Design & UX Strategy Director, frog

Daniel Henderson, Managing Partner, Athlon

Polly Lygoe, Managing Director, Reading Room (part of Rippleffect Group)

Andrew Reid, Board Director, Marketing and Digital Development, Shelton Fleming Associates

Jinny Mitchell-Kent, Joint Managing Director, Great State

James McCobb, CEO, Radstone Group Ltd

Iva Johan, Chief Strategy Officer, Bernadette

Dave Dunlop, Chief Design Officer and Partner, Else

Rachel Proctor, Head of Digital, https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelproctor/Alfred London

Alexander Baxevanis, Director, Experience Design, Paragon DCX

Nadine Clarke, Strategy Partner, Tangent

Piyush Poddar, VP Sales and Partnerships, Axelerant

Hannah-Natalie Hosanee, Managing Director, Consume Comms

Nicholas Trueman, Agency Director & Podcast Host, Spec Digital Limited & Winning With Shopify Podcast

Chily de la Viesca, Joint Managing Director, Passion Digital

Chris Hall, Head of Digital: Client Services, DRPG

Emily Kemp, Director of Social Media, FINN Partners

Baz Markham, Head of Design, Else London

Kerry Watkins, Managing Director, Social for Good

Adam Kimsey, UX Design Director, Imagination

Laura Roth, Global Community, AWS

Sylvain Lourgouilloux, Managing Director, LAB

Jenny Kitchen, CEO, Yoyo Design

Jiri Mocicka, CEO – Design Director, GIVE™

Kate Brown, Marketing Specialist

Charlie Symonds, CEO, Alirity

Lai-Jin Fong, VP Executive Director, Goldman Sachs

John Paul Toher, Human, Human Kind

Rebecca Vickery, Managing Director, Brave Spark

Iain Beaumont, Founder, VUMO Digital Ltd

Sarah Vick, Chair / NED, Wilderness / JH / WY Partners / manifesto

James Greening, Creative Partner, SharpEnd

Karen Lester, Senior Consultant, Comprend

Ryan Wiseman, Experience & Service Design Lead, AND Digital

Megan Harvey, Lead Communications Specialist, Reading Room

Luke Whitaker, Senior SEO Consultant, Organic

Rebekah Billingsley, Global Marketing Director, Brand and Content, Planday

Alex Cole, Director of Strategy - EMEA, HH Global

Lottie Namakando, Head of paid media, Reflect Digital

Ben Scoggins, CEO, Organic

Georgia Paes, Creative, The Mill

Matt Wheeler, Digital Director, madeby.studio

Gemma Collins, Principal Product Owner, Candyspace

Aaron Thomas, Managing Director, Hive19 Ltd

Hayley Brace, Marketing Director, Pixeled Eggs

Tim Redgate, Director, Valentine Belle

Tash Taylor, Senior Sales Manager, Good-Loop

Raymond Manookian, CX Director, Zone Digital

Maia Honan, Chief Client Officer, Positive

Mark McGrotty, Customer Strategy & Design Manager, Deloitte Digital

Teodora Tepavicharova, Director, Programmatic Strategy (UK), Condé Nast

Steve Gale, SVP - Business Development, CTI Digital

Rebecca Crook, Chief Growth Officer, Positive Digital & Creature London

Guillaume Buat-Menard, Director, Digital Transformation, Flipsidegroup

Gem Fountain, Creative Director, manifesto

Mike Steer, Technical Director, LAB Digital Services Limited

Sahara Baig, Head of Delivery, Candyspace

Robin Richmond, COO, 8 Million Stories

Turi Henderson-Palmer, Lead Content Designer, Zone, a Cognizant Digital Business

Michael Robinson, Creative Director, Critical Mass

Anastasia Hadden, Senior Product Manager, AND Digital

Kevin Barter, Creative Director, Klutch Studio

Debbi McLean, Design Director, Deloitte Digital

Dan Akers, Agency Director, Modo25

Kateryna Ovsyannykova, Chief Operating Officer, ClerksWell

Chandeep Khosa, Managing Director, 2Toucans

Charlotte Collier, Operations Director, FINALLY Agency Ltd

Patrick Kelly-Weller, Managing Director, Adapt Digital Ltd

Hannah Graham, Group Account Director, Equator

Sam Drury, UX Director, UIC Digital

Caroline Lilley, Associate Director, Four Agency Worldwide

Richard Calvert, Founder, The Thread Team

Natalie Steers, Senior Experience Strategist, Zone Digital

Mark Iremonger, MD and Strategy Partner, Nucco

