Judging day for young professionals awards hailed a great success
Future Faces, the young professionals’ arm of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce, has thanked the judges involved in this year’s Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year Awards for all of their support and efforts.
The judging for the awards took place at Birmingham Library recently, with 77 young professionals interviewed.
The judges for this year’s awards were:
- Stacey Hayes Allen- Director of Employer Engagement at Arden University
- Suzie Branch-Haddow- Vice Principal - External Development at Birmingham Metropolitan College, and BYPY 2009 overall winner
- Santina Bunting- Greater BYPY 2024 overall winner and Level 6 Civil Engineering Apprentice at Arup
- Kasim Choudhry- Executive director of Pathway Group and creative director at Thinkfest, and honorary chair of Future Faces
- Adam Davies- Founder and Consultant
- Nicola Fleet-Milne- Chief executive of FleetMilne, and BYPY 2007 category winner
- Bina Ganatra- Head of Digital Projects at Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking
- Tom Green- Senior People and Future Tech Manager at T&P Group, and Greater BYPY 2023 category winner
- Rebecca Mander- Founder of GuruYou
- Michael Parker- Associate Director, People & Organisations Advisory Midlands Leader at Arup, and BYPY 2017 overall winner
- Ruth Pipkin- Managing director of Rewired PR, and BYPY overall winner
- Tru Powell- Personal brand expert, CEO of Black Business Magazine and INSPIRE Awards
- Hilary Smyth-Allen- Chief Executive at Supertech WM, and BYPY 2011 overall winner
- Mark Taylor- Office Lead at Bishop Fleming
- Justice Williams- Editor in chief of Black Business Magazine and vice-chair of The Black Business Collective (Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce)
- Chrissie Wolfe- Partner at Nexa Law and founder of LAB Consultancy, and BYPY 2018 category winner
Taking place at the ICC Birmingham on Friday 17 October, the awards will celebrate the talent and successes of young professionals across Greater Birmingham.
This year also marks 25 years of BYPY, the Birmingham Young Professional of the Year Awards, dating back to when the awards were first launched under the BPS Network, which later merged with Future Faces to create the Greater Birmingham Young Professional of the Year Awards.
The overall winner of the awards will receive an Executive MBA from headline sponsor Arden University.
Find more information on the awards, including sponsorship opportunities and ticket sales, HERE.
Pictured (L-R): Back row- Lillian Elekan, Rebecca Mander, Mark Taylor, Kasim Choudhry, Santina Bunting, Justice Williams, Tom Green, Chrissie Wolfe. Front row: Ruth Pipkin, Nicola Fleet-Milne, Sophie Poduval-Morrell, Adam Davies, Michael Parker, Suzie Branch-Haddow and Bina Ganatra
