Our judging panel includes professionals from Northern Ireland and Ireland who work within and have an in-depth knowledge of the sustainability sector, ensuring that our entrants receive the fair and credible, peer-to-peer recognition that they fully deserve.
Below is a selection of our judging panel for 2024, but stay tuned over the coming weeks to find out more about who will be joining our expert line-up:
Danielle is a sustainability professional with over 23 years’ experience in delivering local, national, and European behavioural change and sustainability campaigns, business mentoring and green marketing support, and is the Founder and Lead Consultant of sustainability consultancy, Triterra.
With a solid background in the industry, Danielle holds a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science, a CIM level 4 certificate in Integrated Communications; CIM training in behavioural change; a PgCert in International Business and a PgCert in Renewable Energy & Energy Management, both from the University of Ulster.
Danielle also established the All-Ireland Sustainability Professionals Network in November 2020, and the All-Ireland Sustainability events, with the goal of raising the profile of the sustainability agenda across the Island, encouraging opportunities to share best practice, learnings and collaborative opportunities. She continues to manage and chair the network, which now has over 450 members across NI and ROI, and runs the All-Ireland Sustainability Summit and Awards initiatives.
Paul Murphy, CEO of Climeaction, is a renowned Energy, Climate Action & Sustainability consultant. With extensive experience in energy management, audits, and climate action strategies, Paul has worked with over 170 manufacturing facilities in 24 countries and 120 SMEs in Ireland. He is an internationally certified energy auditor and expert in energy-efficient design.
Paul has led significant projects in reducing energy usage, costs, and carbon emissions for high-profile clients like Glanbia, Abbott, and Pepsico. He has implemented ISO50001 and developed full life cycle emissions analyses. Paul serves as a key advisor on energy, climate, and sustainability strategies and has been a large industry relationship manager for the SEAI since 2015. He also contributes to energy policy development and serves on the board of the Renewable Gas Forum of Ireland.
Judy McElroy is the Sustainability & Environment Manager at NIE Networks Ltd, a position she took up in July 2020.
NIE Networks owns and manages the electricity networks in Northern Ireland, with c. 50,000km of network and c. 900,000 connected customers. Judy is responsible for the Sustainability, Environment Net Zero and ESG strategies and initiatives at NIE Networks.
Judy previously held a number of Engineering roles in NIE Networks including in Asset Management. She is a member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) and Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA).
Gordon Boyd, experienced Owner of G.B Associates has a demonstrated history spanning over 26 years of working in the environmental services industry.
Gordon is skilled in ISO 9001, 45001, 14001, sustainable development, end of waste protocols, corporate social responsibility, and business planning.
He is an International speaker on waste legislation, end of waste and sustainability future and well known and respected professional within the sustainability sector.
Adrian, Founder and Lead Consultant at AD Sustainability in County Antrim, provides environmental and sustainability/CSR consultancy. His firm supports public and private sector clients with cost reduction, compliance assurance, and responsible business performance, focusing on Carbon, Compliance, Circularity, and Corporate Responsibility.
With 25 years of experience, Adrian has worked with organisations such as AES UK & Ireland, Bombardier Aerospace, FG Wilson, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and Queen’s University Belfast. He supports clients under Invest NI’s Energy and Resource Efficiency Consultancy Framework and Enterprise Ireland’s Green Offer program.
Adrian advises on carbon management, circular economy, CSR, environmental sustainability strategy, environmental training, ISO 14001 and 50001 management systems, resource efficiency, and waste management. He is a Chartered Environmentalist, a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, and an approved NEBOSH environmental trainer. Adrian holds a BSc Hons in Environmental Technology and an MSc in Management and Corporate Governance. He is committed to providing practical, common-sense solutions to his clients.
Jac Callan is the Sustainability & Impact Manager at Visit Belfast. She is supporting Belfast on its journey towards becoming a leading sustainable tourism and events destination. Working across the tourism and events industry in Belfast, her role is to accelerate sustainable performance and encourage collaboration and sharing of best practise. Collaborative efforts of Belfast’s tourism and events industry to become more sustainable has helped the city secure the position of 11th out of 100 global destinations in the 2023 Global Destinations Sustainability Index (GDS-Index).
Working across all areas of Visit Belfast’s activity including, cruise tourism, leisure tourism, visitor servicing and conference and events, Jac’s aim is to harness the power of tourism and events to create positive impact for Belfast’s people, place and economy. Part of her role includes working with incoming conferences to help them organise more sustainable events that consider the 3 pillars of sustainability – environmental, social, and economic.
