Introducing the Vega Awards

Expert Jury Panel

The Vega Awards jury panel is composed of highly respected and experienced creatives who have distinguished themselves as the best in their field.
Their diverse knowledge in all fields and disciplines can help to separate the great from the good, bringing their wisdom to the table.

It is with great gratitude and honor that we thank the Jury Panel for dedicating their time, knowledge and hard work to adjudicate at the highest level.
This award would not be possible without this group of creative professionals’ commitment and enthusiasm.

Hungary

Levente Kovacs

Chief Creative Officer, White Rabbit Budapest

Levente co-founded his Hungary-based indie agency 14 years ago after stints at HKB Bozell and JWT Budapest, moving from junior copywriter to being CCO at White Rabbit Budapest.

He is a strategic thinker and a problem solver, who has developed strong and compelling brand narratives for clients such as: Heineken, Shell, KitKat, Vodafone, WWF. His work has been recognized at multiple shows including Cannes, D&AD, LIA, NYF, Webby; he's also been honored to judge many of the industry's major contests from Young Guns to Cannes Lions.

During his career, he's achieved several 'firsts' for the Hungarian industry – including the first Hungarian piece of work to make the cover of Luerzer's Archive and winning the country's first Platina Effie for long-term effectiveness. Nowadays White Rabbit Budapest is the most awarded, internationally most acclaimed creative agency of Hungary.

While helping brands and businesses embrace purpose-driven strategies and ideas, he's a keen advocate of raising creative standards and nurture talented individuals. A guest lecturer at the Budapest Business University, he also runs a blog about advertising history (Advertising Chronicles) and translates marketing and advertising books into Hungarian.

Saudi Arabia

Ahmed Saadeldin

Strategy Director, Extend | The Ad Network

Ahmed is an award-winning Strategic Planner, Account Manager, and Marketeer. His work has been featured and recognized by Corporate and National Awarding Bodies in Saudi Arabia

He is currently the Director of Strategic Planning at Red Impact Ahmed acts as a Strategic evangelist leveraging best practices and bringing innovative strategic ideas to 360° integrated campaigns. He also developed advertising strategies for the biggest international names in FMCG including Unilever and Kraft Heinz in addition to regional mega brands such as Panda and Batook.

Previously at Drive Dentsu Riyadh, he has worked with brands like Elm, Saudi Electricity Company, Al Watania, and Deutsche Gulf Finance.

Ahmed is comfortable developing end-to-end integrated Traditional, Digital, and Social Campaigns, building robust content strategies, leveraging media and paid search, and excels at pitch presentations and new business development. Ahmed champions the use of these strategies and tactics in the context of the business goals of his clients - driving awareness, driving conversion, and driving revenue.

United States

Jeff Fryer

Sr. Director, Digital Strategy, Kiterocket

In his current role heading up social media at global tech giant Arm (in the tech market space), Jeff Fryer is responsible for working closely at a strategic level with agency partners on coming up with creative projects for their brand client needs in digital and social marketing - from how they do exec comms for CXOs to brand marketing rollouts to unique projects such as the "Generation Arm 2Z" program with GenZ ambassadors and the social media advertising for big branded events. All while overseeing the strategy for their social media advertising for all the campaigns and projects. Jeff is constantly studying what is driving the needle and creating buzz for the social media community, and he's well familiar with having to sift through those and determine what really brings things up a notch above ranks.

Prior to that, Jeff has spent several years overseeing the social media at Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), which sets the standards in digital advertising, which works very closely with the top tier of media companies and advertising agencies from all over the world. As part of that role, he had a front-row seat at IAB MIXX Awards, which celebrates the world's most creative and high-impact digital advertising, on what agencies see as really pushing interactive advertising to new levels.

Before that, he has spent a decade in music and entertainment marketing, which also lends itself to knowing how to do storytelling to the right target audience in a different way.

United States

Olivia Santilli

Partner, Cummins&Partners

Olivia has built a business in Cummins&Partners New York that continues to surpass all expectations through relentless determination. She has instilled an unlimiting and optimistic energy that permeates through the agency’s work, client dealings, and creative delivery. She has cultivated a solution-driven culture fostering an affirming reputation that continues to be the nucleus of their growth.

