Grand Jury

Gideon AMICHAY
Creative Director, Tel Aviv

Gideon graduated from Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem, with a B.A. (HONORS) in Graphic Design/Visual Communication in 1990. He began his career as a cartoonist (published in all the major newspapers in Israel as well as in The New Yorker in 1995) and has been a Creative Director since 1990...

Sicco BEERDA
Creative Director/Partner, KINGSDAY, Amsterdam

In July of 2011 Sicco started a new agency, KINGSDAY with 3 of his partners from Euro RSCG 4D. At Euro RSCG, he was the intern that never left the company and eventually became the Executive Creative Director at Euro RSCG 4D. In that role he was responsible for the creative profile and output of both...

Adrian BOTAN
Exec. Creative Director, McCann Erickson, Bucharest

Adrian is Regional Creative Director for Central East Europe at McCann Erickson since 2006, Deputy Managing Director and Executive Creative Director of McCann Erickson Bucharest, founding member and President of Romanian Art Directors Club, Vice-president of Romanian...

Davor BRUKETA
Creative Director, Bruketa & Žinic OM, Zagreb

Davor works as a Creative Director at Bruketa&Zinic OM, an advertising agency in Zagreb which he co-founded with Nikola Zinic. The agency is one of the most awarded in SE Europe with over 300 international awards such as Cresta, Epica, New York Festivals, London International...

Petr BUCHA
Creative Director, TBWA, Prague

Petr started his journey in the advertising business in 1994 as a Copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather. During his time at the agency, he rose to the position Senior Copywriter and then to Creative Director. In 2002, he joined Bates/Red Cell as its Creative Director. In 2005 he moved to Fabrika...

Ivan CHIMBUROV
Chief Creative Officer, JWT Russia, Moscow

Ivan was born in Moscow in 1961. He graduated from the Moscow Management University with a degree in economics and started his career in advertising in 1990 as a copywriter. He is a member of Russian Academy of Advertising. He has won numerous international creative awards...

Roberto COIMBRA
President & Exec. Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Andina, Caracas

*Born in Sao Paulo, Brasil, Publicist, Journalist and Lawyer. * WPP Group Manager for the Andean Region. *President and Executive Creative Director for Ogilvy & Mather Andina and partner of Ogilvy Group in 141 Venezuela. *Honorary Consul of the Federative Republic of Brasil for Nueva...

Nicolas COURANT
Creative Director, Memac Ogilvy, Tunis

Nicolas graduated in French Literature and Philosophy and began his career at Lowe Paris as a copywriter. Between 1997 and 2002 he managed accounts such as Air France, France Telecom, Nestlé, La Société Générale and Unilever. In 2002, Nicolas was voted among the best copywriters...

Marco CREMONA
Executive Creative Director, Y&R, Moscow

Marco has worked in the advertising business for 20 years. He has literally worked all over the world for big network agencies. He started off at McCann Milan, then moved to Leo Burnett and Lowe. In 2000, he moved to Brazil, where he worked at Lowe for 3 years in the São Paulo office...

Adriana CURY
Creative Director, Freelance, São Paulo

Adriana started as a copywriter working in some of the major agencies of Brasil: MPM, Leo Burnett, Almap/BBDO, Lowe, Colucci, Ogilvy and McCann. She was national creative VP of Ogilvy improving the agency's position in the national and international scenery. She was a part of the...

Olaf CZESCHNER
Creative Consultant/CD, Freelance, Frankfurt

Olaf Czeschner was the Chief Creative Officer at Neue Digitale / Razorfish - Creative Agency for Digital Marketing in Germany for 13 years. For more than ten years up to end 2010 he was responsible for running the creative development in Frankfurt and Berlin. For international clients such as Adidas...

Pablo DEL CAMPO
Chief Executive Officer, Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Buenos Aires

Pablo Del Campo is the most awarded creative of the last 15 years in Argentina, leading creativity rankings for the past 7 years. He started his career as a copywriter in 1989, later as a Creative Director in Casares Grey, passing through Lautrec Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam...

Cedric DEVITT
Executive Creative Director, LBi, New York

Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Cedric studied History at Trinity College. Unable to find work as an apprentice historian, he decided to head to New York. His first advertising job was a short stint at Berlin Cameron Doyle followed by a longer one at Grey Advertising. In 1999, Cedric decided the future...

Mehdi EL ALJ
Founder, Famous, Casablanca

Famous is a creative boutique that conceives and communicates brand experiences. The agency creates products, services and spaces, and markets them through advertising, experiential marketing, branded content and interactive communications. Famous creates 'Fame' for products and brands...

