Our 2026 Judges

Selecting the right mix of judges is important to us, ensuring the judging panel represents a range of knowledge, expertise and skills.

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Michael Storey

Mentor/Leadership Coach
Ex-Head of Creative and Branding at Ocado, Michael built a creative digital studio capable of extraordinary things and acted as “the heart of the brand” for one of the UK’s best-loved brands. Michael has the ability to interpret an in-house challenge and draw on his own experience of supporting teams to scale, grow, and evolve to meet the changing needs of the business, tackling the unknown even when chaos swirls and deadlines loom. Michael really knows what it takes to make creative teams tick and hum; now he uses his knowledge to help other creative leaders grow, evolve, and scale their teams.
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Robbie Black

Head of Brand, Communications & Omnichannel Marketing, M&S Food
Robbie is Head of Brand, Communications & Omnichannel Marketing, M&S Food where he's responsible for creating and bringing together all of M&S Food's advertising, media, sponsorship, CRM, app/web experiences and loyalty propositions into one seamless customer journey. 
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Niki Garner

Director of ITV Creative
Niki Garner is Director of ITV Creative, where she leads the creative vision for one of the UK’s most iconic broadcasters, and is responsible for all creative output from concept to execution across all ITV’s media channels. With over two decades of experience in advertising and creative leadership, Niki is known for her ability to deliver standout campaigns and inspire high-performing teams.
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Sian Finnis

Senior Director, Marketing Studio, King
Sian Finnis is the Senior Director, of the Marketing Studio at King, the gaming company who brought us Candy Crush. A dynamic and visionary leader with extensive experience in brand strategy, design, and creative operations, Sian has a rich background in leading high-performing teams and a passion for fostering creative growth.
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James Mathers

Head of Operations, VodafoneThree UK
James Mathers is the Head of Operations at VodafoneThree’s in-house creative agency, Generation.
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Clare Ralston

Senior creative operations leader
Clare Ralston is a senior creative operations leader with more than two decades of experience supporting creative and marketing teams through periods of growth and change.
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Alex Hazell

Creative Director, Entain
Alex has spent the last four years helping build a creative engine at the heart of Entain, a FTSE100 sports entertainment company. Before that he led award-winning work for the likes of Pringles, Hendrick’s Gin, P&G, adidas and The Government’s Covid Response. He passionately believes that commerciality powers the best creativity, and that anything is possible if you form a culture people want to be part of.
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Lisa Campana

Head of Design, Vira Health
Lisa is a creative leader with 30+ years of international experience leading both agency and in-house teams. She is a regular industry speaker and judge, has been named one of the top 30 Future Female Creative Leaders by Campaign Magazine and Creative Equals, as well as one of the 200 Women Redefining the Creative Industry and one of the 100 trailblazers redefining the creative industry by The Dots.
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Ilonka Ligteringen

Head of Brand & Creative, The Woodland Trust
Ilonka Ligteringen is a senior brand and creative leader with 15+ years’ experience delivering bold, insight-led brand strategy and campaigns. Now Head of Brand & Creative at the Woodland Trust, she previously led Scope’s co-produced rebrand, transforming the charity’s identity to be more contemporary and inclusive. Known for shaping impactful ATL campaigns and accessible, audience-focused creative, Ilonka specialises in building brands that cut through and inspire social change.
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Gareth Chilton

Founder, ManMachine
Gareth Chilton is the founder of ManMachine, an embedded transformation partner focused on fixing how content and creative actually get produced at scale. He works with marketing and creative leaders to redesign fragmented ecosystems by orchestrating people, process, platforms, and partners – moving beyond tools-only thinking to operating models that work in the real world. Gareth specialises in creative and content operations, MarTech optimisation, and the practical application of AI and automation to deliver measurable gains in speed, quality, and efficiency.
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Janet Markwick

Founder – Markwick Consulting
Janet is a transformation specialist who operates at the high-impact intersection of creativity and commerce. Her entire 30+year career has been defined by maximizing the value of creative output. She spent over two decades within global brands like Coca-Cola and Sony, where she transformed multi-million-dollar marketing investments from "wooden dollars" into high-performing "working dollars" directly fuelling more impactful creative work such as the SONY “Balls” campaign.
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Rhona Glazebrook

Founder, Rhona Glazebrook Ltd and co-founder, J&R Collective
Rhona is a firm believer in the power of creativity to transform brands and has led campaigns that have scooped at Cannes, D&AD, IPA, Euro Effie’s and APG. Rhona believes passionately in the value that creative businesses deliver. She is determined to help in-house creative teams improve how they identify their own unique value and use this knowledge to increase their influence and drive business growth.
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Our Judging Process

“A masterclass”

“An impressive integrated in-house creative team.”

“A powerful demonstration of what can be achieved.”

“An impressive integrated in-house creative team.”

“ A hugely creative and imaginative approach to the project.”

“Easily one of the top campaigns I’ve seen this year.”

“The very best example of an in-house creative team.”

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