2023 Overview

Our 2023 awards were the biggest to date, with individual awards for the UK, DACH and North American regions for the first time, as well as our online global ceremony.

2023 Headline Sponsor

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. As one of the largest global professional services companies, we help our clients modernise technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com.

Our 2023 sponsors

UK

Our first ever in-person event was held in London and we return to England’s capital again in 2023 to crown the very best of the United Kingdom’s cloud talent. An unforgettable event at the InterContinental Hotel on Park Lane also helped raise money for St. Martin’s School in Kenya.

UK Winners

Our 2023 winners impressed the judges for the way they truly shone in their approach to cloud technology. From digital innovation to making the industry a better place for all, it was an outstanding year that made our judges’ task unenviable.

Tech Star of the Year Winner
Charlie Phipps 

Highly Commended:
Chris Huntingford 

Sponsored by Rebura
Outstanding Leader of the Year Winner
Charlene Hunter  MBE

Highly Commended:
Anna Brailsford 

Sponsored by Frank Recruitment Group
Diversity and Inclusion Employer of the Year Winner
Opencast 
Highly Commended: IBM
Sponsored by Revolent

Outstanding Contribution to the Earth Joint Winners

Carbon Clean
Circulor 
Sponsored by Cognizant

Outstanding Contribution to the Microsoft Community Winner

Gregor Suttie

Highly Commended:
Women in Dynamics 

Sponsored by Hitachi Solutions

Outstanding Contribution to the Google Cloud Community Winner

Laura Morinigo

Highly Commended:
Joe Birch 

Outstanding Contribution to the Salesforce Community Winner

Keir Bowden

Highly Commended:
Gemma Blezard

Sponsored by Adapt – IQ 

Excellence in Learning and Development Winner

Code First Girls

Highly Commended:
Deliveroo 

Sponsored by HSO

Outstanding Contribution to the AWS Community Winner

Phil Horn

Highly Commended:
Dan Pudwell 

Best NetSuite Partner to Work For Winner

Head in the Cloud

Best AWS Partner to Work For Winner

Credera

Tech for Good Winner

Bankuet 

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year Winner

AND Digital

Highly Commended:
Version1

Best Google Cloud Partner to Work For Winner

CTS

Highly Commended:
Ancoris 

Best Microsoft Partner to Work For Winner

Hitachi Solutions

Highly Commended:
Kocho

Digital Transformation Project of the Year Joint Winners

Cognizant – Network Rail
E-Sign 

Best Salesforce Partner to Work For Joint Winners

Capgemini
Hyphen8 

Highly Commended:
Globant 

Diversity Ally of the Year Winner

Kim Warren

Highly Commended:
Laura Addison 

UK Shortlist

After a record-breaking year for nominations in the Digital Revolution Awards, the following have been recognized by our judges for using cloud technology to make the world a better place to live and work, and will be celebrated and a winner declared at our in-person awards ceremony and fundraiser in London in April.

Akshata Sawant
Developer Advocate at Salesforce

Amanda Beard-Neilson
Salesforce MVP, London Admins Trailblazer Community Group Leader and London’s Calling co-organiser

Cédric Assaouloff
Lead Digital and Innovation at Roche

Charlie Phipps
Power Platform Architect and Developer at Akari Solutions Limited

Chris Huntingford
Low Code Lead & Platform Evangelist at ANS Group

Christine Marshall
Courses and Community Director at Salesforce Ben

Hugo Barona
Cloud Solutions Architect at Ergo

Simon Whiteley
Director of Engineering at Advancing Analytics

Sponsored by Rebura

Ali King
Senior Data Engineer at Inspera

Amanda Sleight
Commercial Director, UK at AWS

Anna Brailsford
CEO of Code First Girls

Babita Kumar
Digital Innovation & SAFe Transformation at Roche Diagnostics Europe

Carolyn Brown
Chief Information Officer at British Medical Association

Charlene Hunter MBE
CEO & Founder of Coding Black Females

David Okeyode
EMEA CTO Azure Cloud at Palo Alto Networks

Elaine Forth
CEO of Hyphen8

Gatonga Theuri
Senior Program Manager at Diageo

Jonas Templestein
Co-founder and CTO at Monzo Bank

Lianne Potter
Head of SecOps at ASDA

Mark Young
Programme Director at Channel 4

Nadine Thomson
Chief Technology Officer, Media (GroupM)

Pooja Bagga
Technology Director/ Divisional CIO at Royal Mail

Sarah Rench
Director of Data, AI and Industry Solutions, Global Data & AI Centre Excellence at Avanade

Tanya Powell
Co-CTO at Coding Black Females

Sponsored by Frank Recruitment Group

 Code First Girls

 Cloudreach

 Deliveroo

 Bam Boom Cloud

 BlueSky Citadel

 Globant

 Capgemini

Sponsored by HSO

Dan Pudwell
Principal Cloud Architect at Cloudsoft Corporation

Westminster City Council

Phil Horn
Director at Steamhaus & Organiser of AWS ComSum

Daniel Irvine
Freelance software developer

Yan Cui
Principal Consultant at The Burning Monk, AWS Serverless Hero and Author 

Gillian McCann
Co-Founder and CTO at Workgrid Software

Natalie Gray
Partner Engagement at Codurance

Gregor Suttie
Microsoft MVP and Azure Architect at Intercept

NHS

OceanMind

Chris Taylor
Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft 

Pragati Jain
Manager at Avanade

Women in Dynamics

Dr Victoria Holt
Founder at Data Toboggan

Sharon Sumner
CEO at Casper365

Sray Agarwal
Principle Consultant at Fractal 

Sponsored by Hitachi Solutions

Laura Morinigo
Developer Advocate / Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics UK

Joe Birch
Senior Engineer at Buffer

Vinita Silaparasetty
Data Science Trainer at Just IT 

Jason Berryman
Google Developers Expert & Event speaker at 418.dev

Susanna Wong
Senior Consultant, Front End Engineering at QuantumBlack

Francis Pindar
Salesforce Architect & Coach at AdminToArchitect.com

Akshata Sawant
Salesforce Developer Advocate at Salesforce 

Keir Bowden
CTO at BrightGen

Adam Foyston
Director at Cloudforce Consultancy 

Gemma Blezard
Founder at The Architech Club & Ladies Be Architects

Louise Lockie
Salesforce Consultant and Trainer at Tangara Consulting

Sponsored by Adapt – IQ 

Magway

Satellite Vu

Too Good To Go 

Circulor

Carbon Clean

Greyparrot

Capgemini

Sponsored by Cognizant

Cognizant – Amref Health Africa

Cognizant – Network Rail

Gymshark

Ancoris

IBM Consulting

E-Sign

Clausematch

ClearBank

Domino’s

IBM

AND Digital

Opencast

Smart Pension

Insight Direct

Phoenix Software

Version 1

xDesign

AWS

IBM 

Opencast 

Capgemini 

Ancoris 

Experian

M&G 

SAP UK 

Sage 

Ernst & Young

Sponsored by Revolent

Kim Warren
Managing Consultant at Credera 

Laura Addison
Senior Program Manager EMEA, AWS re/Start

Sarah Tok
Talent Acquisition Partner at Capgemini Invent

Richard Regan
Head of Cloud Partner Engineering, UK + IE at Google 

Neetu Kumar
Senior Manager Talent Acquisition – Technology at Centrica

Bankuet

Beam

C The Signs

Elvie

Cognizant

Glean

Tred

IntoFilm

Infinity Group

OLIO

Credera

IBM 

Forensic Analytics

Tech Mahindra

Softcat

Databricks 

Infinity Works

Green Custard Ltd.

EPAM Solutions

Hitachi Solutions

HSO Enterprise Solutions

IBM

Coeo

Kocho

Incremental Group

Proventeq Limited

Six Degrees

The NAV People 

Capgemini

Nebula Consulting

Dentsu – Merkle

Hyphen8

IBM

Globant

Prodapt

CGI

Atos 

Slalom

Eureka Solutions

Head in The Cloud

Next Technik

NoBlue

MacroFin

Brightbridge 

Nolan Business

Our London 2023 Judges

The Digital Revolution Awards celebrate the cloud industry’s very best pioneers, innovators and glass ceiling breakers across categories that recognize sustainability, employer branding, ED&I, talent development, and L&D. We’ve put together an expert panel that represents some of tech’s leading figures, meaning they’re best placed to judge the individuals and organizations that have truly excelled in the last year.

Jemma Byrne

VP UKI Alliances | Salesforce
Jemma joined Salesforce in 2013. In her role, she has responsibility for the consulting partners that sit in UK and Ireland. She helps to inspire and drive Salesforce customer success through the company’s partner ecosystem. She sits on the committee of a non-profit organization and is an active participant of the Salesforce 1:1:1 model. By her own admission she is rubbish at saying ‘No’ to things and that often leads to crazy physical challenges for charity. In her spare time you will find her outdoors with her daughter following their joint passion in many equestrian disciplines.

Paddy Fitzpatrick

UK&I Leader Software & SaaS, AWS UK & Ireland – AWS

Paddy leads the AWS team working with UK Software Companies (ISVs) to accelerate their growth using differentiated technologies for developing great software products, implementing SaaS models, and gaining access to broader market opportunities through the Amazon Partner Network.  Paddy has over 30 years of experience as a Sales Leader and General Manager for technology firms globally including DXC Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys and Fujitsu.

