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The judges and the judging process
Each submission will be forwarded to the entire judging panel; the panel will consist of independent industry experts.
All categories are awarded a score based on the decision of an independent panel of judges. They determine their decision purely on the basis of the submission from the entrant or nominee.
If an instance occurs where a judge is also a representative of a nominated company or has a relationship with a nominated company which may affect their ability to be impartial, that particular judge will not submit scores for that category.
The judges:
Our expert judging panel consists of recognised and respected executives within the urban transport industry.
 Jane Pearce, Editor, Metro Report International
 Jane Pearce joined the Railway Gazette group on August 26 as Editor of Metro Report International. Previously Key Account Manager for Platform Screen Doors at Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd, Jane has built up an extensive knowledge of the metro market in Europe, South America and the Middle East. A linguist and chartered marketer, Jane has gained widespread experience of international marketing and sales in various industries including the transport sector. She recently completed an M.Sc. in Marketing at the University of Glamorgan, with a thesis on the effectiveness of advertising in metro stations.
Ashwin Kumar, Passenger Director, Passenger Focus
 Ashwin Kumar heads up the watchdog’s Passenger Link team which is responsible for liaising with train operating companies, Network Rail, stakeholders and the media to achieve improvements for passengers. He also manages the Manchester-based Passenger Advice team, which takes up complaints on behalf of passengers dissatisfied with their train company’s response.
Ashwin joined Passenger Focus in late 2007 after working as an economist at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), where he was based for nine years. At the DWP he was responsible for building the UK’s model for predicting future pensioner incomes and most recently led research and analysis on housing benefit. He has also worked previously as a press officer at the National Criminal Intelligence Service.
Elliot Gilmour, Managing Director, Spitfire Consultancy
 Elliot Gilmour is Managing Director of Spitfire Consultancy which he launched in 2002 having enjoyed a successful consulting and management career.
Following a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Business Management and European Studies at the University of Strathclyde and an MBA from the University of Durham, Elliot joined Nissan Motor Manufacturing where he spent ten years in both Japan and UK. His career also took him to senior positions in British Steel and BAE Systems. Prior to starting his own business, Elliot gained extensive consulting experience working as senior consultant through to senior management within a large International consultancy.
Since the launch of Spitfire Consultancy in 2002, Elliot has created an International team of consultants, each of whom has significant senior management expertise built from their experiences at world class organisations such as Toyota Motor Corporation and Nissan Motors. They all enjoy a thorough knowledge of performance improvement and work hand in hand at all levels of our clients’ business to implement, coach and deliver change.
With a major focus on the Rail Industry, Spitfire operates globally designing, developing and implementing lean transformation strategies for clients across a wide range of industry sectors.
Richard Scott, Transport Correspondent, BBC News
 Graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge after reading Natural Sciences in 1995. Then did a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 1997. Joined BBC Southern Counties Radio as a newsreader/reporter shortly afterwards, before moving as a producer to the Business & Economics Unit at Television Centre in London in 2000. Became Personal Finance Reporter in 2004, then Transport Correspondent in 2009.
The entry criteria for all categories is available online. Please click on the link below to view the categories and their criteria.
> View the awards categories
Judging process:
After an initial exchange of ideas the judges will independently select their top 3 from the submitted nominations for each category, which they will rank in order of merit from 1 to 3.
Points will be awarded as follow: 10 points for a ranking of 1, 8 points for a ranking of 2 and 6 points for a ranking of 3. All of the judges scores will then be collated, and the total scores will then be calculated in order to reveal the winner. For each category there will be 1 winner and up to 5 finalists.
In the event of a tie for first place, each company will be asked to submit a tie-breaker entry which will be assessed by the judges to identify the winner.
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