PANEL OF JUDGES...

ARIANE VAN MANCIUS

Ariane has worked for Helios, dester and Supplair (gategroup) and has dealt with more than 150+ airlines worldwide. Her passion lies in translating trends into concrete product offerings.

MARC WARDE

A restaurateur and culinary consultant, Marc runs glutenfree restaurant group, Niche, in London and owns a special meals manufacturing business. He

advises airline caterers.

ANDREW BROWN

Andrew has 40 years of wine trade

experience and is passionate about great wine. For the past 20 years he has focused on supplying wines to the travel sector through

Ratcliffe & Brown.

MIKE CRUMP

Mike left BA to become a partner of Honour Branding and is now md of Honour Consulting. He led the design management of both onboard product and experience

for Etihad.

ANDY HOSKINS

Andy is editor of London-based The Business Travel Magazine. He has nearly 15 years’ experience in travel journalism and specialises in the travel management, hotel

and aviation sectors.

MIKE POOLEY

Mike has spent nearly 20 years with gategroup. His primary focus

today is facilitating change and advising on business strategy and development as well as retaining

a number of mentoring briefs.

ANNE DE HAUW

Anne is the Founder of IN Air Travel Experience, a boutique customer experience curator and innovation accelerator for air travel, with strong focus on environmental sustainability.

NIK LOUKAS

Nik runs the consumer airline food site inflightfeed.com and

writes for media outlets on airline food trends. He also offers consultation services to airline

catering companies.

GEORGE BANKS

Formerly catering manager with Emirates, George had 33 years with British Caledonian and BA and is author of Gourmet and Glamour in the Sky, a history of

onboard catering.

RENE KEMP

Rene was lead designer at KLM for five years and responsible for several onboard packaging and design concepts. He now runs his business focused on designing

visual identity.

GERARD BERTHOLON

Gerard is the chief strategy officer for Cuisine Solutions and ceo of The Culinary Research and Education Academy. His culinary reputation and know-how is of

world renown.

SANDRA PINEAU-

BODDISON

Sandra is a senior consultant at Oliver Wyman and has over 25 years of experience in the airline industry, most recently as senior vp customers at United Airlines.

HAPPY K

Keerthi Hapugasdeniya is a high

profile, international celebrity chef who works with a range of catering service providers to the airline industry. Founder and ceo

of APOT Asia.

SARAH KLATT-WALSH

Sarah has had a stellar inflight career working for SWISS and British Airways on significant product developments and launches, and is now and independent consultant.

JO AUSTIN

Jo Austin is our chair of judges. She has had a long and successful career as a travel journalist and for 15 years was at the heart of all things onboard as editor of Onboard Hospitality magazine.

SHELLEY DAUNCEY

Following 15 years flying as crew for British Airways Shelley has extensive front line experience

of inflight service and a clear understanding of what passengers

and crew want.

KAREN ROBINSON

Karen is a professional journalist who travels extensively to write about holiday destinations and overseas real estate worldwide for The Sunday Times, one of the UK’S

leading national newspapers.

SIMON SONI

Simon has worked in the onboard industry for over 25 years at some of the world’s leading airlines.

Currently with Westjet and previously at Qatar Airways as it

introduced the Qsuites.

LANCE HAYWARD

Md and founder of The Hayward Partnership, Lance has over 30 years' industry experience and provides management consultancy and interim services to the travel

catering and retail sector.

RYAN GHEE

Ryan spends every day studying

aviation technology and innovation as Head of Strategy & Development for the Future Travel Experience's Innovation &

Startup Hub.