The Shortlist
Director of the Year (large company)
This award is open to all directors from large companies (defined in this instance as any company with more than 250 employees).
Stephen Martin – Clugston Group Limited – East Midlands
Craig Errington C Dir FIoD – Wesleyan Assurance Society – West Midlands
Ciaran Sheehan – Care Circle Group – Northern Ireland
Erhard Paulat – GMAC UK PLC – Wales
Helen Bunbury – Ogier – Jersey
Mark Crowther – Liberation – Jersey
Director of the Year (small & medium company)
This award is open to all directors from small and medium-sized companies (defined in this instance as any company with fewer than 250 employees).
Mark Box – Rieke Packaging Systems – East Midlands
Patricia O’Hagan – Core Systems NI Ltd – Northern Ireland
Eleanor McFadden – Frontier Science (Scotland) Ltd – Scotland
Balbir Panesar – PEC Building Services – Yorkshire
Howard Wilder – Genitrix Ltd – South
Liz Russell – Envirosystems – North West
Nasser Siabi - Microlink PC (UK) Ltd – South
Simon Biltcliffe – Webmart Ltd – South
Young Director of the Year
To enter for this award, directors must be under the age of 42 and must be able to point to outstanding achievements at work in the previous 12 months.
Steve Walker – SWA – East Midlands
Joe Blackman – Green Ant Creative Events Ltd – Wales
Jonathon Bloor – Doctor Communication Solutions Ltd – South West
Cathy McCorry – Grafton Recruitment – Northern Ireland
Iain MacGregor – Global Energy Group – Scotland
James Woollard – Polythene UK – South
Global Director of the Year
This award is open to all directors in UK-based companies with overseas operations. The entrant must be able to show that a minimum of 25 per cent of his company’s turnover comes from overseas operations.
Maija Pykett – Smallprint (Franchising) Ltd – South West
Conor Walsh – Andor Technology Plc – Northern Ireland
Dr Derek Shepherd – NgenTec Ltd – Scotland
Graham Honeyman – Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd – Yorkshire
Paul Winter – Wire Belt – South
David Price CBE – Chemring Group PLC – South
Public Sector Director of the Year
This award is open to all directors in the public sector, as well as those working in the third sector and other charitable or not-for-profit organisations.
Michael Phillips – West Mercia Supplies – West Midlands
Mark Powles – Business Stream – Scotland
James Dunbar – New Start Highland – Scotland
Purnima Tanuku – National Day Nurseries Association – Yorkshire
Anna Kennedy – Moorcroft Manor Ltd. – South
Suzy Brain England – Community Health Partnerships – Yorkshire
Family Business Director of the Year
Entrants for this award will be directors in second-generation or more family businesses and will have responded to the specific challenges that face directors in such well established family firms.
Jason Wouhra – East End Foods – West Midlands
Brian McErlain – McErlain’s Bakery – Northern Ireland
Jim E McAlpine – McAlpine & Co Ltd – Scotland
Stephen Blatchford – Chas A Blatchford & Sons Ltd – South
Sarah Dunning – Westmorland – North West
Stuart Laight C Dir – Aspray Transport Ltd – West Midlands
Environmental Leader of the Year
This award seeks to recognise those directors who are able to demonstrate that, through their direct actions and leadership, they have had an impact on the environment.
Julian Dennis – Wessex Water – South West
Pat McGarry – Henderson Group – Northern Ireland
Mervyn Jones – Aquamarine Power Ltd – Scotland
Nick Heaton – EnviroVent Ltd – Yorkshire
Duncan Goose – Global Ethics – South
Ian Jackson – Imerja – North West
Other awards given out on the night will be…
Director of the Year 2010
This award is for the overall Director of the Year for the UK. The winner will be a director who has shown outstanding leadership in the face of either difficult internal issues or tough market conditions, and who is able to point to outstanding achievements in their business during the course of the previous 12 months. Finalists for this award will be the winners of the other categories on the day of the UK Final.
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Voted for by Director readers and a specially selected panel of leading business thinkers, this award will recognise a senior figure in business who has done something truly worthy of special recognition and who merits admittance into the Director Business Hall of Fame. To vote for who you think should be given this award please visit www.director.co.uk/awards