She has fortified her position as a cultural navigator. With this, she has been sought after as a market disruptor and invited to speak at industry events that explore the defining values of this next generation and how creative agencies are adapting to the new world of always-on, and purpose-driven desires of customers.

This has strengthened her view on steering brands towards a more meaningful, galvanizing role that cultivates communities in a fragmented cultural landscape.

Her work has led the agency to notable recognition such as AdWeek’s 2019 Best Travel & Hospitality Team, AdWeek’s OOH Impact Awards Grand Prix Winner - Strategy, among 11 more awards won for the acclaimed Koalas of NYC global campaign and a further 10 making finalist status. She has also been honored for her creative work at the 2021 UN SDG Action Awards in demonstrating significant impact, innovation, and scope for scale.

In October, 2020 Cummins&Partners New York ranked in the top Adweek 100: Fastest Growing Companies globally with a three-year revenue growth of 111% despite being in the midst of a global economic crisis.

United Arab Emirates

Robert Mitchell

Managing Partner , Driving Growth

Robert trained as a photographer before working internationally in creative management roles for agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Springer & Jacoby and Scholz & Friends. He helped develop and manage global brands including BMW, Jeep, Volkswagen, and Samsung. In 1999, Robert joined Foote Cone Belding where he worked primarily in Asia, leaving the network after eight years as Worldwide Creative Director. In 2007, Robert was hired to set up and run a Dubai-owned boutique agency with offices throughout the Middle East. In 2016, Robert established his own agency in Dubai, Driving Growth, with a core focus on integrated Digital, Live Events and PR.

Austria

Markus Pargfrieder

CEO, Responsive Spaces

Markus is part of the digital and creative industry for almost 20 years. The majority of those years he spent at Netural, one of the leading digital agencies in Austria. After more than 5 years as Head of Multimedia Lab, Netural and he decided to co-found Responsive Spaces and to take all know-how and experience and focus it towards the edge between analog places and digital worlds. Therefore, exhibitions, trade shows, and events are their natural habitat, as well as any other scenario, where unique space is dedicated to a purpose and a story or message. More often than not, those stories can be propelled through the usage of the right dose of technology, preferably in an interactive and immersive way. Being an 18-year veteran in technologically and digitally driven communication in terms of brand and product messages, Markus has a very strong focus on the thing that still matters the most: the story. At Responsive Spaces, he feels one of his main obligations, that they only use technology to propel stories to otherwise unreachable heights and never the other way around. Therefore his answer to the question, which categories he is qualified the most for is a little bit different: creative projects that are somehow based upon or feature technology and digital possibilities are the ones, where he would feel to be a great fit as a judge.

Singapore

Birger Linke

Chief Creative Officer/Founder, Birger Linke Design

With two decades of experience in the industry, Birger has worked for agencies and clients as a creative and marketeer for Peter Schmidt Group, Springer & Jacoby, Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Leo Burnett, and BBDO Interone, DMG. He was in charge of setting up TBWAVietnam, is a partner in two start ups, and currently the Global Group Creative Director at MindChamps - a company leading the revolution in education.

Working across multiple disciplines, including advertising, digital, and (interior) design, Birger has won more than 200 national and international awards, including Gold at Cannes, the first ever D&AD for Vietnam. He was also named the most awarded DM creative in Asia, the "hottest" creative in Vietnam, and ranked in the Top 100 of “Hottest Creatives in Asia”.

Birger's “TransMariner” campaign for the Republic of Singapore Navy was ranked No.4 in the world (Won Report), while his Coke "Olympic Beat" campaign garnered 400 Million views within the first month on air. He created the world's first WeChat ad for BMW, helped make Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore the most awarded direct marketing agency in the world, and TBWAVietnam the most awarded agency in the country.

Birger became a member of the advisory council of the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City.

Birger is a member of D&AD and The Design Society. He was also part of the Grand Jury Panel at London International, New York Festival, Adfest, Award, Young Guns, Pinasthika, AdStars, Golden Bell, Vega Digital Awards, Chillies and Creative Circle Awards.

