Meet this year’s panel of expert judges.
Global Head of Executive Talent | Uber
Roopesh is a 20+ year veteran of the Talent Acquisition industry, who currently leads the Global Executive Talent Acquisition teams for all Uber businesses worldwide. Roopesh has worked with incredible leaders who have pushed and challenged him over his career working for amazing brands such as SAP, Workday, Expedia, and VMware. A magnified lens on inclusivity, fun, and data-driven strategies have been the common thread across all the impressive accomplishments that Roopesh has achieved throughout his career.
President & Co-Founder | Belle Fleur Technologies
EMEA Salesforce Service Line Leader – SVP | Merkle
Channel Marketing Manager | Nutanix
Rowena’s professional career spans 20 years in channel leadership roles at companies such as Barracuda Networks, Symantec, and start-ups including Contrast Security and Vipre. In her current role, she focuses on enabling the Nutanix Channel Partner Ecosystem by actively contributing to the development, growth, and sales of Nutanix innovative solutions. She’s also received a number of recognitions including CRN Women of the Channel, and has produced award-winning marketing campaigns.
EVP and Managing Director | NEXTGEN
Wendy O’Keeffe is a veteran of the distribution scene, having spent the last 30 years working in multiple geographies across the APAC region. Wendy originally started with Ingram Micro precursor Tech Pacific, then spent 15 years with Westcon Group before joining Tech Data and most recently NEXTGEN GROUP, where she works to establish the business in the Asia markets. Wendy has deep experience in the technology sector, having spent many years operating in multiple countries and having led the establishment of new IT distribution businesses in nine countries between 2011 and 2016.
Founder & Managing Director | Rebura
Aaron is a cloud innovator with vast experience in driving cloud adoption and improvements across a range of companies from global corporates to start-ups.
As the founder of Rebura, one of the UK’s fastest-growing AWS Advanced Consulting Partners and AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year 2020, Aaron has a proven track record of designing, implementing, and managing pioneering solutions in the cloud computing environment.
Associate Director | ISG-One
Speaker, Influencer, Marketing Thought Leader
Vladimer is a globally renowned, multi-award-winning digital marketing and social media influencer, thought leader, Fortune 500 consultant, keynote speaker, and startup advisor. Ranked as the No. 1 Global Marketing Thought Leader by Thinkers360, he has won more than 200 global awards. His work focuses on the intersection of storytelling, practicality, consumer behavior, and social media marketing. Vladimer is widely recognized for his visionary leadership and trailblazing innovation, which he applies in empowering brands to scale, expand, accelerate their growth, and drive change to their advantage.
Practice Lead, Marketing Solutions EMEA, SVP | Merkle
Ben leads Merkle’s data and marketing technology division across EMEA. He leads a team that is responsible for the implementation, integration and management of clients’ data and technology, ensuring that they are getting the most out of their investments. His team specialise in strategic consultancy, CRM, technical consulting, analytics, and real-time decision management solutions. Ben is a keen supporter of the efforts of Merkle’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee, with particular involvement in promoting the Gender and Ethnicity pillars.
President | Revolent
As President of Revolent, Nabila is responsible for leading on the creation of talent.
With 15 years of leadership experience in professional services, tech recruitment, and marketing based in the UK and USA, Nabila previously worked at FDM Group and IBM.
Nabila plays an active role in encouraging, supporting, and promoting diversity in the workplace and was recognized in Management Today’s 35 Women Under 35 List 2019.
AVP & Salesforce Lead UKI | Cognizant
Richard has spent over 25 years’ operating in the business applications space. His career has seen him hold various leadership positions at Microsoft, Salesforce and IBM. At Cognizant, Richard leads their Salesforce practice growth across the UK and Ireland. With an extensive network across the Salesforce eco-system, Richard is passionate about helping companies drive their own growth by getting closer to their customers and employees.
President | Frank Recruitment Group
As President of niche tech recruitment firm Frank Recruitment Group, Zoë oversees business and sales operations, employee training, and hiring initiatives.
She has played a vital role in building the company into the global, award-winning that it is today–under Zoë’s leadership, Frank Recruitment Group has consistently achieved substantial year-on-year growth.
Before joining the business as Chief Operations Officer in 2016, Zoë spent 18 years at Hays plc, where she rose to the position of Director at their flagship office in London.
Magdalena has over 20 years of professional experience in Consulting and IT industry. She specializes in the Digital Transformation in Marketing, Sales and Service. Her key professional focus is on CRM, marketing and sales automation projects using the Salesforce and Microsoft platforms to achieve expected business results.
In previous years, Magda was very active in supporting women’s career development as a volunteer Board Member and Mentoring Program Coordinator for PWN (Professional Woman Network).
Gemma Blezard is a powerhouse; mother, cancer survivor, Salesforce MVP, Founder of Ladies Be Architechs and CEO of The Architech Club. Driven by sheer determination and a lightening mind she is the Architect of Architects.
