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Boris Johnson wins Personality of the Year
Mayor of London Boris Johnson scooped Personality of the Year gong at the inaugural CITY AM awards last night.Boris Johnson won the award by a unanimous vote from the judges due to repeatedly speaking out as an advocate for London’s financial services community, at a particularly tough time for the industry. The judges also recognised him as a “wild personality, larger than life, and an excellent speaker”.
The awards, hosted by daily business newspaper CITY AM, were held at Grange St Paul’s Hotel, London and have been launched to recognise those who have helped position The City of London at the centre of the world’s financial markets.
Amongst the judges were City AM’s editor Allister Heath and deputy editor David Hellier alongside Simon Dingemans, head of European M&A at Goldman Sachs, John Moulton, founder of Better Capital, Truett Tate, executive director Lloyds Banking Group and Alison Carnwath, chair, Land Securities and non-executive director of Barclays.
Other winners included Burberry for Company of the Year due to CEO Angela Ahrendts’ impressive leadership and JP Morgan Cazenove which won Investment Bank of the Year due to the levels of extremely strong performance throughout the bank whose influence was felt across almost all of the major deals of the year.
Full list of winners:
PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
Winner: Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
COMPANY OF THE YEAR
Winner: Burberry
INVESTMENT BANK OF THE YEAR
Winner: JP Morgan Cazenove
RISING STAR OF THE YEAR
Winner: Ivan Gazidis, Arsenal
MARKETING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
Winner: Aviva
TRADER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Crispin Odey, Odey Asset Management
FUND MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Neptune
ANALYST OF THE YEAR
Winner: Andrew Wood, Sanford Bernstein
RETAIL BANK OF THE YEAR
Winner: First Direct
LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
Winner: Slaughter & May
LAWYER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Edward Braham, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Roger Carr, chairman of Centrica
INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE YEAR
Winner: Admiral
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRM OF THE YEAR
Winner: Deloitte
PROPERTY FIRM OF THE YEAR
Winner: Land Securities
RETAIL BROKER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Hargreaves Lansdown
ALTERNATIVE MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Winner: Inflexion
The awards were sponsored by Saxo Bank, the global investment bank specialising in online trading and investment.
CityAM.com is the online presence of City A.M., London's first free daily business newspaper. Both platforms cover financial, business news as well as sport and contemporary lifestyle. The free daily newspaper is read by over 350,000 professionals throughout The City, Canary Wharf and other areas of high business concentration. The ABC certified distribution figure for the period 30/08/10 – 03/10/10 is 110,015. Our readers are professionals, in full-time work and with an average salary of over £87,000 per annum – well over three times the national average.
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