MEET THE JUDGES
Adrian Barnard, Chairman, TRA Judges
Adrian is an award-winning TMT & ICT entrepreneur with a respected track record, a well known industry contributor and face of the industry on TV News & radio for matters all TMT. Having built, exited...
Matt Atkinson, Founder & Consultant, Utelize
Matt’s a founder & consultant working with innovative service providers and technology firms to deliver software and managed services that support large businesses with the management of mobile devices and connectivity. He previously founded and...
Mark Curtis-Wood, Co-founder, Growth Mentors Limited
Mark has spent over 20 years in the Telecoms / Technology industry at senior management & board director level, generating over £100M in recurring revenue. As a keynote speaker & expert on technological change he...
James Goulding, Editor, Technology Reseller Magazine
James has been writing about IT and communications for more than 30 years, starting out as a reporter on Office Equipment News when fax machines were new and exciting and a photocopier was just a...
Deborah Hawkins, Director - Office Team, Keypoint Intelligence
Deborah Hawkins has a history of more than 30 years in the document industry,which saw the shift from analogue to digital, standalone to networked, the emergence of solutions,and most recently a push into IT services...
Paul Hepburn, Consultant, Channel focused professional services
Having worked for both corporate and IT Reseller businesses for 25 years Paul founded a channel focused professional services company in 2010. With an excellent understanding of technology Paul has lead the technical design and...
Gary May, Author and Coach, Channel Sales Academy
Gary May is a name that resonates with success in the channel, having spent over two decades honing his skills and expertise. He is the author of three influential books on sales psychology and persuasion...
Paul McGlone, Coach, ICT Sector
As a successful and experienced business leader Paul has created, managed and sold award-winning businesses and organisations in and out of the ICT sector. Calling on over 30 years of experience Paul now confidentially coaches...
Heather Pearse, Marketing Director, AppOmni
Heather is a seasoned strategic marketer with over a decade of dedicated experience in the realm of B2B technology and cybersecurity. With the past eight years devoted to the dynamic field of cybersecurity, she currently...
Nick Powell, Owner, Kiss Less Frogs Ltd
Highly experienced Telecoms industry leader having held senior positions in Cable & Wireless, TTB and most recently Sky where Nick set up the Sky Ethernet business. Now running his own consultancy, Kiss Less Frogs Ltd...
Phil Reynolds, Chairman and Director, Oak Innovation
Phillip Reynolds is Chairman and Director of Mobile Apps at Oak Innovation, the call recording company. He started his computing career in 1976 working on ICL, IBM and Honeywell mainframes. He progressed onto IBM PC’s...
Rob Sims, Founder, Sum Vivas
Rob’s 25 + year career in ICT spans Carrier, Channel and Direct across a variety of Industry verticals and technologies. Building on his industry knowledge and expertise, Rob has recently founded Sum Vivas an artificial...
Tara-Jane Sloane, Managing Director, Telev8
Tara-Jane Sloane is highly experienced in sales consultation and lead generation. Operating at C-suite and executive leadership levels for some of the world's largest brands she understands the true pain points of building new business...
Michael J Thornton, Award winner and founder, KSM Communications Limited
Having built KSM Telecom into a very successful business Michael has just sold the company and is focussing heavily on his charity, The Monica Appeal, and also on various other projects. Michael has been in...
Ian Trim, Sales Director, QD Tech Ltd
Sales Director at QD Tech Ltd with extensive proficiency in the IT sector with specific experience in the provision of integrated IT systems, cloud computing services, IT Resourcing and IT support. This involves developing and...
Chris Widocks, Founder, WWoW PR
Chris has been working in the comms and IT industry for over 20 years, initially in the distribution channel but now running his own international public relations agency. He is a former national news agency...