The 2025 Judges

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As the Managing Director of Incubeta, I have had the privilege of spending 15 remarkable years growing and evolving alongside this dynamic organization. My journey within Incubeta has traversed various career paths, allowing me to gain invaluable experience across partnerships, commercial and marketing teams.

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Brook is a 25-year veteran of affiliate marketing with past stints as an in-house manager, agency owner, and, now, operator of FMTC, a program, deal, and product feed provider. Ask him about his book.

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Chris Pollock is an experienced digital advertising and marketing expert. He brings extensive experience in developing and executing data-driven campaigns that drive customer acquisition, retention, and revenue growth. With a strong background in digital strategy, paid search, programmatic display, and analytics, Chris excels at helping brands optimize their online presence and performance.

Before founding Digital Spark, Chris honed his expertise across diverse clients and sectors, working with some of the most decorated agencies and global brands. He is also a proactive collaborator and communicator, frequently working cross-functionally with creative, technical, and leadership teams. Chris holds a degree from The University of Manchester, combining academic insight with practical know‑how to lead impactful digital transformations.

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Writing his bachelor thesis on influencers over a decade ago Daan was prone to end up in affiliate marketing. Now with 10+ years of experience under the belt.

He has worked on all sides of the spectrum. From publishers to networks and now for the last couple of years on the advertiser side. Ready to judge with Dutch directness.

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Danny Nagra is a distinguished growth marketing leader with extensive experience in driving strategic growth across e-commerce, CRM ecosystems, marketing and product led growth. He has implemented rigorous, data-driven programmes to optimise user experience, conversion rates, return on investment and marketing effectiveness. His proficiency in market and competitor analysis, coupled with advanced Mixed Media Modelling methodologies, ensures robust channel evaluation and informed budget allocation.

As Founder of NRG Digital, Danny specialises in fortifying brand identities and elevating growth through meticulous strategic planning and creative problem-solving. Renowned for his precision in visual communication and analytical insight, he is widely respected as a trusted authority in both execution and advisory capacities. In his role as a judge for the Global Performance Marketing Awards, he applies exacting professional standards and deep industry expertise to recognise and celebrate outstanding marketing achievements.

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Fidelis Shonde is an experienced affiliate marketing and partnerships pro, passionate about helping brands grow and connecting in fresh, meaningful ways. He blends creativity, data and a good dose of curiosity to drive standout results. He loves big ideas, smart collaborations and campaigns that make people say, “Why didn’t we think of that?”

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James is a seasoned performance marketing leader with over 15 years of experience driving growth for global brands across platform and agency roles. As Brand Partnerships Manager for Financial Services at TikTok, he helps fintech and financial brands deliver creative, results-driven campaigns that convert.

Previously at Meta, James led go-to-market growth strategies for fintech disruptors, helping clients exceed multimillion-pound revenue targets through advanced performance frameworks. Earlier, as Performance Director at WPP, he managed £145M in annual billings across multi-channel remits including activation, analytics, and attribution, building high-performing teams while delivering measurable business outcomes. His track record reflects a deep commitment to transparency, innovative storytelling, and performance strategies that maximise client value.

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Jan is currently the Head of Digital Media at UBS Switzerland, bringing 14years of experience in digital marketing, strategy and innovation across a number of sectors including finance, eComm, automotive and luxury retail. Always advocating for a test and learn approach and known for leveraging data-driven insights that drive performance led strategies – both from an acquisition and retention standpoint – Jan comes with experience across digital channels from agency to brand side.

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Originally from Germany, Jan has spent over 15 years across Asia, holding senior local, regional, and global roles in both 4A agencies and on the client side – including leadership positions at Huawei, OPPO, and foodpanda. He specializes in driving business results through data-driven strategy, creativity, and performance marketing.

Fluent in English and German, conversational in Mandarin, and armed with an MBA from Manchester Business School, Jan is a regular industry judge and speaker. Since 2023, he serves as CEO of Virtus Asia Consulting – building the kind of strategic partner he always wished he had.

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Jennifer Goodwin is one of the most respected and award-winning talents within the affiliate marketing industry and is currently Founder of Peacock Consulting LLC. In the past 14 years, Jennifer has built and nurtured strong relationships with all partners including top-tier advertisers, publishers, agencies, affiliate networks and SaaS providers. Her past experience includes work at Honey, ForwardPMX, Coupons.com and BradsDeals. Also, Jennifer has been part of multiple successful corporate acquisitions, including Honey’s acquistion by PayPal.

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Managing Partner Jesper at Lodestar Marketing, has spent the last 24 years navigating the vibrant and complex waters of the Asian markets including 15 years of APAC affiliate and influencer marketing expertise.

If you’re looking to make waves in the APAC markets then give him a call.

