Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology sector, is delighted to announce the winners for this year’s Rise Awards.
Rise received over 400 nominations from across the globe, with attendees from Australia, United States, Canada, Australia, France, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands), at the ceremony. With a new host this year, comedian Laura Lexx, winners were celebrated by a talented group of women, advocates, and companies at Troxy in London, in partnership with Sky and Gravity Media. The ceremony was streamed globally on the
Rise YouTube channel .
Rise Business Manager, Deborah Cross, said: “Now in its seventh year, the Rise Awards continues to go from strength to strength with many more companies bringing clients with them this year to share the Rise message. The 2025 ceremony was the culmination of a challenging task for our judging panel, selecting this year’s winners from an exceptionally high calibre of nominees. Congratulations to all those that took home an award, we feel privileged to champion the talents of these inspirational women and diversity advocates.”
The winners of the 2025 Rise Awards are as follows:
Advocate, sponsored by Techex
Levant Ozparlak - Irdeto
Scott Kerr - Sky
Business Leader, sponsored by IBC
Liz McParland - Globecast
Business Operations, sponsored by Encompass
Laura Martín-Moralejo - Warner Bros. Discovery
Company Award for Investment in Women, sponsored by Ross Video
Channel 4
Influencer, sponsored by Disguise
Mirusha Jegatheeswaran -ITV
Marketing, sponsored by DCE Agency
Margot Ouali - Appear
Product Innovation, sponsored by Clear-Com
Regina Poniridis - Caretta Research
Product Support Engineer, sponsored by Appear
Brittany Shoemake - Warner Bros. Discovery
Project Management Or Delivery (Vendor/Service Provider), sponsored by Globecast
Jane Lavineway - Irdeto
Project Management Or Delivery, End User, sponsored by Warner Bros. Discovery
Sarah Thornley - Sky UK
R&D Engineer, sponsored by AWS
Shufei He - Irdeto
Rising Star, sponsored by RedBee Media
Patrycja Foltynowicz - Limitless Broadcast
Sreekala Kallidil - Irdeto
Sales, sponsored by Mimir Saga (part of the Fonn Group)
Juliet Bayliss - Globecast
Student/Apprentice, sponsored by SMPTE
Juliette Maes - Media Distillery
Technical Operations, sponsored by Vizrt
Jayne Hilton - Globecast
Woman Of The Year, sponsored by Zixi
Sue Farrell - Channel 4
Special Recognition Award
The Special Recognition Award was presented to Nicki Fisher for her services to the broadcast industry and Rise.
About Rise
Rise was formed in 2017 to support and promote women working in the non-craft part of the broadcast media technology industry in operations, engineering, sales, marketing and business. Since its conception, Rise has grown to become a global network hosting events at Broadcast Asia, IBC, Satis, MPTS, Broadcast India, and NAB. Rise’s industry wide diversity and inclusion strategy, incorporates mentoring programmes, community building, and awards, as well as sector specific training and development programs across all areas of media technology. In January 2025 Rise extended its mission and programmes to the AV sector. More about Rise:
risewib.com