During his free time, Birger lectures and speaks across Asia on marketing and advertising, and works on design projects. He holds a Private Pilot License.

United States

Martin Bihl

Executive Creative Director, LevLane Advertising

Martin Bihl is executive creative director at LevLane Advertising and editor of the-agency-review.com.

Born on an island off the coast of America, Martin is the third generation in his family to work in advertising. And yet he still seems to be able to write a fairly coherent sentence.

He has created campaigns and creative across a staggering number of client categories – from banks to beers to B2B and beyond – and marketing channels – from traditional print/tv/radio to guerilla to digital to sales promotion to event to things-that-don’t-have-a-name-yet. He’s worked at agencies in New York, St. Louis, Dallas, and Chicago, and with agencies all across the planet. He’s taught marketing, advertising, and branding to undergrads, international master’s students, and MBAs at a variety of universities in the Philadelphia area, and speaks regularly at schools around the country.

Martin’s writing has appeared in such diverse publications as McSweeney’s, Advertising Age, New York Magazine, Eephus, More and more, and he runs The-Agency-Review.com where he has interviewed such industry luminaries as Sir John Hegarty, George Lois, and Luke Sullivan. Despite these things, he has no distinguishing characteristics, hobbies, or interests and is utterly devoid of personality altogether.

United States

Joaquin Lynch Garay

Associate Creative Director, ANOMALY

Joaquin Lynch Garay is currently working in California at ANOMALY as the Associate Creative Director.

Before that, he and his partner – Federico Munichor, worked at Havas Worldwide New York, as well as Leo Burnett Shanghai as Creative Directors, alongside PONCE Buenos Aires / Lowe, DDB Buenos Aires and Young&Rubicam.

Throughout the last 10 years, they brought ideas to life for Coca-Cola, Under Armour, Trident, Sonnet, NYC Football Club, Axe, Rexona, Impulse, PayPal, VW, Telefonica, Visa, Quilmes beer, Sol beer, Converse, Philips, Energizer, Nat Geo, Nestle, and won awards in many festivals.

They also represented Argentina in Cannes Lions 2010 in the Young Lions Film contest.

Joaquin was also part of the Jury Panel for Ad Stars, EL SOL and LeBook.

United Kingdom

Greg Wixted

Co Professor in Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina

Greg is a dynamic and committed, innovation and creative entrepreneur with 25 years of experience. He has been a board director at two the world’s leading creative agencies, he is a trained advertising planner. In 2010 he founded Xpert, a London-based creative innovation agency with 3 offices. He has also founded 4 start-ups including; a Tech start-up, an artisanal Ketchup brand, boutique resort brand and Crypto Insurance company in the USA and in 2018, opened Xpert Sports, a decided sports innovation business in the Middle East. He has won over 40 awards for his work and is a recognized speaker on a wide range of subjects from innovation to tech-ups to future consumer trends across many sectors.

He is a visiting co-professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina in in London and he is a mentor at the International School for Creative Art. He is a member of the jury at several global creativity festivals and awards. Over the years he has developed marketing, brand, digital and innovation strategies for clients including; Orange, Diageo, Tesco, DFE, Mars, Sanrio, Sky, Dell, Hearst, Hachette, Famous Grouse, Zahid Group, Lexis Neixis, Bakkavor, Starbucks and Amex just to name a few.

Australia

Tim Shelley

Creative Director, Bullfrog

Tim has over 11 years of experience working at the intersection of creative, design and technology to create powerful brand experiences. As part of AKQA San Francisco’s creative leadership team, he pioneers work that defines and leads the industry. Prior to this, Tim was Digital Creative Director at Leo Burnett in Melbourne, where during his 4 years there, rose to a top 10 agency in the world. While there, he drove innovation through initiatives such as Reword, an online anti-bullying and school education tool that educates young teens on proper internet behavior. In the first 12 months, it was installed on over 1 Million computers and most significantly, saw a 67% reduction in bullying behavior per user, offering a solution to a very real issue. Previously Tim has also worked at brand consultancies SouthSouthWest and Hub Group as well as global digital agency, Isobar. His work is consistently recognized at Cannes Lions, One Show, London International Awards, D&AD, Clio, Adfest, Webbys, Young Guns, Spikes Asia, AWARD, Effie Awards, and The FWA, and he has won over 280 creative, design and effectiveness awards. Beyond industry accolades, it’s also featured in Wired, Good Morning America, Mashable, NPR, CNN, 9 News, Daily Telegraph, Net magazine, and more. And, he has personally been selected as the winner of the global Publicis90 start-up program.

