Judges

Who are the judges?

The Digital Impact Awards is judged by a broad range of in-house industry experts.

Each year we invite the previous year's winners of the 'Digital agency of the year' and the 'Grand prix' awards to join the panel and these judges fill two agency slots.

 


How does the judging system work?

Scoring is based on a points system and the judges submit these scores anonymously. The judges mark the entries against the criteria mentioned within the entry and information guide: objective, research and planning, creativity and innovation, strategy and implementation and results.

Our judging system is rigorous and fair. If a judge has entered a specific category they will be exempt from reviewing that category, to avoid a conflict of interest.

Winners are determined by the scores they receive and the entries that score high enough will be shortlisted, invited to attend the awards ceremony and awarded with a trophy. If requested, we also provide detailed feedback on agencies’ work after the awards evening, which proves useful for future entries.

 


Interested in joining the panel?

If you are interested in the opportunity to judge and believe you have the necessary background, please email Melanie at melanie.han@cravenhillpublishing.com with a short biography for consideration.

Caroline Abomeli

Caroline Abomeli

A2Dominion Group

Director of communications

Caroline Abomeli

A2Dominion Group

Caroline has over 18 years' experience in communications, public relations and digital. A trained journalist with a master’s in business management, she is responsible for the Group’s corporate communications, customer communications, digital, corporate strategy and planning functions. She is also a non-executive director of Hertfordshire-based housing association B3Living, a trustee of the Ethical Property Foundation, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Suhail Adam

Suhail Adam

Tata Consultancy Services

Head of social media, UK and Europe

Suhail Adam

Suhail Adam

Tata Consultancy Services

Suhail has over 14 years of experience in digital marketing having worked for the Government Digital Service (GDS), British Council, and Apple Retail. Based in London, he leads a team of 5 and is responsible for the development and implementation of TCS's UK and Europe social media strategies. Suhail focuses on driving strategic alignment with regional markets, growing communities, establishing new partnerships, and enhancing brand reputation.

Elizabeth Charlesworth

Elizabeth Charlesworth

The Old Vic

Head of communications

Elizabeth Charlesworth

The Old Vic

Elizabeth is a multi award-winning Head of Communication based in London who has worked across a range of creative industries including theatre, music and non-profit to grow brand awareness, drive sales and manage reputation. Through this, she’s developed and implemented innovative, industry-leading communications strategies and campaigns across social, press, marketing and content, and act as a trusted counsel through her leadership of ongoing horizon scanning and crisis communications. Elizabeth sits on the Board of Trustees for Book, Music & Lyrics, a musical theatre workshop organisation.

Evlambios Christophi

Evlambios Christophi

Department for Work and Pensions

Head of digital communications

Evlambios Christophi

Evlambios Christophi

Department for Work and Pensions

Evlambios has over 14 years’ experience in digital communications and currently heads up a diverse and talented in-house team split across social media, video production and graphic design that produces creative content for the largest government department in the UK, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). At the DWP he is responsible for bringing high profile policy areas to life and developing audience focussed strategies to over 20 million claimants and customers.

Prior to joining the DWP, Evlambios worked at Action Fraud within the City of London Police where he was responsible for positioning the brand as the leader for online fraud prevention and awareness advice. He started his career at the charity Crimestoppers where he managed their youth brand.

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Amaris Cole

The Church of England

Head of digital

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Amaris Cole

The Church of England

Amaris Cole is Head of Digital for the Church of England, developing the Church’s digital platforms and campaigns to meet the organisation’s needs and reach new audiences. She is passionate about purpose-driven digital innovation and leading ambitious teams. In the last year, the award-winning Digital Team has worked on virtual reality church services, on-demand daily reflection content, voice projects on Alexa and Google Home and trained 8,000 local churches to use digital to grow their communities. 

 

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Rachael Courtney

Virgin Media O2

Head of social and content

Rachael Courtney

Virgin Media O2

Rachael started out in PR & Events and now has over 17 years’ experience running social media for big brands. Previous roles have included heading up social at Cineworld and Three, where she was responsible for a number of award-winning social campaigns. Rachael now heads up Social & Content at Virgin Media O2 leading the team to deliver on Strategy & Creative that meets brand and business objectives.

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Jérôme Dévé

Pfizer

Director or external communications

Jérôme Dévé

Pfizer

Jérôme Dévé is the Head of xternal communications for Pfizer in France, a leading research-based biopharmaceutical company. He leads a team of professionals whose remit includes reputation, corporate communications, brand, PR, digital and social. Professional with 20 years’ experience in healthcare and life science, his experience spans markets worldwide with a rich blend of B-to-C and B-to-B experiences, marketing insights and global perspective. 

Luke Dodd

Luke Dodd

Anglo American

Group digital channels and integration manager

Luke Dodd

Anglo American

Luke has worked within digital corporate communication for 15 years, both in agency roles and in-house. For the majority of his career, Luke has worked at Anglo American, a FTSE 100 mining company, responsible for leading global internal and external digital communication strategy where he is in his current role as Digital Channels and Integration Manager. During his near 10 year career at Anglo American, he has been responsible for global website and social media presence, content creation [specialising in video], digital governance and policy frameworks and conducting global channel audits.

