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Welcome to the 2014 Digital Hall of Fame I’m delighted to offer my congratulations on behalf of BIMA and the wider industry to the 2014 inductees to the Digital Hall of Fame: Brent Hoberman, Kate Burns, Sir Martin Sorrell and Wayne Arnold.

This is no mean feat and makes the Digital Hall of Fame one of the most coveted of trophies, honouring the inductees’ lifetime contributions to the industry and holding them out as inspirational examples for the next generation of talent.

Before today, our inductees were certainly not short on plaudits, added to which their own track records speak louder of their achievements than any industry accolade could do. Nevertheless, when most of us reckon up the praise we hold dearest it is always the good opinion of our peers we rate above all others.

In convening this gathering of superstar talent we are supported by four companies leading the way in their own respective fields. It is my pleasure to acknowledge the contribution of Microsoft Mobile, Six Degrees Group and TDA Digital and thank them for their support for BIMA and the Digital Hall of Fame.

In which case our inductees will be gratified to know that entry into the Hall of Fame is by nominations and voting carried out among the Hall of Fame incumbents – in other words, to get in you need to be selected by the likes of Ajaz Ahmed, Rory Sutherland, Catriona Campbell, Nick Hynes and Justin Cooke.

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Digital Hall of Fame 2014

Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Brent Hoberman

Ajaz Ahmed

Nick Hynes

Kate Burns

Alan Rusbridger

Nicolas Roope

Sir Martin Sorrell

Andrew Walmsley

Nigel Vaz

Wayne Arnold

Andy Hobsbawm

Pete Cashmore

Catriona Campbell

Phil Jones

Helen Milner

Robin Klein

Joanna Shields

Rory Sutherland

Sir Jonathan Ive

Stephen Fry

Justin Cooke

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Luke Taylor

Tom Roope Hon RDI

Mark Cridge

Warren East

Martha Lane Fox

Matt Brittin

Dr Michael Lynch

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame 2014

Brent Hoberman Co-Founder Made.com / PROfounders Capital / Founders Forum @brenthoberman

Brent co-founded PROfounders Capital in 2009 – an early stage fund, backed by entrepreneurs for digital entrepreneurs. He is Chairman/cofounder of made.com, a direct-from-factory consumer crowd-sourced homewares retailer in the UK.

Doing business in the UK is…

Most recently alongside PROfounders Capital he joined the board of easyCar.com (person-to-person car sharing). Brent co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998. He was CEO from its inception and the team took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. lastminute.com acquired 14 businesses after the IPO to supplement the annual growth of the core brand which was over 100% from 1998 – 2004. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.

The traits that have served me the best are...

One of the best places in the world. A gateway to Europe and more with a growing entrepreneurial dynamism.

Tenacity, passion mixed with studied optimism. What I do could be described as… Concocting disruptive applications for technology. Then getting the best people to help execute.

Brent is on the ICA Council and a Non- Executive Board Director of Guardian Media Group, TalkTalk PLC & Shazam. Brent also sits on the UK Government Digital Advisory Board, is a Senior Advisor to Lepe Partners, a YGL, a UK Business Trade Ambassador and a Fellow (Governor) of Eton College. Brent also co-founded Founders Forum in 2005, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow which currently take place in Rio, London, LA, NYC, Brazil, Hong Kong & Mumbai.

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Kate Burns MD Europe SHIFT @KateBurnsie

Kate Burns’s unique experience lies in building successful European operations from the ground up, for the world’s largest and most successful digital brands. With nearly two decades of experience, Kate is the MD, UK/Europe at SHIFT, the leading marketing software company for social advertisers. SHIFT’s Open Marketing Cloud provides solutions for planning, advertising and analysing social marketing campaigns for global brands, including 10 of the top 20 largest advertisers in the world.

I’m where I am today because…

Most recently, Kate ran AOL Europe and led her team through a swift and successful business turnaround, embarked on her own entrepreneurial venture, Kt3 Ltd and also set up the EMEA operations for Drawbridge Inc.

