Finalists by category

From over 550 entries our successful finalists were invited to attend the prestigious judging day at Madejski, Reading Football Club.

Personal Excellence

Business Analyst of the Year
  • Anup Kumar Talreja, Wipro
  • Ian Robinson, Royal Mail Group
  • Debbie Muldoon, BT
  • Daniel Arrowsmith, National Grid
  • Simone Torino, UK Power Networks
  • Sid Shakya, BT
  • Andrew Perkins, Post Office
CIO of the Year
  • Tom Clark, Leeds Building Society
  • Angela Morrison, Direct Line Group
  • Steven Capper, AECOM
  • Dan Fiehn, Markerstudy Group
  • Bob Paton, Accenture
  • Damian Bowen, NTT DATA
  • Gerhard Naegele, Volkswagen Group UK
  • James Robbins, Northumbrian Water Group
  • Alison Fitzgerald, London City Airport
  • Ian Turfrey, City & Guilds
Digital Professional of the Year
  • Jody Kennedy, Safetybank
  • Toni Calder, UK Power Networks
  • Chris Morris, The Xenon Group
IT Apprentice of the Year
  • Scott Walker, Plymouth University
  • Simon Coish, Amicus ITS
  • Oliver Pope-Mostowicz, IBM
  • Yasmin Stageman, IBM
  • Anthony Scanlon, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Kieran Brown, AXA PPP healthcare
  • Javier Damas, Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Nicole Covey, IBM
  • Thomas Cope, IBM
  • Ryan Allan, Accenture
IT Manager of the Year
  • Beverley Wells, Virgin Media
  • Ruth Allen, University of Derby
  • Anthony Smith, Northumbrian Water Group
  • Anna Watson, O2 Telefonica UK
  • Thomas White, Accenture
  • Ceri Lambdin, Landmarc Support Services
  • Jenny Martin, Sparkle CS
  • Rajinder Tumber, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
  • Mark Sicklen, AECOM
IT Service and Support Professional
  • Phil Blavins, University of Derby
  • Archana Yadav, Portaltech Reply
  • Kieran Brown, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Alistair James, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Mandeep Dhadda, University of Derby
  • Sam Measures, Markerstudy Group
  • Thomas Sykes, UK Power Networks
  • Safina Begum, NTT DATA
  • Stephen McBride, Dominos Pizza Group
  • Andy Crossman, Virgin Media
Young IT Professional of the Year
  • Ryan Atwell, Barclays
  • Ryan Mangan, Systech IT Solutions
  • Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan, BT
  • Kevin Condliffe, O2 Telefonica UK
  • Daniel Hill, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Rebecca Abrahams, Mitie - Integrated Facilities Management
  • Jamie Edge, Barclays Bank
  • Ahmed Mohamed, BT
  • Charlotte Prior, Content Guru
  • Remya Nair, AECOM

Organisational Excellence

Best Place to Work in IT 2015
  • Box UK
  • brightsolid
  • Company85
  • Kainos
  • National Grid
  • ramsac
  • risual
  • Yorkshire Building Society
  • Zen Internet
  • Zurich Insurance
IT Project Team of the Year
  • British Gas
  • Cofely Workplace (North Tyneside Council Partnership)
  • Company85 & London City Airport
  • Computershare
  • Digital Transformation Service, Northern Ireland Civil Service
  • Landmarc Support Services
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Travis Perkins Group
  • UK Power Networks
  • Welsh Water
IT Team of the Year
  • ao.co
  • Experian
  • Gala Tent
  • Hiscox
  • Lloyds Banking Group (CITSD)
  • Lloyds Banking Group (IT Operations)
  • Sparkle CS
  • The Danwood Group
  • University of Derby
  • Virgin Media
Security Team of the Year
  • Northumbrian Water Group
  • Portaltech Reply
  • UK Power Networks
Services Company of the year
  • 4sl
  • Comms-care
  • Experior Group
  • Green Fields Technology
  • PACT UK
  • risual
  • Softcat
  • Version 1
  • Zen Internet
Small Supplier or VAR of the Year
  • Ardenta
  • Binary Tree
  • Lanware
  • M&M Contractors
  • Metronet UK
  • Memset
  • Comms365
  • ramsac
  • Really Simple Systems
  • Solar Communications