Richard Regan

Head of Partner Engineering | Google Cloud, UK&I

With over 20 years’ experience driving technological change, Richard is Google Cloud’s Head of Partner Engineering for the UK and Ireland. In his role he drives partners towards technical excellence and scale, supporting them in pre-sales and delivery, to benefit Google Cloud customers. He’s currently spending time building out Project Katalyst, a program specifically designed to bring underrepresented individuals into the Google Cloud ecosystem through developing their skills on Google Cloud and introducing them to partners, for early career, life-changing jobs.

Hollie Suffield

Director, Salesforce Talent Alliance for EMEA & LATAM | Salesforce
Hollie is responsible for developing and managing strategies to support the capacity growth of Salesforce’s partner ecosystem. The Salesforce Talent Alliance team works to find ways to not only build a sustainable pipeline of trained talent, but to increase diversity in the technology sector by working with organizations that are providing opportunities to untapped and diverse talent. Hollie is also the co-chair of Kuumba Education, a partner of St. Martin’s School, Kibagare. 

Maya Weintraub Kaye

Salesforce Associate Partner | IBM

Maya is a delivery and sales executive with 18 years of experience across three continents. She speaks five languages and is a highly energetic and detail oriented leader. Having started in the aviation industry, through project management consultancy, PMO and process optimisation, Maya now specialises in Salesforce, and serves as an Associate Partner at IBM’s Salesforce practice and Center of Competence.

Munira Khalifa

Data Manager | Barnardo’s

Possessing a wealth of knowledge and experience in Data Management within the charitable sector, Munira was shortlisted for the Women in IT Summit and Awards Series in 2022. Munira is passionate about promoting equality for women and leading by example in all aspects of life, making it her mission to motivate, inspire and empower women of all backgrounds to live life free of oppression and to their full potential. 

Mark Martin, MBE

UKBlackTech & Northeastern London

Mark Martin MBE is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Education Practice. A thought leader and hugely popular speaker, he has a passion for sharing his expertise and insights to educators around the world. He is a teacher/advisor for the major global tech brands and continues to advocate for home-grown talent, digital skills and education equity. In May 2022, Mark was recognised as one of the top 50 most influential people in UK IT by Computer Weekly. In 2019, he was awarded an MBE for services to education, technology, and diversity in UK technology. 

Courtney Holm

Vice President, Sustainability Solutions Capgemini Invent UK

Courtney ‘s helps to shape the way Capgemini Invent UK creates long term, sustainable value for clients, enabling them with fresh perspectives and digital solutions so that they can play a transformative role in addressing planetary, people and systems challenges. Courtney has a proven track record of implementing innovative technology solutions across sectors, helping clients with a broad range of  strategic and operational sustainability challenges. She is an expert in facilitating multilateral collaboration around complex sustainable development challenges. 

Rob Smithson

UK Business Applications Lead | Microsoft
Rob is the lead for the Dynamics Business Group at Microsoft UK, spanning Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Responsible for commercial ownership, business group strategy, go-to-market planning and product management of Microsoft Business Applications in the United Kingdom.

Joe Carroll

General Manager | Digital Native Business – EMEA, AWS 

Joe is the AWS Digital Native business Leader across the EMEA region, supporting scale up customers who use cloud technology as a business growth enabler. Prior to leading the digital native business, Joe was Chief Operating Officer for the AWS UKI/EU business responsible for end-to-end management of sales and business expansion activities. He has over 20 years’ experience in various leading technology and finance companies in sales business development leadership roles, including HP and the Rothschild banking group.

Anna Assassa

CEO | Tiskki

Venturing into the world of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software development and implementation at the age of 23, Anna has always found enjoyment in getting hands-on and tackling tech sector challenges. Always eager to learn, she quickly developed her knowledge, leading to Anna stepping into roles at several multinational companies. It wasn’t long before she took the leap into entrepreneurship, building her first tech company from the ground up at the age of just 26. Selling this business on after eight successful years, Anna took up a tenure at Capita, where she gained exposure to Management Information Systems (MIS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The skills she acquired there led her to found Tisski in 2011.

Daria Grishina

Director of Information Technology and Data – UK & Ireland | Danone

A business-focused technology executive with two decades of experience, Daria’s signature is driving bottom-line value, scale, and commercial revenue growth through digital solutions, business transformation, and technology innovation. Daria has held progressive IT leadership roles at a number of global Fortune 500s in the consumer products market, where she has built a reputation as a visionary leader, strategic relationship builder, change agent, and value driver with a deep understanding of all enterprise functions.

Chris Brown

Strategic Partner Leader UK&I | IBM Consulting

Chris has been a member of the IBM Consulting UK&I Senior Leadership team since 2021 and was nominated to the IBM Black Executive Council in 2020.  In this role as Strategic Partner Leader, his key area of focus is to increase collaboration across business development, sales and delivery with IBM’s strategic partners to support clients’ digital and cloud transformation initiatives. With 20 years’ experience, across industries, Chris has proven transactional, transformational and network leadership skills. He is a collaborator, passionate about empowering people, and driving value creation and tangible business outcomes for clients.

Vicky Critchley

CEO | Bam Boom Cloud

Vicky Critchley is the CEO of cloud software solutions company Bam Boom Cloud, and a recent Digital Revolution Award winner. An advocate for people being their authentic selves at work, Vicky places an emphasis on building cultures that value empathy and kindness.

Natalie Floyd-Banks

Director | EMEA at Revolent

Natalie joined Revolent in 2020 as the UK Business Development Director and is responsible for leading the business development team and ultimately winning new business, growing existing accounts and building our client relationships. Prior to maternity leave, Natalie spent 4 years working across Frank Recruitment Group in the UK, USA & Netherlands covering various sales operational roles along with a variety of projects including the salesforce implementation. Natalie has over 12 years of recruitment experience within professional services and 7 years focussing on clients within the UK Financial Services market.

Sajeel Afzal

SVP – Head of Consulting Services UK | Hitachi Solutions

Sajeel’s 20-year consulting career has been focused on the delivery of high-quality global transformation programmes. This has spanned across multiple industries including construction, life sciences, professional services, manufacturing, and public sector. Sajeel is currently Head of Consulting Services UK at Hitachi Solutions Europe, where he leads a practice of over 400 professionals specialising in developing innovative end-to-end solutions for clients, utilizing Microsoft Cloud products and solutions.

Alan Coe

Sr. Director EMEA Alliances | Salesforce

Heading up the EMEA Strategic Partner Organization at Salesforce, Alan has over 25 years’ experience working in the technology sector, at Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce in a variety of Sales, Sales Leadership and Strategic Alliances roles. He’s energized by “what can be” building new go-to markets, partnerships and opportunities, and has a passion for technology and the impact innovation can have on all our lives. 

Emmanuel Adenitire

Vice President | Goldman Sachs

Emmanuel works for Goldman Sachs within the global market division and heads the ION Workflow Engineering team, which is responsible for the pre-trade quoting workflow tools used across sales and trading for various FICC standardized flow products (Credit, Interest Rate Products, Mortgages, EM bonds, Credit Derivatives, and Interest Rate Swaps) around the world. He is a member of the company’s Firmwide Black Network steering committee and co-head of the Goldman Sachs EMEA Black Engineers Network. 

Ruth Harrison

Global Head of Industry Domains | Thoughtworks

Ruth is a go-to commentator on the evolving technology and business landscape. A regular speaker on the importance of diversity and inclusion in business,  she was nominated for Diversity Leader of the Year 2017 by Tech Leaders UK. In 2019, she founded Limitless, a forum for women executives and leaders. Acquisitions International recognized her as Most Influential Global Business Tech Consultant 2021 and 2022, and she was also voted one of the most influential women in UK Tech 2022 by Computer Weekly. 

David Vilf 

Group Product Manager | Onfido 
David is a Group Product Manager at Onfido, responsible for leading the product strategy and direction of its Data Verification Suite products. He is also an Angel Investor and Product Mentor at Seedcamp. Prior to Onfido, David was a product lead at Cytora and a Senior Associate at Morgan Stanley. David brings product development experience along within fintech, cybersecurity, developer experience and artificial intelligence.

Leon Gordon

Partner | Pomerol

Leon Gordon is a leader in data analytics, a current thought leader at the Forbes Technical Council, an Executive Contributor to Brainz Magazine, a thought leader in Data Science for the Global AI Hub, and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP based in the UK and a partner at Pomerol Partners. During the last decade, he has helped organizations improve their business performance, use data more intelligently, and understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data. Leon is a chair for the Microsoft Power BI – UK community group and the DataDNA data visualization community as well as an international speaker and advisor.

Afiya Chohollo

VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management | Onfido 

Afiya Chohollo is VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management at Onfido, a global identity verification and authentication provider. Afiya leads seven specialist teams responsible for Onfido’s core platform infrastructure, test engineering, data integrity, and client dashboards. She also leads the Technical Programme Management team, which enabled Onfido to scale product and technology execution to use digital identity to verify access to millions of people. Chohollo is an ambassador of STEM for school-aged children and appeared in the recent publication ‘Voices of the Shadows’, highlighting the careers of 51 Women in tech.

