judges

Corinna Verschuren

Corinna started her own Dog Salon “ ’t Trimmertje” in 1996, after being a veterinary assistant and 2 years of education. From the beginning, it was clear that she wanted to do more. Her passion for dog grooming grew further into the show world. You can see her at work in various grooming and styling [...]

Martial Carre

Martial Carré is a professional groomer with almost 30 years of experience. He started as a behavior therapist for dogs, but his passion for grooming began with the pet of his grandmother. He built up a small customer base by word of mouth publicity. Then he wanted to give himself 100% to practice his passion [...]

Anders Rossell

A graphic designer and Art Director by profession, Anders is a top breeder of Standard Poodles under the prefix ‘Avatar’ in Sweden. Anders has been involved with Poodles since the mid 70′s and finished over 80 champions, many top and BIS winners. As a small scale breeder he has bred champions in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, [...]

Emilia Diaz

Emilia Dias is the President and Founder of the Spanish Grooming Association and also organized the most prestigious international grooming competition in Spain for 11 years. She’s the owner and manager of “Esppeca Academy” and the “Animal Center Salon” in Girona since 1991. Besides all that she’s a founding member of the European Grooming Association [...]

Jetty Vanderhulst

Jetty van der Hulst lives in the Netherlands and is an honorary of Dibevo, the Dutch organization for dog grooming salons and pet shops. In the sixties she started her grooming salon in Den Haag, which quickly grew to be the busiest grooming salon in the Netherlands, partially because of her success in grooming championships. [...]

Lorrain Denys

Denys was born in France and start grooming in 1989.Became French groomer of the year in 1991 in Paris ,European  winner with a poodle  in Amsterdam in 1992 .Member of the French team for the world groom team championship  in New york in 1996.denys has won many gold and silver medals in Europe and in [...]

Mijo Klein

Mijo Klein has been a dog groomer since 1975. She was a multiple champion, is active as an international judge and is known as the founder of “Ciseaux d’Or Internationale” which has already taken place 14 times at the ‘Grande Motte’, each time the 1st weekend of February. Mijo’s the editor and creator of the [...]

Mirjam Van den Bosch

Mirjam was born on November 17th of 1966. Her mother was also a dog groomer, so at a very young age she started to help her out. In 1987 she started working as a certified dog groomer. This talented lady has won plenty Gold, Silver and Bronze medals as well as Best in Show and [...]

Monique Janssens

Monique has been a groomer since 1970 and is specialized in scissor breeds. Her last championship was “Eurokru 2001″ at Berlin. She was the winner of the “Winnerscircle” with a Kerry Blue, gold winner with a Bichon Frisé and also gold winner with a Poodle. Since then she’s been an international Judge and also the [...]

Ronny Demunter

Rony is owner of the grooming salon ‘Folini’, which is specialized in terriers. He is the winner of several titles and medals at grooming contests at home and abroad and is regularly asked as a jury for grooming contests. Besides all this, Rony is also the owner of the famous Lakeland and Wire Fox Terriër [...]

Shaunna Bernardin

Shaunna was born into a “dog family” and throughout her childhood her family bred Irish Setters, Labrador Retrievers, Akitas, Poodles and several other breeds. The family also ran a very large facility that provided grooming, training, (conformation as well as obedience) and a boarding kennel. As well, the family ran several other grooming salons. All [...]

Sue Zecco

Sue is a Certified Master Groomer with both the National Dog Groomers Association (NDGAA) and the International Professional Groomers (IPG).  She has been grooming for over 30 years, starting her business “The Pampered Pet” in Paxton MA in 1977.  She started to compete in grooming competitions in 1985 and since then has won Gold, Silver [...]

Umberto Lehmann

El Corte Italiano in Cartagena has been his home since 2007. Opened his grooming salon in Milano in 1980, after having been in breeding, showing and training. In 1985 he started giving formation and specialization courses in his Grooming School getting more than 190 students. From 1985 to 2001, he won several gold and silver [...]

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