Judges
LAMA Awards Adjudication Process
The judging process for the LAMA Awards is an integral part of the event. We have selected individuals to serve as judges who have distinguished themselves in their field and who demonstrate exceptional leadership ability and vision.
We make all efforts to avoid conflicts of interest in the judging process (such as inadvertently assigning a judge to evaluate an entry with which he/she is associated). At least two judges are assigned to each entry at random from within the pool of judges whose expertise is relevant. Any judges who find themselves with a conflict of interest are instructed to come forward and allow for the entry be judged by an impartial alternative judge. In evaluating the entries our judges utilize a comprehensive, points-based scoring system, dictated by the criteria for that particular category.
By adhering to the specific guidelines and criteria of this system our judges are able to maintain the highest degree of fairness, accuracy and integrity and competently and effectively evaluate entries. The average points will be taken forward and the top 4-5 in each category will be deemed finalists.
LAMA Awards 2012 Judges
Darren O’Sullivan – Head of Health, Justice & Local Government, Eircom
Séamus Ó Cinnéide – Jean Monnet Professor Emeritus of European Social Policy
Emmet Ryan – Freelance Journalist
Emmet Ryan is a freelance journalist based in Dublin working with several media organisations including, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post. He has also recently set up Villa81.com a video-based online review website. Emmet holds a Bachelor of Commerce (International) degree from University College Dublin and a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from Dublin City University. Since 2005 Emmet has worked in a wide range of media including online, broadcast and print journalism. He has written extensively about developments in the internet and how new media is changing our everyday lives and is a regular guest on several national and local radio stations. He is active in charity work having completed the Dublin City Marathon three times in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland. In August Emmet will walk the length of Ireland for this cause.
Siubhán Nic Grianna – Communiations & Marketing Manager, Údarás na Gaeltachta
Siubhán Nic Grianna heads up the Communications and Marketing Department of Údarás na Gaeltachta, the state development agency with responsibility for the economic, social and cultural development of Irelands Gaeltacht areas. In her current position since 2007, Siubhán manages the public relations, communications, and marketing functions of the organisation, which includes responsibility for all online marketing activities. She managed the redevelopment of a new Údarás website which won the Best Irish Language category in the 2008 Irish EGovernment Awards. Prior to this Siubhán held a Regional Development role where she had the responsibility of assessing and administering regional aid supports and providing advice and guidance to tourism-based projects in the Gaeltacht. She was also central to the establishment and development of the GaelSaoire Gaeltacht Holidays marketing brand which placed the Gaeltacht areas on the map as unique tourism destinations.
Siubhán holds an MA in International Tourism and a BA in European Studies, both from the University of Limerick.
Cass Roche – Roche & Associates
In 1984, Cass Roche established the practice of PC Roche + Associates. The practice has developed into an award winning landscape and physical planning design practice. A wide range of projects has been successfully completed, ranging from detailed landscape design to complex site planning projects in both urban and rural locations, throughout Ireland and overseas. The practice concentrates on delivering high quality schemes from presentation through the design process to on-site supervision. The practice utilises fully, the capabilities of computer-aided design from survey, presentation to detailed working drawings. Some of the awards that the practice has won, since its establishment, include an Award presented by Irish Planning Institute and Irish Independent, Award presented by Disability Ireland and National Rehabilitation Board and several Award presented by Bord Na Mona and Landscape Contractors.
Colin Walsh - Irish Building Magazine
Colin Walsh is Managing Director of Irish Building Magazine, Ireland's most widely read business magazine for the building professional. Colin has a background in marketing and design has over 15 years experience in publishing magazines for the building & public sectors. Colin works directly with key Government Departments and semi state agencies, Main Contractors, Architects, Engineers, Local Authorities and industry representatives to promote and report on best practise in building. Colin is very involved in the promotion of Health and Safety and through Irish Building Magazine actively engages with the building industry and the public sector to improve and promote Health and Safety. He was a founder organiser of the Irish Building Magazine's 'Construction Excellence Awards' (co-hosted with the Department of the Environment and the CIF) which promoted quality in the Irish building sector. Commenting on the LAMA Awards Colin says "I am delighted to have been selected once again as part of the judging panel and look forward to helping to further the ongoing promotion of excellence in public sector projects".