Craig Moss

GSI Alliance Leader EMEA | Amazon Web Services

Craig works with AWS’ SI partners to drive
cloud adoption at scale. A 20+ year veteran of the communications and software industry, with companies including Cable and Wireless, COLT and Oracle, Craig is a passionate believer in the power of partnerships to drive customer outcomes. A self-confessed geek, he also enjoys seeing how technology and
talent merge to create innovation.

Marius Rubin

Chief Technology Officer | Credera

Marius leads Credera UK’s technology function, helping clients solve their most complex strategic challenges in cloud, data, engineering, strategy, and transformation. As CTO he has overall responsibility for the company’s technical strategy and employees, both customer-facing and internal. An enthusiastic proponent of open source technologies, cloud-native architectures and DevOps, Marius has deep technical knowledge across software and infrastructure, with particular recent experience of Big Data and microservice application delivery. On top of all this, he continues to find time to keep up his hands-on skills in software and infrastructure.

Jason Adae

UKI ISV Partner Sales Lead | AWS

With over 10 years of experience in the technology sector, Jason got his first taste of working with Technology Partners at Microsoft, supporting them to modernise in the cloud and go-to-market into Financial Services.

After joining AWS in 2018, Jason now leads the UKI ISV Partner Sales team, bringing together best-in-class ISV solutions with AWS native services to deliver joint solutions for our customers accelerating their transformation. When he’s not fostering the growth of the ISV co-sell business in UKI, Jason likes to run (daily), cook, and cheer on Arsenal FC.

Sarah Pearce Sims

COO | DCW Group

Sarah is an experienced people manager, having worked in the legal sector for 16 years. Her current role is focused on delivery and support functions, driving exceptional performance through effective development and management of resources. She has been considered a “trouble shooter” by previous employers with an excellent success rate when it comes to problem solving, and was recruited to address culture change and personnel following a business acquisition. A specialist in managing business support and operations, she prides herself on being a consistent team player who can deliver on time and meet high expectations. Sarah has also been a business mentor with the Princes Trust in her spare time and was involved with the charity for four years.

David Latten

Head of Indirect Procurement and Supplier Diversity & Equality | Logitech
David’s career spans over a decade, featuring management roles in finance and more recently procurement. Equality is both a core value for Logitech and a personal passion for David. As procurement leader, David’s priority is to ensure Logitech, and the wider corporate sector, can deliver real progress towards equality through their supplier spend.

Samantha Humphries

Head of Marketing and Security Strategy – EMEA | Exabeam

Samantha has been happily entrenched in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years. During this time she has helped hundreds of organizations of all shapes, sizes, and geographies recover and learn from cyberattacks, defined strategy for pioneering security products and technologies, and is a regular speaker at security conferences around the world. In her current role Sam heads up EMEA marketing for Exabeam, and is also a member of the global security strategy team. She authors articles and blogs for various security publications, has a strong passion for mentoring, and often volunteers at cybersecurity community events, including BSides, The Diana Initiative, and Blue Team Village (DEFCON).

Lee Foster

Chief Technology Officer – Opencast

Lee has over two decades of experience in strategy, architecture and technology consulting. Prior to joining Opencast as Chief Technology Officer, he led global IT enterprise and solution architecture functions at FTSE 100 software company Sage, and has worked with a diverse range of public and private sector clients, shaping technology-enabled business solutions on major transformation programs for Capgemini, BT Global Services and Atos.

Phil Wood

Chief Product and Technology Officer | Six Degrees
Phil is an experienced technology leader who combines a collaborative approach with a culture of continuous improvement to transform businesses across a range of disciplines including cyber security, service management and software delivery. Phil is passionate about finding new and innovative ways to get the most from technology, as well as collaborating with great people to solve those business challenges that many say can’t be fixed. Prior to joining Six Degrees, Phil served in senior leadership roles at easyJet, Travis Perkins, Marks and Spencer, and Home Retail Group.

Richard Hughes

Partner Strategy Director – Seer 365

Richard is a Partner Strategy Director with over two decades of experience in the Microsoft channel. During this time, he has carried out a number of local and global roles at both Microsoft and several leading Systems Integrators. He is currently part of the leadership team at Seer 365, helping partners around the world transform their traditional Microsoft Dynamics 365 sales and implementation models. Richard is a board member of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) for UK and EMEA and he is a strong believer in the power of organizations working and learning together. He is always happy to create links between great people and great organisations.

Mathew Batterbee

Global GTM Solutions Director – Pax8
With a wealth of knowledge of the Microsoft channel in his roles with Microsoft, Ingram Micro Cloud and now Pax8, Mathew has been a big part of the SMB Microsoft Business Applications business not only in the UK but worldwide. He has worked with and enabled Microsoft Partners to build and grow their practices, and has had a lot of fun doing this with his unique online presence and charisma.

Simon Maskrey

Global Strategic Partner Manager | Salesforce Trailhead

As Global Strategic Partner Manager for Trailhead, Salesforce’s training and certification organization, Simon is responsible for the Salesforce Authorized Training Provider program. Simon has 30 years’ multi-national experience within the IT training industry, in a number of cross-functional leadership positions, for organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Avid Technologies.

Dave Johnson

Operations Director | HSO

As Operations Director, Dave has overseen HSO’s organic growth in the UK over the last 10 years, having responsibility for project delivery and customer relationships. The company has grown to be one of the largest Microsoft Dynamics partners in the channel, with Dave responsible for creating hiring initiatives to underpin this, bringing new delivery capability into the team from outside of the channel and initiating a graduate recruitment program.

Prior to joining HSO, he had a career encompassing financial roles in accountancy and health, prior to managing the implementation of an ERP system within a publicly quoted distribution business. This led to a move into the IT services sector, where Dave was responsible for the creation of two Microsoft Dynamics delivery practices for different partners.

Alex Franklin

Modern Workplace Practice Lead | Intelogy

Specializing in Modern Workplace solutions, Alex has maintained a passion for technological change for more than 20 years. He began his career with Lotus Notes in the 1990s, before moving to SharePoint in 2007 and then to the wider Microsoft 365 stack. Alex works with clients across many industries and geographies to identify business pain points, realize opportunities, and bring about successful and lasting change that benefits everyone involved. 

Aaron Rees

CEO | 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.

Carlotta Zorzi

Stategic Partnerships Manager | Shopify
An advocate for social mobility and equitable opportunities, Carlotta holds multiple positions along with her role at Shopify, where she focuses on creating sustainable and mutually-beneficial relationships. She serves as Communication & Operations Lead on the Women at Shopify Leadership team, creating content and facilitating development sessions for 3,000 women globally. Carlotta is also a mentor for women-focused networks like Bloom UK, a Tech Career Coach for School16, a Visiting Professor at Sussex University, and a 2021 WATC TechWomen100 Award winner.

Helena Boulton

Director of Change Enablement EMEA | EPAM

Working in the IT and transformation space for over 25 years, what is important to Helena is ensuring every person impacted by the change are aware and engaged every step of the transformation.—people are her passion. She is also a strong believer in linking the business case ROI to adoption of the tech and new ways of working, to promote and secure success. As a program/change director, Helena has led multi-functional teams across the globe in numerous sectors, delivering critical business, finance, operational and cloud technology solutions. For the last 10 years she has specialised in Salesforce, enabling companies to realise their CRM dreams.

Simon Capel

RVP / Senior Director – Strategic Partner Growth, UK&I | Salesforce

Simon is a results driven business development executive with over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry in the UK and APAC markets. He possesses a strong solution selling based background, gained at leading organisations including IBM and Google. With eight years of direct and channel management experience with SaaS and Cloud solutions in APAC and EMEA markets, Simon is experienced with operating in early stage start-up and new market development environments, and is adept at negotiating complex, high value, strategic deals with C-Level execs across all industry sectors and organization sizes.

Jemma Byrne

VP UKI Alliances | Salesforce
Jemma joined Salesforce in 2013. In her role, she has responsibility for the consulting partners that sit in UK and Ireland. She helps to inspire and drive Salesforce customer success through the company’s partner ecosystem. She sits on the committee of a non-profit organization and is an active participant of the Salesforce 1:1:1 model. By her own admission she is rubbish at saying ‘No’ to things and that often leads to crazy physical challenges for charity. In her spare time you will find her outdoors with her daughter following their joint passion in many equestrian disciplines.

Paddy Fitzpatrick

UK&I Leader Software & SaaS, AWS UK & Ireland – AWS

Paddy leads the AWS team working with UK Software Companies (ISVs) to accelerate their growth using differentiated technologies for developing great software products, implementing SaaS models, and gaining access to broader market opportunities through the Amazon Partner Network.  Paddy has over 30 years of experience as a Sales Leader and General Manager for technology firms globally including DXC Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys and Fujitsu.

Richard Regan

Head of Partner Engineering | Google Cloud, UK&I

With over 20 years’ experience driving technological change, Richard is Google Cloud’s Head of Partner Engineering for the UK and Ireland. In his role he drives partners towards technical excellence and scale, supporting them in pre-sales and delivery, to benefit Google Cloud customers. He’s currently spending time building out Project Katalyst, a program specifically designed to bring underrepresented individuals into the Google Cloud ecosystem through developing their skills on Google Cloud and introducing them to partners, for early career, life-changing jobs.