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Julius Ewig is a seasoned digital marketing expert with deep experience in performance marketing, affiliate marketing, and healthcare communications. He has held leadership roles at agencies like metapeople (later Artefact). He is the founder of InGoodCompany GmbH and Miaglossa GmbH, where he advises startups, scale-ups, and corporate clients on digital strategy, user acquisition, and channel optimisation—always with a strong focus on measurable outcomes.

Beyond his work as a consultant, Julius is actively involved in the venture and investment space. He participates in early-stage and growth equity deals, supports fundraising processes, and maintains a strong international network across the digital, affiliate, and investment communities.

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Kayla Castro leads the Affiliates and Partnerships channel at Zenni, one of the world’s leading e-commerce eyewear brands.
Kayla has been building and growing affiliate programs for entrepreneurial brands and venture-funded start-ups since 2017. While the bulk of her expertise lies in redesigning affiliate content strategies and fostering programs to grow incrementally, she also has a growing and proven track record in building non-traditional partnership models and promoting cross functional collaborations.
Her favourite part about leading the affiliate channel internally for a brand? Changing minds across the organisation about what ‘affiliate’ means and what a brand is capable of achieving through the channel.

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Krystie Capobianco is a seasoned affiliate marketing professional with 10 years of experience across diverse industries and verticals. She excels at developing tailored strategies that drive program growth, always with a hyper-focused lens on incrementality and profitability. Krystie is adept at collaborating with Influencer and PR teams, leveraging these partnerships to scale affiliate programs and optimize performance effectively. Her expertise lies in transforming affiliate initiatives into highly successful and sustainable revenue streams.

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Laura Redman is the Co-Founder of The Redman Agency, a boutique affiliate marketing agency known for delivering strategic, transparent, and performance-led affiliate programs for some of Australia’s most recognisable brands. With over a decade of experience, Laura has built her reputation on driving measurable growth, nurturing long-term partnerships, and leading with integrity in a channel that’s rapidly evolving. In the past year, she’s shared her expertise on stage at key industry events including IAB Australia’s Affiliate & Partnership Marketing Summit, Commission Factory’s ThinkTank, and IPX Sydney.

Returning as a judge for the 2025 Global Performance Marketing Awards, Laura brings a sharp eye for innovation and impact. As The Redman Agency continues to grow, she’s focused on pushing the industry forward, advocating for smarter attribution models, greater creative collaboration between brands and partners, and building affiliate programs that are as sustainable as they are successful.

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Lottie Hippisley is an experienced marketer, leading Ocado Retail’s print media and brand partnerships. Her career spans startups and global brands, including Buyagift, Red Letter Days of the Moonpig Group as well as agency-side. Lottie brings both creative flair and commercial acumen to her work, following her broad marketing experience across both brand and digital channels.

She is passionate about customer-centric, omnichannel marketing and has anaged campaigns and partnerships with major brands including ITV, Vodafone and Universal Pictures to deliver campaigns that blend creativity with commercial success.

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Luke Shipway is a seasoned digital marketer and affiliate strategist with nearly a decade of experience driving performance marketing for some of the UK’s most prominent consumer brands, including TUI, Sky, Vistaprint, and now Domino’s. From travel and telecoms to e-commerce, he has consistently built, scaled, and optimised affiliate programmes that deliver measurable ROI and award-winning results.

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As Global Head of Search at Performics @ Zenith, Luke manages a significant portfolio that includes major brands such as Three Mobile, Lloyds, Tissot and Sky. His role involves guiding global best practices, consistently ensuring industry-leading performance and innovation in search marketing.
Beyond professional responsibilities, Luke actively participates in the wider search marketing community through speaking engagements, published articles, and frequent contributions to industry discussions with media partners and fellow industry peers.

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Neguin is founder of NDA Agency and a performance marketing advocate who enjoys strategic thinking to help brands achieve their goals through data-led decisions and cost efficiently, via partnerships, technology and digital marketing tactics.

With over 15 years in Digital Marketing, Neguin leads high performing teams and has worked with leading brands worldwide in network, agency and advertiser roles and has experience across multiple industries including retail, fashion, travel, entertainment, market research and finance.

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Nick Ranelle is a seasoned marketing leader currently serving as Senior Manager of Affiliate Marketing & Performance Partnerships at Disney Streaming, part of The Walt Disney Company. In this role, he leads Disney’s global affiliate marketing team and agency, overseeing strategic initiatives that drive subscriber acquisition for Disney+ and The Disney Bundle.
Prior to Disney, Nick held several leadership roles at CJ Affiliate, a Publicis Groupe company. There, he led a team to drive strategic growth initiatives, and consistently exceeded client performance goals. His career reflects a strong foundation in digital marketing, client strategy, and team development across top-tier brands and agencies.