Project Excellence

Best Not for Profit IT Project
  • Welsh Water
  • Creative Skillset & IndigoBlue
  • The Science & Technology Facilities Council & Tessella
  • Cabinet Office, Home Office & IndigoBlue
  • SEND Consortium & Connect
  • MSM Software
  • Orbis
  • YHA & IndigoBlue
  • Met Office
  • Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Best use of Cloud Services
  • National Rail Enquiries & Content Guru
  • British Gas
  • Confused.com
  • Home Office
  • Thames Tideway Tunnel
  • National Institute of Health Research
  • University of Dundee & Box
  • Greencore & Adapt
  • Loughborough University
  • Stevens and Bolton
Big Data / Analytics Project of the Year
  • Network Rail & CSC
  • Northumbrian Water
  • Virgin Media
  • Marks and Spencer
  • BT
  • North of England Commissioning Support
  • Markerstudy Group
  • Met Office
  • Adstream & Pentaho
  • British Gas Smart Metering
Digital Project of the Year
  • CDDV
  • Creative Skillset & IndigoBlue
  • Camelot UK Lotteries
  • John Lewis
  • Thomson Reuters
  • AXA PPP healthcare
  • HMRC Digital & Equal Experts
  • British Gas
  • Experian
  • Swan Housing & Safetybank
Network / Infrastructure Project of the year
  • Heathrow Airport & Fujitsu
  • EarthStream & Green Fields Technology
  • Royal Opera House & Dell
  • Marstons Telecoms & SSE Enterprise Telecoms
  • Company85 and London City Airport
  • Deluxe Media Acton & Avere
  • Sudlows
Workplace Transformation Project of the Year
  • The Clancy Group
  • Network Rail & CSC
  • Landmarc Support Services
  • Cystic Fibrosis Trust
  • Epic ELM C.I.C & Ancoris
  • North Tyneside Council Partnership & Cofely Workplace
  • Western Power Distribution & Good Technology
  • NHS Shared Business Services
  • Marston Holdings
  • Kingston University & VMware UK

Technology Excellence

Business IT Innovation of the Year
  • Atradius Credit Insurance N.V
  • BigHand
  • BT
  • KCOM Group
  • National Institute for Health Research - Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN)
  • Specsavers
  • Thomson Reuters
  • UK Power Networks
  • Virgin Media
  • Waitrose
Cloud Provider of the Year
  • Adapt
  • Clear Books
  • Content Guru
  • Databarracks
  • Fairsail
  • FinancialForce.com
  • Imerja
  • Memset
  • ServiceNow
  • Six Degrees Group
Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
  • BT
  • Kingston University
  • Kony
  • Nexenta
  • Pure Storage
  • Quorum
  • Tectrade
  • Tintri
  • VIRTUS Data Centres
  • Zynstra
Mobile App of the Year
  • babylon
  • EMIS Health
  • BoardPacks
  • Heathrow Airport
  • Interserve
  • JBW Group
  • Mubaloo
  • National Grid
  • Safetybank
  • TotalMobile
Security Innovation of the Year
  • AirWatch UK
  • Avecto
  • BT
  • BT Global Services
  • CSC
  • Egress Software Technologies
  • Fortinet
  • Idappcom
  • Integral Memory
  • iStorage
UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
  • BT
  • CNS Group - Next Generation Penetration Testing
  • Computershare
  • Freeformers
  • Funding Options
  • Mercato Solutions - KnowledgeKube
  • Peppermint Technology
  • Ormsby Street
  • VoipSec
  • Zeel Solutions