Founders
Trevor Byrne Founder & Judge
Trevor is the founder and host of The Bucket Seat and podcast, and a wildly passionate car lover and content consumer.
Born and raised in Southern Ontario he was exposed to an expected array of automotive experiences, but while attending the Automotive Business School of Canada, the aperture truly opened. He has since had nearly two decades of experience working and creating content directly for major OEM's, ad agencies, and independent automotive publishers.
Laurance Yap
Judge
Laurance has been playing with cars since he was a kid – Hot Wheels and Lego from birth, with a transition to full-sized versions while he was in university. While getting a degree in creative writing, he began his automotive career, spending over a decade as an auto journalist, writing and photographing for various outlets while also holding down part-time jobs as an IT consultant and graphic artist.
He spent six years at Porsche Canada as public relations manager and marketing director, has worked at RM Sotheby’s as marketing director, and is currently creative director at Pfaff Automotive Partners, a Toronto-based retail group. There, he has a hand in marketing as well as other corporate strategy and business development projects
Bonar Bulgar
Judge
Bonar is the founder and CEO of Steak+Sizzle Media Co., a dedicated content production house focusing on the automotive vertical.
He grew up in England, and his father's hobby was buying Mercedes-SL vehicles, ones that had a bit of rust or needed some minor repair. He'd fix them and then sell them. They'd often go for car rides in the evening, and they'd look for cars like Jaguars XJS and the like and pretend to race them. His dad is also a photography nerd; he'd always have new photography gear lying around the house. Fast forward 40 years, and Bonar runs a media company focused on the automotive vertical. He has essentially taken these impressionable elements of his youth and combined them into a career - cameras + cars.
Paul Reid
Judge
Paul is co-founder and Director of photography of Taylor Reid Creative.
Paul Reid got his start in the action sports world when he was 16 years old. He began his career travelling the world filming with professional skateboarding, surfing and backcountry snowboarding.
Nick Taylor
Judge
Nick Taylor is co-founder and Director at Taylor Reid Creative.
Nicholas brings years of experience making documentary feature films. The experience allows for a unique approach when directing commercials and branded content.