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Welcome to the 2013 Digital Hall of Fame. This time last year we were launching the Hall of Fame from a convention centre in West London and would hardly have believed that one year later we’d be going even bigger and better with the 2013 inductions taking place on the stage at BAFTA.
Nonetheless, browsing their bios in the coming pages leaves one impressed anew at their achievements. It is truly an honour to be part of giving back to them, via their inductions into the Digital Hall of Fame.
The celebration may have got glitzier but the vision for the Digital Hall of Fame remains the same: to provide a focal point for the industry – celebrating the lifetime achievements of the giants whose shoulders we stand upon and pointing, through their example, to what can be achieved.
We’re supported in this by the generosity of five outstanding companies, Exponential, Pulsant, Millennial Media, Six Degrees Group, Ve Interactive and our media partner The Guardian. Thank you to them and congratulations to the 2013 inductees of the Digital Hall of Fame.
Last year’s roll call got things off to a roaring start, with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Martha Lane Fox, Warren East and Ajaz Ahmed among the inaugural inductees. Their combined contribution to UK digital covered everything from creativity and business acumen to technical innovation, plus the odd all-out legend like Sir Tim. Read the full list of 2012 inductees from page 18. If the list says one thing, it’s that UK digital is in stunning shape. And with the bar set suitably high for entry it is my great pleasure to present the five new inductees for 2013 – none of whom, of course, need actual introduction.
Bal Bhogal Commercial Director BIMA
Their names and careers will be familiar to you: Justin Cooke (CEO of POSSIBLE UK and current chair of BIMA); Nigel Vaz (Senior Vice President, Managing Director Europe of SapientNitro); Joanna Shields (CEO of Tech City UK); Matt Brittin (VP of Operations at Google Europe); and Luke Taylor (Global CE of DigitasLBi).
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Digital Hall of Fame 2012 Ajaz Ahmed Alan Rusbridger Andrew Walmsley Andy Hobsbawm Catriona Campbell Helen Milner Jonathan Ive Mark Cridge Martha Lane Fox Michael Lynch Nicholas Roope Nick Hynes Pete Cashmore Phil Jones Robin Klein Rory Sutherland Stephen Fry Tim Berners-Lee Tom Roope Warren East
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Joanna shields Joanna was appointed in October 2012 by the Prime Minister, David Cameron as Chief Executive Tech City UK and Business Ambassador for Digital Industries.
CEO Tech City Investment Organisation
Shields was most recently Vice President and Managing Director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Facebook, the global social network with over a billion users. For over a decade, Shields has been a driving force in Europe’s Internet landscape. Since moving to the UK in 2000 to run RealNetworks International, the company that invented streaming audio and video, she has held key positions at leading companies such as Google, where she served as Managing Director EMEA and built the Syndication and Partnerships network, and Bebo, where she served as Chief Executive and led the acquisition of the company by Aol, Time Warner for $850M. During her career Shields has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Veon (acquired by Philips Electronics) and VP of Production Systems for Electronics for Imaging (Nasdaq:EFII). She sits on the Mayor’s London Smart Board and is a Trustee of The American School in London. Shields was ranked #1 in the Wired 100, 2011: Britain’s digital power list and number 6 on the Guardian Media Global Top 100 for 2012.
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Being a part of the Digital Hall of Fame means to me..? Recognition of the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture and the economy and an open invitation to the next generation of entrepreneurs and creative minds to join us. What the digital industry does for me is..? Strengthens my passionate belief that technological innovation is by far the most powerful change agent and that entrepreneurship is the greatest force for economic growth. I am most influenced by? Growing up I saw first hand how entrepreneurship can lift a family from difficult circumstances and completely change the outlook and opportunities for the community as a whole. My biggest achievement to date is..? I have been privileged to lead and grow some of the world’s greatest technology companies but most proud of the people I worked with and the ideas we built together.
