Previous Judges

Having worked in a range of sectors from luxury fine jewellery and women's wear to health tech and beauty. Alice is a skilled head of brand and marketing with a high level of experience in strategy, growth scaling, content, and branding for global brands. BIMA100 Award Winner, Mentor & Programmatic Council member, WomeInTech Writer, DigitalHer Speaker, and Role model.

Claire Hoang is currently Vice President of ITV Studios Social Media and has over 17 years of experience working in the world of social media.  She's worked for a range of different companies including the BBC and Fremantle.  As well as her day to day job, she also loves supporting new talent into the industry by mentoring with Creative Access. She was also one of the first Breakthrough Leaders in TV when the scheme was announced in 2021. 

Daisy Morris is the Author of Community Is Your Currency, and Founder of social media consultancy and online community, The Selfhood. Clients and collaborators of Daisy range from tech companies such as Microsoft and Adobe, to mental health organisations such as Mind and The Selfspace. Daisy is on a mission to make URL feel as human as IRL and has a community first approach to her work. Daisy also a TEDx speaker and international workshop host and public speaker, specialising in all things community building and creativity.

Abdelaziz has been into the eCommerce space for 15 years now. He was working at Amazon as regional head of digital Marketing. Before Amazon he was heading central performance marketing team at Souq (acquired by Amazon). He was responsible for planning and budgeting marketing spend for MENA regions in Souq.com. Marketing, Ecommerce and Customer Experience professional with a proven track record of successfully improving digital performance for major brands within a variety of sectors in MENA region, including Dubizzle (OLX group), Souq (Amazon Middle East), Najm, H&M, Mother care, Victoria Secrets, Bath and Body Works and Emaar. Extensive experience of managing ecommerce websites (inc. +$1B turnover), leading large digital teams and driving cost effective marketing programmes.  

With almost 10 years of social media and audience growth experience, Jessica Huff Walters is the Head of Organic Social Media for Vrbo, part of Expedia Group, where she currently translates large-scale brand campaigns into engaging social media content across six markets. Prior to leading the team, she worked as an editorial manager to centralize the Vrbo’s social media content strategy and production across 12 markets. After lowering the cost of content production by an average of 61%, while increasing social media engagement by 55%, she went on to become the head of the team after one year. Prior to her four years at EG, she served as the Director of Audience Growth at McClatchy, overseeing a team that utilized social media, SEO, and email strategies to increase readership across 30 newsrooms.

Lada has worked in digital marketing since 2003. She specializes in all aspects of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), with a focus on technical SEO, multilingual search and mobile optimization. Her clients have included Starco, Action-MCFR, and Artec 3D. Lada worked as a Global Head of SEO in Acronis, then she was a Head of SEO at SEMRush. Lada now works as the Head of SEO/ASO in CopyBet EU Ltd, the first social betting platform founded in 2015. CopyBet is a fast-growing tech company, focused on providing the best experience for their customers while following the principles of Transparency and Fair Trade. Lada enjoys lifetime studying; most recently on topics around data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Her favorite tools are Excel, GWT, GA, Yandex Metrica and brains. Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, yoga, and Japanese Art. Definitely a cat person.

Laura leads the research and content team for GovNet's portfolio of education forums, conferences and exhibitions. With over 10 years’ experience in delivering engaging and informative content across sectors ranging from international development, to financial services, to tech startups, her key strengths lie in delivering an innovative, year-round content strategy that attracts and retains visitors, meets community needs, and aligns with the commercial objectives of the portfolio.

Natalie is currently heading up Social Media and PR at Domino's Pizza UK. She has 10 years of experience of working within social media, content and PR roles at Marks & Spencers, Currys and Tesco.

Peter’s been in marketing for over 20 years. Starting in telecommunications he became experienced across many disciplines, including Direct Marketing, CRM, campaign management, events, media partnerships, above-the-line advertising, and lastly setting up and executing an always-on content marketing programme. In 2020, he moved into Financial Services at Direct Line Group, building up his experience in proposition development, marketing strategy, SEO, PPC and advertising. Most recently, Peter set the content marketing strategy and leads the content team in execution.

Ric Rodriguez is an accomplished marketing and growth leader. Ric is Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Finsu, the sustainable fashion marketplace, taking the compromise out of conscious shopping. Ric is driven and his career to date speaks to his ambition - most recently holding a senior strategy role at Vashi, the fine jewellery disruptor - where he built the digital marketing team from the ground-up, launched the Covent Garden flagship store and Innovation Centre and established an accredited approach to ESG. Prior to this, Ric held an evangelist role at the marketing technology company, Yext, where he supported sales and product teams in building new propositions for customers, including delivering an new approach for qualifying deals during the beginning of the Covid-19, which was adopted across EMEA - as well as regularly representing the NYSE-listed firm as an industry expert at events across Europe. Ric has also held significant roles in agency-side positions, at iProspect, where he lead accounts for leading brands such as Santander and Post Office; at Croud, where he was seconded into IWG’s marketing organisation to deliver the company’s digital growth across 110+ markets - work for which he won an industry award. Ric is often invited to speak at industry conferences and is a regular award judge. He has twice been a co-author for the Amazon-Bestselling “Mastering In-House SEO”.

Roshan is a software engineering manager managing two engineering teams owning the developer experience and platform at Asana. He previously managed the data platforms team at Autodesk for 8 years, where he worked with data engineering teams to create data pipelines to provide insights for Sales, Marketing, CRM, data scientists and research teams so as to best drive customer adoption, sales, and revenue. Prior to that, he worked for a startup in Singapore playing a dual role of pre-sales and engineering to work directly with small to medium enterprises for adoption. He is a recent father and is looking forward to raising a wonderful daughter.

Sabiha is a Marketing Consultant with 20 years of experience across the globe. Based out of Dubai, she has an international marketing background having developed B2B and B2C marketing strategies across geographies and sectors. She has provided business and marketing strategy advice to all kinds of businesses- from Startups to Multi-National Corporations. Sabiha is a member of the Women in Tech SEO community in which she is a community speaker and mentor. Sabiha also has spoken at various international events and has judged industry awards like the Global Marketing Awards, APAC Search Awards, Global Search Awards and many more. Aside from marketing, Sabiha loves to travel and has been to over 40 countries. She's also a certified Hatha Yoga and Prenatal Yoga Teacher.