We would like to thank this year's memcom judges. The awards are judged independently by our judging panels who are chosen for their expertise and experience. We received an unprecedented number of entries again this year; the judges were hugely impressed with the calibre of the submission, making shortlisting a particularly difficult job as a result!
Alastair Barr
Alastair McCapra
Alex Skinner
Anne Godfrey
Chris Daly
Claire Angus
Danielle Price
David Abraham
Emma Wilcox
Helen Pain
Karin Pappenheim
Kathryn Burton
Kathy Evans
Matt Day
Nick Pahl
Pearl Mensah
Phil Westcott
Richard Hearn
Sarah Poulter
Suzanne Peck
Tali Shlomo
Tom Wilson
Tony Manwaring
Alastair Barr
Alastair is a Chartered Marketer and member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has over 20 years experience in membership organisations and professional associations. He has been responsible for leading commercial projects as well as not-for-profit activities working with a range of stakeholders around the world. Alastair is currently the Head of Membership at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and has previously held senior roles at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
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Alastair McCapra
Alastair McCapra is currently Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. He has previously served as CEO of the Landscape Institute and the Institute of Conservation. He is also voluntary Chair of the National Heritage Science Forum and an editor of Wikipedia.
Alex Skinner
Alex is the co-founder of Pixl8 Group – a London-based creative technical consultancy and digital products business with a wide reach into the membership sector..
Over the last 18 years, Alex’s vision to harness the potential of digital to solve complex business challenges has taken Pixl8 from a start-up with innovative ideas, to an established agency that consistently delivers above and beyond. His belief that clients should expect more underpins his commitment to understanding the business and technical needs of every organisation he works with and then solving the challenges intelligently. This approach has helped him to build trusted partnerships with over 100 clients across a broad range of membership bodies, associations, and charities.
Alex’s blend of strategic vision, technical expertise,and extensive industry experience means he is perfectly placed to lead on the creation of a diverse range of sophisticated technical products and solutions.
The Pixl8 group can provide a single digital transformation solution for membership organisations. They can provide strategic advice, website design and build, bespoke email, CRM and events solutions while making sure systems meet rigorous cyber security standards.
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Anne Godfrey
Anne Godfrey CCMI FCIM is currently Chief Executive of CIEH. She enjoys harnessing the skills, knowledge and passion of members, staff and external stakeholders to deliver strategic change. Anne has previously held leadership roles in a diverse range of membership organisations including CIM, where she was Chief Executive, the Law Society, where she was Director of Commercial and Membership Services, and the CBI where she was Commercial & Marketing Director.
Chris Daly
Chris was appointed as Chief Executive of CIM in February 2016, following his post as Acting Chief Executive since December 2015, where he leads a dynamic and dedicated team.
Chris joined CIM in June 2001 as Operations Manager in its Training Division. Promoted to Director of Membership in July 2007, Chris had responsibility for the UK regional and branch network, and CIM’s international operation, including the various Sector Interest Groups. In March 2013, he became Director of Customer Experience where he was responsible for every CIM customer touchpoint.
Gaining a BA in Modern History, Politics and Russian Studies from Durham University, Chris acquired a broad spectrum of management and marketing experience ranging from roles in the City; the British Army and the Public Sector, attaining the rank of Major with The Blues and Royals, Household Cavalry Regiment; and on leaving the army, he joined the Central Office of Information, and was seconded to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Claire Angus
Claire Angus joined the College of Podiatrists in January 2018, as the new Director of Membership Services, where she is responsible for leading, developing and implementing the organisation’s Membership, Trade Union and Business Development strategies.
An experienced, senior membership professional, Claire has worked in the Professional Membership Body sector for nearly 20 years. Most recently as Assistant Director of Development at the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) where she was responsible for leading, developing and implementing the College’s Membership, International and Fundraising strategies for its 52,000 members.
