Tabby Awards 2014 Judging Panel

Mission

• The Tabby Awards celebrate the best tablet apps and games, in order to encourage excellence, to help developers and publishers develop and adopt best practices, and to accelerate the growth of the tablet ecosystem.

Judges

• Judges are appointed by The Tabby Awards among professionals having an expertise in app or game development and/or publishing, with the additional contribution of some analysts, journalists and expert users or gamers.

The 2014 panel of judges included:

• Chairperson:
  Christopher Cunningham
  (USA)
  Technology director, Huge
• Osama Abdel-Karim
  (Egypt)
  Operations Manager, vimov (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Kwabena Ampofo
  (USA)
  CEO, S.O.S. Gamers and New York City Chapter President, ECA
• Daniel Benchimol
  (Argentina)
  Director, Proyecto451
• Victor Bergonzoli
  (USA)
  CEO, Dartfish (a previous Tabby Awards winner)
• Judy Brown
  (USA)
  Mobile analyst, Advanced Distributed Learning
• David Chai
  (USA)
  Product & Partner Marketing Manager, WeatherBug – Earth Networks (a previous Tabby Awards winner)
• Nick Coleman
  (USA)
  Owner, Nick Coleman, LLC (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Martin Dufort
  (Canada)
  CEO, WhereCloud
• Heather Ellertson
  (USA)
  Vice President of Marketing, ECA
• Nathan Feldman
  (USA)
  Manager Mobile Product Development, Warner Bros. Entertainment (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Rich Foreman
  (USA)
  CEO and Co-Founder, Apptology (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Michael Grover
  (USA)
  VP, Digital Products, The Channel Company
• Leslie Guzman
  (USA)
  New Jersey Chapter President, ECA
• Anthony Haslage
  (USA)
  Ohio State Chapter Administrator, ECA
• Jeff Klaumann
  (USA)
  Head of Samsung Apps US, Samsung Electronics
• Eric Lamy
  (USA)
  Vermont Chapter President, ECA
• Luke Li
  (USA)
  Art Director, 360i
• Lisa Lytton
  (USA)
  Director, Digital Editions, National Geographic Magazine (a previous Tabby Awards winner)
• Aaron Molloy
  (USA)
  Owner, SteamContests.com
• Deborah Moschella Saks
  (USA)
  Director of User Services, Framingham State University
• Ana Ormaetxea
  (Spain)
  Co-founder of both Tablet Army and Tab Innovation
• Gonçalo Perdigão
  (Portugal)
  Head of TV Product Management, Portugal Telecom (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Matthew Pierce
  (United Kingdom)
  Head of photography, Future publishing (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Aoife Prendergast
  (Ireland)
  Lecturer, Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown and Senior Careers Consultant, Sli Nua Careers
• Michael Rougeau
  (USA)
  Editor, TabTimes Games
• Teri Rousseau
  (USA)
  Founder, Multimedia Consulting & Chief Marketing Advisor, Reading Rainbow (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Mike Smithwick
  (USA)
  Owner/Founder, First Light Design (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Nick Sutherland
  (United Kingdom)
  Head of Consumer Input, SwiftKey
• D.J. Swanepoel
  (USA)
  Marketing Manager, MEDL Mobile (a previous Tabby Awards finalist)
• Linda van de Zande
  (USA)
  Graphic designer, Carolina Country
• Hendrik van der Meer
  (USA)
  President, Vilynx

Judges must declare any potential conflict of interest before the voting process begins. If any judge has an interest in a piece submitted to the competition, he/she is not authorized to vote in the corresponding category.

If you would like to serve as a judge in a future competition, see our call for judges.