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Justin cooke Justin is the UK CEO of POSSIBLE, WPP Digital’s largest global digital agency network, and the current Chair of the British Interactive Media Association. A Manchester University drama graduate who majored in Computers and Theatre, Justin’s early career included creative roles with BBC Films, Universal Music and United News and Media. CEO POSSIBLE
Justin now spends his time running an agency geared up to harness digital’s power to change the world in transformational and measurable ways, with a global client base that includes AEGON, BP, Canon, Procter & Gamble, Richemont, Small Luxury Hotels of the World and Visa. He is proud to be a member of the Digital Advisory Board of The British Museum and has recently been working with the British Government as a Digital Capabilities Reviewer. In May 2012 Wired Magazine listed Justin in its Top 100 survey of Britain’s top digital power-brokers and in June 2013 Econsultancy ranked him the second most influential person in UK digital - which means that he really must try harder.
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Being a part of the Digital Hall of Fame means to me..? I am deeply honoured to be admitted to the Digital Hall of Fame. However, I do hope that this is not the end. More like the end of the beginning‌ What the digital industry does for me is..? The digital industry in Britain fills me with hope that this country can continue to lead the world in developing worldclass creative technology that improves the lives of billions. I am most influenced by? Every day I am inspired by the talent in our agency, the British digital industry at large and by the enormous opportunity we have to work with our clients on making tomorrow better than today. My biggest achievement to date is..? A combination of helping set the standard for making the Web accessible to all, selling my agency to WPP, being a Dad to three beautiful children and entering the Digital Hall of Fame!
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Luke taylor Luke Taylor is Global Chief Executive of DigitasLBi, the world’s most complete digital agency network with 5,800 best-in-class digital and technology experts across 25 countries.
CEO DigitasLBi
Prior to taking up this role at the start of 2013, Taylor was Chief Executive of public-listed LBi, where he implemented a series of successive strategic transformations to ensure that the agency thrived in the rapidly evolving digital ecosystem. Following his appointment as LBi Chief Executive in 2008, Taylor installed a new global management team and implemented a single vision, single brand, consistent service model and shared organisational design across LBi’s global footprint. He also oversaw the acquisition of bigmouthmedia in 2010 and MRY in 2011, as well as LBi’s recent $540m integration into Publicis Groupe and the subsequent merger with Digitas to form DigitasLBi. Luke Holds a Masters Degree in English from Oxford University.
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Being a part of the Digital Hall of Fame means to me? It is of course hugely rewarding to be named alongside UK’s most energetic digital entrepreneurs and disruptive thinkers. What the digital industry does for me? Digital is a melting pot of restless talent. There is a constant opportunity to learn and invent. The industry is unique in the variety of disciplines it embraces and the range of work that it delivers. I am most influenced by? Inevitably the brilliant people I work with every day. The really great ideas often come from places you least expect across all levels inside the organisation and across all competencies. My biggest achievement to date is? Being given the opportunity by Publicis to put together Digitas and LBi and create a global digital agency of 7,000 people that is unique in terms of size, footprint, service breadth and talent.
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matt brittin Matt leads Google’s business and operations in Northern and Central Europe, with teams in twelve countries helping people and organisations make the most of the web.
VP Europe – Northern and Central Google
Google’s products are enjoyed by millions of people and help millions of businesses succeed online. Businesses using the web well are growing four to eight times faster and exporting double compared with those not yet online. With products including Android, Chrome, Search, Maps and YouTube, as well as advertising and analytics products, Google aims to innovate and make using the web fun, simple and fast. Matt joined Google in 2007, initially leading UK Sales, becoming UK MD two years later and taking on his current role in 2011. Before Google he spent much of his career in media and marketing, with particular interests in strategy and business performance. Matt is a non-executive director of Sainsbury’s and a trustee of charities The Media Trust and The Climate Group. Outside work he enjoys sitting-down sports, he has cycled the length of Great Britain for charity, was an international dinghy sailor and rower in both the Boat Race and Rowing World Championships where he has won medals for Great Britain. He lives in London, near the Thames, with his wife, two sons and small dog.
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Being a part of the Digital Hall of Fame means to me..? Being part of the movement to make the web work for everyone – for education, for prosperity, for growth, and to bring people together across borders and cultures. What the digital industry does for me is..? Bring ever more incredible technology to billions of people daily, helping them live their lives, save time and money, find what they need, become more creative and more connected to one another. I am most influenced by? My wife, and my kids, asking from the age of four ‘what would Doctor Who do?’, things I learned from sitting-down sports, like teamwork and not to worry when you can’t see where you are going. My biggest achievement to date is..? Not crashing despite not being able to see where I am going.
