Judges | CityAM Awards 2011

The City A.M. Awards 2011 were judged by an expert panel of the most influential people in the UK financial business community.

This independent panel of judges selected by City A.M. assessed all the entries. Judges who have been involved with an entry are not allowed to lobby other judges or vote for that entry.

• Alison Carnwath - Chair, Land Securities and non-executive director of Barclays
• Sir Roger Carr - Chairman of Centrica and CBI President
• Sir Martin Sorrell - Chief Executive of WPP
• Simon Mackenzie-Smith -Chairman of UK & Ireland Corporate and Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Phil Raper - Head of corporate broking, Goldman Sachs UK
• Nigel Boardman - Partner, Slaughter and May
• Simon Borrows - Co-European head of Greenhill
• John Griffith-Jones - Head of KPMG
• Allister Heath - Editor, City AM
• David Hellier - Deputy Editor, City AM
• Roland Rudd - Founder of Finsbury
• Truett Tate - Executive Director, Lloyds Banking Group

Timing of judging and awards ceremony

Judging will begin to take place in May 2011, as soon as all entries have been processed and read by the judges. A shortlist for each award will be published in the beggining of June after the judging day and all entrants will be notified of the shortlist.

All judges will sign non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements before they begin judging the entries.

Judging will then take place in two stages:

Stage One: online entries and short-list

The judges will have access to the written submissions and the supporting material - both mandatory and optional. This is why it is so important that you submit a well-written entry and the correct supporting evidence. The evidence you submit is the only and final evidence that will accompany your submission throughout the judging process and may be used in the audio-visual sequences at the Awards' ceremony, so it is very important that you send good quality illustrations, photographs, video files or examples of marketing material, etc.

 The results will produce the short-list of entries that will be put forward to the second-stage, plenary session. All entrants are notified of the results of the first stage in June.

Stage Two: judges meet in plenary session

The aim of the plenary session is to review and vote on final positions for all the entries which have been put forward from Stage One.

In the plenary session judges will discuss the entries and the supporting evidence before they vote, and the results will be announced at the Awards' ceremony on 21 September, 2011.