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Jan Fitzgerald

Transport for London (TfL)

Communications manager

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Jan Fitzgerald

Transport for London (TfL)

Jan is a highly skilled communications professional with agency and in-house experience spanning over 12 years across fast paced, diverse organisations. She has strategic and tactical expertise in developing the right channels mix and messaging for hard to reach frontline employees, remote workers and office based colleagues.

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Mark Frankel

International SOS

Former, Director content operations

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Mark Frankel

International SOS

Mark is director of content operations for the global medical and security risk experts, International SOS. He spent nearly two decades as a journalist and editor for BBC News and has delivered numerous talks and published several studies on the use and misuse of social media and eyewitness media.

Andy Gibbard SGS

Andy Gibbard

SGS

Global director of digital and brand

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Andy Gibbard

SGS

Andy is global director of digital and brand at SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, with over 96,000 employees across a network of more than 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world. Andy has been at SGS since 2013. Since initially specialising in web, he moved through several different management positions, and his current role covers the whole spectrum of digital marketing and brand communications. He previously spent time working in the creative agency sector in a career spanning more than 15 years.

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Andrea Gold

Rolls-Royce

Head of channels and measurement

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Andrea Gold

Rolls-Royce

Andrea is an experienced digital communications strategist with over 15 years’ experience of delivering digital solutions. She is currently responsible for the global digital marketing and communications strategy for the Rolls-Royce external channels where she focusses on supporting a large network of internal and external stakeholders across all areas of the business. Previously she has worked at the IOPC and the Met Police. She started her career at the BBC. Andrea has an MA in Digital Culture and lives in North London with her partner and son.

Adrian Harris

Adrian Harris

Visit Britain

Head of digital and content

Adrian Harris

Adrian Harris

Visit Britain

Adrian has worked in various digital roles for more than 15 years across the corporate and charity sectors. He is currently Head of digital and content at Visit Britain, the national tourism agency. In this role he is overseeing a £multi-million digital transformation programme.

Prior to this, he worked at the Church of England for five and a half years, setting up and running the digital team. He previously oversaw the work of global digital teams at Tesco and Bupa, leading various digital change programmes and building integrated teams.

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Eloise Hecimovic

CVC

Director of digital and content

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Eloise Hecimovic

CVC

Eloise is a digital communications specialist, with 20 years of experience. She has worked with both consumer digital but more recently has focused on corporate communications, including digital strategy, governance, ownership of online reputation and alignment of brand and marketing across digital channels. 

Sam Jarrett

Sam Jarrett

Landsec U+I

Head of marketing and communications

Sam Jarrett

Landsec U+I

A passionate and experienced communicator, Sam leads marketing and communications for Landsec U+I, the specialist mixed-use regeneration development company that was acquired by Landsec in December 2021. He is creating compelling campaigns for some of the most high-profile regeneration projects in the UK to bring joy and opportunity for the communities they serve. Recent successes include the launch of Mayfield Park in Manchester and the Liberty of Southwark in London, which was awarded a D&AD Pencil award for ‘writing for design and storytelling.'

Paul Mallaghan

Paul Mallaghan

We Are Tilt

Director of creative strategy

Paul Mallaghan

We Are Tilt

Paul heads up the creative strategy and content teams at We Are Tilt – a studio that creates big, emotional digital experiences that make a positive impact on the world.

As a director at Tilt, Paul helps drive the agency to create award-winning work for global clients, from Deloitte and Diageo, to the BBC and Vodafone. Tilt takes on projects that matter and move people: from helping reduce international drink driving rates, to explaining the science of love.

Hannah Moss

Hannah Moss

Willmott Dixon

Head of digital engagement

Hannah Moss

Willmott Dixon

Hannah has worked in senior communications and marketing roles in industry-leading organisations such as Willmott Dixon. Hannah uses her extensive experience to lead thinking and influence change through marketing strategy, digital marketing systems, social strategy, people engagement, business integration and change management.

In her current role, as Head of Digital Engagement Hannah is leading an pioneering digital engagement team driving transformative digital innovation and adoption; changing the way the business works to drive efficiency and support growth. Hannah’s work has underpinned numerous transformative changes such as adoption of cloud technology, enabling agile and flexible working, and embedding a culture of digital innovation.

Sarah Jean Ng

Sarah-Jean Ng

University of Cambridge

Social media producer

Sarah Jean Ng

Sarah-Jean Ng

University of Cambridge

Sarah-Jean, better known as SJ, is an award-winning promo producer turned social media campaign manager. A creative through and through, she cut her advertising teeth in Singapore on clients like GUESS?, American Express Bank and KFC. 

After being the 'before' model in an informational, she blagged her way into producing on-air promos for Disney Channel Asia where she won two international PROMAX awards. When London called, she answered: but first she had to do a little time on a UK shopping channel that shall not be named.

Hard work and wicked skills won her a spot on Virgin Media TV.  There she remained for seven years, writing, producing and directing a variety of TV promo things, including a really cool campaign with Rose McGowan. She then got herself a law degree, left TV behind and ended up wrangling information security consultants in the Fens for another 7 years.

