co-founder & chief executive officer
Video Sherpa

Anna is the Co-founder and CEO of Video Sherpa, a new video production platform that democratises video communications by giving organisations the tools and ability to create their own high-quality video content in-house.

With a background in marketing, communications and video production in the cultural and educational sectors, she now leads a team who are empowering agencies to collaborate with clients and companies to get creating themselves. 

Video Sherpa’s intuitive, step-by-step workflows and cloud-based dashboard enable teams to film, edit, and publish their own video content exactly when and where they need it.  Most importantly, the streamlined team collaboration tools, publishing approvals and internal digital asset library make Video Sherpa a robust and powerful tool to create content at scale across the whole organisation.

Judging panel

Sadaf Zarrar

director integrated content and creative excellence, ASEAN
The Coca-Cola Company

Arjoon Bose

head of culture and brand experience, Europe-Australasia
General Mills

George Hammer

chief content officer
IBM

Jessica Myers

brand and marketing director
Metro Bank

Nate Nichols

founder & creative director
Palette Group

Forrest Byrant

creative director
Evernote

Marc Wesseling

co-founder
Ultrasupernew

Maya Bogle

co-founder
Talenthouse

Kevin Morosky

creative director, JUMP
Havas Media

Calvin Loh

head of content
Publicis Media

Sille Opstrup

head of digital, connections and content
Pernod Ricard

Vikesh Amey Bhatt

creative director
Wildfire

mark BOYD

co-founder
Gravity Road

Paps Shaikh

commercial director
Nextdoor

Kate Slater

digital consultant
Glow Consultancy

Ray Murphy

head of content
MADE.COM

Neil Boorman

head of creative lab Europe
TikTok

Ete Davies

chief executive officer (creative)
ENGINE

Anna Downes

co-founder & chief executive officer
Video Sherpa

Lucy Ferguson

head of content
Google

Grace Kok

head of content marketing, Lark
ByteDance

Becky McKinlay

head of marketing communications, client solutions
The Economist Group

Alex Latham

chief marketing officer
Chip

Robert Ratcliff

head of content
Barclays Corporate Banking

Grace MacDonald

marketing manager, content & social
LinkedIn

Neil Nagraj

director of content, core experience
TripAdvisor

MEG MOSS

strategic business development, content
Adobe

flo lau

creative director
Shutterstock

Rebecca Rumble

creative director, content studio
Squarespace

Laura Caraccioli

senior vice president, head of strategic creative partnerships
Fox Broadcasting Company

Andrew Saunders

global head of entertainment & culture, XCM
Amazon

Omar Gepiga

former head of content marketing
HOOQ