Hollie Suffield

Director, Salesforce Talent Alliance for EMEA & LATAM | Salesforce
Hollie is responsible for developing and managing strategies to support the capacity growth of Salesforce’s partner ecosystem. The Salesforce Talent Alliance team works to find ways to not only build a sustainable pipeline of trained talent, but to increase diversity in the technology sector by working with organizations that are providing opportunities to untapped and diverse talent. Hollie is also the co-chair of Kuumba Education, a partner of St. Martin’s School, Kibagare. 

Maya Weintraub Kaye

Salesforce Associate Partner | IBM

Maya is a delivery and sales executive with 18 years of experience across three continents. She speaks five languages and is a highly energetic and detail oriented leader. Having started in the aviation industry, through project management consultancy, PMO and process optimisation, Maya now specialises in Salesforce, and serves as an Associate Partner at IBM’s Salesforce practice and Center of Competence.

Munira Khalifa

Data Manager | Barnardo’s

Possessing a wealth of knowledge and experience in Data Management within the charitable sector, Munira was shortlisted for the Women in IT Summit and Awards Series in 2022. Munira is passionate about promoting equality for women and leading by example in all aspects of life, making it her mission to motivate, inspire and empower women of all backgrounds to live life free of oppression and to their full potential. 

Mark Martin, MBE

UKBlackTech & Northeastern London

Mark Martin MBE is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Education Practice. A thought leader and hugely popular speaker, he has a passion for sharing his expertise and insights to educators around the world. He is a teacher/advisor for the major global tech brands and continues to advocate for home-grown talent, digital skills and education equity. In May 2022, Mark was recognised as one of the top 50 most influential people in UK IT by Computer Weekly. In 2019, he was awarded an MBE for services to education, technology, and diversity in UK technology. 

Courtney Holm

Vice President, Sustainability Solutions Capgemini Invent UK

Courtney ‘s helps to shape the way Capgemini Invent UK creates long term, sustainable value for clients, enabling them with fresh perspectives and digital solutions so that they can play a transformative role in addressing planetary, people and systems challenges. Courtney has a proven track record of implementing innovative technology solutions across sectors, helping clients with a broad range of  strategic and operational sustainability challenges. She is an expert in facilitating multilateral collaboration around complex sustainable development challenges. 

Rob Smithson

UK Business Applications Lead | Microsoft
Rob is the lead for the Dynamics Business Group at Microsoft UK, spanning Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Responsible for commercial ownership, business group strategy, go-to-market planning and product management of Microsoft Business Applications in the United Kingdom.

Joe Carroll

General Manager | Digital Native Business – EMEA, AWS 

Joe is the AWS Digital Native business Leader across the EMEA region, supporting scale up customers who use cloud technology as a business growth enabler. Prior to leading the digital native business, Joe was Chief Operating Officer for the AWS UKI/EU business responsible for end-to-end management of sales and business expansion activities. He has over 20 years’ experience in various leading technology and finance companies in sales business development leadership roles, including HP and the Rothschild banking group.

Anna Assassa

CEO | Tiskki

Venturing into the world of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software development and implementation at the age of 23, Anna has always found enjoyment in getting hands-on and tackling tech sector challenges. Always eager to learn, she quickly developed her knowledge, leading to Anna stepping into roles at several multinational companies. It wasn’t long before she took the leap into entrepreneurship, building her first tech company from the ground up at the age of just 26. Selling this business on after eight successful years, Anna took up a tenure at Capita, where she gained exposure to Management Information Systems (MIS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The skills she acquired there led her to found Tisski in 2011.

Daria Grishina

Director of Information Technology and Data – UK & Ireland | Danone

A business-focused technology executive with two decades of experience, Daria’s signature is driving bottom-line value, scale, and commercial revenue growth through digital solutions, business transformation, and technology innovation. Daria has held progressive IT leadership roles at a number of global Fortune 500s in the consumer products market, where she has built a reputation as a visionary leader, strategic relationship builder, change agent, and value driver with a deep understanding of all enterprise functions.

Chris Brown

Strategic Partner Leader UK&I | IBM Consulting

Chris has been a member of the IBM Consulting UK&I Senior Leadership team since 2021 and was nominated to the IBM Black Executive Council in 2020.  In this role as Strategic Partner Leader, his key area of focus is to increase collaboration across business development, sales and delivery with IBM’s strategic partners to support clients’ digital and cloud transformation initiatives. With 20 years’ experience, across industries, Chris has proven transactional, transformational and network leadership skills. He is a collaborator, passionate about empowering people, and driving value creation and tangible business outcomes for clients.

Vicky Critchley

CEO | Bam Boom Cloud

Vicky Critchley is the CEO of cloud software solutions company Bam Boom Cloud, and a recent Digital Revolution Award winner. An advocate for people being their authentic selves at work, Vicky places an emphasis on building cultures that value empathy and kindness.

Natalie Floyd-Banks

Director | EMEA at Revolent

Natalie joined Revolent in 2020 as the UK Business Development Director and is responsible for leading the business development team and ultimately winning new business, growing existing accounts and building our client relationships. Prior to maternity leave, Natalie spent 4 years working across Frank Recruitment Group in the UK, USA & Netherlands covering various sales operational roles along with a variety of projects including the salesforce implementation. Natalie has over 12 years of recruitment experience within professional services and 7 years focussing on clients within the UK Financial Services market.

Sajeel Afzal

SVP – Head of Consulting Services UK | Hitachi Solutions

Sajeel’s 20-year consulting career has been focused on the delivery of high-quality global transformation programmes. This has spanned across multiple industries including construction, life sciences, professional services, manufacturing, and public sector. Sajeel is currently Head of Consulting Services UK at Hitachi Solutions Europe, where he leads a practice of over 400 professionals specialising in developing innovative end-to-end solutions for clients, utilizing Microsoft Cloud products and solutions.

Alan Coe

Sr. Director EMEA Alliances | Salesforce

Heading up the EMEA Strategic Partner Organization at Salesforce, Alan has over 25 years’ experience working in the technology sector, at Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce in a variety of Sales, Sales Leadership and Strategic Alliances roles. He’s energized by “what can be” building new go-to markets, partnerships and opportunities, and has a passion for technology and the impact innovation can have on all our lives. 

Emmanuel Adenitire

Vice President | Goldman Sachs

Emmanuel works for Goldman Sachs within the global market division and heads the ION Workflow Engineering team, which is responsible for the pre-trade quoting workflow tools used across sales and trading for various FICC standardized flow products (Credit, Interest Rate Products, Mortgages, EM bonds, Credit Derivatives, and Interest Rate Swaps) around the world. He is a member of the company’s Firmwide Black Network steering committee and co-head of the Goldman Sachs EMEA Black Engineers Network. 

Ruth Harrison

Global Head of Industry Domains | Thoughtworks

Ruth is a go-to commentator on the evolving technology and business landscape. A regular speaker on the importance of diversity and inclusion in business,  she was nominated for Diversity Leader of the Year 2017 by Tech Leaders UK. In 2019, she founded Limitless, a forum for women executives and leaders. Acquisitions International recognized her as Most Influential Global Business Tech Consultant 2021 and 2022, and she was also voted one of the most influential women in UK Tech 2022 by Computer Weekly. 

David Vilf 

Group Product Manager | Onfido 
David is a Group Product Manager at Onfido, responsible for leading the product strategy and direction of its Data Verification Suite products. He is also an Angel Investor and Product Mentor at Seedcamp. Prior to Onfido, David was a product lead at Cytora and a Senior Associate at Morgan Stanley. David brings product development experience along within fintech, cybersecurity, developer experience and artificial intelligence.

Leon Gordon

Partner | Pomerol

Leon Gordon is a leader in data analytics, a current thought leader at the Forbes Technical Council, an Executive Contributor to Brainz Magazine, a thought leader in Data Science for the Global AI Hub, and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP based in the UK and a partner at Pomerol Partners. During the last decade, he has helped organizations improve their business performance, use data more intelligently, and understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data. Leon is a chair for the Microsoft Power BI – UK community group and the DataDNA data visualization community as well as an international speaker and advisor.

Afiya Chohollo

VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management | Onfido 

Afiya Chohollo is VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management at Onfido, a global identity verification and authentication provider. Afiya leads seven specialist teams responsible for Onfido’s core platform infrastructure, test engineering, data integrity, and client dashboards. She also leads the Technical Programme Management team, which enabled Onfido to scale product and technology execution to use digital identity to verify access to millions of people. Chohollo is an ambassador of STEM for school-aged children and appeared in the recent publication ‘Voices of the Shadows’, highlighting the careers of 51 Women in tech.

Craig Moss

GSI Alliance Leader EMEA | Amazon Web Services

Craig works with AWS’ SI partners to drive
cloud adoption at scale. A 20+ year veteran of the communications and software industry, with companies including Cable and Wireless, COLT and Oracle, Craig is a passionate believer in the power of partnerships to drive customer outcomes. A self-confessed geek, he also enjoys seeing how technology and
talent merge to create innovation.

Marius Rubin

Chief Technology Officer | Credera

Marius leads Credera UK’s technology function, helping clients solve their most complex strategic challenges in cloud, data, engineering, strategy, and transformation. As CTO he has overall responsibility for the company’s technical strategy and employees, both customer-facing and internal. An enthusiastic proponent of open source technologies, cloud-native architectures and DevOps, Marius has deep technical knowledge across software and infrastructure, with particular recent experience of Big Data and microservice application delivery. On top of all this, he continues to find time to keep up his hands-on skills in software and infrastructure.

