Chair

Sarah Anderson CBE

Sarah Anderson founded Mayday Group, a specialist employment business agency and ran the company for 19 years before selling it in 2004...Read biography 

Judges

Maxine Benson
Co-founder/Director of Everywoman Ltd

Recognising the enormous gap between women-owned businesses in the UK versus male-owned after returning from 10 years in New York...Read biography

Deirdre Bounds

Founder of i-to-i Meaningful Travel

i-to-i is one of the world's leading Meaningful Travel companies and was launched on the back of Deirdre's own Career Break...Read biography

Cath Collins
Founder, Cath Collins Ltd

Cath Collins developed a unique range of hand-made luxury scented bath and body products, colognes and scents for the home which are now in demand by top stockists and exclusive hotels worldwide...Read biography

Karen Gill
Co-founder/Director of Everywoman Ltd

Karen started Everywoman Ltd in 1999 with business partner Maxine Benson, having a left a successful 15 year career in the hospitality industry...Read biography

Sharon Hilditch MBE
Founder & CEO, Crystal Clear International

Sharon started her first beauty business at the age of 17 and launched Crystal Clear International in 1995, with a £15,000 bank loan. Today, the company exports to over 20 countries...Read biography

Liz Jackson MBE
Founder & MD, Great Guns Marketing

At Age 25 in 1998, Liz Jackson founded Great Guns Marketing in the lounge of her rented flat with £1,000 grant and a £4,000 loan from The Princes Trust...Read biography

Dianne Nelmes
Director of Daytime & Lifestyle, ITV Productions

Dianne Nelmes began her career in newspapers before moving to BBC Television as a reporter. She was a WORLD IN ACTION journalist...Read biography

Joy Nichols MBE
Director and CEO of Nichols Employment Agency Ltd

Joy Nichols is one of the most successful black business women in the UK. She began as a freelance secretary before officially establishing The Nichols Agency in 1984...Read biography

Avril Owton MBE
Proprietor, The Cloud Hotel

Avril Owton owns and runs the award winning Cloud Hotel in Brockenhurst...Read biography 

Christina Vaughan
Founder & CEO, Image Source

Christina is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Image Source, the world’s leading independent producer of royalty free stock photography, and brings more than 18 years of experience in the creation, distribution and marketing of commercial imagery to the company...Read biography

Perween Warsi CBE, MBE, DBA
Chief Executive and Founder – S&A Foods.

Perween Warsi has, in twenty years, masterminded the development of the UK’s fastest-growing independent food manufacturing company, S&A Foods...Read biography

Beverly Webster OBE

Managing Director, Prosperis

Beverley Webster ran a manufacturing company for over 20 years designing and manufacturing tunneling equipment for the mining and construction industries. As the first woman and youngest ever president of her sector trade association, she was awarded an OBE in recognition of services to the coal industry... Read biography