Gerry FARRELL
Creative Partner, The Leith Agency, Edinburgh

Gerry joined Leith in 1987. He helped to win the Tennents Lager account and established the multi-award-winning `Red T` campaign which ran for 13 years. He went on to be creative director and helped win and worked on campaigns for Irn-Bru, Orangina, Honda, Carling, Grolsch, Standard Life...

Pete FAVAT
Chief Creative Officer/Managing Partner, Arnold Worldwide, Boston

Pete oversees all of Arnold’s clients. His path to this position started in 1984 when he graduated from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Hired right out of SVA by his teachers, Pete’s professional career began with work on Diet Coke, Coca-Cola and Carnation pet foods. At 29, Pete moved to Boston...

Xavier GARCIA
Creative Managing Director, IGRIEGA Comm. Group, Barcelona

Xavi has been a Creative Director at MMLB and Bassat Ogilvy & Mather. And the Executive Creative Director at Casadevall, Pedreño and Publicis BCN. During his career he has won many Cannes Golden Lions, Clios, NY Festival trophy's, FIAP, Eurobest and Andy Awards. Xavi is a member of the...

Jeremy GARNER
Creative Director, Weapon7, London

Jeremy started as a copywriter in 1994 at Euro RSCG Ball Partnership in Hong Kong. He moved into digital in 1998 at Modem Media London, and in 1999 left to co-found Glue (Gluemedia as it was called back then), and then co-founded BloodPartnership in July 2000...

Mike GEIGER
Chief Digital Officer, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco

For more than 14 years Mike Geiger has led multidisciplinary teams in strategy, branding, production and development of cutting-edge new media and advertising content for clients including HP, Adobe, Comcast, Sprint, Got Milk?, Gucci and the NBA. In 2003 Mike started the Interactive...

Pancho GONZÁLEZ
Co-Founder & Executive Creative Director, Inbrax Chile, Santiago

Pancho González studied advertising at the “Universidad de Santiago” with additional Business Administration studies in same University. He has worked in the best Chilean agencies (Ogilvy&Mather, IDB/FCB, Lintas, adn/Y&R, Wunderman, BBDO, RNL) and currently is Co-Founder...

Matt GRIFFIN
Founder & CEO, Deepend, Sydney

Matt Griffin is the founder and Chief Executive of Deepend in Australia, the highly awarded, digital brand communications agency with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. With over 15 years experience in the design and interactive media, Matt was an active participant in the formative years...

Jonbi GUDMUNDSSON
Partner, At Swim, Prague

Jonbi was born in Reykjavík, Iceland. He started his career in 1995 as a Free lance Producer for various TVC’s projects. In 1999 he became Executive Producer at Sagafilms and worked there in various positions (Marketing Manager; Head of TV Prod.) until 2008. In 2009 he headed off...

Ami HASAN
Founder, Chief Creative Officer & Chairman, hasan & partners, Helsinki

Ami Hasan is the founder, chief creative officer and chairman of advertising agency hasan & partners, founded in 1991 and one of the most creative and successful agencies in the Nordic countries. In this age of globalization and the internet, hasan & partners works more and more with...

Guido HEFFELS
Creative Director & Co-Founder, HEIMAT, Berlin

Guido Heffels (45) is Creative Director and one of the co-founders of HEIMAT, Berlin. In the second year of its existence, the advertising agency established at the end of 1999 was named Newcomer Agency of the Year. HEIMAT, Berlin, took fifth place in the national and twenty-first in the worldwide...

Frank HOLLINGWORTH, Jr.
Executive Creative Director & Co-Founder, King Advertising, Stockholm

Frank is the Executive Creative Director and co-founder of King advertising in Stockholm. After building the successful agency Hollingworth/Mehrotra in the 90’s Mr. Hollingworth went on to establish what is now know as one of Sweden's top 5 agencies, the multi awarded King Sweden...

Markus HÜBNER
CEO, Brandflow, Innsbruck

Markus Hübner is CEO of Brandflow, an integrated branding and marketing agency. He guides brands into the new communications age. With over 15 years of experience in the Internet and interactive media environment he is one of the pioneers of interactive marketing and branding....

Carl JONES
Creative Director, Toronto

Carl W. Jones was born in Wales and then moved to Canada, where he grew up planning to paint his way through life. His detour into advertising was the result of some disillusionment with the state of some of the art teachers he encountered along the way. He started his creative...

Dave KING
Executive Creative Director & Partner, M&C Saatchi, Auckland

Dave is the ECD and Partner at M&C Saatchi New Zealand, a position he has been in for nine months. For Dave, this was a welcome return to the fold, having worked for M&C Saatchi in Sydney for seven years, up until 2007. Prior to this, Dave was Creative Director of AIM Proximity Auckland...

