Cambridge entrepreneur and angel investor Peter Cowley joined the judging panel for the 2011 Business Weekly Awards. Cowley’s company Camdata Ltd, a custom and semi-custom specialist electronics business, is going strong.

A Harvard alumna, Sherry Coutu has a distinguished track record spanning academia and business. She was a founder, CEO and chairman of Interactive Investor International plc and a founder and chairman of ISI Emerging Markets Ltd.

In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann Hauser has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors.

David Cleevely is Chairman of publicly-quoted Life Sciences dot com, Abcam, a company he co-founded with Jonathan Milner and Tony Kouzarides in 1998.

Charles is Non-Executive Director of Library House and has extensive experience running global private and public technology companies based in the US and Europe.

The Marshall Group, still a privately owned company, is chaired by Michael Marshall, the third generation of the Marshall family, and has a turnover approaching £650M per annum.

John Snyder is one of many entrepreneurs in the high-tech cluster around Cambridge who commercialised technology originally researched within Cambridge University.

Harriet Fear is the new CEO of ERBI. She joins the team from the Diplomatic Service. She has worked in many British Embassies around the globe – across all continents.

Richard Longdon received his engineering training in the defense industry and gained experience in project management of high value engineering projects.