The judges:

Michael Leander, Chairman of the jury

As the Chairman of FIMAC, Michael Leander also serves as the chair for the jury of FEDMA & Holmen Paper Direct Marketer of the Year Award, and the FEDMA & Holmen Paper Direct Marketing Apprentice Award 2009,

Michael Leander is an innovative international direct and interactive marketer with unique experience from both the business and the agency side. He is specialised in the areas of internet marketing, permission marketing and customer lifecycle marketing automation.

With an international mindset, he has worked with a large number of pan-European or global marketers and fully understands the complexities of cross-border direct and interactive marketing.

Jørgen Nygaard Andreassen

Jørgen Nygaard Andreassen is the Marketing and Membership Director of FEDMA. He has extensive experience in cross-border direct and interactive marketing and is often used by multi-national companies when they launch pan-European campaigns. Jørgen Andreassen travels frequently around Europe sharing new ideas, marketing techniques and his know-how with hundreds of attendees.

Tommy Wiksand

Tommy Wiksand is the Sales Director for Holmen Paper's segments; Retailers, Publishers and Printers.

Juris Ozols

Juris Ozols is a marketer with experience in a wide range of business areas, mostly from the agency side. He is specialised in direct marketing, stategy development and brand management. With a strategic approach he fully understands the complexities of new market developments for direct and interactive marketing, especially in the Baltic countries. Juris Ozols has helped multi-nationals coordinating and forming market relations; strenghtening their national position in northern Europe.

He is a Board member, and one of the founding fathers of the Latvian Direct Marketing Association (LTMA), a member of FIMAC and the Director of the full service marketing agency Marketing House.

Johan Lindqvist: International Business Manager PAR AB

With 15 years experience in sales and marketing on an international market, Johan Lindqvist is very familiar with the international business world.

He is leading the sales and marketing of PAR's International Business area and the development of the pan-European database EuroContactPool, which consists of more than 22 million companies across Europe.

Working with PAR for 10 years has given him a wide experience in the direct and interactive marketing industry. His focus is to help pan-European businesses to get control and to structure their market- and business-information in order to achieve better results in their sales and marketing processes.