Finalists by category

Our successful finalists were invited to attend a prestigious judging day.

Personal Excellence

Business Analyst of the Year
  • Financial Conduct Authority, Akbar Shah
  • National Grid, Joanne Heine
  • Virgin Media, Chris Elms
  • Virgin Media, Mary Doherty
  • MBNA Bank of America, Diane Oxley
  • Wipro Technologies, Joy Darla
  • University of Derby, Tracey Robey
CIO of the Year
  • London City Airport, Alison FitzGerald
  • Hargreaves Lansdown, David Davies
  • University of Derby, Neil Williams
  • Intel (UK), Chris Shaw
  • Hillarys, Julian Bond
IT Manager of the Year
  • LV=, Nigel Vincent
  • NTT DATA, Damian Bowen
  • EE, Peter Newth
  • Liverpool Direct, Martina Hearn-Rice
  • MBNA, Nigel James Roberts
  • National Grid, Craig Rollason
  • BT Research & Innovation, John Davies
  • Wipro Technologies, Praveen Mavila
  • Allianz Insurance, Sharon Warrington
  • Virgin Media, Pranjal Mathur
IT Service & Support Professional of the Year
  • LV=, Peter Ciaccio
  • Financial Conduct Authority, Simon Reed
  • EE, Lee Bateman
  • Virgin Media, Mark Rotheram
  • Virgin Media, Simon Batty
  • National Grid, James McPherson
  • Amicusits, Mercedes Coombes
  • Lloyds Banking Group, Bruno Graca
  • Lloyds Banking Group, Gareth Davies
  • MBNA Bank of America, Claire Williams
Security Professional of the Year
  • KPMG, Michele Daryanani
  • Company85, Phil Cracknell
  • UK Power Networks, Paul Jenkinson
  • Amicusits, John Paul Norman
  • National Grid, David Willacy
Young IT Professional of the Year
  • KCOM Group, Abbie Harper
  • Home Office (TDCS), Blaine Webb
  • KPMG, Michele Daryanani
  • EE, Marc Easen
  • Network Rail, Josh Bates
  • Tesco, Michael Fitzgerald
  • Intel Corporation UK, Mark Broom
  • Lloyds Banking Group, Chris Coe
  • Lloyds Banking Group, Jelena Ostrovska
  • National Grid, Adam Wood

Organisational Excellence

IT Department of the Year
  • AmicusHorizon
  • Thomson Reuters
  • John Lewis
  • Network Rail
  • Sytner Group
  • Transport for London Information Management (IM) Department
  • comparethemarket.com
  • Lloyds Banking Group - Group IT
  • University of Derby
  • Lafarge Tarmac
IT Employer of the Year
  • Black Pepper Software
  • JMC IT
  • Company85
  • Accenture Newcastle Delivery Centre
IT Project Team of the Year
  • Network Rail
  • Network Rail
  • Travis Perkins Group
  • British Gas
  • National Grid
  • UK Power Networks
  • BT Lancashire Services
  • Fujitsu/Centrica
  • Accenture, Avanade & Standard Life
  • Mitchells and Butlers
Services Company of the Year
  • EMIS Group
  • Splunk
  • Company85
  • Egress Software Technologies
  • Green Fields Technology
  • Capita Managed IT Solutions
  • ITS
  • Databarracks
  • Comms-care
  • MSM Software
Small Supplier or VAR of the year
  • Turnkey Consulting
  • JMC IT
  • Synapse360
  • Imerja
  • Metronet (UK)
  • Vivantio
  • Peppermint Technology
  • Memset
  • Original Software
  • IndigoBlue Consulting

Project Excellence

Best Enterprise Mobility Project
  • Essex County Council
  • Hillarys
  • BT
  • Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead
Best Not for Profit IT project
  • AmicusHorizon
  • Qlik - National Institute for Health Research
  • The Crown Estate
  • Cafcass
  • George Watson's College
  • Cancer Research UK
  • Jisc
  • WWF UK
  • The British Library
  • NHS Greater Manchester Commissioning Support Unit
Best Use of Cloud Services
  • DVLA
  • The Crown Estate
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Ukash
  • British Gas, Project Cloud: Environments as a Service (EaaS)
  • British Gas, Hive Active Heating by British Gas
  • European Electronique
  • Pearson
  • Backup Technology
  • University of Derby
Big Data / Analytics Project of the Year
  • Lush - Qlik
  • John Lewis
  • Network Rail
  • BearingPoint
  • The Financial Times
  • Panasas at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
  • Solutionpath
  • Channel Four Television Corporation
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
  • BT
Data Centre Project of the Year
  • British Gas
  • Dell UK/Bango
  • Pulsant
  • Iomart
  • University of Derby
  • Sudlows
IT project demonstrating most effective use of collaborative technology
  • Essex County Council
  • Aegon
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Polycom
  • University of Warwick
  • PA Consulting
  • Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • NHS Blood and Transplant
  • NHS Greater Manchester Commissioning Support Unit
  • Intel (UK)
Network / Infrastructure Project of the Year
  • The Mill/Avere Systems
  • SSE Telecoms
  • Transport for London
  • Allianz
  • Building Zones
  • Lotus F1 Team
  • MBNA Bank of America
  • Marston's Telecoms
  • Lloyds Banking Group - Group IT
  • Silver Peak

Technology Innovation Excellence

Business IT Innovation of the Year
  • Actual Experience
  • Artificial Solutions
  • Digital Healthcare - EMIS Group
  • UK Power Networks
  • GFI Software
  • European Electronique
  • Virgin Media
  • MBNA Bank of America
  • Smart421 Ltd
  • Qlik - East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Cloud Provider Innovation of the Year
  • Plan B Disaster Recovery
  • NewVoiceMedia
  • Trintech
  • BT
  • Clear Books
  • VESK
  • Carrenza
  • Peppermint Technology
  • Skyscape Cloud Services
  • Content Guru
Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
  • Corning Optical Communications
  • Nexthink
  • National Australia Group - NAG (Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks)
  • BigHand
  • Virgin Media, Virgin Media Perfecto Mobile
  • Virgin Media, Einstein
  • Heathrow Airport Limited
  • Memset
  • Pure Storage
  • Veeam Software
Innovative Mobile App of the Year
  • Patient.co.uk - EMIS Group
  • EE
  • Network Rail
  • Network Rail and Omnicom Engineering
  • Asite
  • AkzoNobel, String, Tessella, Webcredible
  • Channel Four Television Corporation
  • Dartt Ltd and BT
Security Innovation of the Year
  • BT
  • CipherCloud
  • RandomStorm
  • GFI Software
  • FireHost
  • Clearswift
  • BT Lancashire Services
  • Cognia
  • AirWatch by VMware
  • Gala Tent
UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
  • Zeel Solutions
  • GSK
  • Rosslyn Analytics
  • Safetybank
  • Clearswift
  • BT, BT Big Data Platform (HaaS/Hadoop as a Service)
  • Tier 1 Asset Management
  • British Airways
  • Tutorcruncher
  • BT, Aperture - Automated Business Process Discovery