The judges for the 2009 Quoted Company Awards are listed below.

Invesco Perpetual

Financial Mail on Sunday

KBC Peel Hunt

Abchurch

Giles is the chief executive of Hargreave Hale Limited. He commenced his career in 1969 with James Capel as a trainee analyst. In 1974 he joined Management Agency And Music Plc as a private fund manager. In 1986 he founded Hargreave Investment Management, which was merged in 1988 with Hargreave Hale & Co, a provincial stockbroking firm controlled by other members of his family. Since then Giles' reputation within the industry has grown and with the help of his team, his performance with the Marlborough Special Situations Fund has been exceptional.

Tom has advised companies in the UK small- and mid-cap equity capital markets since 1990. He has been involved in a wide range of transactions for companies on the Official List, TechMARK and AIM as well as for private companies, in a variety of sectors. He has particular experience of IPOs, secondary fundraisings, public bids, acquisitions and disposals.

Philip is a corporate finance partner at Grant Thornton UK. He is a chartered accountant and an authorised nominated adviser and sponsor, with extensive experience in providing advice on a wide range of quoted public company transactions including company flotations on AIM and the Official List, acquisitions and disposals, reverse takeovers and public company takeovers. In 2000, he returned from an 18-month secondment to the London Stock Exchange at which he worked with both the equity markets group advising companies quoted on the Official List and the AIM market team, where he advised and regulated AIM companies and market professionals. Philip is now a member of the London Stock Exchange AIM Advisory Group and chairman of the Quoted Companies Alliance Nominated Adviser Committee.

Graham is the group managing director of investment banking group Shore Capital. He was previously a management consultancy partner of Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche). After a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford and a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics, he worked for the Government as an economic adviser. He is responsible for Shore Capital’s corporate finance department and is heavily involved in managing Shore Capital’s Puma VCTs and St Peter Port Capital, the AIM listed pre-IPO fund.

Judith joined Electra Quoted Management in March 2007. Previously, she worked with Aberdeen Asset Management as a senior investment manager and had key responsibility within the growth capital division for AIM and technology investments in the four core Aberdeen venture capital trusts. She developed her experience from positions at Bell Lawrie Brewin Dolphin, Stirling Hendry and Allied Provincial.

Richard has 13 years’ experience of smaller company investing. He joined Octopus Investments in 2004, having previously worked at Close Brothers and Duncan Lawrie Ltd, at which he managed an award-winning smaller companies fund. At Octopus Investments, Richard manages a range of specialist AIM portfolios, AIM VCTs and the CF Octopus Opportunities Fund.

John became chief executive of Tavistock, a leading provider of financial public relations and investor relations services, in September 2007. He has 11 years’ industry experience and has worked across a broad range of sectors, including many IPOs, M&A transactions and fundraisings for small and large companies. John has an MA in modern and medieval languages from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and is a fluent German speaker. He is also a director of City Insights, Tavistock’s investor relations subsidiary.

Stephen is a UK institutional fund manager by background, including the founder and managing director of Rutherford Asset Management Limited where he created a number of highly successful smaller company investment vehicles, including Herald Investment Trust and Beacon Investment Trust. In 1997 he sold Rutherford Asset Management Limited to Close Brothers Group and joined Close Investment Limited as managing director, where he was responsible for launching Close Brothers AIM VCT. He is a director of Close Brothers AIM VCT plc, Chairman of Phoenix VCT plc, Chairman of Conduit PR Limited and Chairman of PLUS Markets Group plc.