United States

Rocco Baldassarre

CEO & Founder, Zebra Advertisement

Rocco Baldassarre is a digital marketing consultant and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the founder of the award-winning digital marketing agency Zebra Advertisement and being the youngest Google Partners All-Star Winner at the age of 24, Forbes 30 under 30, Entrepreneur 360 Best company, Google Premier Partner award, and more.

His clients include Bing Ads and he has been featured by The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and oDesk's Annual Impact Report among other publications.

United States

Jonathan Winbush

Motion Graphic/VR Artist, Winbush Design & Animation

Jonathan Winbush is the founder of Winbush Immersive based out of Orange County California. Since 2006, Jonathan Winbush has been working in motion graphics on many high profile properties for studios such as Marvel, DC Comics, Warner Bros, Hasbro, FOX, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and many more. In 2011 he was rated as one of the top 25 artists in Hollywood by Inferno development and went on to win many awards. Jonathan has been recognized as one of the early pioneers in modern 360 Virtual Reality video and has had his 360 work with Rock Roll Hall of Famer Mix Master Mike showcased at Cannes Film Festival.

United States

Miro Kirov

Lead UX Designer, Miro Kirov

Miro Kirov is an award-winning User Experience Designer with more than ten years of industry experience. As a Lead UX Designer at SoftServe, he led client projects to success by facilitating multiple Design Thinking workshops across the US. As a user advocate, Miro educates and mentors designers by conducting regular talks about the importance of user-centered design.

United States

Brendan Amoruso

Producer, Video Editor, Luna Lyte Studios

Brendan Amoruso is a Producer and Video Editor at the NYC based production Luna Lyte and brings to the table over 10 years of production experience in agency advertising and digital media.

He earned his stripes editing award-winning productions in unique media environments, including experiential Agency Mirrorball, UK based The Mighty Shed and NYC advertising agencies Momentum, Subrosa and Darling. His portfolio has grown from commercial spots and promos to branded documentaries and cultural case studies. His background as a researcher and historian came from his late father, documentarian Marino Amoruso, who influenced him at a young age by taking him on board his interviews and film sets.

He has since used these skills in creating original storytelling for dozens of International brands including Fernet-Branca, RJ Reynolds, Perrier, ESPN, and Goldman Sachs. His work has garnered accolades in the Ex, Effie, Vega, NYX, Telly, and MUSE Creative Awards, and has been featured in LE BOOK, BIZ-BASH and NYC Web Fest. Aside from branded content, last year Brendan became the lead editor for annual Golden Trailer Awards held in downtown Los Angeles, which honors the best of Hollywood's motion picture previews and is consistently working on monthly comedy, wrestling, and sporting event specials that air monthly on INdemand and DirecTV. His company Luna Lyte, is named after his 6-year-old daughter Luna.

India

Kishore Karumbaiah

Director Of Communications, The Walt Disney Company

Kishore Karumbaiah is the Chief Creative Officer and a Partner at Langoor. He is an award-winning writer who has more than 15 years of experience in the advertising world. Gifted with the rare ability to recognize simple yet powerful ideas, Kishore enjoys watching people and that is where his ideas come from, from real life incidents. Ideas that make everyone's pulse race. Kishore is able to recognize a "real" idea when he sees or hears one.

China

Michael Wong

Creative Director, Film Director, Producer, Michael Wong Films

Michael Wong is currently working as an independent film director, after having spent 16 years as an ad agency art director and creative director. In the late 90s, he left his native Malaysia and arrived in China, where he's worked at such leading agencies as Ogilvy, BBDO, TBWA, Grey and Saatchi & Saatchi.