The innovation that’s excited me lately is…

Prior to AOL, Kate was Vice President and Managing Director, Europe, of AOL’s social media company, Bebo. In 2001, Kate joined Google as its first international employee, building its European operation from scratch - and eventually managing Region 1 as Director, UK, Ireland and Benelux. Kate is an active commentator on the digital sector across conferences, TV, Press and Radio. She is also a keen horsewoman, show jumping at a national level.

My best career moves have been based on whether the company has a product/innovation strategy rooted in “changing the world” and also a team that is the smartest in the market. Product and People therefore are pivotal for a company’s success and tenure. I would choose People as being the most important dynamic to my success. I have always recruited teams far smarter than me – and I have also worked for some of the most brilliant leaders in the business.

While social media itself has become more of a behaviour than an innovation, the real growth has transpired in the area of social discovery. People are now placing more and more credibility and resonance around social recommendations from peers over algorithmic search. I believe innovation will continue to thrive in this area - and positively effect how I discover, shop and communicate. My saying/expression of choice is... “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

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Sir Martin Sorrell CEO & Founder WPP

Sir Martin Sorrell founded WPP, the world’s leading advertising and marketing services group, in 1985 and has been chief executive throughout.

The next source of disruption will be…

WPP companies provide clients with advertising, media investment management, data investment management, public relations and public affairs, branding and identity, healthcare communications, direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing and specialist communications services.

The trait that’s served me the best is…

Collectively, WPP employs nearly 175,000 people (including associates) in over 3,000 offices in 110 countries. The Group’s worldwide companies include JWT, Ogilvy & Mather, Y&R, Grey, Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Maxus, Xaxis, Kantar (including Millward Brown and TNS), Wunderman, AKQA, Burson-Marsteller, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Landor, Brand Union, Fitch, The Partners and WPP Digital. Clients include 351 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30, 69 of the NASDAQ 100 and 31 of the Fortune e-50. In 2013, WPP had revenues of $17.3 billion and billings of $72.3 billion.

To plagiarise Bill Shankly: WPP isn’t a matter of life and death – it’s much more important than that.

Chinese tech innovation.

Persistence and speed. My saying/expression of choice is…

Sir Martin actively supports the advancement of international business schools – advising Harvard, IESE, the Indian School of Business and the China Europe International Business School. He received a knighthood in January 2000.

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Wayne Arnold Founder & CEO Lowe Profero

Having co-founded Profero with his brother in 1998, Wayne is regarded as one of the industry’s most respected and experienced practitioners. He has successfully supervised local and global campaigns for an enviable client list including Apple, Diageo, Unilever and Western Union. Wayne expanded the Profero client and geographical base by carefully positioning Profero as the only global independent digital agency of its kind, covering media, creative and technology, with offices across 10 cities in US, Europe and Asia. In 2010 he assumed the role of Global CEO where he was based out of the US for the last 3 years. In 2013 he moved to APAC in a forward thinking move to be one of the only global CEO’s based in the region demonstrating Profero’s global intent and commitment to the region. Recently Profero joined the Lowe & Partners family to become Lowe Profero with the aim of being the first truly global marketing communication business with digital at the core.

Doing business in the UK is… Challenging and rewarding due to the fierce competitiveness and the richness of talent in the country. The next source of disruption will be… It is already here and has been since the dawn of the internet. Its birth changed everything as we now live in an age of access and whether it is wearable tech, mobile internet access for all, everything is just constantly evolving. The innovation that’s excited me lately is… The ongoing adoption of the mobile phone in developing markets. In some ways it is very low tech e.g. first generation mobiles or text messaging but it is changing a generation in these poorer markets. Opening doors of education for all, through to M commerce. Incredibly exciting times.

Other recent achievements include being voted as: • Chairman of the IPA Digital committee • The UK’s most influential digital Briton • Top 100 most influential people for the Y generation across any industry sector • One of the 1,000 most influential people in London • Observer’s Future 500 ones to watch

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Ajaz Ahmed Founder & CEO AKQA @Ajaz

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 and Red Bull. A recognised pioneer and innovator, Ajaz coauthored 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.

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BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Alan Rusbridger Editor-in-Chief Guardian @arusbridger

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.

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.

