BIMA 2009In association with Digital Arts

fig 6. Judges

The Bima awards are judged by a group of industry
professionals, from all aspects of digital media

• Paul Hammersley

  CEO – The Red Brick Road

  In 1993 he joined the nascent Lowe New York to run its global Coca Cola business. After four years he returned to London to be MD of Lowe Howard-Spink and became CEO of Lowe Lintas London in 1999. The agency won Campaign's and AdAge's European Agency of the Year in 2000. In 2001 Paul moved back to New York to be CEO of Lowe North America but in 2004 he returned to London as CEO of DDB London.

  Paul has worked with major global marketers including Coca Cola, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, PepsiCo and Nestle. He has also been associated with some outstanding creative work (including two Grand Prix's at Cannes).

  He was a founding Partner of The Red Brick Road in 2006 and is now also Chairman of Ruby, its digital and direct sister agency, started in 2008.

• John Chasey

  Founder - Finblade

  John is an entrepreneur in the mobile and games space having worked in the games industry since the eighties and founding and running the hugely successful mobile game studio IOMO which was acquired by NASDAQ listed InfoSpace in 2004 for $15m. John is currently CEO of mobile technology middleware company Metismo, creators of Bedrock, and Chairman of mobile game developer FinBlade in addition to a number of non-executive roles.

• Will King

  Founder - King of Shaves

  Will King is an entrepreneur who has become a successful businessman by creating a shaving product brand called ‘The King of Shaves.' The brand now competes against some of the world's biggest Shaving companies and brands. Following redundancy, and starting from his own kitchen, Will worked away until he had produced a bottled, labelled shaving oil which has since overtaken Wilkinson Sword and Nivea to become number two to Gillette in the shaving prep market in the UK. In 2008 Will launched the first British made, engineered and designed system razor in over 100 years. The 'Azor' is stocked in all major retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Boots and this year launches into several new markets across the world.

• Mat Morrison

  Global Digital Director - Porter Novelli

  Mat joined Porter Novelli in 2007 to work on our global business, coordinating digital strategy, training, and product development.

  He began his digital media career more than a decade ago at AKQA, one of the UK's most successful and longest running digital agencies. He set up the media-planning business, becoming one of the first people in the UK to plan and buy online advertising campaigns for clients Microsoft, Orange, BMW and BT.

  He joined BMP interAction, the digital wing of DDB London in early 1998. Here he planned campaigns and negotiated deals for a client list that included Anheuser Busch, PepsiCo, Compaq, Sony, Vodafone, Credit Suisse, Reuters, and Volkswagen.

  Joining the board in January 2000 as Head of Strategy, he became part of the management team that set up the global network of DDB's digital agencies: Tribal DDB Worldwide. He appeared in Campaign magazine's 30 under 30.

  He left Tribal in October 2001 to work first as a consultant, then going on to set up digital planning agency Ryan Morrison & MacMillan Ltd, working for clients that included the Discovery Channel, Sony, Buckingham Palace and Porter Novelli.

• Lynn Wright

  Founder, brightsavage

  Lynn is the founder of brightsavage, a professional copywriting and SEO agency. Specialising in writing fresh, engaging and on-brand content, brightsavage delivers bespoke copy services for interactive agencies and their clients.

  With over 20 years' experience as a publishing professional, Lynn has worked with most of the UK's leading publishers including Reed, Emap, IPC and magazines in the creative sector. Previously, she worked on Digit magazine from its launch in 1998, and in her role as editor transitioned the magazine and website through many redesigns before redeveloping the brand as Digital Arts.

  With a passion for interactive media, Lynn has been involved in numerous creative awards and events including the D&AD, BIMA, Onedotzero and Noise Festival.

• Michael Nutley

  Editor-in-chief - New Media Age

  Michael Nutley has been a business journalist for 24 years, covering a number of areas including software, telecommunications, construction and leisure. He took over as editor of New Media Age in July 2000, and was promoted to editor-in-chief in 2007. As editor-in-chief he maintains a strategic overview of the entire new media sector, from both a client and a service provider perspective. He's also particularly interested in the convergence of TV and the internet, and the transformative effect of interactive media on organisations.

• Charles Cecil

  Founder & Managing Director, Revolution Software

  Charles Cecil has been a key figure in the interactive entertainment industry for 25 years. In 1982 he started writing adventure games for the publisher Artic Computing. After working as development manager for US Gold and then Activision, he set up Revolution Software in 1990. Revolution quickly established itself as Europe's leading adventure game developer with a string of successful titles.

