Judges 

 

The full line up of judges will be announced at the beginning of February but will include:

 

 

STEPHEN GRAY (Chair of Judges) 

Stephen studied business at the University of Plymouth, and then found his passion for digital content through studying Media Lab Arts at the Institute of Digital Arts and Technology. After University, he practised as a new media consultant before setting up his own digital agency ‘Stickee Ltd.’ in 2001. Since its beginnings Stickee has worked with some of the most cutting edge brands, where in most cases Stephen acted in a creative consultant role. These clients include: BBC, Channel 4, MTV Networks, BSkyB and EMI.  Stephen is a guest lecturer for several digital media University courses as well as an occasional speaker at industry events. 
                           
RAVI AMARATUNGA
Ravi Amaratunga works in Channel 4’s Creative Diversity department, a frontline team working with new and emergent companies – focussing on creative diversity of supply, both regionally and culturally. Ravi works closely with digital grassroots creative communities, often in advance of commissioning editors, to talent spot, to shape smart ideas and to develop them for the wider creative diversity of the company. He also works on a strand of digital projects that form part of Channel 4’s ‘Alpha Fund’ a new grassroots innovation and authorship fund which is intended to fund the very first stages of creative ideas.
 
MATTHEW ANNAL
Matthew Annal is the Managing Director and owner of Nitrome Ltd, an award winning games studio based in London, UK. Since begging in 2005 Nitrome have made over 100 games. As well as being available on most popular games sites Nitrome has built it's own site (www.nitrome.com) where the games receive millions of plays each week
 
DANIEL CAMPBELL
Daniel is Art Director at WGSN. Following a traditional graphic design course at the London College of Printing, I quickly fell down the digital rabbit hole. Since then, I’ve spent most of my career trying to bridge the gap between the entertainment qualities of traditional TV productions, the interactive engagement of video games and the communication and transactional capabilities of the web.
 
LINSAY DUNCAN
Linsay is co-founder of marketing consultancy Marke2ing, with over 13 years of international B2B marketing communications experience behind her. As Global Marketing & Communications Director for Mintel International, Linsay led the marketing strategy across the UK, Europe and US and was responsible for drivingtheir APAC entry strategy forward. During her time at Experian QAS she headed up the campaigns team with a focus on developing revenue-generating partner marketing programmes with software giants and systems integrators such as Microsoft, Oracle, Fujitsu and Northgate. Over the years Linsay has supported other well-established global organisations such as SunGard, and built a marketing function from the bottom-up at growing start-up Limehouse Software (now Objective Corporation). Helping busy marketing functions demonstrate ROI and growth through creative, innovative marketing is her main motivation and driver.
BILL LAWRENCE
Bill is Executive Director of Reel Solutions (Film) LLP, a partnership of film industry professionals with experience in cinemas, festivals and education. He works with Cambridge Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest and other film festivals across the UK. Formerly Creative Director at Showroom and Workstation in Sheffield, one of the UK's leading independent cinemas, he was previously the Head of Film at the National Media Museum in Bradford until April 2008, where over 16 years he developed the film delivery through two cinemas plus IMAX and the creation of the Bradford Film Festival,  Bradford Animation Festival and the Bite the Mango Film Festival (then the largest Black and Asian film festival in Europe). Bill was one of the key people delivering the successful bid for Bradford to be UNESCO's first global City of Film and has been on the board of the Yorkshire Screen Commission and Screen Yorkshire as well as being chair of Animated Limited, an animation production company.
 
MARK McKEEVER 
Mark, Director of web development agency bit10 ltd, has a strong background in design and communication enabling him to marry online marketing with digital brand development. He has been responsible for the strategic direction of several accounts, as well as the management and successful delivery of projects for clients like; Seven Trent Water, Oxford University, QA, Fisher Scientific, Lloyds Pharmacy, Jaguar, Serco and The Children’s University
 
ADAM POWERS
Emerging from a traditional graphic design education at Chelsea School of Art in 1992, Adam Powers started out his career designing and art directing magazines, books and a vast array of print for publishing and music industry clients. A brief spell at a tech agency immersed in Flash and HTML opened the door to the BBC, where Adam spent over a decade designing for and co-leading it's User experience and Design group.   Last year, Adam joined Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty (BBH) as it's first Head of User Experience (UX). Adam's primary brief at this world renowned communications agency, and Campaign magazine's Agency of the Year 2011, is to create a world-class user experience function that will enhance everything from strategy and innovation through to creative and production, ensuring that BBH is defining and delivering exceptional user experiences not only online but across every brand touchpoint
 
SHIRANI SABARATNAM
Shirani Sabaratnam is a Commissioning Editor on Factual and Factual Entertainment at UKTV. She is an experienced TV producer with senior management experience across a range of network and international broadcasters, having worked for BBC, Channel 4, PBS America and a range of major independent production companies. Shirani has over 10 years experience in film making from formatting programmes from idea to the screen, developing celebrity talent, managing budgets & teams to compliance. Current commissions include Series 2 of Choccywoccydoodah for Good Food, and First Homes, Get The Look and Design Rules With Attila for Home.
 
BEN TOMLINSON
Benjamin studied design at Newcastle School of Art but has always had a keen interest in technology. After working at MPL and Samson Tyrell, he worked for SAS design for nine years where he became their Interactive Creative Director. In 2005 he moved to ico Design where he worked with clients such as Shell, Wellcome Trust. Benjamin joined Poke as a Creative Director in April 2010 where his clients now include Orange, Man City Football Club and Tic Tac. He is also on the board of The International Society of Typographic Designers