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Alan Grogan (Chair)

Alan joined Nuvia in June 2017 as Head of Quality. He is a Six Sigma black belt and Chartered Quality Professional. Alan shares Nuvia’s ethos that no one team is accountable for success and believes this goes a long way to ensuring that all business functions work together toward a common goal.

Estelle Clark

Returning as Chair of the Judges to celebrate excellence in 2020, Estelle is a Chartered Quality Professional and a CQI Fellow whose consultancy, Strategic Arrow, advises on operational governance.

Previously, Estelle was Director of Policy and Head of Profession at the CQI and held Quality Director positions on the top teams at Fujitsu, Alstom, Lloyd’s Register and the Financial Ombudsman Service. 

Natalie Shoemark-Dyer (Chair)

Natalie is Head of Quality for a Facilities Management company working on the biggest MOD PFI within the UK. She has twelve years’ experience in the Quality profession, including time spent on a government project working for a leading Telecoms company. 

Natalie is also Chair of the CQI’s Thames Valley Branch and remains an advocate for the future of the profession in her role as a Board Trustee.

Laura Fletcher

Laura brings 10 years’ experience to her role as the Commercial and Customer Experience Director for NQA Certification Ltd. She is responsible for the commercial team in the UK and Ireland (Sales and Marketing).

Laura ensures that NQA remains competitive and organically grows year on year through the sale of NQA’s Certification and Training services. Her focus on customer experience means that the client is at the heart of both the certification and training journey with NQA. This allows NQA to follow and embrace the principles laid out in effective quality management standards.;

Victoria Derbyshire

Winner of the 2019 Emerging Talent Award, Victoria returns to the International Quality Awards this year as a judge for the category. Unlike most Quality professionals, Victoria chose Quality as a career at the age of 17 when she dropped out of college to take an apprenticeship at Nuvia Ltd.

Almost 4 years later, Victoria is now a Quality Improvement Engineer and specialises in Quality Management and Improvement Methodologies. Throughout her career, she has developed her knowledge and experience in Quality Control, Assurance and Business Improvement and has completed secondments in both the supply chain and client organisations within the Nuclear sector.

Richard Green (Chair)

Richard is the Founder and Managing Director of Kingsford Consultancy Services (KCS) Ltd. He previously served as a member of the CQI’s senior management team, with a remit encompassing Corporate Partners, member services, special interest groups and the global branch network. He also provided the technical lead for both the CQI and IRCA brands. Richard retains the Chair of the CQI Standards Panel and represents the CQI on UK and international committees, redrafting ISO management system and audit standards. In 2017 Richard was one of the judges at the inaugural CQI International Quality Awards and in 2018 he was head judge for the Management System Auditor of the Year award.

Martin Brenig-Jones

Martin is Managing Director of Catalyst Consulting Ltd as well as an active Lean Six Sigma practitioner, trainer and coach. He is passionate about quality, believing these awards are an ideal way to spread the word about the application of quality methods more widely in all organisations. They are also an opportunity to recognise the success of professionals in the field.

Nina Abassi

BSc Hons, CQP, FCQI, IRCA Certified Principal Auditor, member of the CQI Board of Trustees. Nina is highly skilled and experienced international trainer, auditor and consultant in business improvement and assurance, including quality, environment and social responsibility.

Over the past 26 years her business, Abbassi Ltd, has successfully assisted numerous organisations and thousands of quality professionals and auditors globally with business improvement initiatives, auditing, training and skills development. She is a volunteer member of some of the BSI and ISO standard committees and an advisor to some of the other training organisations, management consultancies and certification bodies.