On Friday October 8th at the Royal Garden Hotel our five winners and the runners up were officially announced and rewarded in front of a 240 strong audience of their peers. Full list at the end of this article.

We now have the images back from official awards photographers PR Photography (above) is a group shot of all of this years finalists - from each of the 5 award categories - all looking amazing. To see the rest of the images take a look at the awards gallery.

We are also proud to unveil the 2010 HD film with highlights from the awards gala celebrations:
2010 awards by PR Photography: 2010 Executive PA Magazine Awards Film
2009 awards by PR Photography: 2009 Executive PA Magazine Awards Film

We'd like to congratulate all of our winners and our finalists - this year saw an unprecedented number of entries and, as usual, the task for our judges was a difficult one. When the judges votes came back there were less than 3 marks between the winner of the coveted 2010 Executive PA Magazine 'PA of the Year' award and the 2 runners up who tied for second place. Dawn Carey of National Friendly won the top award and her prize is a stay at the Gild Hall in Manhatten with BA flights courtesy of Lotus Business Travel.

'Newcomer of the Year' was taken by Amie Watkins of CH & Co in a category that had a record number of entries since the awards began over 10 years ago.

The occasion also generated much praise for the talented team in the Royal Garden Hotel’s kitchen – Steve Munkley (head chef)  produced an inspirational menu that was incredibly well received and exceptionally well executed by the kitchen team and the waiting staff.

Guests were also kept entertained by musical ensemble Elegante, who energised the crowd in preparation for the awards. once all the awards had been announced celebarations continued into the night with an outstanding performance by Fake That. They looked great, sounded great and, if you blurred your eyes a little, looked remarkably like the real thing. They even brought on a 5th member a few tracks into the performance.

Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make the evnt so memorable and thank you to all the PAs who've emailed us abut the evening. For the winners it was emails of delight that they’d won a prestigious award to add to their CV, for the hundreds of PAs who attended it was to praise the event - and when you get praise on an event from a PA it is high praise indeed.

For a full review of the evening and for the photographs be sure to see the next issue of the magazine. If you'd like to attend the 2011 Executive PA Magazine Awards, get voting now.

THE WINNERS

PA OF THE YEAR
Winner - Dawn Carey, National Friendly
Runner Up – Emma Gent, NCFE
Runner Up – Kim Tuchscherer, The Aviator

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
Winner - Amie Watkins, CH & Co
Runner Up – Nicola James, Seren Group
Runner Up – Laura Maguire, Trader Media

BEST ORGANISED EVENT
Winner – Stephanie Mayo, Groupama Insurances
Runner Up – Lindsay Hopcroft, University of Sheffield
Runner Up – Sarah Lambert, Systagenix Wound Management

EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR
Winner – Hays, nominated by Sara Pautz, PA
Runner Up - Keystone Distribution UK, nominated by Mandy Cowlishaw, PA
Runner Up – Rathbone Brothers Plc, nominated by Sofia Mendes, Training Officer

BOSS OF THE YEAR
Winner – Laura Ellis, Head of New Media, BBC, nominated by Gill Thompson. PA
Runner Up – Andrew Turner, Executive Chairman, Central Trust, nominated by Alexa Wylie, PA
Runner Up – Nicola Woods, Secretarial Manager, Price Waterhouse Coopers, nominated by Maureen Heasley and Margaret Bean