Judges

Roshan Bharwani | Co-founder, Venture Advisor & Transformation Consultant

Roshan is a seasoned business leader in banking & capital markets transformation. Over her 16 year career at JPMorgan and other firms she has led several award winning transformation initiatives including large, multi-year programs with extensive budgets. She specializes in building and scaling product solutions while leading diverse, global teams with industry leading best practices. She now leverages her experience to re-shape and innovate in traditional industries using the power of new technologies like Web3, AI, ML. She focuses on projects in DeFi, sustainability and ESG using blockchains and those that use decentralisation as a concept for improving parity in society. Roshan has advised pre-seed startups in Web3 through venture capital platforms & academia and is also building her own project related to objective measurements of gender diversity and governance. She was associated with Blockchain Founders Group VC incubator & DLT Talents program (Frankfurt school of business). She is a strong advocate for women in STEM, mentoring the next generation & actively promoting them to take up roles in new and challenging sectors and sustainability.

Roshan has been on the Judging Panel since 2022.

Rory Choudhuri | Product Marketing Director, Soldo

Rory Choudhuri leads the product marketing team at Soldo. He is responsible for defining Soldo’s approach to our customers, ensuring they get full value from their deployments. The team also drives product development, using feedback from a range of organisations, ensuring Soldo remains at the cutting edge of the spend management sector. 

Prior to joining Soldo, Rory led Cloud Solution Marketing at VMware, where he helped organisations of all sizes define their cloud and infrastructure strategy. Earlier in his career, Rory built and led teams that brought digital video editing to the UK, drove the global adoption of service standards across Telcos and deployed the first e-learning solutions in EMEA. 

A passionate advocate for sustainability, Rory advocates for and advises organisations to address their CO2e consumption and he has presented at numerous sustainability-related events. 

Rory lives with his wife and their dog in a little village just north of London. He and his daughter are season ticket holders at Watford Football Club, proving he is an eternal optimist. 

Rory has been on the Judging Panel since 2023.

David Hall | Social Sustainability Director – Lloyds Banking Group

David is passionate about developing and delivering purpose driven strategies and programmes; doing so over the past 10+ years in consumer and commercial banking, leveraging the systemic levers of organisational and societal change necessary to deliver sustainable performance. Working alongside key partners such as Channel 4, JLL, Small Business Britain and Korn Ferry, key highlights have included:

• Leading a multi-million, multi-year environmental and social sustainability portfolio, from insight to strategy to delivery

• Overseeing the Lloyds Bank flagship black entrepreneurs programme delivering 40,000+ hours targeted support to 10,000+ small business owners over the past 3 years, underpinned by the delivery of the first UK financial services sector dedicated Black Business Hub.

• Sponsoring the commissioning of extensive research on the barriers faced by black-owned, disabled-owned and Northern women-owned businesses

• Leading the successful integration of innovative sustainability standards into financing products for small and medium sized housing developers

• Delivering sales to service focussed culture transformation programmes to 40000 colleagues servicing 25m+ customers

David currently focuses on developing a ‘targeted universalism’ approach across the corporate bank’s products and services, leading Lloyds’ active participation in the development and delivery of the government backed Lilac Review whilst enhancing social sustainability data and insights organisational capability. He has also served as a lead governor at one of the UK’s largest state primary schools for the past ten years whilst helping drive stronger collaboration amongst the broader East London schools network.

David has been on the Judging Panel since 2025.

Louisa Harris | Founder, Curiously Liminal

Louisa is a sustainability strategist dedicated to finding creative and innovative solutions to the complex problems of our time. She is founder of Curiously Liminal – her advisory work focused on activating courageous leaders, collective impact and systems change.

Louisa brings 15 years of experience including strategy design and implementation, non-financial reporting, ESG assurance, culture change. She engages boards, leadership teams and entrepreneurs to deliver impact and has worked extensively in the B2B sector with complex global organisations. An experienced coach, moderator and programme designer and facilitator, Louisa is particularly interested in co-creating immersive and experiential events that connect, engage, inspire and call to action.

She is a Trustee of Hawkwood: Center for Future Thinking and an academic tutor for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership’s courses on Sustainable Business Management and Sustainable Finance

Louisa joined the Judging Panel in 2022 and is also our ceremony co-host.

Harriet Kelsall | Founder and Chair of Harriet Kelsall bespoke jewellery

Harriet Kelsall is one of the most respected designers and business trailblazers in the British jewellery industry and runs the UKs leading bespoke jewellery company. She was the 2016 HSBC Forward Ladies “Retail Business Woman of the year”, was Everywoman’s “Retail Woman of the Year” in 2011, one of The Institute of Directors magazine’s six “women who have most changed the business world” in 2014 and is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and of the City of London.

She has been a non-executive director or/and chair for various organisations including the Responsible Jewellery Council, The British Hallmarking Council and the National Association of Jewellers and currently her non-executive positions include the Intellectual Property Office and the British Allied Trades Federation.

Having helped to launch Fairtrade gold and having been a key ethical pioneer in her industry, she is a regular keynote speaker on ethics and CSR and speaks nationally and internationally about responsible business.

Harriet is passionate about helping creative business and new starters flourish and her book on the subject called “The Creative’s Guide to Starting a Business: How to turn your talent into a career” which won at the 2019 Business Book of the Year Awards.

Harriet returned to the Judging Panel in 2021 after a break, previous judging in 2016-2018.

“When I first encountered the Global Good Awards they seemed fun, fresh, un-stuffy and disruptive; how you’d expect an awards to be, believing in responsibility and ethics! Potentially a breath of fresh air, and a force for GOOD (globally) I thought. I was impressed by the diverse array of judges Karen had already assembled, so it was a no brainer to seek to join.”