Gemma founded Ladies Be Architects CIC as a way to help people who may otherwise find career paths into Salesforce roles intimidating, impenetrable or just plain confusing. Having shared her skills with the likes of Capgemini, Bluewolf and KPMG, Gemma has turned tech entrepreneur by founding an international consultancy unlike any other found in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Working across industries, The Architech Club attracts clients from financial services, media and not-for-profit sectors in particular, growing a reputation for sharp minds, transparent communication and successful outcomes.
Sarah Liu, Founder and Managing Director of The Dream Collective, is an international thought leader, speaker, trainer and facilitator on next-generation leadership, diversity and inclusion and the future of work.
Having represented Australia in the G20 YEA since 2017, Sarah also served as an APAC advisor to the Japanese Prime Minister’s Cabinet and sits on the judging panel for Forbes Awards. Sarah is invited to train leaders around the world across private and public sectors on leadership transformation and is an appointed regional partner for Google, lead trainer for National Women in Construction, Engineering, Media and Technology across AUNZ. She is also a member of the UTS Industry Advisory Board.
Whilst she manages a diverse portfolio of career and businesses, there is only one common thread across them all and that is to see more women in leadership and to transform the way we work.
CIO | Tenth Revolution Group
A Tech Leaders Awards’ CIO of the Year nominee, Mark has over 25 years’ IT experience. Mark has led the business through countless digital transformations and strategic business change initiatives across the organization. He also takes a leading role in developing the firm’s Strategic Alliance strategies. Before joining Tenth Revolution Group, Mark specialized in delivering complex mission-critical technology across both Capital Market and broader Financial Services sectors.
Senior Global Trailhead Partner Manager | Salesforce
As Global Partner Manager for Trailhead, Salesforce’s training and certification organisation, Simon is responsible for Trailhead Academy Authorised Training Provider program. Simon has 30 years multi-national experience within the IT training industry, in a number of cross functional leadership positions for organisations such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Avid Technologies.
CEO | Tiskki
VP of Trailhead and Ecosystems | Salesforce
Stuart is VP of Trailhead and Ecosystems at Salesforce, working to build a movement for workforce development that puts diversity and equity at its heart.
He loves solving the most complex of problems and building the greatest of teams. Imagine… if we could activate the potential of everyone.
Stuart holds a MA in Aeronautical Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from London Business School.
Founder | Being Woman
Fareeha is an ONS Census Purple Plaque holder, multi-award winner, philanthropist and an Entrepreneur for Good. A global voice of authority on gender equality, diversity, and inclusion, she is the Founder of Being Woman Charity and the mind behind the food sharing app Share Karo, launched to provide an integrated system to distribute food and essentials for the people in need.
Winner of We are the City Rising star, Dynamites Rising Star, Great British Entrepreneur for Good and a Highly Commended Charity Leader of the year 2020, she also sits on Board for YMCA Northumberland and Health Watch Northumberland.
Fareeha is also the founder of Being Woman, a much-needed organization amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities, and aimed to create a sustainable response to current challenges by building resilience in our communities.
Phani brings 21+ years of direct, deep hands-on experience with expertise in the Strategy, Planning, Integration, Implementation, DevSecOps, and Operations of large business transformation programs. He’s held various senior leadership positions and has successfully managed portfolios with budgetary responsibility over $100M+.
As a transformational and product design leader, Phani leverages the power of data and analytics to build value, drive growth, streamline costs, and help achieve organizational strategic objectives.
A graduate of the Authentic Leader Development Program at Harvard Business School, he also holds a Masters in Computer Science from Gannon University.
VP Alliances & Channels | Salesforce Australia & New Zealand
Modern Workplace Practice Lead | Intelogy
General Manager, Senior Vice President | Salesforce Switzerland & Eastern Europe
Petra joined salesforce in 2016. In her current role as GM, Senior Vice President she is responsible for our businesses in Eastern Europe and is the Country Leader for Switzerland.
Before that Petra had different roles within salesforce Europe such as EMEA Emerging Markets & Israel. She did lead the Commercial Business Unit in EMEA and in her early days at Salesforce she built the European Innovation and Transformation Services business.
Petra is a business and technology executive with a +20-year record of excellence with international experience with a strong focus on sales and marketing, digital transformation and multi-channel management.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Petra was 7 years General Manager at Microsoft in Switzerland and in Austria. Petra is a confident strategist with substantial Go To Market experience, who has launched successful digital products and services across Europe.
Petra is passionate about developing businesses, innovation, new work models and talent development.
Petra holds a Masters in Business and IT, studied International management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Petra is married, loves traveling around the globe, cycling and yoga.
Partner Organization Lead & Member of the Executive Board | Microsoft Switzerland
Since January 2019, Thomas has been responsible for the partner and ISV alliance division, as well as the graduate and apprentice program at Microsoft Switzerland. As head of the partner organization, his top goal is to work with Microsoft partners to create and implement cloud-based solutions which accelerate digital transformations of joint customers. On his podcast The Digitizer, Thomas interviews Microsoft Partners about the joint customer value proposition.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Thomas was at Cisco, where he has held various roles in sales, marketing, IT, operations, and business development since 2000. Most recently, he worked as Chief Digital Officer for the global partner organization. Prior to that, he held IT management positions at Telekurs (now SIX Group).