After more than a decade and has won over 50 creative awards, Michael decided to move onto the filmmaking scene as a writer/director with his directorial debut for Lenovo; a viral video campaign that was to be used in such markets as India, Russia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Turkey, South Africa, South East Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Since then, Michael has been making the truth appealing for brands such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Citroën, Foton Daimler, Unilever, IDO Jewelry, Johnson & Johnson, JD.com, Microsoft, China Petroleum, Celcom and CloudMinds, just to name a few. He is the kind of collaborative thinker who's especially good at expanding on little thoughts and turning them into big ideas, with a strong and steady eye on making the work look and feel fresh.

His directorial debut short film ‘The Story of 90 Coins’ picked up 60+ accolades from international film festivals; which includes the Best Direction and Best Cinematography at Malta Short Film Festival, Rising Star Awards at Canada International Film Festival, Best Foreign Short Film at Ukrainian International Short Film Festival, Best Drama and Best Cinematography at Los Angeles Film Awards, Best Foreign Short at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, among others.

His most recent micro-short film ‘The Tattooist’ has been awarded Best Trailer at HorrorHaus Film Festival, Best Gore, Best Editing and multiple nominations at Independent Horror Movie Awards, Most Terrifying award and multiple nominations at Top Indie Film Awards, Best Trailer at Terror In The Bay Film Festival, Best Director at Diabolical Horror Film Festival, Winners at Calcutta International Cult Film Festival and Cult Critic Movie Awards, among others.

Michael's works have been featured in Shots, Trendwatching, and Graphis magazine. He has judged at the New York Festivals International Advertising Awards and Ad Stars Festival

He is also a co-partner at Scream Zone Entertainment where he conceives and develops crazy concepts for Scream Zone Escape Room, Beijing’s most immersive escape room establishment.

Greece

Maria Afroditi Patsi

Founder, AdvAge Advertising & NFT Cube Agency

Maria Afroditi Patsi is an award-winning creative and the Founder, Creative Director of Patsi® Art & Design based in Athens - Greece. Maria's artwork has been published and exhibited globally in prestigious design museums and art galleries. "To hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly and to decide impartially" is what describes Maria fittingly as a judge.

Italy

Jurij Plavnik

CEO, Creative Director, F4F Creative Factory

Jurij Plavnik is the founder and CEO Creative Director of F4F Creative Factory, Italy. With 20 years of experience and passion for branding, graphic design, web design and advertising, he has worked with international clients like Castelli Cycling, Lumberjack, Calzedonia, Spalding, and so on. Jurij received multiple international awards like the Italy Web Award, Mediastars (where he participated as a juror), Davey Awards and WebAwards.

United States

Greg Abel

Founder, Tailfin

Greg's career began in advertising at McCann-Erickson and Fitzgerald+Co in Atlanta, then jumped to the digital space, with digital marketing mega-consultancy US Web/CKS (later marchFIRST) where he helped to develop digital strategy and online user experiences for a range of consumer brands. In 2002, Greg cofounded Tailfin, which has grown into a diverse, award-winning marketing and creative services agency. In his spare time, Greg is an avid (or maybe "rabid" is a better term) Atlanta sports fan and a single-engine airplane pilot.

United States

Pantawit Kiangsiri

Film Composer, Pantawit Music Production Corp

Pantawit Kiangsiri is a composer from Thailand who has written for films, television, video games and the concert hall. He’s currently writing a score for China Film Group’s first sci-fi feature film. His credits include writing music for Warner Brothers, Netflix, Digital Domain, Sony, and Vevo. Kiangsiri graduated from the Scoring for Motion and Television Program at USC, having studied with Bruce Broughton and Christopher Young. He has the experience of composing musical scores for over 60 projects including theatrically released feature films, TV series, animation, commercials, and video games. He's also well versed in the audio side of media productions and is able to spot a good creative use of audio, music as well as film editing.

United States

Fred Lebhart

CEO, efelle creative

Fred Lebhart merged his passions for design and business to found Seattle-based digital marketing firm efelle creative in 2005, which has grown into an internationally recognized online marketing leader, servicing over 900 clients of all sizes across the globe, and winning 120 national and international design awards in the process.