Before taking up this role, Claire spent 14 years at the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) supporting its 125,000 members worldwide. Her AAT roles included Assistant Director of Global Development, leading new market development with a key focus on the Middle East, and Assistant Director of Education and Training, leading qualification development and student engagement.
Claire holds an MSc in Psychology and CIMA Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting.
Danielle Price
Danielle joined the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) in 2014 as HR Manager, and subsequently took on the role of Head of HR in 2015, reporting to the CEO. The FDF represents the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. A key focus of her current role has been creating strategies to improve employee engagement and development.
Danielle has nearly 20 years’ generalist HR experience, starting at the British Transport Police. Most of her career has been within various food manufacturers, including Heinz and Warburtons.
Danielle lives in London with her husband and two children.
David Abraham
David Abraham is the Founder and Managing Director of Wattle, a creative software company. Wattle partner strategically with membership organisations to help them leverage website CMS and CRM platforms to more effectively acquire, engage and retain members.
David has over 20 years of hands on experience delivering major digital transformation programmes. Over the past decade he has focused on the creation of solutions within membership and non-profit. Most notably amongst those is MemEx, Wattle’s current Membership Experience platform.
Emma Wilcox
Emma was appointed as CEO of the Society for the Environment in July 2015, and since joining the organisation has led the development of a new five-year strategy increased registration numbers and enhanced engagement across a broad range of stakeholders.
The Society for the Environment is an umbrella professional body, which currently licenses 24 professional bodies to register their members as Chartered Environmentalists. Emma and her team work closely with each Licensed Body to ensure standards are met and opportunities are available to their members.
A Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Emma’s career has spanned a range of disciplines including scientific research, knowledge and technology transfer, education, programme and business management and stakeholder and relationship management. Her strong academic background is supported by an in-depth knowledge of both public and private sector landscapes. In recognition of her work, Emma was recently awarded ‘UK Professional Certification CEO of the Year’ in the Female CEO Excellence Awards.
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Helen Pain
Helen has spent her career working with the Royal Society of Chemistry and has led many of its strategic functions including Education and Professional Practice, Science and Communities, Membership and RSC China. She is currently Chair of the Science Council, a UK charity for the advancement of the Science profession, and chair of the Technicians’ Commitment Steering Board. A champion for inclusion and diversity, Helen is a Chartered Chemist and a Chartered Scientist.
Karin Pappenheim
Karin Pappenheim is CEO of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, which she joined in 2011. The Association is the national membership organisation for anaesthetists, representing the largest clinical specialty group in the NHS. Karin has 35 years’ leadership and management experience in health and social care, including over 20 years as CEO of national voluntary and membership organisations. She is also a past trustee of Terrence Higgins Trust, the HIV charity, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the Woman’s Trust.
Kathryn Burton
Kathryn trained and qualified with haysmacintyre, before becoming a partner in 2009 in our charities and not for profit team. Now leading our Professional Institutes and Membership Bodies (PIMBs) group, Kathryn works with many of our membership organisations providing statutory audit and accountancy services, but also provides advice on financial systems and internal controls reviews, implementation of regulatory changes as well as best practice and policy matters.
Kathryn is also a trustee and the Chair of the Audit Committee of a multi-academy trust and has previously been the Chair of Governors of a primary school. This allows her to bring her own trustee and governance experiences to her clients.
Kathy Evans
Kathy is CEO of the professional body for eye doctors and those training to become eye specialists. The RCOphth has 4,000 members, champions excellence in the practice of ophthalmology and works with other organisations across the ocular world to improve patient care. She is a Chartered Accountant and has held various posts in banking and the charitable sector including those at the Arts Council and Amnesty.
Matt Day
Matt Day lives to mix it up.
He started his media career at the BBC producing and directing on shows as varied as Blue Peter and Watchdog.
Matt co-founded LIQUONA in order to combine three personal passions; creativity, methodical processes and outstanding client service.
New services at LIQUONA that complement ‘traditional’ video and animation have led to several firsts in sector for interactive video and virtual reality.