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Rocio Dalton is a global marketing leader with a background in both agency and client-side roles across Europe, the US, and APAC. As the first Head of Paid Social at The Economist, she led the growth of a full-funnel social strategy across both consumer and B2B divisions, bringing efficiency, structure, and scale to one of the world’s most respected media brands.

With over 16 years’ experience and two MBAs, Rocio is known for blending creative thinking with commercial impact. She is passionate about the role of social in shaping brand and business outcomes, and regularly contributes to the industry through mentorship, speaking engagements, and awards judging.

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Roger is a veteran of digital marketing having working in a wide variety of roles in the UK and Australia for the past 2 decades driving online sales growth through every online channel. In his current role as Head of Performance for Australian retail group Brand Collective, he oversees the paid marketing for brands like Rebok, Superdry, Hush Puppies and Shoes & Sox across paid search, paid social, programmatic and affiliate.
He has previously won one of these prestigious awards, for work in the affiliate channel and served as a judge twice.

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An international award-winning and solutions-driven Senior Digital Marketing Leader with an entrepreneurial attitude and a collaborative working style. A proven track record of utilising performance analysis to optimise digital marketing functions to align with key business objectives.

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Sophie Strong is the Managing Partner, Head of Digital at PHD. With over 12 years of experience spanning all digital channels, Sophie is an active voice within the industry, contributing a monthly column for New Digital Age and representation at events such as AdWeek and the Programmatic Pioneers summit. Sophie has also won awards for her work at media week, campaign tech and the performance marketing awards, as well as being awarded Media Weeks 30 under 30 in 2018 & Management Todays 35 under 35 in 2023.

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An experienced Marketing Director who thrives on challenges, strives to innovate and make a real difference. Passionate, cross-functional, creative and result driven marketing professional with over 10 years of commercial marketing across digital marketing, product marketing, partnership marketing, branding. I’m a believer that data should drive decision, but the new 4 P’s of Marketing: Passion, Purpose, Personality and Positioning are the things that make the different.

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After living in Australia, Stephen has spent the past 12 years launching Australian performance marketing businesses in the UK.

With over 15 years of experience in performance marketing, he is now Finder UK’s Commercial Lead, driving brand growth and positioning Finder as a key player in the UK’s highly competitive personal finance comparison space.

In 2023, Stephen founded the Finance Affiliate Club, the industry’s first series of events dedicated exclusively to finance.

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With more than a decade of experience in affiliate marketing in various roles, Taka has led transformative initiatives across business operations, network quality, and compliance. He currently oversees one of the world’s most dynamic affiliate marketing programs globally. His focus is on the long term, sustainable, healthy growth through strong partnerships. Taka enjoys the innovations that come out of strong collaborations in the performance marketing.

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Tom leads MG OMD’s digital strategy, excellence, and innovation. With experience across all forms of digital media in both client and agency roles, he has enhanced MG’s digital capabilities and scale. Over the past three years, he has shaped digital delivery and performance for clients within the MG and OMG networks.

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Tonia Miller is a seasoned expert with over 20 years of experience in the affiliate marketing industry, having worked across Brand, Publisher, and Agency roles. Her deep understanding of the ecosystem led her to found Triple Scoop, a consultancy dedicated to helping brands and agencies navigate the evolving landscape of affiliate marketing, performance PR, and influencer strategy with clarity and confidence.

Through Triple Scoop, Tonia partners with clients across industries including Home, Health, Insurance, and Apparel, offering tailored solutions that drive measurable results. She also collaborates with PR firms and digital agencies to strategically build and scale their affiliate capabilities, bridging the gap between editorial vision and performance-based partnerships.

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Vikki has been a driving force in the partnership and affiliate space since 2010, building a successful career with industry leaders like CJ, Sovrn, Acceleration Partners, and on the brand side. In the summer of 2022, she brought her deep affiliate expertise to tvScientific, where she is spearheading the integration of performance marketing into the world of Connected TV (CTV). Vikki has already established tvScientific’s platform within major affiliate networks and quickly become the go-to resource for agencies and brands looking to merge brand and affiliate budgets to drive measurable results from TV advertising.

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Vishal Haris is a seasoned digital marketing professional with over six years of experience specializing in performance marketing, affiliate strategy, and digital acquisition. She has led impactful campaigns for major brands including HSBC UK and Sky, driving measurable growth across multiple channels such as PPC, social media, display advertising, and affiliates. At HSBC, she managed a £2 million marketing budget, launched high-performing affiliate programs, and significantly increased revenue through data-driven optimization and strategic partnerships.

Prior to HSBC, Vishal played a key role at Sky, where she managed affiliate marketing initiatives for a leading streaming and television brand—experience that closely aligns with the media and entertainment landscape. Known for her analytical rigor, cross-functional collaboration, and strong industry relationships, Vishal continues to bring innovation and performance excellence to every project she leads.