Thomas holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Computer Science from the HSR in Rapperswil and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen and University of Toronto.
In his spare time, he enjoys the outdoors with his family and working with a number of early-stage startups.
Head of Marketing | Gearset
An experienced leader with a background in customer marketing, content creation, advocacy and ABM, Alice has partnered with marketing and sales teams to drive and improve marketing success for over a decade. Alice is now applying her domain expertise to Gearset, heading up the marketing team to grow awareness of Gearset as the leading Salesforce DevOps solution.
Manager, Certifications Product Management | AWS
Pam Brown is a product leader with experience leading innovation in the technology, education, and financial services sectors. She currently leads Product Management for AWS Certifications, where she focuses on finding opportunities to evaluate and showcase talent in the growing cloud job market.
Prior to AWS, she was Director of Product Management at an educational assessment company, where she drove revenue growth through a digital transformation of its test prep product portfolio.
She started her career in international development and learned about innovation first-hand while living in rural India and working at a microfinance bank for women.
Founder & CEO | The Future is Greater
Director, Global Business Change, Cloud Enterprise Solutions, Atos
Chief People Officer | Causeway Technology Solutions
Managing Director | Recharge Consulting Ltd
Founder | The Girls Club
Sr. Program Manager, Consumption and Partner Programs | Planet Technologies
Programme Director | DXC for British Aerospace
Debbie is a seasoned senior leader with over 25 years of experience spanning multiple market sectors, including banking, insurance, legal, publishing, media, advertising, energy and Government defence.
As a leader, she is experienced in service strategy, design and delivery. She is a six sigma, change management specialist, developing and leading cross-functional teams ranging up to 1,500 people.
Equpiped with extensive governance and risk management experience, Debbie is also a keen advocate for diversity and inclusion, having been involved in several major projects over the years achieving significant successes. One of her recent projects saw her found the HeforShe Campaign for the East Sussex Fire Service.
Debbie has a passion for service delivery and is customer-focussed, boasting extensive client relationship experience.
Head of Schools, Colleges & EdTechs UK | AWS
Head of Business Management | Ergo
Global Head of Talent Acquisition | Infosys
Rajesh is the Global Talent head of Talent Acquisition at Infosys. He is an experienced leader in various facets of Human Resources Management, covering Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition, Compensation Management, Org Development, Communications, etc.
He has a rich cultural experience working and living in India, UK and South East Asia. Rajesh has constantly enhanced the value of HR function for the business leaders by creating solutions and being innovative in his approach.
He is a well-respected people manager with experience of managing large cross-cultural teams across various geographies.
Head of Marketing | Gearset
An experienced leader with a background in customer marketing, content creation, advocacy and ABM, Alice has partnered with marketing and sales teams to drive and improve marketing success for over a decade. Alice is now applying her domain expertise to Gearset, heading up the marketing team to grow awareness of Gearset as the leading Salesforce DevOps solution.
Manager, Certifications Product Management | AWS
Pam Brown is a product leader with experience leading innovation in the technology, education, and financial services sectors. She currently leads Product Management for AWS Certifications, where she focuses on finding opportunities to evaluate and showcase talent in the growing cloud job market.
Prior to AWS, she was Director of Product Management at an educational assessment company, where she drove revenue growth through a digital transformation of its test prep product portfolio.
She started her career in international development and learned about innovation first-hand while living in rural India and working at a microfinance bank for women.
General Manager, Senior Vice President | Salesforce Switzerland & Eastern Europe
Petra joined salesforce in 2016. In her current role as GM, Senior Vice President she is responsible for our businesses in Eastern Europe and is the Country Leader for Switzerland.
Before that Petra had different roles within salesforce Europe such as EMEA Emerging Markets & Israel. She did lead the Commercial Business Unit in EMEA and in her early days at Salesforce she built the European Innovation and Transformation Services business.
Petra is a business and technology executive with a +20-year record of excellence with international experience with a strong focus on sales and marketing, digital transformation and multi-channel management.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Petra was 7 years General Manager at Microsoft in Switzerland and in Austria. Petra is a confident strategist with substantial Go To Market experience, who has launched successful digital products and services across Europe.
Petra is passionate about developing businesses, innovation, new work models and talent development.
Petra holds a Masters in Business and IT, studied International management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Petra is married, loves traveling around the globe, cycling and yoga.
Chief Marketing Officer | Tenth Revolution Group
Kashif is Chief Marketing Officer at Tenth Revolution Group, and has over two decades of recruitment experience. Kashif cut his teeth in marketing after launching his own start-up during the dot com boom. Here, he learned all the tricks of the trade through a combination of practical experience and taking calculated risks. Kashif, who is a graduate of Imperial College London, joined Tenth Revolution Group in 2012 and has since taken the lead on product brand marketing strategies. His work on market focus and identifying fresh, feasible opportunities for expansion has been crucial to the company’s ongoing international success.