  Revolution's first titles, Lure of the Temptress (1992) and Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) went straight to number one in the GALLUP charts. The next titles, Broken Sword – shadow of the Templars (1996) and its sequel Broken Sword 2 – the smoking mirror (1997) both, in turn, received awards as the best adventure of the year as well as the best adventure to date. Sales of these titles have exceeded one million units each. Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon (2003) was nominated for 3 BAFTA awards. Broken Sword: The Angel of Death released in Europe in September 2006 and shot to number 1 in the UK PC charts.

  Charles has a particular interest in the narrative and aesthetic aspects of Interactive Entertainment and how this medium will develop with advancing technology. He co-founded and remains a Director of Games Republic, an alliance of game developers, and is a Board member of Screen Yorkshire, the regional agency that supports film, television and interactive entertainment in Yorkshire. Charles is on the advisory panels of the Edinburgh International Games Festival, Develop and the Board of The Independent Games Trade Association. Charles regularly talks at national and international conferences and to mainstream press about creative and commercial aspects of the video games industry. In 2006 Charles was awarded the status of ‘industry legend' by Develop, Europe's leading development magazine.

• Kate Keane

  Connections Director EMEA, Johnson & Johnson.

  As Connections Director, Kate drives communication planning across major J&J brands, focusing on innovative media solutions that work across multiple European markets. For her digital is increasingly at the core of building brands, but always rooted in deep consumer insight, creating better dialogue with consumers. Poacher turned gamekeeper – Kate amassed wide international experience with 12+ years at MindShare/Ogilvy in Hong Kong, Tokyo and latterly London, spanning multinational clients such as IBM, Cisco, Pfizer, Samsung and Unilever. Having started out with 5 years in radio sales, Kate then spent 2 years in media sales management in Istanbul; it has not been a traditional career path to J&J. Kate spends her weekends at the coast, sailing when possible, and is revelling in her recently passed driving test, by queuing on the M4 most weekdays.

• Gareth Jones

  Editor - Revolution

  Gareth Jones is one of the UK's foremost digital experts, having been a journalist covering the sector for the last decade. Gareth is currently Editor of Haymarket's Revolution magazine, a leading print and online business magazine title specialising in digital marketing. Prior to joining Revolution, Gareth worked at Marketing, where he was the title's first Digital Editor. Gareth has also held senior editorial positions at New Media Age and MediaTel. He began his career as a broadcast journalist making programmes for BBC Radio 4.

• Kelly Bennett

  Director, Digital Media & Interactive Marketing - Warner Bros. Pictures EMEA

  With responsibility for WB's digital marketing in Europe, Kelly is fortunate enough to work with exciting brands such as Harry Potter, The Dark Knight and the upcoming release of Sherlock Holmes.

  After more than 14 years in digital, Kelly has been around long enough to remember when 'cool' Flash landing pages were mandatory, but not long enough to understand why people think it is OK to use Twitter as a stream of consciousness.

• Seb Weller

  Head Of Digital Marketing, RCA Label Group

  After 8 years at Sony Music (BMG prior to the Sony BMG merger) Seb has worked in a number of new media roles. His most recent and current role as Head Of Digital Marketing, sees Seb shaping, designing and implementing digital marketing strategy for RCA's wide roster of artists including the likes of Pink, Leona Lewis, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Will Young, Justin Timberlake and The Script to name a few.

  In the past Seb has also helped setup the digital business including the mobile and fixed line activity. In his current role Seb and his team manage digital marketing activity for RCA artists managing a network of artist and other consumer facing websites, online partnerships, CRM, mobile initiatives, viral and community marketing plus extensive fan base activity.

  Seb has picked up 7 Digital Music Awards and was also featured as the youngest entry in Marketing Magazines Next Generation Power 100.

• Steve Taylor

  Director of Development & Innovation, Aegis Media UK & Ireland

  Steve Taylor has been a music writer, television presenter and producer, magazine editor, brand strategist, Inventor, Head of Ideas and has run a digital content business in North America. He is currently Director of Development + Innovation at Aegis Media UK & Ireland, where he drives innovation projects in three areas; business models and revenues; organisational structures and leadership; technology & processes. He is an experienced business mentor and is currently contributing to two creative industries mentoring schemes for NESTA, the UK government's innovations agency. He is also an author and recently contributed to After The Crunch, a series of pieces on how the creative industries can respond to the recession; his second book, The Case Against Ideas, which challenges the forty-year dominance of ‘The Big Idea' in advertising, is out this summer. He is a passionate supporter of both the digital and creative sectors and spends a growing proportion of his time, both inside and outside his ‘day job', implementing new ways to bring them together for the benefit of business, culture and society.

