Ensuring excellence is rewarded

Our judging process is designed to be rigorous and thorough to ensure all entries receive full consideration and that excellence in each of the categories is truly rewarded. A diverse panel of leading hedge fund COOs, CFOs, CCOs, GCs and CTOs will make up the judging panel with judges split into groups depending on their specialist expertise.


The criteria the judges look for are:

  • 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.

2025 Judges

With more judges to be announced soon

Anna Colombatti
Investment COO
AXA Investment Managers
Boura Kym Tomlinson Cann
Global Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
Polar Capital
Iain Colquhoun
Chief Financial Officer
Sona Asset Management
Phillip Chapple
COO
Monterone Partners
Richard Mhende
CEO & Managing Partner
ProMeritum Investment Management LLP
Stephen Stokes
Chief Compliance Officer
Amia Capital LLP