Luckily, sense returned via a baby, and she leapt at the chance to get back into creative work, this time on social media at Cambridge Assessment. About a dozen Facebook lives and hundreds of social media posts later, she found herself being offered the chance to manage the channels of one of the top universities in the world. Naturally, she jumped.

Today, she runs social media campaigns and is the campus social media expert, advising on content strategy and creation. She still likes TV a lot, so video features heavily in her MO. She loves lattes and has a tendency to freckle.

 

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Dawn O'Connor

The Prince's Trust

Marketing and digital manager

Eva Petrova

Eva Petrova

London’s Air Ambulance

Content and digital marketing manager

Eva Petrova

Eva Petrova

London’s Air Ambulance

Eva has 13 years of experience in marketing & communications, both in-house and global agency side. Following her time at Edelman working with FMCG clients based in Europe and the US, Eva has dedicated 11 years to promoting and securing funding for London’s helicopter emergency medical service. She has a 360° understanding of integrated marketing thanks to career growth across digital, content, PR, media, celebrity and influencer relations. Eva has a Master’s in Media Studies and holds an academic award in the field. 

Jodie Promod

Jodie Promod

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Director of communications

Jodie Promod

Jodie Promod

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Jodie Promod is Director of Communications at Grant Thornton UK LLP. She more than 20 years’ Communications experience in the Financial Services and Automotive sectors in the UK and USA. She is passionate about employee engagement and the instrumental role of a well-crafted digital communication strategy. She believes that great content deserves great channels. By striking the right blend of push and pull communication approaches and personalising content delivery, organisations can ensure their messages engage and resonate with employees.

 

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Rav Punia

Inmarsat

VP – marketing communications and digital

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Rav Punia

Inmarsat

Rav Punia is VP, Marketing Communications & Digital for Inmarsat, the world leader in global mobile satellite communications. He leads a team of professionals whose remit includes corporate marketing, communications, brand, events, digital and social. Prior to joining Inmarsat Rav has held a number of senior positions, both agency and client side.

Nick Rose

Nick Rose

Linkslater

Head of brand, digital and marketing communications

Nick Rose

Nick Rose

Linkslater

Nick is an experienced brand, digital and communications professional. He is responsible for the external communications across all Linklaters’ websites and social media channels. He also owns the brand and drives implementation across the firm. Prior to joining Linklaters, the magic circle law firm, he spent 15 years at award winning creative and communications agencies. He supported financial institutions, natural resource and media organisations in the UK and international markets with their corporate communication and brand campaigns.

James Rowland

James Rowland

London Stock Exchange Group

Media and automation director

James Rowland

London Stock Exchange Group

James Rowland is the Director of media and automation for London Stock Exchange Group(LSEG), a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. He leads a team of experts whose roles include marketing automation, demand generation, SEO, Paid Search, media buying, programmatic and technology enablement. A former winner of the Chartered Institute of Marketings marketer of the year James has over 13 years’ digital marketing experience working with top brands in agencies and managing large international teams in-house.

 

 

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Paolo Valenziano

Bank of England

Head of digital and content delivery

Paolo Valenziano

Bank of England

Paolo Valenziano is the Head of Digital Communications & Content Delivery at the Bank of England, where he leads the strategic direction, user testing, and content production for digital publications, website and social media. Paolo's background includes experience in graphic design, web development, digital marketing, and branding. His career has bridged client-side and agency-side roles, and he has delivered successful campaigns and projects for diverse organisations, for both private and public sector. Beyond his career, he nurtures a keen interest in exploring the possibilities of generative AI. 

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Roeland van der Heiden

AstraZeneca

Content Strategist (Global commercial digital & innovation)

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Roeland van der Heiden

AstraZeneca

Roeland van der Heiden leads the Content Strategy team in the AstraZeneca Global Commercial Digital & Innovation department, based in Cambridge (UK). Roeland joined AstraZeneca in 2008 as Communications Director in The Netherlands and has held the roles of Communications Lead for the Western Europe Area, Brand Communications Lead for the Europe Region and Director of Digital Communications in the Global Corporate Affairs team before he joined the Global Commercial Digital & Innovation team in 2021. Before joining AstraZeneca, Roeland has held several senior Communications positions, e.g. at Baker&McKenzie and at AkzoNobel.

Alex Wodzicki

Alex Wodzicki

Segro

Group digital marketing manager

Alex Wodzicki

Alex Wodzicki

Segro

Since 2011, Alex has been responsible for the digital marketing channels used across SEGRO plc, the FTSE 100 listed Real Estate Investment Trust.


During his time at SEGRO, he worked on high profile multi-award winning projects including films such as ‘Contraption’, cutting edge AR and VR projects such as the ‘2020 SEGRO Centenary Digital Experience’, the SEGRO corporate website and has driven high profile pioneering digital projects across Europe.

Previously, Alex had spent over a decade in agency as digital director at 360 Interactive.

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Helen Wood

Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Head of content and publishing strategy

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Helen Wood

Hill+Knowlton Strategies

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