2026 Licensing Awards Jury

     

Ebnet

Karin Ebnet

A journalist with a career spanning more than 25 years, she is editor of the world's leading games and toys magazine, Toy Store. An expert on the world of children, she is a keen observer of the kidult phenomenon, particularly in the field of licensing. She is passionate about 360° entertainment. 

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Hyder

Ian Hyder

Ian Hyder is ceo and co-owner of Max Publishing, a b2b media company with print publications and websites including Licensing Source Book, LicensingSource.net, Progressive Greetings, PG Buzz, Progressive Preschool, Progressive Housewares, Progressive Party and Progressive Gifts & Home among others.
It also owns and organises a number of high profile awards events including The Licensing Awards and The Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards, and owns Progressive Greetings Live – the UK’s only trade exhibition dedicated to the greeting card industry – and London Stationery Show. 

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Mansell-Stopher

Helena Mansell-Stopher

Helena Mansell-Stopher is CEO and founder at Products of Change, a global organization driving positive change across the brand and licensing industry by influencing the reduction of the industry’s environmental impact. It guides a growing community of brand owners, manufacturers, retailers and supporting businesses towards building more sustainable and regenerative business practices, through education and knowledge sharing.
Products of Change is a membership organisation, a media and events platform and an advisor’s service that provides a safe place for industry to learn, connect and transition to a more sustainable future.  Helena curates the sustainability in licensing conference (SILC) the first of its kind in the brand and licensing industry, formed to advance the industries knowledge on future innovations within the sustainability space.  
Helena is an advisor to the United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Initiative and Board Director to Recycle to Read, an environmental educator who builds systems to unlock value in the waste stream benefiting schools and driving awareness through brand advocacy. 
With a 26 year career in the retail, brand and licensing industry across media and lifestyle brands, working with companies such as HIT Entertainment, Mattel, Marvel and National Geographic, as well as a 7 year career in sustainability, Helena is at the cutting edge of closing the knowledge gap to advance the industry forward to a sustainable future.      

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