The UK / Northern Dev Awards have been judged by digital marketing industry leaders and experts.
Current Judges
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Judges
Chris Allwood | Head of Digital Product Design | Bloom and Wild
I'm Head of Digital Product Design at Bloom and Wild. Over the last 8 years, I have worked with the likes of Treatwell, Lyst, BBC, Boots, Sunspel, Clarks Shoes, John Smedley, and Speedo. I'm happiest where Product, Brand and eCommerce intersect — thinking about how a brands promise is expressed across digital products and touchpoints.
Alan Baker | Head of Digital and Ecommerce at Pure Collection | Pure Collection
Nathan Blackburn | Managing Director | Autonomous Digital
I would describe myself as digital problem solver, looking for creative and innovative solutions to real-world problems using the latest advances in technology. I’m what you might call a “gadget geek” – always finding new tech to mess around with. I’m really passionate about my work; helping businesses make more sales and become more profitable by streamlining internal processes. I’m proud of my standing and reputation in the worlds of marketing and business automation and I’ve achieved it by working successfully with clients from SMEs through to large corporate and public sector – the strategy and process is the same for all sizes of business, it is just the scale that changes.
Rafeal Brandao | Experience Design Manager | Telecine
Experience Designer passionate about Arts and Technology. For more than 15 years I've been working in several Advertising Agencies and Design Offices as an Interactive Art Director and UI/UX Strategist. Today, I'm the Experience Design and User Research Manager at Telecine. In 2012 I also concluded my Master's degree in Design at ESDI/UERJ (Brazil) and IADE Creative University (Portugal). Alongside my current role at Telecine I'm an UX Design professor at Miami Ad School Brasil, the best creative school worldwide (Cannes 2019) and a Mentor at Designed.org and AbeLLha.
Rob Callaghan | Head of SEO & Web Development | PPC Evolved
Rob Callaghan is the Head of Web Development & SEO at Dark Horse, a Manchester-based digital marketing agency. With over 10 years of experience in web development and SEO, he has worked with hundreds of notable brands, including We Buy Any Car, RBS and Emirates Old Trafford. Rob’s lifelong passion is everything digital, with a focus on discoverability, and his mantra is ‘there’s no point building a great website if no one sees it’.Jon Cleaver | CTO | In The Style
Jon is the Chief Technology Officer for the high growth, social first, fast fashion brand www.inthestyle.com. Prior to that he spent 3 years leading the omni-channel transformation for Sofology as Chief Technology Officer. Jon believes in putting the customer first and building simple engaging digital journeys around their needs.Ross Featherstone | Head of Development | Zeal
Wayne Field | Head of Customer Data and Measurement Science | ASDA
Wayne joined ASDA as head of Customer Data and Measurement Science in 2019. A mathematician at heart, with a degree in Mathematics from Sheffield University, Wayne is never happier than when grappling with data, numbers and solving logical problems. Wayne has extensive experience in leading data science and analytical teams from a number of different industries, in a number of different countries - from Aviva and Sky Bet in the UK, through to William Hill in Gibraltar, Tel Aviv and Krakow. Wayne is now leading ASDA’s charge to transform their digital marketing capabilities, with teams focussing on Customer Analytics, Audience Targeting and Marketing Effectiveness tasked with delivering more relevant, targeted marketing to ASDA’s customers – whilst always measuring and optimising ROI. Outside of work, Wayne enjoys family life in the North Yorkshire countryside with his wife and two children.
Emma Forward | Independent eCommerce Consultant | @emmaaforward
Emma is a platform-agnostic, independent eCommerce consultant with over 10 years' experience in eCommerce. She's project managed a number of migrations and re-builds across a variety of different platforms and verticals, including fashion, luxury, lifestyle, media and heritage sectors, for clients such as Apricot Clothing, House of Hackney, Westminster Abbey and The Beano. She works to increase profitability online through eCommerce strategy, conversion rate optimisation and site auditing.Jamie Hinton | CEO | Razor
Jamie is CEO and Co-Founder of Razor. He is first and foremost a ‘techy’, but one who can translate the complex world of software development into language that everyone else can understand. Jamie has a long history in software engineering and a proven track record in translating business opportunities into living, breathing software that delivers real value. He has architected solutions for blue chip companies and large financial institutions including, Alfa Romeo, Co-Operative Bank, HCCi and Dyson. Jamie now applies his development thinking and extensive passion for technology to fuel the growth of Razor.Mark Kuhillow | Founder | Fusion Unlimited | @
Mark is deeply passionate about client service, digital analytics and media optimisation. He founded R.O.EYE in 2004, now seen as the largest specialist in its sector, R.O.EYE counts the likes of HMV, Best Western and Jessops amongst its clients. Whether buying performance media or supplying clients with key business insights, they are obsessed with one thing; ROI. With a background in traditional direct-response media, Mark has been involved with digital platforms since 1999.
