We have another stellar line up of judges, industry experts, who are lending their support to this year's GWG Website of the Year Awards. The judging panel will assess entries on the quality of design, usability, content and product or service evident within each site put forward.

ANNA BANCE

Anna Bance is the co-founder of online luxury rental company, Girl Meets Dress.com, an e-commerce business that allows customers to rent the latest designer dresses and accessories for a fraction of the retail price. Described by Vogue as The Answer to your Prayers, Anna has been busy pioneering the way forward for rental as a new and exciting ecommerce category of its own. Girl Meets Dress.com raised a round of financing from Global Founders Capital, the $200M fund from Rocket Internet’s Samwer brothers and former Delivery Hero co-CEO.

Follow Anna on Twitter @annabance_GMD and @girlmeetsdress

BOBBIE BHOGAL

Bobbie Bhogal is a serial entrepreneur within the online commerce space, owning multiple brands and selling diverse products from mobile phones to luxury holidays and pet insurance. Having gained corporate experience from Mercedes Benz and Vodafone, Bobbie ignited his entrepreneurial spirit and co-founded e2save.com, a mobile phone e-tailer in 1999. Now at the helm of Mobiles.co.uk, Bobbie leads a 150 strong team that contributes greatly towards the rise of smartphone adoption in the UK.

Follow Mobiles.co.uk on Twitter @Mobilescouk

SAM CROCKER

Sam Crocker is Digital Director at the mission™, headline sponsor of this year's GWG Website of the Year Awards. With over 14 years’ experience working in digital marketing, Sam has led a number of digital transformation initiatives and worked with clients including Post Office, Intel, BP, Freederm, Castrol and Wrigley. Responsible for the strategic direction and delivery of digital projects, Sam has worked on everything from apps and ecommerce websites to networked screens in retail and e-learning courses. Recently, Sam has been instrumental in growing the mission™’s digital businesses in Asia, where he is looking into the role of emerging technologies and social networks in the region.

Follow on Twitter @the missiongroup

DR STEPHEN FEAR

Dr Stephen Fear is an English entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist and author with over 40 years international business experience. Today Fear has an established property empire and interests in a number of industries, including green technology, hotels, residential care and manufacturing. Often referred to as ‘The Phonebox Millionaire’, Fear is also notable for being an Ambassador and Entrepreneur in Residence at the British Library; a position formerly held by the late Dame Anita Roddick. In July 2013, Fear was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of the West of England for his continued service to Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship.

Follow Stephen on Twitter @fearstephen

BEN HOPKINS

Ben Hopkins is a business growth consultant, co-founder of Naked Wines and Non-Executive Director of Ecotricity’s Green Britain Centre. Having delivered over 750,000 new customers to the online wine industry, Ben set up benhopkins.co, the business growth consultancy he runs from his Norfolk home and London. He now spends his time working on partnership, customer acquisition and media planning projects with a number of leading brands including Hotel Chocolat, Charles Tyrwhitt, Gousto, Abel & Cole and Laithwaites.

Follow Ben on Twitter @bensshed

LAWRENCE JONES

Lawrence Jones is founder and CEO of UKFast, a cloud technology business with numerous awards for culture, customer service, innovation and leadership. In sixteen years he has lead its phenomenal growth from a startup in a spare bedroom to a £250 million enterprise. In 2015, Lawrence was awarded an MBE from The Queen for his contribution to the digital industry. Today, Lawrence continues to mentor and inspire huge numbers of people including professional athletes, musicians, fellow entrepreneurs and people who want to make a difference. Lawrences' blog is read by more than 200,000 people every month.

Follow Lawrence on Twitter @Lawrence_Jones

MIISA MINK

Miisa Mink is founder of Mink&Stone, an online fashion jewellery startup that allows users to create their own personalied jewellery. Miisa is a highly accomplished branding professional with a history of successful design consultancy. She’s also a co-owner of a Scandinavian style coffee shop chain in London, Nordic Bakery; an author, women’s empowerment enthusiast and a blogger.

Follow Miisa on Twitter @miisamink and @minkandstone

ALICIA NAVARRO

Alicia Navarro is CEO and co-founder of Skimlinks, a content monetisation company helping online publishers earn money and gain insights from their commerce-related content. Founded in 2007, Skimlinks has grown to over 85 employees across offices in London, San Francisco and New York City, and has raised $24M in venture capital funding. Last year, $625M of ecommerce sales was driven by the Skimlinks platform, earning incremental revenues for publishers suchas Gawker Media, Hearst, Time Inc, Vox Media, The Independent, Future, and tens of thousands more.

Follow Alicia on Twitter @AliciaNavarro and @Skimlinks

JOHN REGAN

John Regan is a serial entrepreneur who specialises in business services. He has founded three companies and built them from one person operations into thriving businesses turning over millions of pounds. Since 2008, John has invested in several Fintech and Alternative Finance businesses, and he is now a director of Platform Black, which provides an alternative source of finance to SMEs by allowing them to auction their unpaid invoices. Since it launched in 2012, Platform Black has provided more than £90m of finance to British businesses.

Follow John on Twitter @jhnregan and @platformblack

JUSTINE ROBERTS

Justine Roberts is founder and CEO of Mumsnet and Gransnet. Mumsnet is an online community of parents sharing advice, support and friendship. Over the last fifteen years it has grown into the one of UK’s biggest online communities with around seven million unique visitors a month. Launched in 2011, Gransnet is a website for the original baby boomer generation to discuss relationships, news, culture - and not least, grand parenting. In February 2013, Justine was listed number seven in BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour’s Power List of the most powerful women in the UK and was also included in the Guardian’s 100 most powerful people in the media in 2010, 2013 and 2014. Mumsnet regularly campaigns on issues that its members care about, such as miscarriage care, sexualisation of girls and libel reform.

Follow on Twitter @MumsnetTowers and @Gransnet

PHILIP THOMPSON

Philip Thompson, Executive MBA, is a Business Growth Manager at the Business Growth Service, specialising in on boarding high growth businesses onto the Business Development and Access to Finance streams. To date, he has supported over 100 businesses in identifying their barriers to growth and creating bespoke support packages to address those business pains. Philip is uniquely positioned to add value and support the growth of your business through an in depth knowledge of the SME business landscape and the government-backed support that is available.

JOSIE TUTTY

Josie Tutty is digital content and social media manager at Positive Luxury, who, since 2011, have been awarding the Butterfly Mark to luxury brands you can trust. Born in the UK, Josie has extensive experience writing digital content for news, lifestyle and luxury publications. She holds a first-class degree in English Literature from the University of London.

Follow on Twitter @positiveluxury


ROBERT TYSON

After ten years in online publishing and marketing, including a five year run which saw a three-employee bedroom startup expand to 120 employees and achieve an £11m Stock Market listing, Robert Tyson set up TheTysonReport.com, which is dedicated to providing online training and support in the latest internet marketing strategies for business owners and marketing professionals. He also co-hosts the popular Small Business Marketing Report podcast on iTunes and is followed by over 80,000 people on Twitter.

Follow Robert on Twitter @TheTysonReport

ELIZABETH VARLEY

Elizabeth Varley is a communicator, connector and entrepreneur with a background in technology, content, community and events. She is co-founder and CEO of TechHub, a network bringing together the global technology startup community, in London, Riga, Bucharest, Swansea, Bangalore, Boston and soon many other cities around the world.

Follow Elizabeth on Twitter @evarley and @TechHub

June 2015