About - Meet your judges
Our 2024 National judging panel
Our independent judging panel includes highly skilled and diverse individuals from across Australia, volunteering their time and expertise to evaluate entries.
Accelerating Women
This Award category is for businesses actively challenging exclusion and inequality to create meaningful and lasting equity for women.
Ben Dawson
Vice President, Australia & New Zealand
Cisco
Sunita Gloster AM
Non-Executive Director
UNGlobal Compact Network Australia
Div Pillay
CEO and Co-Founder
Chief Executive Officer of MindTribes and Co-Founder of Culturally Diverse Women
Building Communities
This Award category is for businesses making a positive impact on culture and society so people from all walks of life can thrive as part of a supportive community.
Sandra Devahasdin
Director
Devahasdin Public Relations
Dushy Thangiah OAM
CEO
Yumba-Meta Ltd
Fergus Watts
Chairman
The Reach Foundation
Championing Health
This Award category is for businesses focused on innovative solutions, improving health outcomes for every Australian.
Dig Howitt
CEO and President
Cochlear
Dr Sebastian Rees
Doctor and Advisor
Healthcare Entrepreneur
Marcella Romero
Founder and Group CEO
Arriba Group
Embracing Innovation
This Award category is for businesses innovating with technology to develop solutions for challenges faced by modern Australia.
Anne Da Cunha
Executive - Transformation, Telstra Business
Telstra
Rob Findlay
Head of Innovation Programs, ANZ
AWS (Amazon)
Mina Radhakrishnan
Entrepreneur and Board Member
Tech Council of Australia
Indigenous Excellence
This Award category is for Indigenous-led, owned and operated businesses succeeding through entrepreneurialism, innovation and inspiring the next generation of all Australians.
Shelley Cable
Director
Bill Lang
Executive Director
Small Business Australia
Stephanie Harvey
CEO
Community First Development
Outstanding Growth
This Award category is for businesses achieving significant growth and contributing to a more resilient Australian economy.
Aisling Finch
Technology Leader
Ex-Google
Christopher Marr
Co-Founder
Sonder
Brent Smart
Chief Marketing Officer
Telstra
Promoting Sustainability
This Award category is for businesses reducing their environmental impact by driving sustainable change within their industry for a cleaner and healthier planet.
Rosanna Iacono
CEO and Co-Founder
The Growth Activists
Melissa Louey
Marketing Director
Frank Green
Katharine Tapley
Head of Sustainable Finance
ANZ
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