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 over 90 million monthly unique visitors (ABC figures, February 2014).

In 2012, Rusbridger was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism by Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Centre. In the same year, in New York, he also received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the cause of press freedom from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Guardian was recently named “Independent Voice of the Year” for its articles about mass surveillance at Liberty’s annual awards. 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.

Andrew Walmsley Digital Pluralist Various organisations @awalmsley

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. 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.

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Andy Hobsbawm

Catriona Campbell

Founder & CMO EVRYTHNG

Director Seren (Formerly Foviance)

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. 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 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.

@catrionacampbel

Voted into the Digital Hall of Fame (September 2012) for achievements in digital media over the last 20 years. Catriona 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.

He has yet to receive any royalties from obscure pop songs released by a minor independent record label in Europe.

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Helen Milner Chief Executive Tinder Foundation @helenmilner

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. Her priorities are to make good things happen through digital technologies. She works in partnership to build capacity in local communities so people get the capability they need to enjoy all the wonders of the web and ‘digital by default’ service delivery, and in the four years 2010 - 2014 her organisation and hyper-local partners have helped over 1.2 million people to do just that. Helen has almost 30 years experience of working on the internet, starting in 1985 in the private sector with TTNS, developing internet education content and services for children and schools. She worked in online education in Australia and Japan in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and Helen ran the ippr and University of Sunderland ‘university for industry’ pilot in the late 90s.

Joanna Shields She joined Ufi in 1999 as part of the core leadership that created learndirect – the national online learning network. Helen’s ambition is to ensure that everybody in the UK (and the rest of the world), no matter what their income or background, has the skills and resources to use and participate in the web.

Chair Tech City UK @joannashields

Joanna Shields OBE is an American-British business executive, entrepreneur and investor. She is currently the Chair of Tech City UK and the UK’s Ambassador for Digital Industries. Shields spent the past 27 years building some of the world’s best-known technology companies, including Google, Bebo, Aol and Facebook. She is a dual US/UK citizen, having relocated from Silicon Valley to London in 2000.

Shields was ranked #1 on the Wired 100 in 2011 and #6 in the MediaGuardian 100 in 2012. In February 2013 she was named in the list of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. In July 2013 Computer Weekly named Shields the Most Influential Woman in UK IT. In July 2013 she was inducted into the British Interactive Media Association’s Digital Hall of Fame.

Before taking up her current post at the request of Prime Minister David Cameron she was Vice President and Managing Director of Facebook in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to Facebook she served as President of People Networks at Aol, a position she assumed after the acquisition of Bebo by Time Warner’s Aol unit. At Bebo, Shields was CEO, leading the company’s growth to 50M users and eventual acquisition for $850 million. Prior to this position she served as Managing Director for Google Europe, Russia, Middle East & Africa.

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Sir Jonathan Ive

Justin Cooke

Senior Vice President of Design Apple Inc

UK CEO POSSIBLE

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. Recognised 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.

@justincooke

Justin is the UK CEO of POSSIBLE, WPP Digital’s largest global digital agency and the former 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. 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 Canon, Microsoft, Peroni, Procter & Gamble, Shell and Visa. He is proud to be a Non-Executive Director of FutureLearn, a Digital Advisory Board Member 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 powerbrokers 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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Luke Taylor CEO DigitasLBi

Mark Cridge

Luke Taylor is Global Chief Executive of DigitasLBi, the world’s most complete marketing and technology agency with 6,800 best-in-class digital experts across 25 countries. Prior to taking up this role at the start of 2013, Taylor was Global Chief Executive of publicly 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.

@markcridge

Mark is former Director of Consulting at BERG, the Shoreditch based connected products company that brought the world Little Printer where he helped in the transition from design studio to funded tech startup working on BERG Cloud.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Martha Lane Fox

Matt Brittin

Crossbench Peer House of Lords

VP Europe – Northern & Central Google

@Marthalanefox

Martha Lane Fox co-founded Europe’s largest travel and leisure website lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman in 1998, they took it public in 2000 and sold it in 2005. Martha was appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords in March 2013. She is currently chair of Go On UK, a coalition of public and private sector partners that are helping millions more people and organisations online. In March 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the Open University. Martha co- founded and chairs LuckyVoice, revolutionising the karaoke industry. She chairs MakieLab and Founders Forum for Good. She is a Non-Executive Director at Marks & Spencer and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2007 Martha founded her own charitable foundation Antigone.org.uk and also serves as a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law. In 2013 Martha was awarded a CBE.

