Combining industry and wider business perspectives, two commentators for channels including CNBC have joined the judging panel for the Growth Investor Awards.

Odi Lahav, Partner & CEO of Allenbridge Investment Solutions, is a regular commentator on alternative investments in the trade press. As a hedge fund industry commentator, he has featured on CNBC and Canadian channel BNN while in supervision at the Canadian financial regulator OSFI.

Odi is joined on the panel for Growth Investor of the Year by Sky News’ Muse of Marketing, Allyson Stewart-Allen – an internationally-recognised business adviser, broadcaster, speaker and educator who set up International Marketing Partners to help multi-national clients lead and manage across cultures, achieve their marketing and business development strategies through successful strategic alliances/joint ventures, organic growth and/or acquisitions. In addition to her 4-year slot on Sky News Business Report programme, Allyson has regular slots as a marketing expert for CNN’s World Business and Business International programmes and is interviewed frequently for CNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, USA Today, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Fortune magazines.