Our lovely
judges
Suki Thompson
Managing Partner at Oystercatchers
Suki is the founding partner of Oystercatchers, where she has been working with clients such as McDonald's, lastminute.com, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Global Investments, Barnardo's
and 118118.
Prior to that she set up and ran The Haystack Group for 6 years working on agency evaluation and pitches for clients such as Nationwide, BA, Harrods, Müller, RCI, Unilever, UKTV, Digital UK, Sainsbury's, Post Office and training programmes for Camelot and Weetabix. Prior to that she was an experienced Agency Director, running business development for London agencies.
She has sat in over 1000 pitches during this time and 10,000 credentials presentations, placing on average £500K of communications budgets annually.
Suki is a regular contributor to the national and marketing press and a speaker at industry conferences. She is a board director
of The Marketing Society, a member of the top 100 most influential people in Marketing and a member of WACL.
Suki also owns a Gin Company called Bunker Gin and has two children, Jaz and Sam.
The following judges are all confirmed:
- Stephanie Calman - Writer
- Mark Choueke - Editor, Marketing Week
- Suki Thompson - Managing Partner, Oystercatchers
- Niall Horton Stephens - Photographers' agent
- Steve Hoskins - Photographer
- Tom Wright, CBE – Group Chief Executive of Age UK
- Dave Buonaguidi - Creative Partner at Karmarama
- Paddy Eckersley – Photographer