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.

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 spent over 19 years with gategroup and today advises on business/product development and strategic programmes on projects in the travel, hospitality,

food and lifestyle sectors.

ANNE DE HAUW

With 15 years’ experience as vp Innovation at gategroup and as a Board Member at Servair,

Anne is passionate about customer-centric transformation

of the passenger experience.

MS TRINH DIEM VY

One of Vietnam’s most recognised restauranteurs and chefs, Chef Vy is impassioned by food and global flavours and runs two celebrated restaurants and a Cooking School

in Vietnam.

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.

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.

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.

PAT RIDDELL

Pat has been National Geographic

Traveller (UK)‘s editor since it launched in 2010 and has overseen the brand’s growth into new digital platforms, events,

partnerships and awards.

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.

RENE KEMP

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

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.

SANDRA PINEAUBODDISON

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.

MADELEINE BRAUN

Madeleine currently works at KLM but has 25 years' experience of the aviation and retail sectors with past responsibility for inflight strategy, training and new concepts.

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.

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.

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.

MARKUS GILGES

Markus runs all business and system development activities for VT Miltope in the EMEA region providing hardware, software and cyber secure wireless data solutions in and around aircraft.

RYAN GHEE

Ryan spends every day studying aviation tech as editor at Future Travel Experience (FTE), head of strategy for FTE's global technology conferences, and manager of the FTE Innovation & Startup Hub.