Jason Adae

UKI ISV Partner Sales Lead | AWS

With over 10 years of experience in the technology sector, Jason got his first taste of working with Technology Partners at Microsoft, supporting them to modernise in the cloud and go-to-market into Financial Services.

After joining AWS in 2018, Jason now leads the UKI ISV Partner Sales team, bringing together best-in-class ISV solutions with AWS native services to deliver joint solutions for our customers accelerating their transformation. When he’s not fostering the growth of the ISV co-sell business in UKI, Jason likes to run (daily), cook, and cheer on Arsenal FC.

Sarah Pearce Sims

COO | DCW Group

Sarah is an experienced people manager, having worked in the legal sector for 16 years. Her current role is focused on delivery and support functions, driving exceptional performance through effective development and management of resources. She has been considered a “trouble shooter” by previous employers with an excellent success rate when it comes to problem solving, and was recruited to address culture change and personnel following a business acquisition. A specialist in managing business support and operations, she prides herself on being a consistent team player who can deliver on time and meet high expectations. Sarah has also been a business mentor with the Princes Trust in her spare time and was involved with the charity for four years.

David Latten

Head of Indirect Procurement and Supplier Diversity & Equality | Logitech
David’s career spans over a decade, featuring management roles in finance and more recently procurement. Equality is both a core value for Logitech and a personal passion for David. As procurement leader, David’s priority is to ensure Logitech, and the wider corporate sector, can deliver real progress towards equality through their supplier spend.

Samantha Humphries

Head of Marketing and Security Strategy – EMEA | Exabeam

Samantha has been happily entrenched in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years. During this time she has helped hundreds of organizations of all shapes, sizes, and geographies recover and learn from cyberattacks, defined strategy for pioneering security products and technologies, and is a regular speaker at security conferences around the world. In her current role Sam heads up EMEA marketing for Exabeam, and is also a member of the global security strategy team. She authors articles and blogs for various security publications, has a strong passion for mentoring, and often volunteers at cybersecurity community events, including BSides, The Diana Initiative, and Blue Team Village (DEFCON).

Lee Foster

Chief Technology Officer – Opencast

Lee has over two decades of experience in strategy, architecture and technology consulting. Prior to joining Opencast as Chief Technology Officer, he led global IT enterprise and solution architecture functions at FTSE 100 software company Sage, and has worked with a diverse range of public and private sector clients, shaping technology-enabled business solutions on major transformation programs for Capgemini, BT Global Services and Atos.

Phil Wood

Chief Product and Technology Officer | Six Degrees
Phil is an experienced technology leader who combines a collaborative approach with a culture of continuous improvement to transform businesses across a range of disciplines including cyber security, service management and software delivery. Phil is passionate about finding new and innovative ways to get the most from technology, as well as collaborating with great people to solve those business challenges that many say can’t be fixed. Prior to joining Six Degrees, Phil served in senior leadership roles at easyJet, Travis Perkins, Marks and Spencer, and Home Retail Group.

Richard Hughes

Partner Strategy Director – Seer 365

Richard is a Partner Strategy Director with over two decades of experience in the Microsoft channel. During this time, he has carried out a number of local and global roles at both Microsoft and several leading Systems Integrators. He is currently part of the leadership team at Seer 365, helping partners around the world transform their traditional Microsoft Dynamics 365 sales and implementation models. Richard is a board member of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) for UK and EMEA and he is a strong believer in the power of organizations working and learning together. He is always happy to create links between great people and great organisations.

Mathew Batterbee

Global GTM Solutions Director – Pax8
With a wealth of knowledge of the Microsoft channel in his roles with Microsoft, Ingram Micro Cloud and now Pax8, Mathew has been a big part of the SMB Microsoft Business Applications business not only in the UK but worldwide. He has worked with and enabled Microsoft Partners to build and grow their practices, and has had a lot of fun doing this with his unique online presence and charisma.

Simon Maskrey

Global Strategic Partner Manager | Salesforce Trailhead

As Global Strategic Partner Manager for Trailhead, Salesforce’s training and certification organization, Simon is responsible for the Salesforce Authorized Training Provider program. Simon has 30 years’ multi-national experience within the IT training industry, in a number of cross-functional leadership positions, for organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Avid Technologies.

Dave Johnson

Operations Director | HSO

As Operations Director, Dave has overseen HSO’s organic growth in the UK over the last 10 years, having responsibility for project delivery and customer relationships. The company has grown to be one of the largest Microsoft Dynamics partners in the channel, with Dave responsible for creating hiring initiatives to underpin this, bringing new delivery capability into the team from outside of the channel and initiating a graduate recruitment program.

Prior to joining HSO, he had a career encompassing financial roles in accountancy and health, prior to managing the implementation of an ERP system within a publicly quoted distribution business. This led to a move into the IT services sector, where Dave was responsible for the creation of two Microsoft Dynamics delivery practices for different partners.

Alex Franklin

Modern Workplace Practice Lead | Intelogy

Specializing in Modern Workplace solutions, Alex has maintained a passion for technological change for more than 20 years. He began his career with Lotus Notes in the 1990s, before moving to SharePoint in 2007 and then to the wider Microsoft 365 stack. Alex works with clients across many industries and geographies to identify business pain points, realize opportunities, and bring about successful and lasting change that benefits everyone involved. 

Aaron Rees

CEO | 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.

Carlotta Zorzi

Stategic Partnerships Manager | Shopify
An advocate for social mobility and equitable opportunities, Carlotta holds multiple positions along with her role at Shopify, where she focuses on creating sustainable and mutually-beneficial relationships. She serves as Communication & Operations Lead on the Women at Shopify Leadership team, creating content and facilitating development sessions for 3,000 women globally. Carlotta is also a mentor for women-focused networks like Bloom UK, a Tech Career Coach for School16, a Visiting Professor at Sussex University, and a 2021 WATC TechWomen100 Award winner.

Helena Boulton

Director of Change Enablement EMEA | EPAM

Working in the IT and transformation space for over 25 years, what is important to Helena is ensuring every person impacted by the change are aware and engaged every step of the transformation.—people are her passion. She is also a strong believer in linking the business case ROI to adoption of the tech and new ways of working, to promote and secure success. As a program/change director, Helena has led multi-functional teams across the globe in numerous sectors, delivering critical business, finance, operational and cloud technology solutions. For the last 10 years she has specialised in Salesforce, enabling companies to realise their CRM dreams.

Simon Capel

RVP / Senior Director – Strategic Partner Growth, UK&I | Salesforce

Simon is a results driven business development executive with over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry in the UK and APAC markets. He possesses a strong solution selling based background, gained at leading organisations including IBM and Google. With eight years of direct and channel management experience with SaaS and Cloud solutions in APAC and EMEA markets, Simon is experienced with operating in early stage start-up and new market development environments, and is adept at negotiating complex, high value, strategic deals with C-Level execs across all industry sectors and organization sizes.

DACH

The city of Frankfurt is home to a rich history and picturesque skyline, and in 2023 it also became home to the Digital Revolution Awards for our DACH ceremony. Hosted by co-founder of The Humanized Internet, Monique Morrow, the event helped raise funds for St. Martin’s School and Teenage Cancer Trust.

DACH Winners

The DACH region was also home to a variety of exceptional achievements in the cloud space in 2023. Our winners were crowned in person at Frankfurt’s JW Marriott hotel.

Tech Star of the Year Winner

Adam Bien

Highly Commended:
Chris Huntingford 

Sponsored by Rebura
Outstanding Leader of the Year Winner
Kave Bulambo

Highly Commended:
Anna Brailsford 

Sponsored by Frank Recruitment Group
Diversity and Inclusion Employer of the Year Winner
Delivery Hero

Highly Commended:
IBM

Sponsored by Revolent

Outstanding Contribution to the Earth Winner

Climeworks
Sponsored by Cognizant

Outstanding Contribution to the Microsoft Community Winner

Thomas Maurer 

Highly Commended:
Benjamin Abt

Sponsored by Hitachi Solutions

Outstanding Contribution to the Google Cloud Community Winner

Natalie Pistunovich

Highly Commended:
Ronna Steinberg

Outstanding Contribution to the Salesforce Community Winner

Doina Popa

Highly Commended:
Alan Thomas Payne

Sponsored by Adapt – IQ 

Excellence in Learning and Development Winner

T-Systems

Highly Commended:
Deliveroo 

Sponsored by HSO

Outstanding Contribution to the AWS Community Winner

Nana Janashia

Highly Commended:
Alexey Grigorev

Best Salesforce Partner to Work For Winner

Eigenherd

Best AWS Partner to Work For Winner

Rackspace Technology

Tech for Good Joint Winners

Amboss

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year Winner

IKEA

Highly Commended:
Version1

Best Microsoft Partner to Work For Winner

Reply Group

Highly Commended:
Ancoris 

Digital Transformation Project of the Year Winner

Deutsche Bahn

Best Google Cloud Partner to Work For Winner

Materna Information

Highly Commended:
Ancoris 

Digital Transformation Project of the Year Winner

Deutsche Bahn

DACH Shortlist

After a record-breaking year for nominations in the Digital Revolution Awards, the following have been recognized by our judges for using cloud technology to make the world a better place to live and work, and will be celebrated and a winner declared at our in-person awards ceremony and fundraiser in London in April.

