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For any awards, carrying out fair, consistent, and accurate judging is key to ensuring the true winners are recognized. To deliver this, we have assembled a diverse and unbiased judging panel of experts. The judges are assigned categories which reflect their expertise and are asked to recuse themselves from voting in any category in which there is a conflict of interest.
All Judges are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement for the purpose of preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. This includes the sharing of the information contained within the submission forms with any third parties and communicating with shortlisted nominees in any way.
CEO
bClear Communications
CEO
bClear Communications
Debbie Staveley is a PR professional specialising in financial services, property and construction. Her background includes working in-house at RBS, Bristol & West/Bank of Ireland and a top-75 law firm, establishing both internal and external communication functions.
In 2005, Debbie founded bClear Communications, now one of the most well-respected public relations agencies in the financial services sphere, working throughout the UK. The team at bClear is well known for achieving results and has an outstanding track record of generating extensive media coverage for its clients in both trade and national press.
Debbie can be contacted at: [email protected] or on 01275 542511
Director
Grey Matter Marketing Solutions
Director
Grey Matter Marketing Solutions
Jeff is an experienced professional in the mortgage market and has worked within it since the late 1990s. He has worked for many lenders at Exec Level and now operates as a strategic consultant and runs Mortgage Marketing Forum. His expertise spans all things strategy, marketing, products, people development and research.
Event Director
Mortgage Business Expo
Event Director
Mortgage Business Expo
Mike is the Event Director of the successful Mortgage Business Expo series of events that bring Lenders and Intermediaries and has over 30 years of experience in events with an unrivalled knowledge of the b2b, b2c and consumer markets.
Since joining Mortgage Business Expo in 2010 Mike and his team have developed the delegate and exhibitor experience and have introduced many of new innovations that have helped make Mortgage Business Expo a must attend event.
In addition, Mike has been successfully involved in a wide range of projects from new launches through to turnaround strategies on events, conferences and publications.
Chief Executive
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries
Chief Executive
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries
Head of Distribution
Paragon Bank
Head of Distribution
Paragon Bank
Sally has over 35 years’ experience in financial services, and previously held the role of Head of Intermediary Distribution at Hampshire Trust Bank, and before that Head of Sales at Vida Homeloans. She has a vast amount of experience from her time in the intermediary sector, including roles with OSB, Rooftop Mortgages, Mortgage Trust and Nationwide.
Sally is now Head of Distribution at Paragon, where she is tasked with building relationships with the largest network and club partners. With a focus on raising awareness of the banks buy-to-let proposition, Sally is working to broaden the distribution network and ensure strategies are aligned and opportunities are maximised.
Associate Professor in Real Estate
Birmingham City University
Associate Professor in Real Estate
Birmingham City University
Lecturer, Real Estate Economics
Henley Business School
Lecturer, Real Estate Economics
Henley Business School
Dr Yi Wu is a Lecturer in Real Estate Economics, specialising in housing economics and corporate finance. Dr Wu joined Henley Business School from Cass Business School as Lecturer in Real Estate. Dr Wu spent time as a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego and the National University of Singapore and worked for Yuexiu, a Hong Kong based real estate investment trust and CHER AMI Investment Group, a Guangzhou based private fund.
Dr Wu was appointed as the chair of the Society of Property Researchers (SPR) and chair of RED Foundation Data Research & Academia Steering Group in 2023, co-chair of Global Women in Society in 2022. She has good connections with the real estate industry, including Knight Frank, Co-Star, CBRE, JLL, MSCI, and BNP Paribas Real Estate. She works with various business organizations in shaping big data strategies in business decision.
Managing Director
Square 1 Media
Managing Director
Square 1 Media
Paul has worked in marketing within the financial services and property sectors in a career spanning over 25 years. Since 2001, he has held Head of or Marketing Director roles in businesses like Platform (the intermediary lender of Co-op), Lehman Brothers and Countrywide and has managed both B2B and B2C.
His experience includes relaunching Platform in 2003 following the merger with Verso, setting up a bids team at Countrywide to win multimillion £ valuation contracts with lenders, acting as PR spokesperson, launching the largest PRS development in the Northwest of England and building a customer retention model for Countrywide’s financial services business. A well-known industry spokesperson, he has an extensive contact list across the mortgage industry.
Founder and CEO
HomeOwners Alliance
Founder and CEO
HomeOwners Alliance
After 15 years working for the UK government and the EU on housing policy, Paula launched the HomeOwners Alliance. Now in its 11th year, HomeOwners Alliance exists to restore trust in home ownership by lobbying for policies and industry practices to get a better deal for homeowners.
With almost 5 million unique visitors a year, her website offers practical help to homeowners facing some of the biggest and most complex decisions of their lives.
