--- title: Thanks to 2014 International Business Awards Preliminary Judges description: The professionals worldwide who participated in preliminary judging of The 2014 International Business Awards. image: https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/file-384391332-jpg/images/stevie2014_logo_s_150_web.jpg --- [![stevie-awards-full-logo](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stevie%20Awards%20Blog%20Theme%20Files/stevie-awards-full-logo.png?width=347&height=70&name=stevie-awards-full-logo.png "stevie-awards-full-logo")](http://stevieawards.com) Click to View Posts by Stevie® Awards Categories # Thanks to 2014 International Business Awards Preliminary Judges Posted by [Maggie Gallagher](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/author/maggie-gallagher) on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 @ 08:43 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) **The following professionals participated in preliminary judging of The 2014 [International Business Awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/ABA), the worlds top [business awards](http://www.stevieawards.com) program, in May-July.  Their average scores determined the entries that were eligible to be included in final judging.  We thank them for their time, insights and support.** Dr. Mamdooh Abdelmottlep, Founding President, International Police Sciences Association, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates ![2014](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/file-384391332-jpg/images/stevie2014_logo_s_150_web.jpg)Nicole Y. Adams, Translator & Consultant, NYA Communications, Brisbane, Australia Hazem Adawie Senior Manager-Corporate Performance Management Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Bora Aksoylu, Event Manager, NIKE Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey Shadi Al Hroub, Creative Director, Freelance, Amman, Jordan Ahmad Alhai, Drilling Services Automation Project Manager & RTOC Project Member, ADCO, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Mahmoud Alhayek, Quality Expert, Abu Dhabi Police, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Dr. Mohammed A. Alkhozai, Director, Bahrain Management Society, Manama, Bahrain Amal Al-Najjar, HR Manager, Fluor Kuwait, Kuwait Col. Mohammed Alreeh, Ministry of the Interior, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Ani Atanasova, CEOPixelhunters, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Dr. Christina Augustine, Global Strategic HR, Virtusa Corporation, Chennai, India Heather Barton, Head of Human Resources, American Institute for Foreign Study (UK) Ltd, London, United Kingdom Israel Bonequi, Creative Director, Birds Nest Foundation, Montreal, QC, Canada Ted Bridgwater, President, Foresight Corporate Communications, Toronto, ON, Canada Oana Bulexa, Managing Director, The Practice, Bucharest, Romania Connie Bullock, Director, Marketing, NuCompass Mobility, Manassas, VA , USA Mark Burton, CEO, International Armoring Corp., Centerville, UT, USA Peter Bush, Doctor, Response Ambulance Services, Port Talbot, United Kingdom Jorge Cachinero, Director Corporativo de Reputación e Innovación, Llorente y Cuenca, Madrid, Spain Venkata Rajesh, Cheerla    Group Senior Manager - HR Strategy, Policies & Compliance, Etisalat Group, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Tore Claesson, Director, Tio Agency, New York, USA Sally Clubley, Senior Consultant, IHRDC, Stourton, United Kingdom Dorothy Crenshaw, CEO, Crenshaw Communications, New York, NY, USA Kate Darcy Hohenthal, Founder, The Birthday Club, Manchester, CT , USA Karla Davis, General Manager, Plantation Resort, Surfside Beach, SC, USA Saraida De Marchena Kaluche, President and CEO, Markatel, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Lelanie de Wet, Web Content & Social Media Manager, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa Teresa DeFelice, Account Executive, RCI, Orlando, FL, USA Danielle Di-Masi, Managing Director, The Interactions Lab, Coogee, Australia Richard Dixon, Owner/Administrator, Home Helpers and Direct Link of North Texas, Keller, TX, USA Sheryl Dobson, Director of Customer Contact, J2 Global, Ottawa, ON, Canada Michal Dunin, Managing Director, WebTalk, Warsaw, Poland Stacey Edmonds, Founder and MD Lively, Lively Coogee, NSW, Australia Rochelle Ekanayake, Managing Director UK/SRI LANKA, MrPierce Studios International Asia (PVT) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka Kristina Garcia, Managing Director, German State of Hessen U.S. Office for Economic Development, New York, NY, USA Sergio García, Creative Director, Doctor Jekyll, Barcelona, Spain Manoj Gautam, Om shiva, shakti herbal company pvt. Ltd, Kathmandu, Nepal Constantinos Grivas, CEO and Founder, Swiss Nutraceuticals MIKE, Athens, Greece Naresh Gupta, Associate Partner, IBM Global Business Services, Gurgaon, India Danita Harn, VP of Operations, Harn & Associates Bookkeeping Firm, Woodstock, GA, USA Robin Harris, Principal/Creative Director, Harris Design Inc., McLean, VA, USA Aida Hernandez, New Business Development, Marco de Comunicación, Madrid, Spain Jesse Hertstein, Senior CSR Specialist, Amway, Ada, MI, USA Jamie K. Holt, MBA, President/CEO, JMK Notary And Services, Miami, FL, USA Giles House, VP Marketing, CallidusCloud, Pleasanton, CA, USA Yvonne Howie, CEO, NSW, The CEO Institute, Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia Richard    Hu, Senior Editor, China Advertising, Beijing, China Elif Ildeniz, Employer Branding Project Leader, TOFAS-FIAT, Istanbul, Turkey Echo Ilott, Director, Boost Marketing, Bournemouth, United Kingdom Leo Indarwahono, Public Health & Educational Executive, The Indonesian Business Coalition on AIDS (IBCA), Jakarta, Indonesia Petr Jares, Member of the Board, Etnetera, Prague, Czech Republic Parag Jaripatke, Senior Systems Administrator, AOL Inc., Dulles, VA, USA Monika Jaslowska, Senior Head of Brand Public Relations Department, Polpharma Biuro Handlowe Sp. z o. o., Warsaw, Poland Beverly Jensen, President/CEO, WomensMedicineBowl.com, Greeley, CO, USA Özgür Karaçak, Managing Partner / Founder/ Creative Director, SesliHarfler Digital Advertising Agency, Istanbul, Turkey Hakan Karamanli, IT Manager, GARANTI TEKNOLOJI, Istanbul, Turkey Samitha Karunarathne, CEO, Aryans Engineering (Pvt) Ltd., Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka Mazin Khoury, CEO, Middle East, AMEX (Middle East) B.S.C. (c), Manama, Bahrain Elzbieta Krawczynska, Quality Specialist & Trainer, Bank Zachodni WBK S.A, Poznan, Poland A.J.Lawrence, CEO, the JAR group, Brooklyn, NY, USA Andreea Leonte, Senior PR Consultant, MCCANN PR, Bucharest, Romania Chris Litherland, International Snr Director HR, Intermec by Honeywell Heinsberg, Germany Ke Je Tony Liu, Greater China Partner, Creative Chairman, MC Saatchi aeiou, Shanghai,  China Denis Looney, Vice President, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, Cork, Ireland Anil Machado, Managing Director, Tnell, Sieradz, Poland Morag Malloy, Managing Director, Fission Creative, Paisley, United Kingdom Kristin Marcell, Vice President Public Relations, SmartMark Communications, Newtown, PA   USA Wessam Massoud, Programme Delivery Manager, Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Center (ADSIC), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Chris McConnell, Senior Manager, Accenture, Chicago, IL, USA Colin McKillop, Chief Executive Officer, Butcher Enterprises, Windsor, ON, Canada Jennifer, McQueen, Managing Partner, Ausnindo-Asia/Pacific, Croydon, VIC, Australia Jeremy McWilliams, Managing Director, Bang TV, London, United Kingdom Ronald Meske, President, Training Systems Design, Camarillo, CA, USA Eric Mosely, CEO, Globoforce, Dublin, Ireland Rajesh Kumar Mudiakal, SAP Project Manager, CMC