The awards are judged by an esteemed panel of industry leaders and experts, the judging is a rigorous two stage process including pre-scoring to determine shortlists and a judging meeting where entries are discussed and evaluated in detail to decide the winning entries.
Meet our esteemed judging panel for 2019:
Simon joined Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the UK’s largest airports group, as VP Digital Marketing in July 2017. The Group serves 59 million passengers across three airports (Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands), which contributes £7.1 billion to the UK economy. He sits on the leadership team at the Group’s digital division, MAG-O, which was created with one driving mission; to create the world's most customer-centric and stress-free digital travel experience. Simon has led MAG-O through a period of digital transformation. After a phase of intense growth, hiring 40 digital marketers in 12 months, all digital acquisition channels are now managed and optimised in-house. This includes Paid Search, Organic Search, CRM, Affiliates, Display, Paid Social and Content Marketing. After the acquisition of two digital businesses, MAG-O is now entering its next exciting phase of growth as industry-leading platforms are deployed in airports internationally.
David Crawford has worked for the last 25 years in marketing and digital agencies of all shapes and sizes. He was most recently Managing Director of Branded3, one of the UK’s leading search agencies, and has also held senior positions at McCann, BJL and twentysix. He has worked directly with clients such as American Airlines, UPS and Bentley as well as help a couple of tech start-ups develop and deliver their digital & marketing strategies. He now works with creative, digital and tech agencies as a Non-Exec Director, Board Advisor and Coach.
A seasoned leader with a track record in driving integrated brand-lead campaigns across Communications, Sales and Marketing that raise awareness, change perception create employee engagement and drive sales.
As senior director for corporate, brand and employee communications across EMEA for ServiceNow, Sam’s remit spans external engagement across press, analysts, industry influencers and customers, Brand and employee social programmes as well as its employee and executive programmes.
Sam built an extended network of agencies and independent experts across many EMEA markets to tell ServiceNow’s purpose-driven and human-led stories to position ServiceNow as a industry leader and disruptor as well as Forbes Most Innovative Company, May 2018.
Sam joined ServiceNow in April 2016 following previous high-profile Communications Leadership roles at Oracle, Vodafone, Google and McAfee. Prior to his in-house career Sam held a number of senior management roles within leading Brand and Communication agencies
Dermot is a multi-disciplined marketing professional with 17+ years’ experience driving customer acquisition and consumer awareness for digital businesses. In his current role at Motors.co.uk he leads a very talented team of 11 people with responsibility for all aspects of trade and consumer marketing including SEO and PPC, web analytics, eCRM, brand/product positioning, media planning and creative campaign execution - all driven by customer insight.
Prior to Motors.co.uk, Dermot was in the digital strategy team at DMG Media, working with brands such as Jobsite, Primelocation.com, Evening Standard, Metro and Teletext Holidays amongst others.
Outside of work, Dermot spends most of his time trying to persuade his two sons that they should become Spurs fans like him.
Jehan has been at Google for 6 years and is an Agency Industry Head at Google. He is responsible for leading Google's relationship with key media agencies. He leads a team of specialists that cover all of Google's core disciplines across brand and performance marketing, also including platform strategy and business development.
He has spent 15 years in the advertising game working across a number of channels including: OOH, TV, Mobile, and Digital.
He lives in London with his lovely wife, two cute daughters, and hirsute dog.
Nick has worked in digital marketing since 1998. Moving to Russia in 2003 he specialised in multilingual search and broadening his knowledge across digital channels, content and PR. During this time he contributed to the Russian digital startup community; working with Yandex, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the US State Department. Returning to the UK in 2011, Nick then built and led marketing teams at Arena Media, Havas Media Group and the Dentsu Aegis Network. As the technical SEO lead at Vodafone Group since 2014, he has improved online performance and customer experience across 22 international markets. As an advocate for raising standards in online marketing, Nick judges the UK Search Awards and EU Search Awards. He enjoys speaking at conferences on the topics of mobile/data-first marketing, cross-channel campaigns and technical SEO. Outside work, he enjoys cycling and taking part in Prince’s Trust cycling events.
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