Grand Jury

Olivier ALTMANN
Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Worldwide, Paris

Olivier fell in love with advertising at school when his teacher asked him to comment on an ad for a Teflon-coated frying pan. He wrote 17 pages instead of one. Curiously, 33 years later, he’s now working for the French Teflon utensil maker Tefal, but, as Worldwide Chief Creative of Publicis. So what happened in between? In 1987 Olivier set out as an intern at Y&R...

Gideon AMICHAY
Executive 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...

Olivier APERS
Creative Director, BETC, Paris

Olivier Apers has been at BETC since November 2005. He works on high profile clients such as National Lottery, 13th Street, Boursorama Online Bank, Sixt car rental and Olivier is in charge of the CANAL+ account. Before that, Oliver worked for the Volkswagen account at DDB Group in Paris...

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
Executive Creative Director, McCann, Bucharest

Adrian is Regional Creative Director for Central East Europe at McCann since 2006, Deputy Managing Director and Executive Creative Director of McCann 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...

Steve COLL
Executive Creative Director, Havas Worldwide, Sydney

Steve completed a Law degree at Queen’s University, Belfast, before joining McCann Erikson, Belfast as a junior copywriter/ tea maker. He travelled to Sydney in 2000, and joined George Patterson Bates, winning the agency’s first Lion in five years before moving to Leo Burnett, Sydney...

Nicolas COURANT
Creative Director, Memac Ogilvy, Tunis

Graduated in French Literature and Philosophy, Nicholas began his career at Lowe Paris as a copywriter. Between 1998 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
Executive Creative Director, AIDIA, 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...

Andreas DAHLQVIST
Vice Chairman & Deputy Chief Creative Officer, McCann, New York

Andreas Dahlqvist, a native of Sweden, studied advertising and communications in both Sweden and the United States before starting his professional career in New York and Stockholm. In Sweden, he worked for traditional ad agencies and a couple of Stockholm’s most sought-after...

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...

Till DIESTEL
Innovation Director, Serviceplan Gruppe, Hamburg

Till Diestel joined Serviceplan in 2006, helping to start up the Hamburg office, being responsible for many clients including the international BMW account. He studied at the Miami Ad School Europe, where today he is teaching the integrated concepting class every Friday. In addition he is a tutor...

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
President/Chief Integration Officer, JWT, New York

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
International Producer, Palma Pictures, Mallorca

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...

Simon HIGBY
Creative Director, DDB, Copenhagen

Recently ranked amongst the top three art directors in the world by the big won survey, Simon is currently Creative Director at DDB Copenhagen – the most awarded agency in Denmark over the past year. He was previously part of DDB Stockholm, where he headed up the Volkswagen account...

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....

Peter KAČENKA
Executive Creative Director, Wiktor Leo Burnett, Bratislava

Peter started his career in 1991 as a student Graphic Designer in the design studio with the longest name in Slovakia, “Wiktor has asked us to be his friends, Ltd.” In 1992, Wiktor became a part of the Leo Burnett Agencies Network. After finishing his degree at the Slovak Technical University he..;.

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...

Gigi LEE
Executive Creative Director, Y&R Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

In her early days as junior designer, Gigi did flyers, brochures, invitations, product launches - the usual BTLs. She moved on to art direction, and applied her craft to local and regional accounts, winning and handling brands like Tiger Beer, Guinness, Carlsberg, Kraft, Toyota, Lexus, Colgate...

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...

Fabian MANNHEIMER
Founder & CEO, It's Showtime, Stockholm

As most young men, Fabian Mannheimer set out to improve the world. And as an initial means to this modest goal, he choose Hong Kong, drafted for the launching of MTV Asia in 1991. Young associate producer Fabian siezed the opportunity to launch shows like Headbangers Ball...

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...

