Ensuring excellence is rewarded
Our judging process was designed to be rigorous and thorough to ensure all entries received full consideration and that excellence in each of the categories was truly rewarded. A diverse panel of leading hedge fund COOs, CFOs, CCOs, GCs and CTOs made up the judging panel with judges split into groups depending on their specialist expertise.
The criteria the judges look for were:
- Commercial success and business growth
- Demonstration of product or service innovation
- Description of future product or service development possibilities
- Positive customer feedback via submitted testimonials
In-person judging
To add further scrutiny to the process there will be an in-person judging day where we will invite shortlisted firms from selected categories to pitch their entries.
On this day, the judges will be split into groups with each group assigned three to four categories depending on their expertise.
The judges will base their scores off both the initial submission from each entrant, plus a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute Q and A with each selected shortlister.