LONDON, September 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Katherine Ryan and Danny Wallace confirmed for leading eCommerce industry awards later this month
Organisers of the eCommerce Awards for Excellence in association with Chase Paymentech, the global merchant acquiring business of J.P. Morgan Chase, have today announced both the warm-up act and host for the ceremony on 30th September 2015.
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Canadian comedian, writer and actress Katherine Ryan will open the Awards followed by author, presenter, actor and screenwriter Danny Wallace who will also present each of the 26 winners with their trophies.
The eCommerce Awards for Excellence, now in its seventh year, will highlight and reward outstanding campaigns, brilliant customer service and digital innovation in eCommerce. This year sees new categories including Best eCommerce Design, Best Online Agency, Best B2B eCommerce and Best Banking eCommerce.
After a record number of entries, finalists include household names from the retail sector with House of Fraser, John Lewis, Toys 'R' Us, New Look, ASOS, Fortnum and Mason, Superdrug and Laura Ashley all represented.
"With such strong entries this year, the categories are more hotly contested than ever but I'm sure that both winners and runners up will have a really entertaining evening with these two comedians on the bill. I for one can't wait." said Rebecca Slater, Group Event Manager.
Taking place at Park Plaza Riverbank in London on the evening of the first day of eCommerce Expo, the Awards will also see the presentation of the Best Product at eCommerce Expo that will be judged during the show earlier in the day.
About Katherine Ryan:
Katherine Ryan is a Canadian comedian, writer and actress who has achieved a great deal in a relatively new career. She has appeared on a wide range of panel shows and in two sit-coms, as well as won the prestigious Nivea Funny Women Award.
A natural performer with a superb line in pop cultural observations and occasionally outrageous remarks, Katherine has a unique, endearing charm tempering her biting comments. Her material covers the world's obsession with celebrity, why real life doesn't quite measure up to theirs, and speculates on the lives and thoughts of the young royals, Beyoncé, Cheryl Cole, and the Kardashians. She points out how ridiculous it is to know what Joey Essex is up to at any given moment and how turning terrorists into celebrities might help the world keep track of them.
Katherine has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You,
Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats, The Apprentice: You're Fired and Radio 4 institution The News Quiz. She has also appeared in Channel 4's college-based comedy Campus, and BBC2's Episodes.
About Danny Wallace:
Danny Wallace is a modern Renaissance man. Author, radio and TV presenter, actor, columnist, screenwriter, he's also led his own 'cult' movement and been head of a self-declared nation state based in his bedroom.
Having started out as a writer on Dead Ringers and The Mighty Boosh, Danny's mainstream break came when he challenged his flat-mate, the comedian Dave Gorman, to find 54 other people called Dave Gorman. The award-winning stage show, book and BBC series Are You
Dave Gorman? followed.
A prolific author, Danny's work includes both stories based around somewhat madcap personal experiments, and more conventional novels. In Join Me, Danny 'accidentally' set up a cult in which members had to perform a random act of kindness every Friday (Good Fridays).
In Yes Man, he decided to say yes to everything offered to him, particularly those things he would normally have said no to. The book became the basis for a film starring Jim Carrey.
Danny has also written books about his journey to the centre of the universe (a manhole cover in Idaho), his attempts to find his old school friends, and how to deal with modern dilemmas in
Awkward Situations for Men. He has also penned two comic novels, Charlotte Street and
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On TV, Danny wrote and presented How to Start Your Own Country, in which he started his own country and examined what a country actually is. He also fronted BBC One's He's
Having a Baby, Danny Wallace's Hoax Files, Castaway, and an episode of Horizon looking at whether a chimp could be classed as a person. He has played quizmaster on School's Out, co-hosted
Test the Nation with Anne Robinson and presented shows on BBC 6Music, Xfm and Absolute Radio. He's acted in The IT Crowd, and won a Bafta for his performance narrating the video game phenomenon Assassin's Creed. His popular weekly column in ShortList, Danny Wallace Is a Man, is also an award winner.
About eCommerce Awards for Excellence: http://www.ecommerceexpo.co.uk/awards
The eCommerce Awards for Excellence in association with Chase Paymentech is the most prestigious evening in the Ecommerce calendar. Now in its 7th year, the Awards celebrate the very best the industry has to offer from groundbreaking innovations and campaigns to customer service excellence and revenue growth.
About eCommerce Expo: http://www.ecommerceexpo.co.uk/
eCommerce Expo is the UK's biggest marketplace for buyers and suppliers of the latest ecommerce technology, products and services. This event focuses on all areas of ecommerce, delivering specialist advice, products and services, and thought leadership on areas including marketing, platforms, payments, delivery and logistics, customer service, and the more generalist topics affecting ecommerce and multichannel strategies.
Attendees to eCommerce Expo also have free access to Customer Contact Expo, which serves the customer service and contact centre industry.
About UBM EMEA (organiser of eCommerce Expo and eCommerce Awards for Excellence)
UBM EMEA connects people and creates opportunities for companies across five continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products, promote their brands and expand their markets. Through premier brands such as Routes, CPhI, IFSEC International, eCommerce Expo, London Technology Week, Interop London, Technology for Marketing & Advertising, Ecobuild, Seatrade, and many others, UBM EMEA exhibitions, conferences, awards programs, publications, websites and training and certification programs are an integral part of the marketing plans of companies across seven industry sectors.
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