• Benjamin Tomlinson

  Creative Director, Ico Design

  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.

  During his time there, he was responsible for creative direction and information architecture for some of the most innovative work the company has produced. These include award-winning websites such as foxtons.co.uk, ‘Taxi Art' for Radio Taxis, ‘Making the Modern World' for the Science Museum and various branding work for BT, Sony Ericsson and Lovells.

  He now has over 15 years experience in design, and is currently Creative Director at Ico Design where he works with clients such as Shell, Penguin, Wellcome Trust, Wieden+Kennedy and the Science Museum. Ben's unique skills combine his traditional brand identity design background with his enthusiasm for new technologies and interface design.

  Benjamin is also on the board of The International Society of Typographic Designers

• Jody Smith

  Editor - E4.com, Channel 4

  Jody is Editor of E4.com, the home of some of the UK's most innovative and successful multi-platform projects, including Skins, Dead Set and Fonejacker. The job is actually a front for him to commission mad crap in the form of games, apps and animations, as well as top telly content. Providing the userbase keeps on growing, he hopes no one will cotton on.

  He previously worked for bbc.co.uk on websites such as BBC Three and BBC Two. In fact, he's worked for the unfashionable New Media arm of TV broadcasters for 10 years, so is chuffed that the advent of Cross Platform Commissioning has made telly websites hip again. In his spare time, Jody manages a 3,000-strong community of photographers who contribute to his Faces in Places blog. He's not afraid to use words like ‘hip'.

• Matt Hopgood

  Head of User Experience Design, BBC Future Media & Technologies

  Matt's design team tackles the BBC iPlayer, Search and www.bbc.co.uk homepage as well as the BBC Mobile and interactive TV Platforms.

  Matt has over a decade of design management experience in new media. Prior to joining the BBC, Matt worked for the Government in developing a range of tools for e-government, including helping Defra launch its Carbon Calculator and putting the Cabinet Office online.

  He previously held the Creative Director role at Sapient and was Head of Information Architecture at Zentropy Partners.

• Adam Powers

  Head of User Experience Design, BBC Audio & Music Interactive and Mobile

  A graduate of Chelsea School of Art and Design, Adam started his professional career in 1992; dividing his time between publishing clients IPC and Dorling Kindersley and music industry clients such as the infamous music promoters John Curd and Stuart Lyon. Throughout the 90s he created posters, commercials, album sleeves and brand identities for Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, The Fugees, Ramones, Tito Puente, Roy Ayers, Ziggy Marley, Courtney Pine, DeLaSoul, Ninja Tunes DJ Vadim and many more.

  In 1998 Adam sought opportunities that might expose him to the worldwide web, eventually taking a post at a small full-service agency focused on everything related to the internet. In 1999 he joined one of the BBC's emerging new media groups and has spent the last 10 years navigating through BBC divisions and posts within User Experience and Design.

  Adam's roles have included Head of Design for Factual and Learning, Head of UX Operations for Vision and he is currently Head of UX&D for Audio & Music Interactive and Mobile.

• Alastair Duncan

  Chairman, AlternativeGenius.net

  Alastair is one of the UK's most experienced digital business leaders. Having developed the first commercial interactive TV network with the BBC in the 1990s, he joined the board of advertising agency Ammirati Puris Lintas to head up new media. Outputs included the first URL on a packaged good in the UK for Peperami, the multi-award winning www.mini.co.uk, and NatWest's online banking service. He started up Zentropy Partners in 2000, twice Agency of the Year before he merged it with McCann Erickson in 2005 to form MRM Worldwide, ranked the UK's 5th biggest marketing-focused agency in 2008 by New Media Age. He has advised Intel, MasterCard, Microsoft, Unilever and Nestle at global board level on how to manage digital change. He is currently developing a new wiki-creativity ideas network. Alastair is a Fellow of the RSA, Member of British Design and Art Direction and one of the original members of the Digital Marketing Group at the IPA. He was elected to the BIMA executive in 2009. He tweets at @AlastairDuncan and blogs at www.participationmarketing.co.uk.

• Mike Saunders

  Director of Digital Media, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  Mike Saunders is Director of Digital Media at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His work involves devising strategies to present the many facets of Kew's work to the public. His responsibilities include the www.kew.org web presence.

  Mike has extensive experience producing digital media in both the private and public sectors. He has recently been involved in the public consultation work for the Digital Britain Report, focusing on socially valuable content.

  He is a regular visiting lecturer at Middlesex University's Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, where he gained an MA in interactive design in 1995.