Nana Janashia
Content Creator and DevOps Trainer at TechWorld with Nana

Alexey Grigorev
Principal Data Scientist at OLX Group and Founder of DataTalks.Club

Tobias Fenster
Microsoft MVP and Managing Partner at 4PS Germany

Martina Grom
IT-Consultant, Co-founder and CEO of atwor

Ragnar Heil
Microsoft MVP, Podcaster at Alex and Ragnar Show and Channel Account Manager EMEA Central at Quest Software

Adam Bien
AWS Hero, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, Podcaster, YouTuber, and Freelance Consultant

Christian Szandor Knapp
Salesforce MVP and Principal Technology Evangelist Salesforce at DIA

Gregor Reimling
Microsoft Azure MVP and Microsoft MCT, Managing Consultant at adesso SE

Angela Maragkopoulou
Chief Operating Officer at DWS Group

Felicitas Birkner
Head of Business & Head of Fujitsu Academy Expertise at Fujitsu

Kave Bulambo
Founder – Head of Talent at TalentDiverse EU

Georgie Smallwood
Chief Product Officer at TIER Mobility

Irina Schellenberg
Senior Associate Global SAP Alliance at PwC Deutschland

Sabine Bendiek
Chief People and Operating Officer, Member of the Executive Board at SAP 

T-Systems

B.telligent

Unit 4

Deutsche Telekom

Persistent Systems

Nana Janashia
Content Creator and DevOps Trainer atTechWorld with Nana

Alexey Grigorev
Principal Data Scientist at OLX Group, Founder of DataTalks.Club

Renato Losio
AWS Data Hero and Principal Cloud Architect at Funambol

Sam Williams
Founder at Complete Coding

Thorsten Höger
AWS DevTools Hero and CEO, Cloud Automation Evangelist at Taimos GmbH Consulting

Benjamin Abt
Microsoft MVP and Principal Software Engineer at medialesson GmbH

Carsten Rachfahl
Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP & Azure MVP and Technical Director at Rachfahl IT-Solutions GmbH & Co. KG

Thomas Maurer
Former Microsoft MVP and Senior PM and Chief Evangelist Azure Hybrid at Microsoft 

Eric Berg
Microsoft MVP Azure and CDM and Vice President Consulting Expert at CGI 

Sammy Deprez
Head of Technology at Arinti

Antje Lamartine
Microsoft MVP, Lead Adoption and Change Management M365 at IF-Blueprint AG

William Durkin
Co-Founder at Data Masterminds

Natalie Pistunovich
Lecturer: Cloud and Infrastructure atHochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

Ronna Steinberg
Technologist, Google Developer Expert for Go at Women Who Go Berlin, Chapter Lead

Enrique López Mañas
Freelance Software Engineer 

Tomas Trajan
Managing Director at solveo GmbH

Christian Szandor Knapp
Salesforce MVP and Principal Technology Evangelist Salesforce at DIA 

Sanchit Dua
Salesforce Architect at Adesso

Doina Popa
Chief Executive Officer at InnoTrue

Narender Singh
Salesforce MVP and Salesforce Developer at Salesfive Consulting GmbH

Alan Thomas Payne
Senior Project/Program Manager and Co-Lead the Frankfurt, Germany, Salesforce Trailblazer User Group

Cyril Louis
Salesforce MVP, CEO and Co-founder at Mavericx

Climeworks

Green City Solutions

CleanHub

Techem

Electric Feel

RiDERgy

Koenig & Bauer

Deutsche Bahn

Deloitte

Crayon

IN4IT

Necko Technologies

Fortinet

Mendix

Climeworks

Ada

Amboss

Tracifier

TIER

Techem

Vera Solutions

PwC

Doctorly

Electric Feel

Eureka Solutions

Head in The Cloud

Next Technik

NoBlue

MacroFin

Brightbridge 

Nolan Business

NA

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Our Frankfurt 2023 Judges

The Digital Revolution Awards celebrate the cloud industry’s very best pioneers, innovators and glass ceiling breakers across categories that recognize sustainability, employer branding, ED&I, talent development, and L&D. We’ve put together an expert panel that represents some of tech’s leading figures, meaning they’re best placed to judge the individuals and organizations that have truly excelled in the last year.

Aga Biegluk

Head of Talent Acquisition, EMEA | Infosys
As the regional Head of Talent Acquisition at Infosys, Aga oversees hiring in over 30 countries throughout EMEA. A strong believer in the power of people, human relationships and the culture of collaboration, she is passionate about maintaining an inclusive, supportive, friendly work environment and the constant pursuit of new creative ways to increase efficiency and productivity.

Markus Meukel

Vice President Alliances & Channels | Salesforce

Markus leads Salesforce’s Global Industry Business Development and Competitive Programs team, which are part of its Industry Advisory organization. He joined Salesforce in July 2020 after six years at McKinsey & Co, where he served as their Vice President of Digital Transformation and IOT. Markus has over 22 years of tech experience working in senior leadership roles in sales, program management and strategy consulting, working for companies that include Cisco, Telefonica and Deloitte.

Astrid Wieland

Small & Medium Business Sales Lead Business Applications | Microsoft

Astrid is an experienced sales and marketing leader with a track record of business strategy, sales leadership and hands-on execution excellence. With more than eight years of expertise in the IT industry, she has established herself as a successful woman in tech in an international organization. Currently leading Small and Medium Business Sales for Business Applications across 12 countries for the Microsoft Western Europe Headquarters, Astrid is also Co-Founder of #thenewITgirls – a community for women in IT that aims to empower and support women in the tech industry.

Özgür Solmaz

Sales Director | Rackspace
In his role as DACH Sales Director Automotive at Rackspace Technology, Özgür is responsible for a fast-growing vertical and within that, for one of the largest automotive manufacturers worldwide. With over 22 years of sales experience in the IT industry, Özgür focuses on global and strategic customers by supporting them in defining and executing their cloud and IT strategies.

Femi Adedimeji

Innovation Project Manager | AVEVA
Femi graduated from the University of Manchester with a Master’s in engineering in Biomedical Materials Science. She has over 10 years’ experience in industrial cloud computing, engineering and technical training. She is currently Innovation Project Manager at AVEVA, Frankfurt, where she facilitates, nurtures and drives a culture of innovation by collaborating across technical teams to create opportunities for new ideas to flourish. An advocate for race and gender diversity in technology, Femi is also part of the team that founded the BLACK Voices employee resource group in AVEVA in 2020. She supports the group towards a vision of a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all.

Roberto Galdo

DACH Salesforce Service Line Leader | Merkle
Roberto Galdo is the Head of Salesforce Service Line at Merkle DACH, where he supports more than 500 talented professionals to express their full potential and deliver top-of-the-market solutions to over 400 world-class clients. During his 14 years of experience in technology, innovation and people engagement, Roberto has delivered game-changing Cloud and CX solutions to top brands from several industries—under Roberto’s lead, Merkle has been awarded Partner of the Year 21/22 by Salesforce Switzerland. Always keen on nourishing talents, Roberto looks forward to being part of the Digital Revolution Awards judging panel to give his support to the brilliant individuals and innovative companies that are taking part in this year’s awards.

Doris Schlaffera

Change and Transformation Expert, Location Manager | Communardo Software GmbH

As a business consultant and IT change expert, Doris’ activities focus on the human aspects of digital transformation, such as employee acceptance or the successful integration of new technologies into modern corporate cultures and processes. In recent years, she has specialized in various Microsoft 365 services such as Microsoft Teams, Yammer, SharePoint Online and the employee experience platform Viva. Doris graduated from the College of Multimedia Design at the “Graphische” in Vienna and found her way into IT only by chance. Since then, she has put her heart and soul into it and founded the IT women’s network #thenewITgirls. She has worked at Communardo Software Gmbh since 2021 and is Location Manager in Vienna.

Hendrik Adam

CEO | DIA

Hendrik founded DIA in 2001. He leads the company as CEO and is a Salesforce expert with more than 15 years of experience. DIA joined the Salesforce ecoystem in 2006 and is one of the leading Salesforce Partners in the DACH market, with more than 100 employees and offices in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Villingen-Schwenningen. The firm offers next-generation cloud technologies, services and products on the Salesforce platform for several industries, with extensive experience in manufacturing and retail. Before DIA, Hendrik was employed by Continental and studied Electrical Engineering at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Andreas Mertens

CEO | avameo GmbH 

Andreas is a serial entrepreneur and passionate computer scientist, with more than 25 years of experience using it in business. As CEO of avameo GmbH he supports companies in developing their digitization strategy, and is currently working on an innovative personnel development software that’s based on a big data and AI research project. He supports young entrepreneurs as a coach and is a member of the jury for start-ups from the renewable energy sector at the PitchNight Spreewind in Potsdam. He also lectures at well-known universities and passes on his practical experience to young talents.

