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Meet the Judges
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Chris Pateman
Chris Pateman is a trade associations professional and business consultant. His 40 years serving the business-to-business community included editing trade magazines, managing industry buying groups, ...
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Dave Davis MBE BSc(Hons) CEng FIET FITP
Dave Davis is a Chartered Engineer with a seasoned background in Satellite Communications (Satcom). He served in the British Army 1988 to 2003, where he was awarded the MBE in 2002 for meritorious mil ...
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Heidi Godfrey-Jones
Heidi Godfrey-Jones is the Head of Partner Services at Virgin Media O2. She is a versatile, motivated, and energetic business leader with 25 years in telecommunications. Heidi has extensive experience ...
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Kieran Smithers
Kieran Smithers is a Ground Support Engineer at OneWeb, with extensive experience in FDIR for monitoring and recovery of their ground network. While monitoring live systems, Kieran trailblazes the nee ...
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Chris Starling
Chris Starling started his career in telecoms as a residential installer back in 1999 and held various roles over the past 23 years. His passion for the development of others led him to be part of the ...
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Joanna Parker
Joanna Parker began her career in telecoms in 2004 and joined Ricoh UK in 2010 as an Account Manager aligned to a telecoms customer. Now through the building of technical sales and delivery teams Joan ...
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Dr Mike Short CBE
Dr Mike Short CBE, after 30 years in telecommunications with Telefonica, joined the Government as DITs first Chief Scientific Adviser in December 2017.
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Paul O'Brien
Paul O’Brien is Director of the AI, Cybersecurity and Operations Research at BT Labs which includes teams in the UK, US, China, UAE and India. Paul has a passion for technology research and innovation ...
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Jim Pritchard
Jim Pritchard served for 23 years in Her Majesty’s British Army before joining Openreach Ltd. is current the Openreach Regional Manager for the Lancashire and Liverpool regions.
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Jen O'Brien
Jen has been lucky enough to work in the Telecom Industry for 24 years in a number of different roles, of which the most recent and rewarding role, was leading on the largest private sector Apprentice ...
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Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman is the Managing Director of GK Apprenticeships and has been in the world of learning and development for nearly 25 years. Paul has developed from a Sales background working for Parity Tr ...
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John Street
I began my career with British Telecommunications as an apprentice in 1981, taking a career path through network construction as an engineer, infrastructure planning as a Technical Officer, into opera ...
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Olivia Gadd
Olivia Gadd is the Managing Director and lead consultant at Artful Associates, a global practice that offers business and executive coaching to a wide range of businesses globally. Olivia established ...