CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDGES Arian Barnard, Entrepreneur A well known industry contributor and ‘face of the industry’ on TV news & radio for all things TMT, Adrian is an award-winning TMT & ICT entrepreneur with a respected track record, having built, exited and run companies in the £1m to £50m range. He is now involved in several successful UK tech start-ups as well as high-level lobbying for the TMT sector. JUDGES Pam Blanchard, Director, ICA Pam is Founder and Director of ICA, Independent Communications Advisors, specialising in UCaaS and CCaaS. With 28 years’ experience in the industry, Pam was the UK’s first female field engineer for Alcatel Lucent before establishing her own company. As a reseller, she has consistently adapted her business to stay at the forefront of innovation and invested in training and development to ensure her team has the skills and knowledge to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Graham Bunting, Connecting you to valuable ecosystems, Trust Partner Services Graham, who has spent nearly 40 years in the technology space, describes himself as an instinctive collaborator, with a passion for partnerships and teamwork. He got into channel sales in 1993, when he joined SDX Business Systems, a recent MBO from STC, staying with the company through an IPO in 1997, its acquisition by Lucent Technologies and subsequent spin-off to form Avaya. Graham started his first business in 2017, before, in 2022, forming Trust Partner Services to help bring together and connect vendors, distributors, VARs, MSPs and end user customers. Mark Curtis-Wood, Co-founder, Growth Mentors Limited Mark has spent over 20 years in the telecoms/ technology industry at senior management and board director level, generating over £100M in recurring revenue. Mentoring by world leaders in personal development, mindset, sales strategy, digital marketing, finance, economics and transformational change inspired him to co-found Growth Mentors Limited. He now enables tech business owners to grow their recurring revenues and transform their businesses using a proven business-growth system called ‘The FORMULA’. Meet the judges TRA AWARDS 2025 Many thanks to everyone who has submitted entries to the Technology Reseller Awards 2025. Your hard work is done and now it is the turn of the judges to burn the midnight oil going through this year’s bumper crop of entries and picking out the ones they think most deserve a 2025 Technology Reseller Award. The short-list for each award category is due to be published on April 8, so mark that date in your diary and keep your fingers crossed. In the meantime, voting is still open for the Technology Reseller Distributor Awards, decided by our readers. Don’t forget to vote for your favourite distributor in each category before the deadline of April 1, 2025. It only takes a minute at https://technologyresellerawards.co.uk/ vote/2025. As ever, we are very grateful to our judging panel for giving up their time to read through, factcheck and score all your entries. We take pride in running a completely objective awards programme and we can only do that with the support of industry experts who combine in-depth industry knowledge with unimpeachable impartiality. In particular, we are indebted to Adrian Barnard who once again has very generously taken on the role of Chairman of the Judges to ensure the whole judging process runs smoothly and to make life as easy as possible for this year’s illustrious judges (see below). 26 01732 759725
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