Christine Martin
Christine is an experienced business leader and entrepreneur who has worked at board level in multinationals, VC backed start-ups and privately owned companies. Most recently she served as Executive Director, GES Events and prior to that she was Executive Director for Marketing and Customer Experience at GES EMEA. She has held managing director positions at Dennis Publishing and Nielsen (VNU). Her twenty-year (and counting) career also includes launching and selling two successful B2B event/publishing businesses and she has the scars to prove it! Christine now leads CM & Co, a strategic consultancy working with event brands, tech companies and industry suppliers to accelerate profitable, scalable business growth. No stranger to judging duties or awards ceremonies, she has run and launched a raft of awards programmes in the tech, hospitality and book industries. She is a former winner of the PPA Publisher of the Year Award.