Cyril Louis

CEO  & Co-Founder | Mavericx

Cyril is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mavericx, a professional services firm that helps companies ensure the very best customer experience each and every time. Mavericx deliver innovative and outstanding cutting-edge solutions using platforms such as Salesforce, Ibexa, Celonis, UiPath and complementary Cloud technologies. Prior to setting up Mavericx, Cyril obtained his MBA from ISC Paris Business School, and acquired over 20 years’ experience in the technology and marketing industries. Cyril also regularly shares his vision on topics such as digital transformation and omnichannel customer experience, whether in publications or at conferences.

Stephanie Cramer

Recruiting Lead and HR Business Partner | entero AG

Stefanie is Recruiting Lead and HR Business Partner of the business and IT consulting company entero AG, which supports manufacturing companies and B2B service providers into the digital future and optimize processes in sales, service and marketing as well as procurement and order processing – often based on industry and specialist solutions related to Salesforce. Before joining entero in 2019, Stefanie worked as Recruiter and Training Advisor at Accenture. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Leadership.

Nico Schilling

Client Technology Lead | Rackspace Technology
Nico brings 13+ years of direct, hands-on experience with expertise in the strategy, planning, integration, implementation, and operations of large business cloud programs. In his role as a Client Technology Lead for Rackspace Technology he is responsible for one of the largest automotive manufacturers worldwide, working closely with the Rackspace professional service delivery team and with his customer, including technical guidance and staffing.

Jens Christian Zwenger

Partner, Salesforce Consulting Leader | PwC

Jens leads PwC‘s Salesforce consulting alliance in Germany. He has worked for more than 18 years in professional consulting as a trusted advisor across industries. He is a known expert in cloud-based transformations with a focus on Salesforce products and technologies. He steered some of the largest Salesforce implementations in EMEA, as well as PwC’s own Salesforce rollout in Europe. Jens is an enthusiastic leader who has successfully built and grown Salesforce consulting units.

Jacqueline Considine

Sales Director | Salesforce Partner 

Jacqueline is a most recent Directorial appointment at EPAM, joining to lead their DACH Salesforce Partner Business. 

With over 25 years of IT experience in Senior Leadership roles across enterprise sales, alliances, partner management, and strategic consulting, Jacqueline has worked with the likes of Dell, BMC for Cisco and Salesforce, Mindtree, Vonage, and Copado. 

Jacqueline is proudly ITIL V3 certified and has served the Salesforce ecosystem for almost two decades at both the ISV and GSI levels in EMEA and across the globe. 

Henning Heesch

Founder and CEO | entero AG
Henning is Founder and CEO of the business and IT consulting company entero AG, which supports manufacturing companies and B2B service providers into the digital future, and optimizes processes in sales, service and marketing as well as procurement and order processing—often based on industry and specialist solutions related to Salesforce. Before founding entero, Henning initiated and accompanied change management processes as an Employee Development Manager at Dow Chemical. He then learned the consulting business at Accenture, a global consultancy. Henning holds a degree in process engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg.

Sissy Tongendorff

Head of Diversity & Inclusion | Capgemini
Sissy is responsible for Diversity & Inclusion at Capgemini in Germany with a focus on the dimensions of life phases, work-life balance, women in IT, the LGBTQ+ community and people with different nationalities and disabilities. She leads the external auditing by berufundfamilie GmbH with the ambition to make visible and valuable progress on Capgemini’s D&I journey for its talents and the outside world—for potential employees, investors, companies, partners and customers. Moreover, under Sissy’s lead, Capgemini was also certified by EDGE, the Leading Global Certification for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Igor Guss

Senior Manager IaaS | Ingram Micro Distribution GmbH

Igor has headed the Infrastructure-as-a-Service business unit at Ingram Micro since 2020, and is responsible for cloud partner recruitment, enablement and scale for Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. He currently leads a team consisting of Sales, Pre-Sales and Business Development Managers. Having first joined the company in 2015, he was previously responsible for the portfolio of Ingram Micro’s Cloud Marketplace in Germany and also running Ingram Micro’s German start-up competition Come Challenge in 2019. 

Claude Bravi

Head of Customer Experience and CRM | Neo Technologies

Claude is a growth-focused leader with a track record of unlocking value for tech and multinational corporations through successful product/service digital strategies and launches, agile business transformation strategies, and marketing across varies B2B/B2C segments globally. His areas of expertise also includes marketing communications, GDPR, data security and compliance, and digital strategy development. An experienced leader, Claude has also served as a coach and mentor throughout his career.

Roman Weber

Founder and CEO | NFQ X GmbH

Roman is a marketing technology pioneer. He is founder and managing partner of NFQ X, a Salesforce partner offering all CRM services from a single source: strategy, technology, analytics and operations. Roman is a CRM and loyalty evangelist with over 17 years of consulting background—he was co-founder of a loyalty consultancy and worked for companies that include BMW in-house consulting, SPS and Accenture.

Prateek Singh Mitter

Practice Manager, Enterprise Packaged Apps. EMEA | Infosys

Prateek spearheads the Enterprise Package service line for Infosys in Europe, which has a significant footprint across the central and eastern regions on the continent. His team pioneers large scale digital transformation programs in Europe by building futuristic business models, best in class business processes and harnessing the power of cloud, analytics and intelligence. Prateek is passionate about nurturing a world-class consulting practice which leaves a lasting impact for his customers.

Sebastian Knoll

CEO | Mainfilm

Sebastian is a true visionary in the world of digital entertainment. With livyu, he has transformed the way people experience live music, creating the first digital concert hall for A-list artists and festivals in the EU. His expertise in digital marketing and content creation also led him to found Lookin’Friday, a digital experience agency that focuses on fun and conversion-focused B2B marketing. As CEO of Mainfilm, he brings his innovative approach to the production of B2B content formats for the web 2.0 era.

Oliver Bergius

Director | PwC

Oliver leads PwC‘s enterprise agility consulting practice in Germany. He has worked in professional consulting for more than 15 years, working on large IT and digital transformations across a number of industries. Oliver is a known expert in agile transformations, with a focus on bridging the silos between functions towards a client-focused and product-oriented operating model. Oliver understands technology and cloud enablement as key levers to drive this forward, and is passionate about using tech to make a difference.

Lars Heiermann

Director Digital Workplace Engineering | CONET

Lars has been a dedicated champion of digital development and change for more than 20 years. As a software developer and driver for innovation, the computer science graduate is particularly passionate about AI, data analytics and all things M365. Lars has been working for IT consulting company CONET in various specialist and management roles since 2000. His current roles includes a big focus on talent discovery and development among CONET’s software engineering and tech professionals

Stephan Lemmen

Senior Manager | Arlanis Reply

Stephan is responsible for the successful business development that helps Arlanis Reply grow its customer base. Due to his extraordinary communication skills he very successfully nurtures key relationships with clients, partners, and other external stakeholders. Since 2007 Stephan has been highly experienced in CRM business and has a deep integration knowledge, especially with MuleSoft. He has gained extensive worldwide project experience in large scale enterprise companies in numerous industries. In addition, Stephan has a proven track record of combining technical knowledge with deep business understanding, which makes him a valuable partner for business partners and customers.

Sebastian Paas

Partner | PwC

Sebastian Paas is a cloud and digital leader in Germany and EMEA with over 20 years of professional experience in CIO and technology consulting. He specializes in the planning and management of large IT transformations, as well as IT strategic issues, and is a regular columnist at CIO Magazine Online, as well as a blogger and guest lecturer at the renowned ESCP Europe. 

Dominic Greenwood

Group Chief Operating Officer | Expersoft Systems

Dominics background is in advanced technology and its application to varied business domains, with a central focus on financial services solutions. He is currently COO at Group level and is responsible for the evolution of group products, including the flagship PM1 solution for wealth and asset management. Dominic has published more than 60 peer-reviewed academic publications, holds patents, and is an occasional consultant to the European Commission ICT research programme. 

Florian Evers

Managing Director, Germany & Spain – Director, UK | EMPAUA DE

Florian is Managing Director at Salesforce consulting firm EMPAUA. With over a decade of leadership experience he is part of the team helping hyper-growth companies use digital solutions to help drive their businesses forward, whilst also empowering its own people to constantly grow alongside them.

Ruediger Dorn

Partner Strategic Hyperscaler Alliances DACH

Ruediger leads strategic partnerships with cloud providers within IBM Consulting Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In his role he is responsible for driving businesses together with alliance partners, shaping new joint offerings and supporting the continuous growth of the hyperscale practice within IBM Consulting. Prior to this Ruediger worked in international leadership positions at large cloud providers like Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Martin Whyte

Partner, Digital Operations | PwC

Martin is a Partner in PwC’s technology consulting practice and leads the digital operations analytics team, with a focus on data strategy and big data. He has more than 15 years of experience in data and analytics and is an expert in data-driven transformations. He has a proven track record in medium and large scale projects and programs, with hands-on experience in implementing highly effective solutions. Furthermore, he has worked in various industries developing data lake architectures based on different technology stacks.

Florian Evers

Managing Director, Germany & Spain – Director, UK | EMPAUA DE

Florian is Managing Director at Salesforce consulting firm EMPAUA. With over a decade of leadership experience he is part of the team helping hyper-growth companies use digital solutions to help drive their businesses forward, whilst also empowering its own people to constantly grow alongside them.

NORTH AMERICA

North America saw its own online ceremony and fundraiser in the 2023 Digital Revolution Awards, which helped raise funds for social non-profit initiative Climb Hire. Home to a rich pool of cloud innovators and evangelists, we celebrated the very best of the best from North America in style.

