The South Wales Business Awards has announced the independent panel of judges for the 2025 awards, which celebrate excellence and innovation across the region’s business community.
This year’s panel combines professional insight with educational expertise, offering a wealth of experience from both industry and academia. Their knowledge will play a vital role in assessing and selecting winners across multiple categories.
The 2025 judging panel consists of:
- Richard Miles, Area Manager and Head of Savings and Marketing for Swansea Building Society
- Ffion Cumberpatch BA, PCET, CERTHE, Senior Lecturer and Programme Manager for University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- Robin Griffiths MBA, PGCE, FHEA, Programme Manager: BA Business Management for University of Wales Trinity Saint David
For seventeen years, the South Wales Business Awards has shone a spotlight on outstanding businesses, championing the success of many of Wales’s most accomplished companies.
This year’s awards will take place on Friday 26 September at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff. The event will once again be hosted by Sara Edwards, one of Wales’s best known media presenters.
Awards founder Wesley Skene said: “We are honoured to welcome this year’s accomplished judging panel. Bringing together expertise from both the business and academic worlds ensures an insightful judging process. I am sure their unique perspectives will help us celebrate those in South Wales making a huge difference in their fields and communities. With the number of applications this year surpassing anything we have seen in our seventeen-year history, our judging panel is certainly faced with a challenging task.”
Judge Ffion Cumberpatch added: “I’m delighted to serve as a judge at the South Wales Business Awards. Too often, Wales doesn’t get the recognition it deserves for its incredible businesses and entrepreneurs. The finalists prove that South Wales is brimming with creativity, resilience and innovation that rival anywhere in the world. As a senior lecturer and programme manager at Swansea Business School, part of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David — which is a feature sponsor of the Awards, I see first-hand how vital it is to champion this spirit of enterprise. These outstanding Welsh businesses and entrepreneurs are living proof of what can be achieved through vision, determination and hard work, and they set a shining example for the next generation of talent we are proud to teach and support.”
The South Wales Business Awards has also expressed its gratitude to the event’s key sponsors: The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Feature Sponsor) and Swansea Building Society (Event Sponsor).