Kerry Howell, Managing Partner, Bernadette

Brian Cross, Managing Director, Complete

Cherisse Todd, Head of Business Unit, Equator

Richard West, VP, Creative & Experience, Jellyfish

Alexandra Stamp, Head of Marketing, MHP Group

Alastair McLeod, Managing Partner, TMW

Kelly Rose, Co-Founder & Director, SceneMusicMedia

Ben Taylor, CEO, Cassette Group

Anna Riggs, Co-founder, podcast producer & media coach, Proud Otter Creative

Christopher Baird, Director and Global Loyalty Lead, frog

Sara Parrish, Experience Strategy Director, Imagination

Graeme Blake, CEO, Blutui

Gauri Kaushik, Senior Strategist, MediaMonks

Cameron Gunn, Co-CEO, Emperor

Sara Parrish, Experience Strategy Director, Imagination

Ed Bolton, Executive Creative Director of Brand, Global Brand Lead & GenAI SME, frog

Trenton Moss, Founder & Head Coach, Team Sterka

Bugei Nyaosi, Product Manager, Capital One

Alistair Robertson, Creative Partner, Nucco

Jeff McCarthy, Senior Lecturer Digital Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University

Richard Coope, Founder, Brightful

David Johnstone, Chief Growth Officer, CultureSuite

Hannah Springett, Founder & CEO, HLabs

Richard Kinsella, Creative Director, Screenmedia

Brooke Lagana, Social Producer, Adam&Eve DDB

David Chandler, Joint Managing Director, Great State

Julia Fogelberg Bouverat, Senior Product Designer, Cognizant (Zone)

Shaun McHugh, Creative Director, UIC Digital

Connie del Bono, Client Partner, Croud

Edward Riseman, Co-Founder, big group

Megan de la Motte, Senior Digital Strategist, Equator

Stuart O'Neill, Executive Creative Director - Resort Theme Parks & Gateway Attractions, Merlin Entertainments

Emma Gregory, Senior Experience Designer, Tribal EMEA / Critical Mass

Neil Cooper, VP, Executive Creative Director, Critical Mass

Stephanie Borne, Digital Transformation and Innovation Strategist, Rerooted Ltd

Jonathan Kelly, Experience Director, Candyspace

Joanne Hippolyte, Creative Director (Assoc.), Publicis Sapient

Ricky Kanani, Head of Customer Marketing, Virgin Media O2

Stu Hamilton, Design Manager, Deloitte Digital

Nicola Robertson, Head of Business Unit, Equator

Josh Tipple, Marketing & Technology Consultant, CACI

Hattie Kirchner, Managing Director, Creative & Marketing, Four Agency

David Avis, Delivery Principal, AND Digital

Rebecca Mckee, CEO, This Brand Works

Jason Cotterill, eCommerce Lead, Space & Time

Laura Mason, Senior Designer, PG One, Publicis Groupe

Simon Dale, E-commerce Strategist, Organic

Jude Bawden, Client Partner, Valtech

David Hunt, Creative Director, Emperor

Fifi Ahmed, Director - Cloud, Publicis Sapient

Benedict Ireland, Chief Experience Officer, TMWX

Prachi Gupta, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Tom Bayliss, Chief Client Officer, We Are Social

Rachel Baines, Head of Strategy & Campaigns, Chime Agency & Self Employed

Rick Lamb, Managing Director, UK, Jellyfish

Mike Octigan, Co-founder, Gecko Agency Ltd

Carren O'Keefe, Chief Creative Officer, Digitas UK

Luke Alexander, Chief Digital and AI Officer, Four Agency

Clemmie Telford, Creative Director, ITV

Sam Page, CEO, 7DOTS

Aneka Hindocha, Rsearch and insights Director, We Are Social

Andrea Foresi, Associate Creative Director, MediaMonks London

Emma Yeandle, Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Transformation, Valtech Ltd

Matt Roberts, Lead UX Designer, Sightsavers

Helena Taylor, Paid Social Lead, Space & Time

Talha Ihsan, Head of CRM, Equator

Chiara Santevecchi, Strategic Marketing Consultant, Marketing with Chiara

Steven Yick, Chief Digital Officer, manifesto

Adrienn Major, Founder, POD LDN

David Wain-Heapy, Co-Founder, Prodigi

Claire Hutchings, Founder, Chime Agency

Gavin Willis, Founder & CEO, Search Seven

Susi O'Neill, Executive Director, EVA trust in tech

Josh Wilkins, Global Digital Strategy & Transformation, Coca-Cola EP