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2025 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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Narishkin

Marina Narishkin

Multi-cultural, French Russian American born in Brazil, with a +20-year career managing companies and driving results in the Entertainment, Sports and Media business through IP management and strategy.
Studying across multiple continents Thailand, Russia, France and America, Valedictorian and Magna Cum Laude, working in advertising, PR and Entertainment. Tasked with her colleagues at the start of her career to establish the first-ever Worldwide independent Entertainment production and licensing company now quoted on the stock market in Canada.
Driving results while advocating for diversity, Marina has worked in television for TF1, heading up Wildbrain CPLG France and EMEA, MD at production studio Millimages, advising Aude de Thuin for the creation of the Foundation Sistemic and working for studios and IPs such as: Marvel, The Minions-NBCUniversal, Avatar and The Simpsons-Fox, Star Wars-Lucasfilm, BBC, ITV, Viacom Nickelodeon, Activision, Ubisoft, World Cup Football, FFF, All Blacks, Sony, The Voice, Banijay, The Smurfs, Haribo, and Hello Kitty... And with blue chip partners such as Mattel, Danone, Carrefour, McDonalds, Fifa, Nike to name a few...
Named one of the “50 most important women leaders for French consumers” by retail and consumer magazine LSA; Award winner from 20th Century Fox, Universal, Lucasfilm, Marvel ; consultancy Board member for the Minister of Diversity; Tech start-up board member; signatory of the first Government Charter “accompanying people over 50 in the workplace” ; founding member of Women in Toys France and Licensing International France; board member LFA (Women in Animation France); honorary member Media Club and Senior for Good. Speaker, panelist, jury, mentor, sponsor and business angel. 
Not forgetting that family and the love of sports and animals are integral to her personality.

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Perez Barruos

Michelle Perez Barruos

 

With over 20 years of experience in gaming and licensing, Michelle Perez Barruos specializes in connecting iconic brands with emerging trends in gaming, metaverse experiences, and UGC platforms. As General Manager of Feenix Studio, she leads strategic partnerships and innovative brand extensions that drive growth and engagement.
Michelle has collaborated with renowned brands like Sega, Disney, and Marvel, contributing to projects such as the Paddington Bear Roblox experience. Her portfolio includes titles like Minion Rush, Disney Magic Kingdom, and Fall Guys x Hello Kitty. Recognized as a Top Woman in Games and Women in Games Ambassador, Michelle also mentors young talent and contributes to education programs at ISDE and Barça Innovation Hub.

 

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