David Keating- SAP Group
David Keating. B.Agr.Sc (L.Hort); M.Agr.Sc.; MBA. David is Group Development Director with Sap, Ireland's largest Landscape Contractor and Tree Nursery. Following graduation, David worked for six years with the Parks Department of Dublin County Council. On completion of the MBA programme at Trinity College Dublin, he joined the Horticulture business of Bord na Mona where he was responsible for the Sales and Marketing of growing media products throughout Europe. At Bord na Mona, David led the team responsible for the large scale composting of industrial and domestic organic waste (greenwaste) for use in Horticulture
Dr. Kevin Curran – University of Ulster
BSc (Hons), PhD, SMIEEE, MBCS CITP, MACM, MIEE, FHEA is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Ulster. His achievements include winning and managing UK & European Framework projects and Technology Transfer Schemes. Dr Curran has made significant contributions to advancing the knowledge and understanding of computer networking and systems, evidenced by over 400 published works. He is a regular contributor to BBC radio & TV news in the UK and is currently the recipient of an Engineering and Technology Board Visiting Lectureship for Exceptional Engineers and is an IEEE Technical Expert for Internet/Security matters. He is listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering and by Who's Who in the World.
John Graby -RIAI
Degree in Architecture from Bolton Street, Dublin 1
Diploma in Project Management trinity College Dublin, 1984
Worked in Private practice in Dublin from 1970-1986
Appointed Director RIAI 1986
Member of the Forum for the Construction Industry
Secretary of the Irish Architectural Archive
Editor of Architectural Map Guide to Dublin, Building on the Edge of Europe, 150 Years of Irish Architecture, Phaidion Guide to the Architecture of Dublin, Irish Architectural Review. Member of the Health and Safety (HSA) Construction Advisory Committee & HSA Construction Safety Partnership.
Chair of Architects Council of Europe Safety and Health Workgroup.
John Madden - National Energy Assessors
John Madden heads up National Energy Assessors (NEA’s) office in the Kildare–Meath area. John is a Chartered Engineer and Registered Arbitrator with over 25 years experience in Contracting, Local Authority and Consultancy roles. John manages his own planning & development consultancy firm since 1994 employing 40 number professional staff during that time with two consultancy offices in the Westmeath and Offaly area. Winner of Westmeath Enterprise Awards 2005, Winner of Building Expedition “Product of Show” 2006 and Runner up of Innovation Engineer Company in 2006.
Roger Sweeney – Irish Water Safety
Roger Sweeney is Marketing Executive & Deputy CEO of Irish Water Safety, the statutory and voluntary body established to promote water safety in Ireland. Roger's primary role within Irish Water Safety is to raise public awareness and change attitudes and behaviors so that our aquatic environments can be enjoyed with confidence and safety. Roger also serves on the Council of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (West Chapter) and is a board member of The Wheel, a support and representative body for the Community and Voluntary sector.
Victor Branagan - (M.Sc. M.B.S.) Green Business School, Enterprise Actions Ltd
Victor Branagan (M.Sc. M.B.S.) is the principal of SustainEd and has extensive experience in business with particular emphasis on social and environmental sectors. See www.sustained.ie for details. Recently, he worked as the Director of the Green Business School within Green Works, a large government funded programme that delivered courses on sustainability to those looking to up-skill to meet the emerging green economy. He has worked as a consultant, business advisor, mentor, facilitator in countless businesses in all sectors of the economy. He has designed, delivered and evaluated many social enterprise programmes with local authority and partnership involvement.
Victor has twenty years of experience in education and training and combines this with his interests in entrepreneurship and sustainability, to develop new programmes for a sustainable future. He links diverse partners and ideas into innovative and imaginative programmes that can really enrich the learning experiences for participants.
Victor holds a Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from Blekinge Tecniska Hogskola, Sweden and a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship Management from the University of Limerick. He lectures on the Sustainable Business module on the International Business degree programme in the Irish American University, the only such module in the country. He enjoys making all sorts of things down on the small farm he owns in County Kilkenny and when in Dublin he dances his socks off with the Dublin Dance Co-op, a group of ‘5 Rhythm’ enthusiasts.
Mark Fielding– ISME
Mark Fielding has been the CEO of ISME, the Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association, the Independent Business Organisation, since August 2001.
Born in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, where his father ran a retail and wholesale pharmacy, Fielding was educated at the Christian Brothers Schools, UCD, Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Taxation.
He has been involved in the SME sector throughout his working life, in the printing, food, biotech, recruitment and property sectors as well as being a senior partner in an accountancy and management consultancy firm specialising in SMEs. He has worked in the UK, France and Ireland and has assisted in the start up of more than 300 companies prior to taking up his current role of CEO at ISME.
He is a member of the Company Law Review Group, the High Level Group on Business Regulation and the Advisory Group on Small Business. He also sits on the administrative council of UEAPME, the European body for SMEs.
ISME currently has 8,500 member firms nationwide employing in excess of 200,000 and is the only independent organisation solely representing small and medium businesses and their owners.
Noel Flood– Safe Hands