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NIGEL VAZ
Senior Vice President, Managing Director Europe SapientNitro
“If you don’t imagine, you can’t realise the future.” Nigel Vaz, who has helped to take SapientNitro from a startup a decade ago to become the largest digital agency in the UK, possesses the kind of vision and drive to challenge and change convention that defines digital success for the 21st century. Vaz made his entrance into the digital industry in 1995 at a young age, co-founding a public company that delivered telecoms, consulting and connectivity solutions. Among its achievements were technological advances in vertical blanking interval (VBI) technology to encrypt data and broadcast to remote areas that lacked connectivity – sub-Saharan Africa for one, where local schools benefitted from a curriculum broadcast to them digitally. The theme of enhancing the capabilities and experiences of consumers and of business by imagining and creating new ways to harness technology runs strongly through Vaz’s life. “I knew I was never going to be the biggest, fastest, tallest guy,” he says, “but the Marvel superheroes that inspired me as a youth always had a little engineered help among their suite of superpowers. The ability to imagine new futures, to innovate and to harness technology to that end can change people’s lives and can transform business; it can create everyday superheroes.” Today, that philosophy can be found in the work that SapientNitro does to engage connected consumers through the creation of integrated, immersive stories and experiences that live across brand communications, digital engagement and omni-channel commerce.
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In the space of a decade, Vaz has helped to build SapientNitro into one of the foremost multi-faceted agencies in Europe – a journey that has seen him evolve Sapient’s business to be a significant presence on the continent beyond just the largest agency in the UK. Vaz spearheaded the Sapient Interactive business in Europe, culminating in its evolution to SapientNitro, as well as leading the acquisition of Digital and Direct to build the agency’s direct response capability. In his role leading SapientNitro’s European business, Vaz drives forward the company’s vision of creating brand experiences at the intersection of strategic thinking, creativity and technology to deliver work that defies both expectation and categorisation. Acknowledged as the UK’s leading agency for most of the last decade, SapientNitro boasts a digital fee income in excess of £132m and an array of international awards in 2013, culminating in the UK’s only Golden Lion in the Mobile category for RBS ‘Get Cash’. The agency works with some of the biggest brands in the world – including McLaren, Marks and Spencer, Ladbrokes, Lufthansa, Unilever, Audi, Royal Bank of Scotland and Vodafone. The company, its growth and expansive capability, are all, in their way, reflections of Vaz’s natural curiosity and passion for the best: “The idea that there is a way things work, that cannot be reimagined has always been anathema to me. Having a clear vision of what you’re trying to create, and the commitment to realise that vision, can change the world around you.”
Being a part of the Digital Hall of Fame means to me..? Sir Jonathan Ive, Sir Tim Berners-Lee – it is a huge honour to sit alongside people who are personal heroes and huge names in the digital landscape, and who have changed the way we think and behave. What the digital industry does for me is..? What digital does for everybody is to give ordinary people superhuman powers. Photo sharing, 3-D printing, Google Glass – these are the technologies of superheroes, now within reach of us all. I am most influenced by? Those with the vision and tenacity to make the seemingly impossible, possible – from Leonardo Da Vinci to Elon Musk and many, many in between. My biggest achievement to date is..? Having gained enough wisdom to know that biggest achievements are, by definition, retrospective and that all that is important is what’s possible tomorrow.
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Ajaz Ahmed Ajaz founded AKQA when he was 21 years old to help organisations create the future. Today, AKQA employs 1,500 people and is the world’s most awarded digital agency. Clients include Nike, Google, Audi, Red Bull.
Founder and CEO AKQA
A recognised pioneer and innovator, Ajaz co-authored Velocity, the No. 1 best-selling book, alongside Nike’s head of digital sport Stefan Olander. Velocity has been translated into five languages and features an introduction by Sir Richard Branson. All Ajaz’s proceeds from Velocity are donated to youth homeless, education, global healthcare and environment causes. Ajaz is very grateful for the recognition of AKQA’s team, work and investments in the next generation.