Martín MERCADO
Executive Creative Director, Y&R, Buenos Aires

Martín initiated his career at the agency specialized in institutional advertising Dell’Oro Trigo. In 1998, he left to work at Savaglio TBWA where prior to leaving, he was in charge of the General Creative Direction. In January 2002, he was called to lead the creative change of McCann-Erickson Argentina...

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...

Normand MIRON
Interactive Creative Dude, pizza4all, 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!)...

Carlos MORENO
Sr. VP, Executive Creative Director, BBDO, Toronto

For the last 3 years, Carlos has played a key role in transforming BBDO Toronto into a worldwide creative competitor. He has always been a part of developing new ways of telling stories for brands like Skittles, Swiss Chalet, Fedex, and Bud Light. His passion for creating innovative content has lead...

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
Interactive Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy, New York

Erik is the Interactive Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy, New York. Prior to joining Wieden, he was a Creative Director at R/GA New York - named ‘The Digital Agency of the Decade’ where he worked with clients such as MasterCard, McCormick, Microsoft and Impulse. Before joining R/GA Erik...

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...

Matias PALM-JENSEN
Chairman Nordics & Chief Innovation Officer, McCann, London

Matias Palm-Jensen, creative heavyweight and founder of Swedish digital agency Farfar, joined McCann Erickson in May 2011 as European Chief Innovation Officer. He is responsible for strengthening McCann Worldgroup’s digital presence and capabilities across Europe...

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

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
Creative Director/Head of Art, DDB, Hong Kong

Asawin Phanichwatana is the Creative Director/Head of Art at DDB, Hong Kong. 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
Executive 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
Creative Director, 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...

Steve RED
President & Chief Creative Officer, Red Tettemer + Partners, Philadelphia

Co-founder of Red Tettemer + Partners, Steve is an art director by trade and a writer and strategic planner by passion. He’s built and nurtured a bunch of marquee brands by believing people are smart so advertising should be too and the only real martini is made with gin....

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...

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...

Eric SCHOEFFLER
Chief Creative Officer, DDB Tribal, Düsseldorf 

Eric started his career at the Cologne-based advertising agency Westag in 1994, after having successfully finished his studies of Graphic Design. He started in layout, became Art Director and finally Group Head. Five years later he joined DDB Düsseldorf, looking after clients such as Henkel...

Danny SEARLE
Vice Chairman, Asia & Chairman, BBDO, 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...

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, Leo Burnett Schweiz, 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...

Manolo TECHERA
Creative Chairman, MARCEL, Mexico City

Manuel began his career in the advertising industry upon graduating from the University Of Fine Arts Of Uruguay in 1994. He joined JWT Uruguay in 1997 after two short stints with MRM and Publicidad Oriental de Uruguay, and had made a name for himself as Creative Director working for JWT Argentina...

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"...

Andreas ULLENIUS
Executive Creative Director, Åkestam.Holst, Stockholm

Andreas Ullenius stumbled trough the door of the independent creative agency Åkestam Holst in Stockholm about ten years ago when it still was a small and rather new agency. He started out as an art director assistant pretty much because he needed the money but a decade later he is still there...

Seyoan VELA
Executive Creative Director, JWT, Dubai

A bio is not really the best place to show humility, so apologies if the following sounds boastful. This is my Back Story. I was born in London and feel my accomplishments to date have been based more on my talent and hard work than on my good looks. I have a degree in Economics...

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"...

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
Chief Creative Officer/Partner, LLOWBANK, Oslo

New adventures have come into existence for Tore in 2012. He started his own agency, LLOWBANK! Previously he was the Executive Creative Director of McCann Oslo and is one of Norway’s most awarded creatives having won numerous national awards and winning regularly...

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...

Diego YURKIEVICH
Sr. VP, Executive Creative Director, Alma DDB, Miami

Argentinean Diego is a cosmopolitan globetrotter who has spent 20 years working for leading international and national advertising agencies in New York, Portland, Prague, Barcelona, Miami and Buenos Aires. His diverse experience includes Wieden & Kennedy, Kaspen, in Prague, Czech Republic...