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The Executive Awards
What you get out of it.
01 · From the day you go live
Awareness
Your own page at expys.org, a vote card sized for every feed, and the Nominee 2027 badge for LinkedIn and your website.
02 · Through the vote
Connection
Every vote is someone you asked, by name, clicking to back you. Finalists are announced online, with their own badge and press release.
03 · From the vote
Authority
Decided by public vote and independently certified. Finalist or Winner 2027 is a title you can put on LinkedIn, your site and your next proposal.
04 · Announced online
Recognition
Winners are announced online at The Virtual Awards Night, and receive the trophy, the wall plaque, an article, a press release and an interview.
05 · The Virtual Awards Night
Experience
Streamed to every region, and anyone can register to watch.
One of five
Split by headcount of the organisation.
An executive is measured by the complexity they operate inside, and headcount is the truest proxy for it: spans of control, layers, industrial relations, systems, and the number of people a decision has to travel through. Revenue does not capture it, and an employed executive cannot lawfully publish their employer’s revenue anyway. Headcount is already on a company page, a registry filing or an annual report, which means it is an axis you can answer without asking your board.
Every one of the 36 offices exists three times over, once per band, with its own winner.
Band 1 of 3
Growth
Under 100 people
The function is you and a couple of people. You still do the work.
Band 2 of 3
Mid-market
100 to 999 people
A department, a budget and a board that asks questions.
Band 3 of 3
Enterprise
1,000 people and over
Layers, regions, regulators and a function that runs without you in the room.
- Headcount is the organisation you are accountable for, measured on the day you enter, full time equivalents including contractors on the books.
- A country executive of a global group enters on the headcount they are accountable for in that country, not the group total.
- Self-declared on the entry, on a one line declaration. Nobody asks you to prove it.
- The ratchet. You may move up a band in a later year. You may never move back down.
Two of five
Thirty six offices.
Every office runs three times, once in each headcount band, so each one produces three winners in your country rather than one. Industry is a filter on your profile, not a category you compete in.
36 categories times 3 bands is 108 awards in every country, of the 127 that take an entry.
- 01Chief Executive of the Year
The top job. The whole organisation and its result.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 02Chief Financial Officer of the Year
Capital, controls and the numbers the board relies on.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 03Chief Operating Officer of the Year
The machine. Throughput, cost and the thing actually running.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 04Chief Marketing Officer of the Year
Demand, brand and the pipeline marketing is accountable for.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 05Chief Revenue Officer of the Year
Sales, partners and the number at the end of the quarter.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 06Chief Technology Officer of the Year
What gets built, how it gets built and whether it holds.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 07Chief Information Officer of the Year
The systems the business runs on, and the migration nobody noticed.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 08Chief Product Officer of the Year
What ships, what is killed and why customers stay.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 09Chief Data & Analytics Officer of the Year
The numbers the business trusts enough to act on.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 10Chief Information Security Officer of the Year
The breach that did not happen, and the one handled properly.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 11Chief AI Officer of the Year
Models and agents put into production, not into a slide.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 12Chief People Officer of the Year
Hiring, pay, culture and the people who stayed.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 13Chief Legal Officer of the Year
Contracts, disputes and the advice given before the decision.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 14Chief Risk & Compliance Officer of the Year
Regulators, audits and a risk register that means something.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 15Chief Customer Officer of the Year
Service, retention and the customer after the sale.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 16Chief Supply Chain Officer of the Year
Suppliers, stock and the shelf that stayed full.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 17Chief Procurement Officer of the Year
What the organisation buys, and what it stopped paying for.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 18Chief Strategy Officer of the Year
Where the organisation goes next, and the deals that get it there.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 19Chief Communications Officer of the Year
Press, internal comms and the week it all went wrong.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 20Chief Sustainability Officer of the Year
Reported, audited and built into how the business operates.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 21Chief Design Officer of the Year
How the product and the brand are experienced.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 22Executive Creative Director of the Year
The creative department, and the work that ships under its name.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 23Chief Learning Officer of the Year
Capability built inside the organisation instead of hired in.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 24Managing Director of the Year
The country or division lead running a business inside a bigger one.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 25Chief of Staff of the Year
The operating rhythm behind the chief executive.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 26Executive Assistant of the Year
The calendar, the board papers and the chief executive’s week, run without a dropped ball.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 27Sales Executive of the Year
New business at the coalface. The number on your own name, quarter after quarter.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 28Account Executive of the Year
The full cycle, yours end to end: the first call, the pilot, the signature and the quota you closed it against.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 29Account Manager of the Year
The accounts already won. Renewals, growth and the client who will not take a call from anybody else.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 30Business Development Manager of the Year
Doors nobody else had opened. Pipeline built from nothing, and the deals that came out of it.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 31Head of Sales of the Year
1 entry
The whole sales function, reporting to the top. You own the number and the people carrying it.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 32Sales Director of the Year
The director-level seat over a sales organisation. Territory, team and the forecast the board reads.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 33Customer Success Manager of the Year
The customer after the sale. Adoption, renewal and the churn that did not happen.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 34Partnerships Manager of the Year
Revenue earned through somebody else. Resellers, alliances and the partner who sells for you now.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 35Head of Partnerships of the Year
The whole partner channel, yours to run. The alliances signed, the partners who now sell for you, and the revenue that arrives without a salesperson on the call.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
- 36Sales Operations Manager of the Year
The engine behind the number. Territory, comp, the pipeline data and a forecast that turns out to be right.
- Growth
- Mid-market
- Enterprise
Three of five
Thirteen for how you lead.
About how someone leads rather than what they run, so these are not banded. You may enter one alongside your office category.
13 awards in every country, unbanded, of the 127 that take an entry.
- 01
- 02
- 03
- 04
- 05
- 06
- 07
- 08
- 09
- 10Woman in Leadership of the Year
The woman running the function, the division or the whole organisation.
- 11Under 40 Executive of the Year
Under 40 on the day you enter. Running the function years before most people get the seat.
- 12Executive Voice of the Year
Built a real following while holding the job. The executive whose posts people in the industry actually read.
- 13
Four of five
Six for the organisation.
The group, the board and the programmes they build. Entered by the organisation rather than by one person, and named together.
6 awards in every country, unbanded, of the 127 that take an entry.
- 01
- 02
- 03
- 04
- 05
- 06Creator Partnership of the Year
The organisation’s work with creators that moved a number it can show.
Five of five
The ones you cannot enter.
Executive of the Year in every country and 5 at the Expys Global, all of them derived from the winners underneath. There is no entry form for these, and no way in other than winning something below them.
Every category is decided on its own, however many entered it, and the number of entries is shown on the award.
In every country
- Executive of the Year
- The top executive, from the 108 office winners, decided by the same public vote. No entry.
The EXPY Icons
The Global Icon Awards, decided by the public vote and announced at The Virtual Awards Night. Win one and you are an EXPY Icon.
- 01Global Executive of the Year
- 02Global Chief Executive of the Year
- 03Global Executive Team of the Year
- 04Global Board of the Year
- 05Global Rising Executive of the Year
The Executive Awards
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Entries are open. Winners are announced online.