Judging Panel 2008

• Nigel Ashcroft - Project Director, actnow
• John Berry - Managing Director, Cornwall Enterprise
• Sir John Banham -  Chairman of Johnson Matthey plc and former Chairman of Whitbread
• Michael Beadel - Partner, Stephens and Scown
• Stephen Bohane - The South West of England Regional Development Agency
• Graham Boulton - Partner, Robinson Reed Layton
• Julian Crow - General Manager, First Group
• Larry File - Communications Manager, Ginsters
• Lord Edward George - former Governor of the Bank of England
• Tamsyn Harris - Head of Business Development, Cornwall College Business
• Russell Jones - Regional Director, UK Trade & Investment
• Denise Major - Head of Commercial Banking Cornwall, HSBC
• Gilbert McCabe - Director, Cornwall Enterprise
• Peter McGahan - Managing Director, Worldwide Financial Planning
• Chris Preston – Regional Director, NatWest
• Steve Ridgway - CEO, Virgin Atlantic Airways
• Steve Schklair - CEO, 3Ality
• Tim Smit - CEO, The Eden Project
• John Smith - CEO, BBC Worldwide
• Thelma Sorensen - Chair, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Economic Forum
• Ian Tunbridge - Executive Director, CUC
• Jonathan Walsh - Chief Executive, Peninsula Enterprise
• Sally Wilcox  - Regional Director, BT
• Ellen Winser – Chair, National Maritime Museum Cornwall  

The qualities that the judges rewarded are true to Cornwall's ethos - those of creativity, innovation and dynamism. They rewarded businesses within Cornwall that are thriving and that are using the county as a base for achieving strong national and even international growth, and those that bring significant benefit to the county.