Limited, Mumbai, India Motomasa Murayama, Professor, Tokiwa University, Mito City, Japan Rajiv Noronha, AVP, Location HR Leader & Head -Org., Effectiveness, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India Charles Olsson, Managing Director, Stockfeed Purchasing Pty Ltd, Crestmead, Australia Pierluigi Orati    Head of Country Analysis, SENEL SPA, Rome, Italy Diego Otero Rodríguez, Creative Director, Suigeneris Communications SL (A Save Your Numbers Holding), Barcelona, Spain Alper Afsin Özdemir, President, Krombera Digital Marketing Agency, Istanbul, Turkey Cem Cabbar Özdemir, Creative Director, Project House, Istanbul, Turkey Parveen Panwar, CEO, PMI 5, Media LLC, Los Altos, CA, USA Anne Patterson, VP Client Delivery, FreeFlow, Kerry Ireland Katarzyna Pawlikowska, Managing Partner, Garden of Words, Warsaw, Poland Guy Perry, President, CEO & Founder, Salt Lake Running Company, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Donald Pillai, International Marketing Executive, Bumbo (Pty) Ltd, Rosslyn, South Africa Churchill Dass Prince, Founder & CEO, Sales Intellect Company, Chennai, India Rammesh Rajagopal, Senior Manager IT, Cisco Systems Inc., Morrisville, NC, USA Fanjarivo Rakotonirina, President, Tropical Items Madagascar, LLC, Boulder, CO, USA V.S. Ramachandran, Senior VP, Emarat, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Mohamed A. R. Rashed, Director of Strategic Planning, Ahlia University, Manama, Bahrain Dennis Reno, Vice President, Customer Experience, New Relic, San Francisco, CA, USA Pamela Robinson, CEO, Financial Voyages LLC, Atlanta, GA, USA Linanne Sackett, Principal Investigator, Verizon Next Step Program, Albany, NY, USA Prof. Dr. Mohamed Amr Sadik, VP - Curriculum Development, INTEX, Cairo, Egypt Sasan Saeidi, Managing Director, FP7, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Göktug Sahin, Lecturer, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey Hande Sarantopoulos, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Director, Kale Group, Istanbul, Turkey Gauri Sharma, Head of Business, Modest Inc, Chicago, IL, USA Keira Shein, Partner, WilkinsonShein Communications, Stevenson, MD, USA Pelle Sjöqvist, Creative Director, Dahlheim & Sjöqvist, Stockholm, Sweden Asuncion Soriano, Vice President, INFORPRESS, Madrid, Spain Leslie Stretch, President & CEO, CallidusCloud, Pleasanton, CA, USA Julian Stubbs, Senior Lecturer, Marketing (retired), The University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom Begum Susar, Digital Marketing and Design Assistant, Vice President, ING Bank Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey Andrzej Szczepaniak, Deputy Director, Bank Zachodni WBK S.A, Srem, Poland Pinar Tuba, Temizkan, HR Senior Consultant and Co-Active Coach, Elemental-Value (official provider of The Coaches Training Institute-CTI), Istanbul    Meera Tenguria, Founder & Director, Aarrohan Communications, Mumbai, India Wailaya    Tiningsih Bravyanto, Corporate Relations, PT Unilever Indonesia, Tbk, Jakarta, Indonesia Han Tjan, VP Corporate Communications, Daimler, New York, NY, USA Aigerim Tulepbergenova, Business Analyst, Morgan Stanley, Eugene, OR, USA Noel Unciano, Research Specialist, Industrial Technology Development Institute, Taguig City, Philippines Aykut Ustun, Group Manager - HR and Management System, Opet Petrolculuk, Istanbul, Turkey Rob Vandenberg, President & CEO Lingotek, Draper, UT, USA Kirti Vashee, Vice President, Enterprise Translation, Asia Online, Santa Monica, CA , USA Nicole Vaughn, Account Supervisor, Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., St. Louis, MO, USA Vincent Verdi, Art Director, CUNY-TV, Staten Island, NY, USA Robyn  Vogels, Founder, Managing Director, Personnel Relocations, Cheltenham, SA, Australia Mike Voznick, National Business Consultant, Harn and Associates, Smyrna, GA, USA Clara H.Y. 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