Carl LE BLOND
Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy, Moscow

Carl started in advertising as a junior creative at Ogilvy and Mather London. He quickly moved up to Creative Director. After ten years he moved on to Bates (C.D.), D'Arcy (C.D.) and McCann's (Exec. C.D.), winning a host of awards along the way including Cannes Gold, New York Festivals...

Jean-Paul LEFEBVRE
Founder & Creative Director, abracadabra, Nil St Vincent

Jean-Paul stated his career in the advertising industry 25 years ago. He has worked for several networks and local agencies. He was creative director at Leo Burnett Brussels from 2005 through 2010 where he won numerous international awards, including Cannes Lions, Pencils and Clios...

Kitty LUN
Chairman/CEO, LOWE China, Shanghai

Born and educated in Hong Kong, Kitty majored in Communication at the Baptist University and later obtained a Master’s Degree in Advertising from Syracuse University, New York. Kitty started at Leo Burnett Hong Kong as copywriter and moved up to Creative Directorship before moving...

Mick MAHONEY
Executive Creative Director, Euro RSCG, London

Mick entered advertising in 1990 as a junior copywriter for Still Price Court Twivy D’Sousa. He moved to France in 1992, continuing to work for Still Price in Paris. He returned to London in 1994 to work for DMBB; where he produced award-winning work for Littlewoods Pools and COI Road Safety...

Phil MARCO
Creative Director, Phil Marco Productions, New York

Phil Marco has created many memorable images in print, television, and cinema for clients throughout the world. His signature is graphic simplicity. He studied fine art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League, and is the recipient of virtually every major award of excellence in print and...

Franz MERLICEK
Creative Director, Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann, Vienna

In 1969, following his diploma at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he founded the advertising agency Demner & Merlicek together with Mariusz Jan Demner. Franz Merlicek is a founding member of the CCA (Creativ Club Austria), and honorary member of the ADC New York and was on the...

Poul MIKKELSEN
Executive Director Branding, DDB, Copenhagen

Poul has an education as Art Director from The Danish Design School. In the beginning of his career he worked as an AD at various agencies including local agencies Lund & Lommer and Bergsøe 4. In 1984 he established the ad agency Nielsen, Mikkelsen & Duus with partners Preben...

Normand MIRON
President & Creative Director, Ogilvy 2b interactive, Montreal

Established as a heavy-hitting interactive creative in Canada and a fierce defender of brillant interactive advertising worldwide (he's been on many international juries such as London International Awards, New York Festival, Mobius, Applied Arts, Digital Marketing Awards, and of course Cresta!)...

Marcio M. MOREIRA
Vice Chairman, Chief Creative/Talent Officer (ret.), McCann Worldgroup, NY

Marcio Moreira is one of the world’s most respected and honored global marketing and creative executives. His storied career at McCann Erickson Worldwide and later at the parent company, McCann Worldgroup, has included top ranked posts as a Worldwide Chief Creative Officer, Asia...

Judite MOTA
Executive Creative Director, Y&R, Lisbon

Born in Santarém a small town near Lisbon Judite has a degree in Journalism by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. She started as a copywriter at DDB but could as easily have been a journalist had a placement at a newspaper appear before that opportunity at DDB. Maybe it was meant to be...

Bechara MOUZANNAR
Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett MENA, Beirut

In January 2011, Bechara Mouzannar was named CCO of Leo Burnett for the Middle East and North Africa. When he was the Regional Executive Creative Director of Leo Burnett, in charge of the Levant, Egypt and P&G, Leo Burnett Beirut was able to rank 39th agency worldwide in the 2009 Big Won Report...

Yukio NAKAYAMA
Executive Creative Director, Dentsu/Global Solutions Ctr, Tokyo

Yukio Nakayama graduated from Kyoto University with a major in biophysics. Given his academic background, everybody asked why he decided to work in advertising. To this day, no one really knows. After 7 years at Dentsu, he received his first Grand Prix at an award show. Since then, he has won 12 Grand Prix...

Erik NORIN
Creative Director, R/GA, New York

Erik is Creative Director at R/GA New York - named ‘The Digital Agency of the Decade’. Here Erik have worked with clients such as MasterCard, McCormick, Microsoft and Impulse. Before joining R/GA Erik worked as a Senior Creative & Creative Director with Swedish agency Farfar for 8 years...

Masako OKAMURA
Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Tokyo

"Advertising can do things that politics or other systems can't." More than ten years ago, these were the words of a reckless girl, Masako Okamura.　Masako is the first Female Creative Director at Dentsu and the pioneer among women. Once a week, Masako lectures at a university...