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Alan Rusbridger Alan Rusbridger’s career began on the Cambridge Evening News, where he trained as a reporter before first joining the Guardian in 1979. He worked as a general reporter, feature writer and diary columnist before leaving to succeed Clive James and Julian Barnes as the Observer’s TV critic. Editor-in-Chief Guardian
He became editor of the Guardian in 1995 and oversaw the integration of the paper and digital operations. The Guardian is now the third largest English-speaking newspaper website in the world with 40.1 million monthly unique visitors (comScore: May 2013). During his editorship the paper has fought a number of high-profile battles over libel and press freedom, including cases involving Neil Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken, the Police Federation, Trafigura, freedom of information and Wikileaks. The paper was nominated newspaper of the year five times between 1996 and 2006. Rusbridger has been named editor of the year three times. Rusbridger and reporter Nick Davies received the UK’s Media Society Award for their revelations and coverage of the phone hacking story in the Guardian.
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Andrew Walmsley Andrew co-founded i-level, the digital media agency that revolutionised the UK’s internet advertising market. Starting the business in 1999, he built it to over £100m turnover, winning over 50 awards including agency of the year eight times and a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Digital Pluralist Various organisations
He was named London Media Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young in 2006, and given the Chairman’s award by the Association of Online Publishers for outstanding contribution to the industry in 2007, selling the business to private equity in 2008 before moving on to develop interests in other ventures. For five years until 2011, he wrote a popular weekly column in Marketing magazine, appearing on the Today Programme as well as numerous other TV and radio programmes. He is now an active investor in early stage internet ventures, sitting on the board of several companies, as well as the Eden Project in Cornwall, and the Advertising Association’s Credos board.
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Andy Hobsbawm Andy established the first international Internet agency in 1994 which merged with pioneering digital services firm Agency.com in 1997 where he was European MD then Chairman until 2009.
Founder & CMO EVRYTHNG
Andy co-founded the award-winning online community Do The Green Thing in 2007. He has been listed among the 100 top digital influencers by Wired UK, and last year was named among the 20 inaugural inductees of the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame. He has been a weekly columnist about the new economy for the Financial Times, a member of GartnerG2’s first advisory board on online advertising and spoken at numerous conferences including TED. Andy is also a trustee of sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future and sits on advisory boards for Tate Britain and Rapha Racing Ltd. He has yet to receive any royalties from obscure pop songs released by a minor independent record label in Europe.
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Catriona Campbell
Director Seren (Formerly Foviance)
Voted into the Digital Hall of Fame (September 2012) for achievements in digital media over the last 20 years. She was instrumental in setting the UK standards for Usability and Accessibility across digital media as set by the UK government. She was voted into the Top 100 people in the Internet 2002 – Int. Mag. And selected as one of the Top 50 people in digital – by Econsultancy. Catriona is a Founder and Director at Seren, Customer Experiences. Working for 43 of the Top 100 FTSE, as well as numerous global clients such as Dell, Nokia and Microsoft. Seren’s customer experience designs are influenced by insights gained from its scientific research and insights programme. It has in-house laboratories, and is a pioneer in the science of using advanced customer research techniques to understand how customers feel and interact with brands and businesses. By understanding every rational, emotional and subconscious interaction, Seren then architects every moment of the customer’s experience. From interface design to the organisation and services that sit behind that interface. Seren measures everything. Customer analytics data, performance tracking and optimisation are its daily bread and butter. The result? Amazing experiences, inspired by people, valued by clients and their customers, every day.
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Helen Milner Helen is the Chief Executive of Tinder Foundation, a social enterprise and staff-owned mutual. She is passionate about the benefits to individuals that digital technologies bring.
Co-Founder Tinder Foundation
Her priorities are to build capacity in local communities and to ensure that people get the capability they need to reap the opportunities of the web and ‘digital by default’ service delivery, and in the three years 2010 - 2013 her organisation and hyper-local partners have helped 1.1 million people to do just that. She’s now working on a range of new products such as www.communityhowto.com and www.learnmyway.com to drive the use of digital by tens of thousands of community organisations in the UK and elsewhere. Helen has over 20 years experience of working on the internet, starting in 1985 in the private sector with TTNS, developing online education services for schools. Working in online education Australia and Japan in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Helen ran the ippr and University of Sunderland ‘university for industry’ pilot in 1997. She joined Ufi in 1999 and helped to create and lead the learndirect learning network. Working closely with Government Ministers and officials since the 1990s Helen’s ambition is to ensure that the UK doesn’t leave anyone behind as the nation becomes more and more digital.