@MattBrittin

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.

He lives in London, near the Thames, with his wife, two sons and small dog.

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.

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Dr Michael Lynch Co-Founder Autonomy Corporation

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. Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996, the UK’s largest and fastest growing 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, including Featurespace, and has also advised venture capital and private equity groups such as Apax Partners and the Carlyle Group.

Nick Hynes 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.

CEO Somo

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. 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.

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Nicolas Roope

Nigel Vaz

Executive Creative Director / Founder POKE

Senior Vice President, Managing Director Europe SapientNitro

@nikroope

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.

@vaznigel

Nigel Vaz helped to take SapientNitro from a startup a decade ago to become the largest agency in the UK today – engaging connected consumers through immersive stories and experiences that live across brand communications, digital engagement and omni-channel commerce. This journey has seen him grow Sapient’s business beyond the UK to be a significant presence in mainland Europe, lead key strategic acquisitions and enhance the agency’s creative reputation. He 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. Nigel’s roots are in business strategy, where he has consistently helped clients to build sustainable value propositions by operating at the intersection of strategic thinking, creativity and technology.

Since joining Sapient in 2000, Nigel has held a number of key management positions across North America, Europe and India. The agency works with some of the biggest brands in the world – including Audi, Lufthansa, Marks and Spencer, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sky, Tesco, Unilever and Vodafone. Nigel is both an elected member of the IPA Council and The Marketing Society’s Management Board. He is current ‘Individual of the Year’ for the DADIs (Drum Awards for Digital Industries).

Nicolas joined the Tech City Advisory board to the government in 2012, attending regular meetings at Number 10 Downing Street.

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Pete Cashmore

Phil Jones

CEO Mashable Inc

Founder Podge Events & Real Time Consultancy

@petecashmore

Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, an award-winning 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. 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-the-minute 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.

@denislaw

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. 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.

Phil formed www.realtime.co.uk in 2004 to act as an advisor and mentor for creative, sports and digital businesses. In 1994 Phil founded and organises the famous podge lunches: digitalpodge.co.uk, podgelunch.com and sportspodge.co.uk are soon to be joined by musicpodge in 2014. As a Mancunian he couldn’t resist the challenge of launching www. stodgepodge.com for northern agencies.

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.

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Robin Klein Partner The Accelerator Group & Index Ventures @robinklein

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.

Rory Sutherland 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.

Vice Chairman Ogilvy Group UK @rorysutherland

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. 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

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Stephen Fry Actor / Screenwriter / Author @stephenfry

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. 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…

Sir Tim Berners-Lee “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.”

Co-founder & Director World Wide Web Consortium and the World Wide Web Foundation @timberners_lee

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.

BIMA Digital Hall of Fame Incumbents

Tom Roope Hon RDI Founder / Director The Rumpus Room @tomas_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 Antirom, a company which was awarded “The most Outstanding Contribution to Digital Culture” during Internet Week’s Digital Archaeology 2010 (EU) and 2011 (US). 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.

Warren East 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.

Former CEO ARM

Warren East was chief executive officer for ARM Holdings plc from October 2001 to July 2013. ARM, a constituent of the FTSE 100, is the world’s leading Semiconductor IP licensing company with over 360 licencees worldwide collectively shipping over 10 billion ARM chips per year. He served with Texas Instruments for 11 years before joining ARM in 1994. Warren is a Chartered Engineer, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. Warren holds a master’s degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, and an Honorary Doctorate from Cranfield University.

He is senior non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of De La Rue plc, and a non executive director of Micron inc, Dyson Limited, BT plc and Rolls Royce plc. He chairs the ESCO (Electronic Systems Community) Council and Leadership Forum and is on the board of the Connected Digital Economy Catapult. He is a member of several advisory boards. He was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours list.