The UK Fibre Awards is judged by a panel of industry experts who brings a range of experiences in the sector. Each judge will individually and independently assess entries on their specific criteria alongside any support information provided.
Though officially retired now after 46 years in the IT and Communications industry, John still moderates panels and leads discussions at major events including the prestigious Comms Vision Convention at Gleneagles and IT Europa’s Managed Services and Hosting Summit.
Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in HR within the telecommunications sector, Lisa Hewitt has collaborated closely with senior leaders to cultivate inclusive and high-performing workplaces.
Itret Latif is CEO of the Federation of Communications Services. He has held several senior non-executive positions in Telecoms and Energy over the last 20 years and has provided evidence to both the House of Commons and House of Lords select committees on telecoms and energy policy. He was first to identify broadband as an essential service and utility and called for regulatory change and restructuring of BT with Openreach.
Nigel Sergent is Editorial Director at Comms Dealer magazine, the UK’s leading industry publication addressing the voice & data industry. Nigel’s career started at 17 in local and sports journalism. He worked on local and national titles before leaving the newspaper business to establish his own PR and marketing company operating in the technology sector. He then co-founded Comms Dealer in 1996 with a goal to inform, motivate and educate resellers operating in the rapidly developing independent telecoms sector. Since then, Comms Dealer has established itself as the ‘de facto’ thought leadership magazine for the ‘channel’ and as part of the BPL Business Media group has been instrumental in the launch of a series of educational networking events and the highly popular ‘Comms Vision’ industry summit.
Chris Stening is an Executive Coach & Advisor helping leaders in the Full Fibre & ISP community navigate through challenging times and realise their own potential in their professional and personal lives. He has run, led or transformed six Challenger Broadband businesses spanning Wholesale, Retail, Consumer and SME. His experience includes leading the change of CityFibre from a Business to Consumer Fibre provider, running Separation & Integration planning for the proposed £10.25bn merger of 3UK & O2 UK, the sale and migration of 600k O2 Broadband customers to Sky and the launch of Sky Broadband in 2005. Chris is an active supporter of DEI having sponsored and established LGBT+ networks in O2 and CityFibre.
Neil Wilson is an award-winning and accomplished Product & Marketing Leader. He brings extensive experience in both the telecoms and technology spaces, in start-up, to high growth and corporate businesses in the B2B and channel markets. This includes 13 years at Alternative Networks before taking the leap into Wholesale and spending eight years at Virtual1. He was most recently responsible for launching PXC into the market.
An accomplished People and Culture Director in IT /Comms/Professional Services (Chess and inTEC Group, AMS Group) Kate works with organisations driving employee engagement, ensuring teams feel valued whilst focused on business growth. Kate is a lively keynote speaker who has enjoyed speaking at many conferences. Kate is continually driving the Women in Tech agenda, and co - leads WIT North.