• Robert Campbell

  Partner, Campbell Lace Beta

  Robert started his career in advertising as a copywriter in 1984. He has worked at many of the best agencies in London, including WCRS and AMV BBDO, on a wide spread of domestic and global clients.

  He's won most major advertising awards, been chairman of British Television Awards, British Radio Awards, Campaign Press Awards and Campaign Poster Awards. He has served on most of the major global and domestic awards juries.

  He's a member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) Executive Council, the D&AD Executive Committee, and former Chairman of the IPA Creativity Committee.

  He has started two major London advertising agencies - the Banks Partnership (now DraftFCB) and Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe, not RKCR/Y&R. His third, Campbell Lace Beta, launched earlier this year. You can follow his adventures on Campaign's start up blog.

• Jamie Galloway

  Partner, BluePost Digital

  Jamie has worked in the digital media sector for over a decade as a client, consultant and on the agency side - a sector he will shortly be returning to as he is currently working on a new start up which is due to launch later in 2009. Prior to his new venture Jamie worked as consultant at Circus Street providing clients with knowledge of and insight into the digital market.

  Previously, Jamie was Director of Digital Media at the Central Office of Information, the government's marketing communications specialist. His role included responsibility for COI's entire Digital strategy and output across all media channels, managing a team of over 30 specialist digital staff and a budget of £35m.

  Jamie started his career on the agency side in media, working at both Mediacom and Mediastar handling media planning and strategy on major blue-chip clients.

  Jamie is also a frequent speaker at marketing and digital industry events and conferences. Outside of starting up a new business, Jamie is kept more than fully occupied by his young family.

• Andy Budd

  Managing Director, Clearleft Ltd

  Andy Budd is one of the founding partners at User Experience Design Consultancy, Clearleft. As an interaction design and usability specialist, Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like Web Directions, An Event Apart and SXSW. Andy curates dConstruct, one of the most popular design conferences in the UK. He's also responsible for UX London, The UK's first dedicated Usability, Information Architecture and User Experience Design event.

  Andy has helped judge several international design awards and currently sits on the advisory board for .Net magazine. Andy is the driving force behind Silverbackapp, a low cost usability testing tool for the Mac. Andy also wrote the best selling book, CSS Mastery and occasionally blogs at andybudd.com

  Never happier than when he's diving some remote tropical atoll, Andy is a qualified PADI dive instructor and retired shark wrangler.

• Rob Corradi

  MD, NeonState

  Rob's career in interactive began in game design for home computers during the 80's. Later at University he won a year's placement at IBM's Research labs which was the foundation of a career in digital that lead to key roles at top UK agencies of the nineties. A desire to keep creative standards high during the dot-com mania saw him going independent to find a new way of doing things - the result was digital agency Preloaded, founded in 2000. During his nine years at the agency it built a global reputation for its games and branded entertainment, winning many high-profile awards. More recently Rob moved on to form consultancy NeonState, offering creative strategy, interactive direction and design for entertainment and lifestyle markets.

• Alex Smith

  Digital Agency Development Manager, Microsoft

  Starting off at the bottom in the dotcom boom armed only with a Masters Degree and a smile Alex became the first User Experience Architect for MarchFIRST. Since then many years and agencies have passed by and Alex emerged as a group account director wondering what it would be like to work on the client-side. This sparked a move to Microsoft to manage and develop online tools and campaigns for customer engagement and retention.

  Recently Alex changed focus and now manages the channel of digital agency partners for Microsoft and spends his time forming alliances with digital agencies and helping them develop innovative and ground breaking online solutions.

• Sam Michel

  Founder, Chinwag

  Sam was one of the UK's first full-time webmasters for Time Out magazine, executive producer of the award-nominated movie website, Popcorn.co.uk, for Carlton plc and has consulted on email and digital marketing projects for clients including MSN, BBC and World Wildlife Fund. Sam founded Chinwag in 1996, as a hub for those working in the digital industry, since then it has become one of the leading community organisations helping digital professionals develop their skills, expertise and businesses. Sam's work with Chinwag also includes the development of the Digital Missions with UK Trade & Investment, a series of overseas events specifically designed for digital companies looking to expand into the US market. He speaks and writes regularly about the digital economy, communities that evolve around social media and digital marketing.

• Neil Bennett

  Editor, Digital Arts

  Neil Bennett is editor of Digital Arts, the UK's leading magazine for creative professionals across graphic and interactive design, illustration, animation, motion graphics and visual effects. He's been covering the digital/interactive industry since its inception but is still constantly surprised by the outstanding and original work he encounters - and by how much his hairline has receded in that time.