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SIR Jonathan Ive
Senior Vice President of Design Apple Inc
London-born designer Jonathan Ive is Apple’s senior vice president of Design, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Since 1996, he has been responsible for leading a design team widely regarded as one of the world’s best. As the driving force behind the look and feel of Apple’s innovative products, Jony also provides leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) software teams across the company. Recognized with numerous design awards, Apple products are featured in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including MoMA in New York and the Pompidou in Paris. Jony holds a Bachelor of Arts and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle Polytechnic. In 2003, he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum London and awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by The Royal Society of Arts.
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Mark Cridge Mark is Director of Consulting at BERG, the Shoreditch based connected products company that brought the world Little Printer and is now hard at work developing BERG Cloud, the world’s friendliest and most complete internet of things platform.
Director of Consulting BERG
He has worked in digital since 1995 when he left the world of architecture, realising that it just wasn’t his cup of tea. After stints as an art director at agencies in Birmingham and London, he founded his own agency glue London in 1999; the UK’s original digital advertising agency. In 2010, he became Global Managing Director of Aegis Media’s global creative network Isobar, comprising 3,000 people in 34 markets, working with an enviable client list including adidas, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, P&G, The Guardian and Google. After a step away from the world of advertising and an extended sabbatical Mark joined BERG in September 2012 to help grow and develop their consultancy. A regular speaker at industry events he has sat on numerous awards juries, was cited by Campaign Magazine as a ‘Face to Watch’ way back in 2000, featured in the FT Creative Business 50 and became an IPA Fellow in 2010.
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Martha Lane Fox Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho CBE, is the UK digital champion and chair of Go On UK. Martha co-founded lastminute.com in 1998 and sold it in 2005. She founded Lucky Voice in 2004 and her own foundation Antigone. Cross bench peer House of Lords
She is an NED at M&S, mydeco, the Cabinet Office and the Womens Prize for Fiction. She is chair of Makielab and a patron of Reprieve, Abilitynet, and Just for Kids Law. In March 2013 she joined the House of Lords as a crossbencher, becoming its youngest female member.
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DR Michael Lynch Dr Mike Lynch, OBE, FREng is the founder of Autonomy and is regarded as a visionary figure within the technology world, described by the Financial Times as “the doyen of European software” and by the Sunday Times as “Britain’s Bill Gates”. He advises the Prime Minister on matters of science policy through the Council on Science and Technology. Co-Founder Autonomy Corporation
Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996, the UK’s largest and fastestgrowing software company, with a market capitalisation of $11bn, and was its CEO for fifteen years. In addition to Autonomy, Dr Lynch has founded or advised a number of companies ranging from Neurodynamics to Blinkx. He has invested in a number of startups, most recently Featurespace, and has also advised venture capital and private equity groups such as Apax Partners and the Carlyle Group. Dr Lynch is a non-executive director of the BBC, the British Library, and Cambridge Enterprise. He is a council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Foundation for Science and Technology. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Contribution award in the UKIT Industry awards and was named Most Influential Person in UK IT by Computer Weekly.
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Nicolas Roope
Executive Creative Director / Founder POKE
Nicolas has always looked beyond industry rhetoric to the inspiring truths of networked media and design; this passion driving his career in the business spanning the last eighteen years. Nicolas founded Antirom, Poke, Hulger and Plumen, all companies of note, all influential and innovative in their respective fields and all with digital at their hearts. These endeavours have each been recognised by international industry awards and critical acclaim. Nicolas was appointed member of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006 (www.iadas.net). He co-chairs Internet Week Europe, an annual, open source festival that launched in London in November 2010, and is also the jury chair of the Lovie Awards, the pan-European award for outstanding achievement in internet endeavours. He was included in the 2011 Adage Creative 50 and UK Wired 100 in 2011 and was inducted into the BIMA Hall Of Fame in 2012. He also sits on the UK Superbrands Council. Nicolas joined the Tech City Advisory board to the government in 2012, attending regular meetings at Number 10 Downing Street.