North America Winners

Our North American winners were decided after some of the toughest judging roundtables in the history of the Digital Revolution Awards. With joint winners and highly commended names in many categories, it showed the true depth that exists in cloud ecosystems across North America.

Tech for Good Winner

Food Rescue 

Highly Commended:
Food Rescue

Excellence in Learning and Development Joint Winners

Per Scholas

The Hidden Genius Project

Highly Commended:
Code First Girls
Chambal Academy
 

Sponsored by HSO

Outstanding Contribution to the Earth Winner

Oceanworks 

Sponsored by Cognizant

Outstanding Contribution to the Google Cloud Community Winner

Jennifer Bland 

Highly Commended:
Annyce Davis

Outstanding Leader of the Year Winner

Laura Ipsen

Highly Commended:
Name here

Sponsored by Frank Recruitment Group

Outstanding Contribution to the Salesforce Community Winner

Tiffany Spencer 

Highly Commended:
Name here

Sponsored by Adapt – IQ 

Tech Star of the Year Joint Winners

Aly Murray JN Hernández

Highly Commended:
Aly Murray

Sponsored by Rebura

Diversity Ally of the Year Winner

Eric Dreshfield 

Highly Commended:
Name here

Outstanding Contribution to the Microsoft Community Winner

Bradley Wyatt 

Highly Commended:
Julie Yack

Sponsored by Hitachi Solutions

Outstanding Contribution to the AWS Community Winner

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation 

Highly Commended:
Hiroko Nishimura
Kesha Williams

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year Winner

KnowBe4

Highly Commended:
Name here

Digital Transformation Project of the Year Winner

NICE

Best ServiceNow Partner to Work For Winner

InSource 

Best AWS Partner to Work For Winner

NetApp Inc

Best Google Cloud Partner to Work For Winner

PA Consulting Group

Highly Commended:
Softserve 

Best Microsoft Partner to Work For Joint Winners

Forvis McKinsey and Co

Highly Commended:
Name here

Best Salesforce Partner to Work For Joint Winners

Slalom

Spaulding Ridge 

Highly Commended:
Name here

Best NetSuite Partner to Work For Winner

Crowe

Diversity and Inclusion Employer of the Year Winner

Cariloop

Highly Commended:
Name here

Sponsored by Revolent

North America Shortlist

After a record-breaking year for nominations in the Digital Revolution Awards, the following have been recognized by our judges for using cloud technology to make the world a better place to live and work, and will be celebrated and a winner declared at our virtual awards ceremony and fundraiser in May.

Tech for Good

Tiki

Food Rescue

Deaf Kids Code

Oceanworks

Polaris Project

Aly Murray
Founder and Executive Director at UPchieve

Charity Water

John O’Hare

Catalyst Consulting Group

Per Scholas

CareMessage

Quit Genius

Excellence in Learning and Development

Black Girls Code

Per Scholas

Black Boys Code

The Hidden Genius Project

Chick Tech

TechBridge

Atomic Object

Dynatrace

Outstanding Contribution to the Earth

Tech Star of the Year

Lani Yune
Salesforce Consultant Associate at IBM

JN Hernández
DevOps Engineer at Azavea

Sharda Kumari
Salesforce Architect at Airbnb

Aly Murray
Founder and Executive Director at UPchieve 

Jessica Singh
Associate Engineer at Cloudforia 

Stanley See
Salesforce Developer at Gerent

Ivana Tilca
Microsoft Azure and AI MVP, Innovation Evangelist at 3XM Group 

Jake Batchelor
Principal Software Engineer at Itron

Azure McFarlane
Microsoft Business Applications MVP and Senior Consultant at Hitachi Solutions America

Zohar Zimmerman
Salesforce Administrator at Autodesk Construction Solutions

Diversity Ally of the Year

Shireen Hafeez
Founder and President at Deaf Kids Code

Eric Dreshfield
Salesforce MVP and Founder and Event Co-Chair at Midwest Dreamin’

Outstanding Contribution to the Microsoft Community

Adnan Masood
Chief Architect – AI & Machine Learning at UST and Regional Director at Microsoft 

Julie Yack
Chief Operations Officer at Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc 

Diana Carolina Torres
Microsoft MVP and Business Development Manager at Withum

Bradley Wyatt
Microsoft MVP and Cloud Solutions Architect at PSM Partners

Noelle Silver Russell
Microsoft MVP and Global AI Solutions Lead at Accenture 

Sandy Ussia
Microsoft MVP and Co-Founder at NLightning LLC

Steve Mordue
Microsoft MVP and CEO at Forceworks

Outstanding Contribution to the Google Cloud Community

Jennifer Bland
Google Developers Expert and Senior Software Engineer at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

Annyce Davis
Vice President Of Engineering at Meetup 

Justin Schwartzenberger
Google Developer Expert and Product Manager and Educator at Narwhal Technologies Inc

Aaron Frost
CEO, Founder, Architect at HeroDevs

Ingram Micro Cloud

Pearl Latteier 
Engineering Manager at Vercel

Outstanding Leader of the Year

Ursula Burns
Senior advisor, Teneo

Laura Ipsen
President & CEO at Ellucian

Elizabeth Tobey
Head of Marketing Digital Solutions at NICE’s Digital Solutions Group

Derrick Reyes
CEO & Co-Founder at Queerly Health 

Kathryn Finney
Author and Managing General Partner at Genius Guild

Aly Murray
Founder and Executive Director at UPchieve

Mitra Best
Partner and Technology Impact Leader at PwC 

Outstanding Contribution to the Salesforce Community

Tiffany Spencer
Salesforce MVP and Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Tech Forward Solutions

Ashley Allen and ITequality
Founder & Salesforce Architect at ITequality

Charise Van Liew
Salesforce MVP and Principal Associate, External Affairs at The Pew Charitable Trusts 

Jocelyn Fennewald
Salesforce MVP and Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder at OpMentors

Marisa Hambleton
Salesforce MVP and Founder and CEO at MH2X

Cassie Supilowski
Salesforce MVP and Senior Director of Data Solutions at OneGoal 

Krithika Dharmarajan
Salesforce MVP and Principal at Slalom

Outstanding Contribution to the AWS Community

Hiroko Nishimura
AWS Community Hero, Author “AWS for Non-Engineers” and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn.
 
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
 
Kesha Williams
AWS Machine Learning Hero and Program Director, AWS Cloud Residency at Slalom
 
Chris Williams
AWS Community Hero and Enterprise Architect at World Wide Technology
 
Guillermo Fisher
AWS Data Hero and Head of Engineering at Untapped

Namrata Shah
AWS Community Hero and Managing Director at PwC

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year

Beyond

Expensify

Rockset (US)

Afresh

American Express

CrowdStrike

KnowBe4

Noom

The Lifetime Value Co

Wells Fargo

Digital Transformation Project of the Year

Catalyst Consulting Group

American Airlines

NICE

UCM Digital Health

SeaWorld

The American National Bank of Texas (ANBTX)

Endiem

Best ServiceNow Partner to Work For

Bravium

GlideFast Consulting

InSource

Pathways Consulting Group

Evora IT Solutions

Stefanini

Best AWS Partner to Work For

Mission Cloud

NetApp Inc

Prime TSR

Innovative Solutions

Best Google Cloud Partner to Work For

Zensar Technologies

Softserve

Searce

PA Consulting Group

66degrees

Best Microsoft Partner to Work For

3Cloud

Enavate

Flexware Innovations

Forvis

McKinsey and Co

Unify Consulting

Ingram Micro Cloud

GraVoc Associates, Inc

Best Salesforce Partner to Work For

Slalom

Catalyst Consulting Group

Skedulo

West Monroe Partners

Endiem

Innovate

Bolt Data

Spaulding Ridge

Best NetSuite Partner to Work For

Crowe

Bridgepoint

Bryant Park Consulting

Connor Group

Beyond Cloud

Diversity and Inclusion Employer of the Year

Meroxa

Deloitte

Booz Allen

Everbridge

Cariloop

Red Hat

Brand XR

Workit Health

Blink

Branch

Zoom

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year

Beyond

Expensify

Rockset (US)

Afresh

American Express

CrowdStrike

KnowBe4

Noom

The Lifetime Value Co

Wells Fargo

Digital Transformation Project of the Year

Catalyst Consulting Group

American Airlines

NICE

UCM Digital Health

SeaWorld

The American National Bank of Texas (ANBTX)

Endiem

Our North America 2023 Judges

The Digital Revolution Awards celebrate the cloud industry’s very best pioneers, innovators and glass ceiling breakers across categories that recognize sustainability, employer branding, ED&I, talent development, and L&D. We’ve put together an expert panel that represents some of tech’s leading figures, meaning they’re best placed to judge the individuals and organizations that have truly excelled in the last year.

Ashley Morris

Director of Salesforce Talent Alliance | Salesforce

Ashley leads the Salesforce Talent Alliance, working with Salesforce partners and customers to build the next generation of talent—one that reflects the communities where we live and work. Prior to this role, she spent 10+ years at the intersection of education and recruiting across roles in non-profit, education, and startup sectors. She is a born and bred New Yorker, and can tell you the best pizza spot within a 10 block radius of nearly any location in NYC.

Mike Karban

Senior Cloud Solution Architect | Microsoft