Judges

William "Bill" Keeling is a former foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and exposed a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal in Nigeria. He eventually left journalism for chocolate, becoming co- owner of the historic chocolate company Prestat, but is still plotting his return to the true home of jollof rice. He’s also a beloved novelist and writer of The Gay Street Chronicles

Jasmine is an arts marketeer and audience development specialist. Founder of Arts Marketing Bath Network, Festival Director of FilmBath, Co-director of Bath Arts Collective and former Head of Marketing and Communications of Bath Festivals.

Jasmine has a passion for audience development, enhancing event experiences and collaborating with partners across the city.

Ian Robson is Managing Director of That Media Thing, a Bath-based Paid Media and Content Marketing Agency in its 10th year of delivering exceptional Demand Gen Strategies for global B2B businesses.

Before co-founding TMT, Ian spent 15 years in media publishing, notably as Head of T3 & Computing Group at Future Publishing.

Lottie King is a Design Director at Matter, leading future innovation projects, across a spectrum of consumer categories, including FMCG, Health & Wellness & Food Futures. Lottie's expertise in strategic foresight and her affinity for understanding people, drives design innovation and elevates user experiences.

A former BBC journalist and presenter, Lucy has over 15 years of working in Brand and PR including at Aardman Animations where she managed publicity for the relaunch of Morph. A real champion of the creative industries in the region, and with campuses in Bath and London, BSU recently underwent a brand refresh with a new professionally creative ethos at the heart of all its courses, student experience and partnerships, which Lucy has overseen.

Pete Helme is a dynamic professional interior, architectural, portrait and commercial photographer serving businesses of all sizes in Bath and beyond.

Tony is co-founder of F-At Digital, the Bath based publisher of market leading cycling website, road.cc and its sister sites ebiketips and off.road.cc. He has worked in the cycling media for over 25 years, first in print but for most of the last 20 years in digital.

Prior to founding F-At he spent 11 years at Future Publishing as an editor. He moved to Bath in 1997 “for about five years”.