LIQUONA is a Televisual Top 40 UK production agency helping some of the UK’s best known organisations and brands to get their message across.
Nick Pahl
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Pearl Mensah
Pearl has a distinguished career within the professional membership sector. Her roles have included Head of Membership at the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and she is currently the Director of Membership and Professional Standards at the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Phil Westcott
Phil has a 20-year career in applied technology, and a decade building AI enterprise capability. Phil is CEO of Filament AI, a 36-person team of enterprise AI specialists with offices in London and Toronto, and overseen over 150 AI delivery projects in the last 4 years. He brings a rich and hugely practical experience of building strategic advantage for your business through the shrewd adoption of AI.
Phil is an Entrepreneur-in-residence at Nottingham University Business School, advising business owners on how to leverage AI technology to enhance their business model. He is a former executive at IBM, leading the IBM Watson platform in Europe, their Smarter Cities business in Southeast Asia and co-launching the IBM global IoT platform services practice.
Phil is a Chartered Engineer, and holds an MBA from IESE and Columbia business schools.
Richard Hearn
Richard is a specialist in membership engagement and developing value propositions within the professional services sector. His background is in membership development, marketing and business strategy with over 25 years’ experience. He has worked for leading professional membership bodies and commercial organisations, within the accountancy, legal, HR and L&D and CRM sectors.
Sarah Poulter
Sarah Poulter has worked for CIWM for 18 years, with 14 years as Managing Director of the Institution’s commercial and market development activities. In 2017, she took on a broader role across the organisation as Head of Membership and Funding, before taking on the role of joint Executive Director. Her previous background was in training and development in the construction sector.
Suzanne Peck
Suzanne’s internal communications experience spans strategy and delivery for blue-chip organisations for more than 25 years.
An award-winning writer and NCTJ-trained journalist, Suzanne worked in daily newspapers, has worked in communications roles in-house with Marks & Spencer, McAlpine, Shell and GSK.
Suzanne is managing director of leading employee experience agency, Sequel Group, delivering strategic consultancy and content for clients and day-to day operations for the 30-strong team.
She is also President of the UK’s Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC), and President of the European Association of Internal Communication (FEIEA) – a pan-European association that’s raising IC standards and best practice within Europe.
Tali Shlomo
Tali Shlomo FCIPD – is the People Engagement Director at the Chartered Insurance Institute an inspirational and dynamic diversity, inclusion, wellbeing and HR practitioner working in insurance and financial services for nearly 18 years. Tali is a dynamic thought leader passionate about unlocking talent by leveraging on people strategies underpinned with wellbeing, diversity and inclusion principles. Tali is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD and is an advocate for diversity, inclusion and wellbeing programmes in the workplace to enable business growth and individual career progression.
Tom Wilson
Tom was appointed Partner in October 2017 having worked his way through the ranks since joining haysmacintyre as a trainee in 2008. His clients are drawn primarily from the professional institutes and membership bodies (PIMBs) sector, including clubs and national trade associations. Tom has a specific knowledge of national governing bodies of sport and prepares the detailed annual national governing bodies of sport benchmarking report, providing insights and advice to individual participants and commentary regarding emerging trends and developments for the sector as a whole. He is a member of the Sport, Entertainment and Media committee at the ICAEW and contributes to the committee through his knowledge and experience of the sport sector and NGBs.
Tony Manwaring
Tony has held senior positions in leading organisations across sectors. His roles have included CEO at the business think tank Tomorrow’s Company and the disability charity Scope – and he led external relations and advocacy at National Children’s Home, the British Diabetic Association and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
He was programme director of Valuing your Talent and a member of the FRC’s ‘Culture Coalition’. He led organisational transformation at the Labour Party and delivered the most successful broad-based fundraising campaign in British electoral history.
Tony leads the development of strategic partnerships for the new soft skills app, QDOOZ, and is Chief Executive of the ICPD, the trading division of QDooz Limited.