Paula is a respected commentator and advocate for homeowners and is regularly quoted in the media and appears on radio and TV.
Executive Chairman
FIBA (Financial Intermediary & Broker Association)
Executive Chairman
FIBA (Financial Intermediary & Broker Association)
Following a career with the Royal Bank of Scotland, in 2005 Adam took over the running of a Financial Trade Association responsible for 1600 Commercial Finance Brokers and 150 UK lenders to business. During that period, he oversaw lending to SME’s of around £100 billion. In addition, he also had the chance to help shape and influence some of the new UK business lenders that came to market following the financial crisis.
Adam is now Consultant to the Financial Intermediary and Broker Association, a Director of Intermediaries at Black and White Bridging and a Director of the Genesis Initiative, helping small businesses across the country gain better access to finance as well as helping small businesses find that all important funding they need to grow their business.
Founder & CEO
We Rise In
Founder & CEO
We Rise In
Faith Locken is the Founder & CEO of We Rise In, an award winning business network whose mission is to inspire, elevate, and develop the careers of black professionals whilst promoting inclusion, equity, and diversity in corporate industries. We Rise In provides its members who are mid-senior level black professionals with a platform and community of like minded people with whom they can connect and do business. We Rise In also works with corporates to address and improve the lack of diversity at senior levels within the industry via inclusion workshops and reverse mentoring programmes.
We Rise In’s clients include real estate consultancies Montagu Evans LLP and Jones Lang LaSalle, and commercial real estate developer Derwent London Plc. We Rise In also provides mentorship and leadership programmes that help mid-senior level black professionals hone the tools and skill sets they need to achieve positions of seniority in their career.
Mortgages and Housing Policy Manager
The Building Societies Association (BSA)
Mortgages and Housing Policy Manager
The Building Societies Association (BSA)
Director
UK Finance-Mortgages
Director
UK Finance-Mortgages
Charles is Director of Mortgages at UK Finance, the trade body for the banking and finance industry, with nearly 120 mortgage lenders in its membership. Charles and his team are responsible for responding to government and regulatory policy requests on behalf of the UK ‘s mortgage lending industry. In addition to his role at UK Finance, Charles is a non-executive of Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions, and chairs its Risk Committee.
With over 30 years in the finance industry, Charles’ career encompasses all parts of the mortgage sector, including an Executive Director and Chief Risk Officer at a top 10 building society, a director in the financial services practice at a Grant Thornton, and 11 years regulatory and compliance experience at the FCA. Whilst at the FCA, Charles, was Head of Department for the mortgage sector, where he oversaw the implementation of both the Mortgage Market Review and the Mortgage Credit Directive.
Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance
University of Reading
Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance
University of Reading
Yuan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of Reading. Before joining Henley Business School, Yuan worked as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Aberdeen where she gained her PhD in Real Estate Finance.
Yuan’s research areas cover a wide range of finance and real estate subjects, including mutual funds; portfolio optimisation; behavioural finance; risk management; crypto assets from finance fields, and housing valuation; real estate finance; sustainability; leasehold relativity from real estate areas.
Yuan has built her research portfolio in real estate and finance with both ABS-ranked 3*/4* journal papers and institution-funded research projects. She has published and served as a referee in several peer-reviewed journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, International Review of Financial Analysis, and International Journal of Finance & Economics. She has worked as a co-investigator in several funded research projects, including the IPF project on the investigation of hurdle rates in the real estate investment process and the consultancy project on London leasehold relativity. Yuan is currently working on research projects on portfolio homogenous subsets, investor sentiment, herding, tokenised real estate, and fund family competition. She is also involved in a Property Research Trust-funded project on occupier profile and the ESG agenda in commercial real estate with the University of Aberdeen.
Senior Policy Adviser
Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI)
Senior Policy Adviser
Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI)
Rachel Edwards is a Senior Policy Adviser at the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries. She is the project lead for Working in Mortgages which is a careers and outreach initiative with more than 130 volunteers from more than 90 firms and is also the project lead for the Green Mortgage Advice Initiative which is a cross-industry project intended to act as a source of support for intermediaries, helping them to understand and address green issues. Rachel’s background in financial services is primarily managing underwriting and processing teams for mortgage lenders.
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder
VAS Group
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder
VAS Group
Stephen has held senior positions within large international property advisory companies carrying out UK and pan European loan security and portfolio valuations for clients including two of the largest European Industrial portfolios. Having also worked for one of the UK’s largest specialist lenders, Stephen has unique experience in carrying out valuation reviews and providing lending advice in all property types and sectors, helping identify property specific valuation and lending risks.
Head of Mortgages and Housing
The Building Societies Association (BSA)
Head of Mortgages and Housing
The Building Societies Association (BSA)
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