Judges

The selection process for the awards involves an impartial panel of industry experts who generously volunteer their time to evaluate submissions. These individuals are chosen for their expertise and experience.

Judges review entries, ensuring a fair and unbiased evaluation. In cases where judges have conflicts of interest within specific categories, they abstain from participating in the assessment of those particular entries.

Upon the submission deadline, judges receive all entries in a uniform format, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations. Each entry is then scored by the judges based on the defined criteria for each category.

Judges meet to discuss their assessments and a first shortlist is drawn up. Those entries that make the initial shortlist will be interviewed by 2 judges from the Panel, this interview will take place either at the business address or online. Interviews will take place on two days to be confirmed.

Any business shortlisted for a Judges Interview must be available on the interview dates.

After the shortlist interviews, the Judging Panel will reconvene in October to decide which businesses make the final shortlist and are invited to the Awards Ceremony and Dinner in November.

It is crucial to note that the entire judging process is conducted confidentially, and all decisions reached during this process are considered final.

Steve Brown

Head of Team - East Anglia Corporate Banking – Barclays

Antony Gough

HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY & NATIONAL LEAD (IIE) - PECT

Antony is the Head of Sustainability for PECT and is the National Lead & Principal Sustainability Consultant for their Investors in the Environment (iiE) Accreditation Scheme. Antony is a Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment, a Chartered Environmentalist and has an MBA in Environmental Management.

Colleen Gostick MBA

Chairman - Buckles Solicitors

Chairman of leading regional law firm, Buckles Solicitors LLP, and Consultant to Franco-Italian law firm Castaldi Partners.

Andrew Heeler

Partner - Hegarty

Partner and Head of the Corporate Department at Hegarty

Andrew is Chairman of the Peterborough Telegraph Business Awards Judging Panel

Charlotte Horobin

Chief Executive - Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce

Charlotte became Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce in July 2023

Pep Cipriano

Chief Operating Officer - Peterborough Positive

Pep Cipriano is Chief Operating Officer for Peterborough’s Business Improvement District Peterborough Positive – Established in 2020, PeterboroughBID is an organisation set up to improve Peterborough city centre for everyone. A well-known representative of the city, Pep is an award-winning communications professional with more than 25 years’ experience and track record of overseeing marketing campaigns, event management and external communications services at a senior and strategic level. Pep has worked in both B2B and B2C, private and public sector backdrops and in sectors including local government, leisure, hospitality, finance, education, heritage, catering, tourism and placemaking.
His career began with promoting the UK’s first pizza delivery business – Papa Luigi, before joining Peterborough United as Assistant Press Officer and working his way up to Head of Communications and then PR and Project Manager for Fens Tourism. His next challenge was to head up marketing for a sub-prime mortgage packager and network. His marketing experience then took him to Peterborough City Council where he filled several communications roles and eventually became the local authority’s Marketing Manager. He started the decade at City College Peterborough as Communications and Marketing Manager, before embarking on his current role at Peterborough Positive in June 2022.
Pep’s solid knowledge of Peterborough, combined with his strong connections and unquestionable passion and enthusiasm for where he lives makes him the perfect champion for the city

Fred Morton

Former Chief Financial Officer of IPGL(Holdings) Ltd a £Bn private investment group/family office.  - Retired

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