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Nick Hynes A true business visionary, Nick has established some of the most successful fast-growth digital companies of the last two decades. Nick founded Somo in 2009 to help companies make sense of the huge opportunities and the disruptive potential of mobile technology. CEO Somo
Somo, now the world’s largest independent mobile solutions firm, has six international offices delivering custom mobile development, performance and brand marketing, enterprise platforms, and mobile advertising technology to brands across the world. Nick was formerly founder, CEO and President of Overture Europe. Here he launched the paid search industry in Europe, building Overture from a startup to an established business which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.63bn. He was CEO and founder of The Search Works, Europe’s largest search engine marketing company, which was sold to Tradedoubler AB in 2007 for $115m. He is also an investor and non-executive director at TouchType Ltd, owner of SwiftKey, one of the bestselling Android apps in the world, Chairman of customer insight and loyalty firm Reward and Chairman of online review site Reviewcentre.
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Pete Cashmore Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, an awardwinning site and one of the largest and most popular destinations for digital, social media, and technology news and information with more than 20 million unique visitors per month.
CEO Mashable Inc
Mashable has been named a must-read site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine and is ranked as the most influential media outlet by Klout. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 as a blog focused on up-to-theminute news on social networks and digital trends. Since then, Mashable quickly grew to be one of the top 10 and most profitable blogs in the world. Pete was named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, a Time Magazine 100 in 2010, and a Forbes magazine web celeb 25. He was also named a Briton of the year by the Telegraph in 2010. Pete is a World Economic Forum 2011 Young Global Leader. Pete is based in New York and frequently visits San Francisco.
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Phil Jones The digital world couldn’t be further away from Phil’s 5-year apprenticeship as a hot-metal compositor and his founding of typography specialists APT, which he grew to 100 staff during the 80’s before successfully selling the business to a top ad agency.
Founder Podge Lunch & Real Time Consultancy
Phil became MD of Real Time Studio in 1991 and grew the team to 100, becoming one of the leading digital agencies in the UK before successfully merging with DM agencies EHS and Brann, where Phil became Vice Chairman of what became EHS Brann. Amongst his digital highlights was a ten year relationship with www.Diesel.com, and creating the first ever website for Canon UK and Europe and the online launches of the new MINI, the first Premier League and Sport England websites, and the launch of England Fans for the Football Association. Creating the identities for UK Sport, UK Athletics and the FA’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup along the way. Phil formed www.realtime.co.uk in 2004 to act as an advisor and mentor for creative, sports and digital businesses. Since 1994 Phil founded and organises the famous podge lunches: digitalpodge. co.uk, podgelunch.com and sportspodge.co.uk. As a Mancunian he was proud to launch www.stodgepodge.com for northern agencies.
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Robin Klein
Partner The Accelerator Group & Index Ventures
Robin joined the London office of Index Ventures in April 2010 as a Venture Partner. He is a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, and is currently Chairman of Quickbridge (Wonga), Moo and MyBuilder, sitting on the boards of EDITD, Farfetch, FreeAgent, OneFineStay, Skimlinks and Zoopla. Robin is a governor of Rhyl primary school and a past Chairman of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s funding company. Robin has 20 years experience as an entrepreneur and 14 years of investing experience. In his last operating role as Chairman and CEO of Innovations, he conducted the very first UK ecommerce transaction in May 1995. He started his investment career in earnest in 1998, co-founding The Accelerator Group (TAG) with his son, Saul. Some of TAG’s exits include Agent Provocateur (3i) where Robin was Chairman for five years, Lastminute (IPO), Last.fm (CBS), Dopplr (Nokia), Lovefilm (Amazon), Fizzback (Nice Systems), Slideshare (Linkedin), Tweetdeck (Twitter) and Mashery (Intel). Robin is passionate about helping to build the European technology startup ecosystem. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Industrial Engineering.
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Rory Sutherland Rory read Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before joining Ogilvy as a Graduate Trainee in 1988. After 18 months as the world’s worst account handler, he became a copywriter in June 1990.
