
Judging Panel
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Anita Nadkarni - Chair of the MKBAA Judging Panel
New Chair of the judging panel, Anita Nadkarni, Supply Chain and Operations Growth Driver at PwC, UK takes over from veteran head judge, Sir John Southby Bt, following his successful seven-year reign. Anita is a great addition to the panel. With more than 15 years’ experience in defining and driving large transformations to completion, Anita is a champion of helping businesses achieve their objectives through the implementation of strategies, which are underpinned by technology. |
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Tracey Aldworth
Tracey is the deputy Chief Executive of Milton Keynes Council and also the Managing Director of the Council owned Limited Liability Partnership, Milton Keynes Development Partnership (MKDP). |
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Steve Eccles
Steve is a director with mixed-use developer Socius Development Limited. For two decades, Steve has been responsible for several high-profile schemes across London and the South-East, ranging from estate regeneration to large mixed-use town centre redevelopments. |
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Jo Lewington Jo Lewington is the Chief Environment & Sustainability Officer at Network Rail, based at the company’s national centre, The Quadrant in Milton Keynes. Jo is also a member of the My Milton Keynes BID Board and is committed to supporting the work of the BID making Milton Keynes an amazing place to work. |
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Viren Patel Viren started his career in accountancy before moving into the commercial world 20 years ago. He has worked across diverse sectors including education, telecommunications, healthcare, and retail and joined The Open University (OU) in 2015. Now in his role as Director of the Business Development Unit, Viren works with employers to understand their business challenges, and provide flexible learning and development solutions. |
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Jason Sinclair
Jason is a Commercial Director and Management Consultant, Fellow at the Chartered Management Institute with a background in HR Management, currently Chief Operating Officer at Profile Resourcing, an Inclusive Recruitment Specialist. |
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Robin Webb
Robin is a highly experienced commercial lawyer. He joined Shoosmiths in 2006, becoming a partner in 2010 and now leads the firm’s mobility sector. |
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Francesca Skelton
Francesca moved to Milton Keynes in 1977 and spent the first 14 years commuting to London. She worked at first in the advertising department of The Guardian newspaper, moving to IPC magazines to join the team launching a new women’s magazine OPTIONS, and later became publisher of Ideal Home magazine. On the birth of her second child she decided to work locally and left the private sector for a job in the voluntary sector and was Manager of Relate MK for ten years. In 2020 AHA-MK produced a report ‘Rethinking Cultural Inclusion and Diversity: A Call to Action for Milton Keynes’. AHA-MK was delighted to be nominated for a MK Black History Month Award for ‘an organisation which actively reaches out to black communities’ and was very proud to win the award in this category at the Gala Awards Dinner October 2021. |
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Ruth Devine
Ruth Devine is the Managing Director and owner of SJD Associates Ltd, a local building services contractor. The business was established in 1996 by her father, Stephen Devine, an electrical engineer and former Clerk of Works for MK Development Corporation. Ruth joined ten years later to help build the business, following a career in supply chain management with global chemical manufacturer Chemetall Plc. Stephen happily retired five years ago and SJD continues to scale, working directly for many prestigious local companies and on regional construction projects. |
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Ian Revell
Ian has worked in the Voluntary and Community Sector for over 30 years throughout that time Ian has served on a number of Boards both business and charitable and has a track record of public service work with local, regional and national bodies throughout his career.
As CEO of MK Community Foundation he leads a team which promotes philanthropy, manages 50+ charitable funds that enable the Community Foundation to give grant to over 180 community organisations totally over £2M each year.
Since joining the MK Community Foundation Ian has led the adoption of a new Strategic Plan, and engaged in a series of “city?making” activities. MK Community Foundation seeks to support the growth and development of the MK voluntary, community and cultural sector, to inspire giving to our communities through philanthropy and other social action and to take a lead in connecting and growing sustainable communities. Ian’s speciality is to facilitate great outcomes by getting the community to work together to deliver cross-community impact.
Ian is passionate about the Voluntary Community and Cultural Sector and is an activist by nature, he serves as a Trustee with Camphill Communities MK, as Board member of MK College Group, is a member of the Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Towns Deal Board and as a Board member of My Milton Keynes.
Previously, Ian led the YMCA locally, bringing forward its redevelopment project in CMK. Before moving to Milton Keynes, Ian worked in the Brixton area of South London developing and running numerous community programmes for young people, children and families. He also led on developing engagement and education initiatives for what was at the time the UK’s largest refugee and asylum-seeker hostel. Ian is said to be very much a glass half?full person
Ian describes himself as a true Milton Keynian, living with his family in MK for over 25 years, fully engaging in all the city and borough has to offer.
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