Leading travel buyers, representing a wide range of industry sectors, from finance to pharmaceuticals, and specialist journalists, the judges have been allocated categories based on their specialist knowledge, but also with a view to avoiding any conflict of interest. The judges for the 2012 Business Travel Awards take their role seriously, agreeing to give up their time to consider the hundreds of entries across the 22 categories. The judges who have confirmed their involvement to date are as follows:

Geoff Allwright, Travel and Expenses Manager, EADS UK

 

Geoff is UK manager for EADS travel, with a fully online travel and expense programme, linked to major global suppliers. EADS group includes Airbus, Eurocopter and Astrium Satellites. Prior to EADS Geoff worked on travel programmes with Intel and HP.

Danielle Bartlett , Buying Manager – Group Travel, Tesco,

Danielle’s Tesco career started in 2006 in the buying team, initially within retail consumables, moving into travel two years later. As buyer for travel & MICE UK, she progressed quickly before accepting her current role of buying manager, group travel in 2010. Danielle was responsible for Tesco’s first event production e-auction and today, she is at the forefront of developing Tesco’s travel and meetings strategies and industry leading travel technology and tools

 

Simone Buckley, Director of Travel Programme Optimisation, Bouda

 

Simone has 18 years’ experience in the business travel industry, having held various roles in operations, account management, sales and marketing with leading travel management companies. Prior to setting up Bouda, she held the position of managing director at Capita Business Travel. Having been appointed to the executive board of the Guild of Travel Management Companies, she chaired the Surface Transport Working Party. Simone has both national and global experience previously holding senior positions at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Rosenbluth International and HRG.

 

With more than 30 years' procurement experience for a number of national and international organisations, Mike has been responsible for indirect purchasing for Alcatel-Lucent - a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services - since joining them in 1993.

 

Over the past 15 years, he has successfully navigated the UK&I organisation from a fully decentralised and uncoordinated travel model to achieve a single UK&I travel policy with a well defined strategy for airlines, International rail, hotels and car hire - all geared to achieve the required savings, as well as providing support and security for travellers.

 

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Lucy Davidson, Category Manager, Procurement Travel, Congress & Events, Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd

 

Lucy joined the European Finance/Procurement Department for Astellas Pharma Europe in July 2007. With over 20 years’ corporate experience, working across both public and private sectors, including banking, oil, IT and pharmaceuticals, she has built strong relationships with preferred TMC, airline, hotel, expense management, technology and ground transportation suppliers. In her role, Lucy has led the development and implementation of the procurement strategy across Europe, including an e-travel integration solution resulting in significant savings. Lucy is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

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Robert Daykin, Senior Partner, The Corporate Travel Partnership (CTP)

 

Following a 20-year career in sales and marketing, Robert moved into travel purchasing and management where he developed and implemented the strategic direction for the T&E category at the Littlewoods Organisation, Dresser Industries Inc. in the UK, and the Halliburton Company for the Europe/Africa region. In 2000 he established his own consultancy, travelConsult, focused exclusively on the T&E category, before joining forces with two other well known T&E specialists, to form Corporate Travel Partners Limited (CTP). Clients range from SMEs to UK FTSE 100 companies and major multi-nationals, as well as government departments and other public sector organisations. .

 

 

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Since joining Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, in 1996, Caroline has worked within the sales and marketing division before taking up the position of corporate travel manager in 2004. As a result of an expanded role this year, she now has overall responsibility for all Inmarsat’s global travel and relocation management and procurement. Caroline has over 16 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry having joined Mercury Communications before moving to Cable & Wireless.

Judith Gledhill , UK Travel Manager,, E.On   Winner of the 2011 Business Travel Awards Travel Buyer of the Year title, Judith Gledhill has more than 20 years’ experience in the travel industry, both as a supplier and a buyer. After working for a travel management company, she switched to the corporate client side. Prior to joining E.on, one of the UK's leading energy suppliers, previous roles included EMEA travel manager at SITA, and corporate global travel manager at SurfControl plc. In her current role she has been responsible for establishing and implementing a travel strategy and programme for the UK.

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Toby Guest, Global Travel Manager and Country Champion, Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE)

 

Toby Guest is ACTE country champion for the United Kingdom. This follows 18 years of corporate travel experience in roles ranging from European travel buyer, global travel category manager and global travel manager. Responsibilities have covered travel management of projects and global spend across airlines, hotels, travel agencies, car rental, ground transportation, meetings and events, and corporate cards.

Mervin Moonien, Travel Consultant EMEA Corporate Sourcing,, The Bank of New York Mellon

 

Based in London, Mervin oversees the bank’s EMEA travel division. He joined the company in 2003 and worked in the Finance Division, overseeing the travel and expenses department of a team of six. Since the merger of the Bank of New York and Mellon International, he transferred to the corporate sourcing department to manage travel for the EMEA region. Previously, he worked for Natwest for 14 years, in various departments, and for three years at Commerzbank in its finance department.

He is a member of the Institute of Travel & Meetings and also travel advisor for the Bank of New York Mellon’s CSR team and is actively involved with the company’s ethnicity & equality team.

Bob Papworth, Executive Editor, Buying Business Travel

 

An award-winning journalist, Bob has been specialising in corporate travel issues for more than 15 years. In addition to his role as executive editor of Buying Business Travel, he is also a conference circuit regular, and has moderated events for, among others, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, the Business Travel Market, the Hotel Booking Agents Association, and the Institute of Travel & Meetings.

Mike Toynbee, Managing Editor, Buying Business Travel

Lee has responsibility for the business travel, fleet and expenses policy for the HSBC’s UK based employees, plus overseeing the rest of the EMEA region. He has worked for the bank since 1993 and been in his current role since December 2005, having previously worked in the fleet leasing business.