We’re pleased to announce the Oystercatchers Awards 24 jury!
The Oystercatchers’ Awards recognise and reward excellence across our industry, and showcase how agencies are delivering growth and creativity for their clients.
Every year, a panel of marketing experts – who are no strangers to excellence- come together to deliberate scores of entries and crown the winners across our 12 categories. This year and as always, the judging panel includes marketing and brand directors from successful global brands and household names. See our list of industry experts below, with more incredible names to be announced soon!
Our Judges
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ALDERMORE BANK
Nicola is Group Head of Marketing Communications at Aldermore. She is responsible for leading a team in delivering B2B and B2C marketing campaigns, customer communications, strategic initiatives and partnership and event activity. Much of her career to date has been with HSBC. In her last role as Global Head of Brand Activation and Strategic Programmes she led, transformed and enhanced the Global Airport Programme, delivered high profile global campaigns and brand relaunches. She started out working agency side, in smaller boutique agencies and at Haygarth part of the Omnicom group.
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TJX EUROPE
With over 40 years of Retail Marketing / Operational experience, Darren has been with TJX Europe for 19 years. Presently the VP Director of Customer Service for TJX Europe. Prior to this role Darren managed TJX’s Digital Collaboration Strategy for our associates and previous to this managed TJX Europe’s Shopping Experience strategy. Previous to TJX, Darren worked at Levi’s and McDonald’s in various Marketing, Franchise and operational roles.
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THREE
Chris is Head of Marketing and Communications at Three, leading a team that spans Brand Strategy, Advertising, PR, Social, CRM and B2B Marketing. Prior to Three, Chris worked both agency and client side for some of the world’s largest, fastest growing and most innovative businesses. Chris is passionate about creativity, brands and technology.
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FINANCIAL TIMES
With an experienced background in the media industry, particularly in digital transformation and subscriptions, Fiona currently leads the global Consumer Revenue Group at the Financial Times and is responsible for consumer marketing, customer care and business development growth in order to support, fund and champion quality journalism. Prior to this, Spooner was global marketing director. In this role, she was instrumental in developing the FT’s reader revenue model, and developing FT Strategies, a boutique consultancy that helps clients build sustainable digital business models.
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CHELSEA FC
Claire joined Chelsea Football Club in August 2023, as Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing the brand, creative, growth marketing and fan engagement teams. Prior to joining Chelsea, Claire served as CMO with the McLaren Formula 1 team, spearheading their entry into Extreme E, a sustainable race series, targeting a new demographic of motor-racing fans. Whilst at McLaren she oversaw a fivefold increase to the marketable fanbase, helping the team to attract premium brand partners such as Jack Daniels and Google. Prior to working in the sports sector, Cronin spent 20 years working in consumer-facing brands across Barclays, NetJets and Virgin. Whilst at Virgin Atlantic, she oversaw the sponsorship of the NFL London Games, securing the airline’s position at the leading transatlantic carrier.
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BARCLAYS
Paul leads the Brand Communications team at Barclays and is responsible for the development of all Advertising communications for both Barclays and Barclaycard. He is also responsible for Brand management, Social Media and BUK’s Sponsorship programmes. Paul has been with Barclays for over 10 years, and in this time he has led several teams including Performance Marketing, Communications and Media Planning in addition to leading the Creative Studio teams. Prior to Barclays, Paul worked agency side, leading Account Management, New Business and Marketing teams at Rapier and WWAV Rapp Collins (Rapp).
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BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION
A commercially savvy marketing director with rich experience across integrated multi-channel communications, Damion has worked with start-ups and mature brands to build sector leading brand and marketing excellence through insightful and inspiring creative. Offering 15 years of B2B and B2C experience across advertising, digital, campaign, proposition and operational management.
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AMERICAN EXPRESS
Rich is responsible for the Amex GBT global brand strategy, advertising, and management. Rich also leads the team responsible for marketing communications activity across our core travel solutions, professional services, technology products, multi-segment clients and partners. He has over 15 years of experience in marketing leadership, leading large global teams across brand, media, communications, and digital functions. Prior to Amex GBT, Rich worked at Barclays where he held various large transformation marketing and brand roles.
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INVESTEC
Alison’s career spans marketing roles across the banking sector in investment, corporate, private and retail banking, delivering commercial returns through a juxtaposition of creative story-telling, digital, media and event marketing. Combining this with her experience and passion leading programmes in corporate fundraising, diversity and inclusion, music education and the entrepreneurialism sector, Alison’s approach is underpinned by enabling teams to seeing opportunities through a different lens.
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Mark is an incredibly talented and experienced marketer who combines creative skill with a commercial approach. Mark has over 20 years experience of building FMCG brands across a variety of different categories and businesses.
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INNOCENT DRINKS
Irem is Europe Head of Brand and Portfolio, innocent drinks. In her role, she is responsible for group brand and portfolio strategy across Europe, connecting the consumer to innocent’s brand through nurturing the healthy little drinks portfolio of innocent and creating winning brand experiences. She is also responsible for the group’s digital and media strategy. Irem’s drive is inspiring everyone in the organisation to put the consumer at the heart of everything by defining the long-term European brand and portfolio strategy for scalable and profitable growth.
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CLEAR CHANNEL
Aimee McKay is UK Client Partnership Director & Europe Lead at Clear Channel. She joined Clear Channel back in 2002 and has worked across a variety of roles within the Commercial Sales team, with 2020 seeing her take on additional responsibility for Clear Channel Europe and its International sales team. With over 22 years media experience, working across the UK, Europe, and Australasia, Aimee has a wealth of industry experience, and as well as her stints at Clear Channel, has worked as Sales Director for blowUP media, responsible for the UK sales and marketing teams.
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WHICH?
Neil is the Director of Audiences, Brand and Communications at Which? He is also the sponsor for Sustainability and for Data Strategy on Which’s leadership team. Which? is the UK’s leading not-for-profit consumer champion, an organisation tackling consumer harm by making life simpler, fairer and safer for everyone. Previously Neil has headed up brands across a range of client roles, including Audible UK – Amazon’s audiobook company where he launched Audible Original Podcasts, BBC Radio and Music – including network radio brand such as BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4, and internationally for BBC World Service and BBC World News television.
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METROPOLITAN POLICE
Stephanie is the Head of Campaigns and Marketing at the Metropolitan Police Service where she oversees behavioural change campaigns designed to encourage people to take simple steps to protect themselves and their property from crime. She also delivers always on Police Constable Recruitment Campaigns at scale to increase the diversity of the organisation.
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CITY FIBRE
Dan Ramsay is Chief Marketing Officer at CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent fibre broadband network. He is responsible for product development, PR, marketing promotions and co-marketing with major brands such as Vodafone and TalkTalk. Prior to CityFibre, Dan lead the UK Government’s campaign to promote the UK to the world, growing tourism, trade and UK education in 144 countries. He is formerly the Consumer Marketing Director at BT, leading the growth of a £1bn annual revenue broadband, TV and BT Sport business.
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ION
Anthony is a strategic leader in marketing and communications. With 25 years of experience leading in-house marketing and communications agency teams at ION, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, and more, he specialises in building high-performing marketing teams. He thrives on collaboration and sharing expertise to drive industry excellence. His career reflects a commitment to solving business challenges through creative design and technology, guided by the ethos of hiring and nurturing exceptional talent.