Piyush PANDEY
Exec. Chairman & Creative Director/South Asia, Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai

'Piyush Pandey doesn’t have a job'... He has been named the most influential man in Indian advertising seven years in a row by The Economic Times, India’s premier business paper. Under his leadership, O&M India has won twenty five Lions. In 2004, Piyush became the first Asian...

Kum-Jun PARK
Founder, President & Creative Director, 601bisang, Seoul

Park Kum-jun, born in Korea in 1962. He founded 601bisang in 1998 and is the President and Creative Director. He was an Art Director at Cheil Communications and is a former adjunct Professor of Visual Communication Design at Hong-ik University, Seoul. His awards include...

Christophe PERRUCHAS
Creative Director, Duke/Razorfish, Paris

Christophe started his advertising trip as a copywriter in 1998 in a traditionnal agency : BDDP&Fils (Microsoft, Aprilia…), then went to Publicis Conseil (Renault), then Springer&Jacoby (le Monde, Mercedes), les Ouvriers du Paradis (Crédit du nord, Direct Assurance…) and LoweStratéus...

Ted PERSSON
Chief Creative Officer, Great Works, Stockholm

Ted Persson is a Stockholm based creative director and interactive strategist. Persson is a co-founder of leading interactive agency Great Works, where he currently holds the position as Chief Creative Officer, overseeing work from the agency's offices in Stockholm, New York...

Asawin PHANICHWATANA
Executive Creative Director, Euro RSCG, Bangkok

Asawin Phanichwatana is the Executive Creative Director at Euro RSCG Bangkok. He graduated with Second Honour from Silpakon University, the country’s best art school after which he started his journey in the world’s leading advertising agencies in Thailand. Various journeys prevailed...

Milka POGLIANI
Exec. Creative Director, Milan

Milka started her career by joining a group of directors with RAI (Italian State Television) as a screen-writer. After a few years she accepted a job offer as a copywriter in advertising. She reaped her experience by working for international networks, such as JWT and Benton & Bowles...

Karpat POLAT
President & Creative Director, DDB&Co., Istanbul

Karpat Polat started his career in 1998 at JWT. After several years there, he moved to Medina Turgul/DDB for another couple of years. He then continued his career in a local agency where he won the first of his many international awards. During this period, he laid his eyes on the Brazilian creative scene and when the opportunity arose in 2004, he moved to Sao Paulo...

Jose María PUJOL
Chief Creative Officer, The Farm, Madrid

Jose María has worked in the most creative Spanish agencies for more than 20 years. He is one of the five most awarded Spanish creatives in the world and highly valued by the clients (top 10 list). Among his achievements, are to nominations for "Agency of the Year" and many creative awards...

Brad RIDDOCH
Owner & Operator, riddochcommunications, Toronto

Brad is a multi-national agency refugee having spent most of his career at the Canadian versions of JWT, McCann and Ammirati, first as a copywriter later as a creative director. His last big agency job was at Cossette then Canada's largest advertising agency. He has won awards...

Neil ROBINSON
Group Creative Director, AKQA, San Francisco

A native of Northern Ireland, Neil joined AKQA’s London office in 1997 as a founding member of their creative team. For the following 7 years, Neil worked on digital advertising assignments for all of AKQA’s major clients including Orange, Microsoft, Durex, BMW, Sainsbury's and Nike...

William ROSEN
President, Chief Creative Officer-North America, Arc Worldwide, Chicago

William Rosen is President, Chief Creative Officer of North America for Arc Worldwide, a global marketing company and part of Leo Burnett Worldwide and the Publicis Group. He is responsible for the creative product across all Arc disciplines-digital, direct, promotion and shopper...

Bartlomiej ROZBICKI
Founder & Creative Director, Ars Thanea, Warsaw

Bartłomiej is the Founder and Creative Director of Warsaw-based creative agency, Ars Thanea. With 12 years of experience in interactive and image production field, Bartłomiej work for Fortune 500 companies including Nokia, Ubisoft, Martini, Peugeot, Volvo, Mazda, Coca-Cola...

Fadjar RUSLI
Creative Partner, Creative Partner, Jakata

Living at the cutting-edge of advertising industry as Creative Advisor in Indonesia, but he would rather people call him as creative partner. In 1990, he received his Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design. He completed the two-year graphic design course with a Scholarship from Portland...

Danny SEARLE
Chairman & Creative Chief Officer, BBDO Proximity, Singapore

Danny’s advertising career took off during a 5 year stint at The Campaign Palace Sydney, where he produced some of Australia’s most iconic ads. This led to Campaign Brief Magazine naming Danny as “One of the top ten Australian award winners of the decade.” In 2000, Danny joined...