Louisa Laughton | Product Designer | Treatwell
Louisa Laughton-Scott is an interaction design specialist, focusing on helping companies effectively and efficiently design for their users. She is currently working as a Product Designer for Treatwell, Europe's largest hair and beauty marketplace. While working, she is also studying for her master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction Design. In her spare time she is Global Events Manager for UX For Change, a global initiative dedicated to bringing the UX design community together in order to tackle problems from any non-industry related fields, such as education, charities and the public sector. Follow her on Medium @LLaughtonScott , Instagram @louisatechdesign and Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/llscott/ .Jack Mason | Group CEO | Inc & Co
Jack is the Founder and Group CEO of Inc & Co, built to help its collective of agencies achieve their vision and aim for more: more clients, more revenue, more game-changing work. And he's always looking for more companies to join him on the journey. Jack empowers agencies and the people in them to realise their full potential. It's all about strategy, structure and - most importantly - support. He loves being able to bring out the best in people and use his experience to help agencies nail their internal processes and operations. Inc & Co agencies currently include: Fast Web Media and Cuhu.
Neil McKay | CEO | Endless Gain
For more than 15 years, Neil has been helping businesses here in the UK, Europe and USA grow their online profits. He started his career at publisher Media Ventures Group (MVG), helping to build and sell Global Media GmbH to private equity firm The Carlyle Group before leading the UK acquisition of Bigmouthmedia (now part of DigitasLBi). He later led Lakestar Media to success before it was acquired by McCann Worldgroup in 2012. Neil's latest venture is Endless Gain – a Conversion Optimisation Agency which launched in January 2016.
Bhavesh Patel | Head of Web Development | Degree 53
Bav is the Head of Web Development at Degree 53 with over 10 years of commercial development experience across multiple platforms, and using a variety of programming languages. He has previously worked in the healthcare and advertising industry for Saatchi & Saatchi Health, Razorfish Healthware, as well as online financial institution, Think Money. At Degree 53, Bav has built websites for a number of key clients including Penn Interactive Ventures, never.no and Sofology. Bav is hugely interested in using the latest tech offerings from the cloud giants to deliver the most performant and scalable, products and services.
Joel Peters | Head of UX & Content | Travelodge Hotels
With 20 years in digital media and skills in user-centred research, user experience strategies, app design, interface development and functional service design layouts. Joel leads creative teams in managing scoping and collaborative workshops, developing scenario-based sketches towards final design solutions and costing through to delivery. All aligned to the needs of the user, marrying their expectations with business goals following a Lean or Agile approach.Adam Ramsden | Digital Strategy Consultant
With well over a decade's experience in the fields of design and development and marketing and digital strategy, Adam Ramsden understands what it takes for brands and companies of all sizes and in all sectors to succeed online and improve business automation. With a work history that includes leadership positions at some of the North West's leading specialist digital agencies, and a client portfolio including brands such as Sports Direct, instaSmile, ForeverUnique and Godel Technologies, Adam is perfectly placed to advise forward-thinking companies on how to scale up and grow their digital presence. Adam's most recent project is working as the technical director for a multinational eCommerce platform, where he co-ordinates teams working around the globe.
Liz Scott | Head of Entrepreneur Engagement | Tech Nation
Liz is Head of Entrepreneur Engagement at Tech Nation. After having spent more time than she cares to admit in suits and corporate boardrooms, she is enjoying looking after the UK’s tech founders on a full time basis. She leads a national team across 11 different regions of the UK who are focused on finding and supporting tech founders to rapidly grow and scale their businesses. Liz was previously Head of Digital & Innovation for EY across the north of England, where she spent 3 years working on disrupting the global professional services firm from the inside, and supporting corporate clients to do the same. She is a self-confessed tech fanatic with a particular soft-spot for retail, e-comm & a relentless customer focus.Daniel Tiffany | Creative & Web Manager | Fgh