Vice Chairman Ogilvy Group UK
He was appointed Creative Director of OgilvyOne in 1997 and ECD in 1998. In 2005 he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Ogilvy Group in the UK in recognition of his improved timekeeping. Rory first used the Internet in 1987. Hence he had the advantage in 1994 of knowing what it was. Most people would have combined this knowledge of marketing and technology to make a fortune; not Rory. Instead he became the first Briton to have his credit card details stolen online, thereby losing £22.45. Rory was President of the Direct Jury at Cannes in 2007, and was President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising for two years. Rory is a visiting professor of Warwick University and holds an honorary doctorate (D. Litt) from Brunel. Rory is the Technology Correspondent of the Spectator, the world’s oldest English-language magazine. You can visit his blog at snipr. com/da9bq
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Stephen Fry Stephen Fry is ‘king of first adopters’ and an infectiously enthusiastic champion of the near limitless possibilities of digital. He also finds time to be an actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all round national treasure. Actor / Screenwriter / Author Various organisations
On the occasion of his induction into the Digital Hall of Fame, Stephen Fry wrote: “To be voted, or ‘inducted’ which I believe is correct, into the Digital Hall of Fame, is a great honour that touches me deeply. I have always been fascinated by the power, reach, creativity of the digital world and its social implications, both for good and ill… “I first joined commercial online services like Prestel, Compuserve and America Online in the late 80s and then the internet proper through Demon, the UK’s first ISP. I was instantly struck amidships by the possibilities of this astounding new way of communicating around the globe. I had an email address but none of my friends did; only fellow geeks around the world with whom one would share interslip and PPP scripts. Then Tim Berners-Lee wrote his protocols and Mosaic and the first web browsers arrived. Within what seemed a blink of the eye nothing was the same again.”
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BIMA Digital Hall of Fame, 2012
SIR Tim Berners-Lee
Co-founder and Director World Wide Web Consortium and the World Wide Web Foundation
Berners Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. Timothy John Berners Lee was born on 8 June 1955 and grew up in London. He studied physics at Oxford University and became a software engineer. In 1980, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, he first described the concept of a global system, based on the concept of ‘hypertext’, that would allow researchers anywhere to share information. He also built a prototype called ‘Enquire’. In 1989, Berners Lee published a paper called ‘Information Management: A Proposal’ in which he married up hypertext with the Internet, to create a system for sharing and distributing information not just within a company, but globally. He named it the World Wide Web. He also created the first web browser and editor. The world’s first website, http://info.cern.ch, was launched on 6 August 1991. It explained the World Wide Web concept and gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites. In 1994, Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has served as director of the consortium since then. He also works as a senior research scientist at LCS which has now become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Tom Roope Creative Director and co-founder of The Rumpus Room, Tomas Roope has been a leading digital practitioner since 1994. In 1995 he co-founded Anitrom, a company which was awarded “The most Outstanding Contribution to Digital Culture” during Internet Week’s Digital Archaeology 2010 (EU) and 2011 (US). Founder / Director The Rumpus Room
Antirom continued until 1999 when Tom went on to co-found the also highly acclaimed ‘Tomato Interactive’. He has taught at several universities including product design at the Royal College of Art, and produced installations for several exhibitions internationally. In 2012 Tom was presented the award of Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts, in recognition of his “Innovative work in taking computer interactions beyond the desktop and into communities and shared spaces” - Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA. The Rumpus Room was founded in 2007 to harness the power of people building experiences together and align this activity with brand communication. Tom’s work at The Rumpus Room has been integral in the company being recognised with some of the highest accolades, by award bodies including D&AD, Cannes, One Show, Brit Insurance Design of the Year and Campaign Media Awards.
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BIMA Digital Hall of Fame, 2012
Warren East Warren East has been the Chief Executive Officer of ARM Holdings PLC and ARM Ltd since October 2001. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Arm Inc and as a Member of the UK Trade and Investment Executive Board for Technology, where he is responsible for driving the UK’s trade and investment objectives in the telecoms and IT sectors. Independent Director / Former ARM CEO Various organisations / ARM
Warren joined ARM Holdings plc in 1994 and served as its Vice President of Business Operations from February 1998 and as Chief Operating Officer since October 2001. Warren served as the Chief Executive Officer of Artisan Components, Inc. since August 2004. He served with Texas Instruments (TI) for 11 years and latterly managed TI ‘s FPGA marketing in Europe. He has been a Non Executive Director at ARM Holdings PLC since October 2000 and De La Rue plc since January 2007. He serves as a Director of ARM Ltd and Reciva Limited. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Quester Venture Partnership. He is a chartered engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the Cranfield University and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering sciences from the University of Oxford.
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