Gaston SILBERMAN
General Creative Director, United Virtualities, Buenos Aires

Gaston Silberman is the General Creative Director at United Virtualities which is a leading provider of digital marketing solutions since its inception in 1999. His main strength lies in communication strategy development, creativity and innovation for regional and international brands...

Bassem SLIM
Creative Director & Managing Partner, Calcium Advertising, Abu Dhabi

After graduating from New York State University with a degree in Visual Arts in 2001, Bassem worked in Dubai for 3 years in a boutique advertising agency called The Look as a visualizer. There onwards he moved to Young & Rubicam in Abu Dhabi for another 2 years, working on various global...

Scott SOROKIN
Global Digital Leader, Mindshare, New York

Scott Sorokin, a digital communications expert who has worked with a wide range of global marketers, joined Mindshare in 2009 as Global Digital Leader. His role is to oversee the Global development and implementation of Mindshare’s digital communication efforts for all our clients...

Martin SPILLMANN
Founder & Exec. Creative Director, Spillmann/Felser/Leo Burnett, Zürich

Martin attended the "Zürich University of the Arts“ (ZHdK) where he earned his degree in graphic art & design. He has worked as Art Director/Creative Director for various creative advertising agencies in Switzerland and also in New York, USA. In 2002, together with his partner Peter Felser...

Péter TORDAI
Chief Creative Officer, DDB, Budapest

Péter is 43 years old and a happy father of a 5 years old little angel. He started off his career in 1991 at McCann Erickson where he was a Creative Group Head. In 1995 he joined Lintas as a Joint Creative Director/Chief Creative Officer and Regional Creative Head on Unilver Brands...

Koshi UCHIYAMA
Creative Director, GT INC., Tokyo

During his years at Dentsu, Koshi was widely recognized for his outstanding achievements in the cutting edge media business in the fields of business development and research. In 1995, he led the launch of Japan's first large scale corporate website, "toyota.co.jp"...

Oliver VIETS
Managing Director, Elephant Seven, Hamburg

Oliver started off his career doing Graphic/Editorial Design for “Snowboarder" and “Surfers“ Magazine. In 1998 he joined Elephant Seven as an Art Director and grew amongst the ranks to become Executive Creative Director to Managing Director, position he currently holds...

Michael VOLKMER
Owner & CEO, Scholz & Volkmer, Wiesbaden

Michael Volkmer was born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1965. Following his training as a photographer and subsequent work as a camera assistant, he studied Communication Design at Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. He received his first national accolade for his final year project "Hotel Panico"...

Micah WALKER
Creative Director, Sydney

Micah joined Publicis Mojo Sydney in 2007 from Fallon London, where he was previously a Creative Partner. Under his creative leadership, Publicis Mojo’s work has received wider industry recognition and acclaim than ever before. The agency’s now famous 'Boag’s Pure Waters’...

Robin WEEKS
Regional Creative Director, Ogilvy CEE, Moscow

Robin has spent over 25 years in the advertising business and was trained by some of the best London agencies including WCRS and Leo Burnett. He’s also spent a number of years as an International Creative Director and has worked extensively across Europe and the USA. He has also created...

Seth WERNER
big shot, big, Matthews, N.C

Probably best known for creating the California Raisin “Dancing Raisins” campaign, and “Alex the Dog” for Stroh’s Beer, Seth Werner has been an Adweek All Star on three coasts: East, West, and Southwest.  In July of 2011, Seth started a new agency, big (big idea group) where he holds the title of big shot...

Tore WOLL
Executive Creative Director, McCann, Oslo

Tore Woll is the Executive Creative Director of McCann Oslo and is one of Norway’s most awarded creatives having won numerous national awards and winning regularly internationally including several Cannes Lions and Eurobest Gold and Silvers. He has been both the President and the jury Chief...

Stefan WÜBBE
Executive Creative Director, Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg

Stefan worked as a landscape planner for ten years before changing his career direction. In 2000 he qualified for the Texterschmiede Hamburg, a renowned school for copywriters. In 2001, Stefan joined Kolle Rebbe, one of the most creative agencies in Germany. In 2003, he won a Gold Film Lion...

Jason ZHAO
Executive Creative Director, Cheil Worldwide, Beijing

Jason has over 12 years’ experience in 4A ad agencies in Asia plus 4 years’ working experience oversea. He successfully set up Lowe Beijing Office by winning Epson and Microsoft business in 1997 and made Epson printer as the NO.1 brand in China in 6 months through break through creative...