The Executive PA Magazine Awards 2009 was bigger and better than 2008 – with many PAs attending Friday night's Gala dinner declaring it our ‘best event yet’! Held at the five star Royal Garden Hotel, our guests were treated to a delicious four course menu and some spectacular entertainment with a few surprises thrown in.
We hired in PR Photography to photograph Friday night's ceremony. Pictures will be published in the next issue of Executive PA but we can already give you a sneak preview at PR Photography's ExecutivePA Awards Gallery and in our own awards gallery
The response we had to our call for nominations was impressive. Entry forms flooded into the office in their hundreds, but unfortunately there could only be one winner per category. We’d like to congratulate our winners and runner ups:
Executive PA Magazine PA of the Year
Winner: Jessica Doorbar, PA for financial services, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Runner up: Allison Ragosa, Executive PA, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Runner up: Rebecca Simpson, PA, Charlton House Catering Services
Best Organised Event, sponsored by Royal Garden Hotel
Winner: Susanna Tackie, PA to Chris Reddick, VP PRL, BP Exploration & Production
Technology Group
Runner up: Angela Woodward, PA to the Managing Director, ScriptSwitch Ltd
Runner up: Jenny Chambers, PA to Professor Lerner, University of Sheffield
Employer of the Year, sponsored by Brother UK
Winner: Deloitte LLP, Katie Biggs, Executive Assistant, nominated her company
Runner up: Rees Pollock, Renu Kapur, Office Manager, nominated her company
Runner up: Thermofrost Cryo PLC, Vicky Summers, PA, nominated her company
Boss of the Year, sponsored by Lost -it
Winner: Lynn Tomkins, UK Strategy & Policy Director, Semta, Nominated by PA, Joanne Iceton
Runner up: Neil Smurthwaite, Service Director, Bournemouth Borough Council, Nominated by PA, Sandy Faulkner
Runner up: Steve Humby, Head of BBS-EMEA at Bayer, Nominated by PA, Hazel Scott
Up and Coming PA, sponsored by IPA
Winner: Emma Jones, Executive PA, Merthyr Valleys Homes
Runner up: Lucy Williams, PA to Dir of HR and Head of Organisational Development, Nacro
Runner up: Shirley Ruiz, Office Manager/PA, Biscoe & Stanton Architects
We’ll be bringing you all the news from the big event in the next issue of Executive PA Magazine in the meantime take a look at some of the pictures from the big event.