Ashley is the Head of Sustainability and Programmes at Dogpatch Labs– the leading startup hub in Ireland. At Dogpatch, she runs the 2050 Accelerator, Ireland’s national sustainability accelerator focused on making this country a testbed for sustainability innovation. Her expertise are in emerging markets, corporate innovation, and the social economy.
Previously, Ashley worked for various United Nations agencies such as UN Global Compact (NYC), UN Development Program (South Africa), and IFAD (Fiji). She has launched several successful UN accelerators that ran across 70 different countries and 600+ participating companies in the pilot year, and is a published UN author.
As the Business Development and Client Relations Manager at Adler and Allan (Ireland), Jonathan’s role is pivotal in fostering growth and strengthening client relationships. Working closely with the sponsorship team, his focus is on expanding business development efforts while ensuring client retention remains a top priority.
Jonathan’s work involves developing strategic plans, conducting market research, and implementing targeted marketing strategies as well as coordinating logistics, managing vendor relationships, and overseeing event operations to guarantee a positive experience for clients and attendees. By facilitating successful events, the firm can showcase its capabilities and
Jonathan is dedicated to fostering meaningful client relationships by proactively engaging with clients, addressing their needs, and providing tailored, material and personalised solutions.
Andrew has over 15 years’ experience in financial services with an extensive background in change leadership and strategy delivery.
He is currently responsible for supporting Danske Bank UK transition to a more sustainable future and ultimately achieve net zero. This includes supporting the organisation, including customers through a programme of education, product development and process improvement.
Andrew has completed a Masters in Sustainable Development through Queens University Belfast where he developed leadership skills in the area of sustainability.
John Ferris is Regional Ecosystem Manager with the Ulster Bank and spent his early career coding for a healthcare tech company in Pittsburgh before a 15 year stint in media. A journalist and editor at the North Belfast News, John also ran Ireland’s most successful independent food website, Forked. In 2013 John launched a wifi software technology startup, which was used in restaurants, cafés, hotels, stadia and vehicles around the world.
John joined Entrepreneurial Spark in 2015 to help support ambitious startups throughout Ireland. The social enterprise was bought over by NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank in 2018. Since joining the team John has worked to support 750+ startups across the country. Those businesses have raised £35m+ in investment and created more than 1000 jobs.
Since 2019, John sits as a member of Ulster Bank’s Regional Board and leads on climate and the drive to support a more diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem in Northern Ireland. John has also taken on an additional role as Norther Ireland’s Dealmaker, Department for International Trade and this month launched The Untapped VC, a podcast focused on diversity in Venture Capital.
Eugene is Business Development Manager in the Green Economy Development Team at Invest Northern Ireland.
Eugene Heaney, joined Invest Northern Ireland in 2014, following a 20-year career in the Construction supplies sector, where he specialised in low energy building practices, and held a Senior Regional Management role. Since joining Invest NI, he has used this private sector experience in to assist start-up and early-stage exporter businesses develop propositions, grow sales, and expand their workforces.
He has worked within the Invest NI Skills Division, assisting groups of companies combine their capabilities, through Collaborative support, to deliver collective projects. This role enabled him to assist over 25 Green Economy projects, including a Low Energy housing project, which achieved United Nations recognition for its innovative sustainability and energy efficiency performance.
Eugene now manages the Green Economy Development team in Invest NI who are responsible for working across industry and stakeholders to help promote and support growth for Northern Ireland businesses in the Green Economy locally and internationally.
Sally is Head of Compliance & Sustainability at Frylite Solutions.
Sally began working at Frylite Solutions over 12 years ago as Environment, Health and Safety Manager and is now the Head of Compliance and Sustainability based at our Head Office in Strabane.
Sally’s passion is about finding solutions and driving sustainability in the Food & Catering industry across the island of Ireland, and she is delighted to be driving the sustainability agenda of a pioneer in the catering industry that has circularity at its very core.
Her career spans nearly 25 years, specialising in occupational health and safety and environmental management gained through working in defence for 10 years and over the last 14 years in the private sector, supporting the food manufacturing industry.
The knowledge and skills gained over the years has given Sally the tools that she uses daily to drive continued improvement, transparency, and a greater understanding of what Frylite do and how it impacts their stakeholders.
Sally feels that this is such an exciting time for Frylite, as sustainability is integral to everything that Frylite do, she says “we understand the importance of what we do and how it impacts on our current generations and how our actions impact our future generations, whilst ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social wellbeing.”
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