An expert at strategy and delivering creative marketing, Fred has built a team of 40 dedicated professionals who share his focus and passion for all things digital -this team draws on a diverse mixture of UX, technical and digital marketing talents to deliver for efelle's roster of clients.

He is also the father of adorable twins Luke (Spiderman enthusiast) and Olivia (art director in the making), 8 years old, and married to his high school sweetheart, Summer (after a chance meeting at 7-11, when 17 years old).

Denmark

Ulf Westmark-Højelsen

Creative Director, Partner, TBWA\Copenhagen

Ulf Westmark-Højelsen has 20 years of experience mainly from the classic network agencies (Saatchi, BBDO, and Leo Burnett). He is now the partner and creative director at the local, independent agency – Connected.

United Kingdom

Charlotte Weyer

Interaction Designer, Google

Charlotte is a UX Designer, Product Designer & UI Designer currently based in London. She's featured on a few judging panels in the past, including BIMAs Product and Service Design. She also runs design mentorship events in search of great new talent. Charlotte oversees their product team and has a great appreciation for the time and commitment required to see through an idea right, and is very passionate about celebrating new innovations in the industry!

United States

Matt Weinberg

Co-Founder and President, Development & Technology, Happy Cog

Matt Weinberg is Co-Founder and Partner, Technology & Development at Happy Cog. With over a decade of experience building technology solutions for Happy Cog's clients, Matt leads our Technology and Development team on technical planning, execution and delivery in all projects. Matt is an expert in blending the latest technical advances with a pragmatic approach, and has developed sites ranging from large publishing platforms to customized eCommerce stores. Matt is a noted eCommerce, PCI, server infrastructure, and ExpressionEngine expert, and has presented at conferences around the world.

Taiwan

CHIA-HUI LIEN

Creative Director, YI JIA VISUAL IDENTITY DESIGN CO.,LTD

Lien Chia-Hui is an educator in design based in Taiwan, currently serving as the Design Director at Art Genesis Visual Identity Design Co., Ltd. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Product Design at Tainan University of Technology. Her expertise in design encompasses identity design, brand design, packaging design, graphic design, cultural and creative planning, bookbinding, and exhibition visual design. She has executed relevant visual identity designs for government departments and enterprises such as Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation, Kaohsiung City Government Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Bureau of Economic Development, Kaohsiung City Museum of History, CSC (China Steel Corporation), and Taiwan Power Company. She is a very good designer and has won many international design awards every year. Chia-Hui Lien won 3 Silver Awards, 3 Bronze Awards, A' Design Awards 2018-2023 Iron Awards, 2018 Moscow Global Graphic Design Golden Bee Biennale, 2018 Indigo Design Awards Silver, 2018 Indigo Design Awards Bronze, 2018 Muse Creative Awards Platinum, 2018 Muse Creative Awards Gold. 2019 Muse Creative Awards Platinum, 2021-2022 Muse Creative Awards 5Gold, 2022 IDA Design Awards Gold. In 2021, she was rated as a PROFESSIONAL in the World Design Ratings (WDR). Between 2010 and 2021, she has received nearly two hundred international design awards.

United States

Scott Rutherford

Vice President of Marketing, Axiom Learning Solutions

Scott Rutherford helps turn ideas into actions that make businesses better. He's worked for publicly traded corporations, privately held companies, and public entities in business services and direct-to-consumer services. Scott operates as a problem-solver and entrepreneur, a business partner adept at creating solutions to overcome obstacles, products, and programs that pursue or create new opportunities, or both. Along the way, Scott has developed strengths in managing marketing teams, marketing technologies, creating and managing strategic partnerships, and helping to drive business strategies that cut through the distractions to focus on what's important. But most of all, Scott thrives in a business where success is measured by helping others achieve. Learning is a fantastically rewarding growth business.

South Africa

Robyn Hobson

Head of Sales and Marketing, Mobile Guardian

Robyn Hobson is the Head of Sales and Marketing at Mobile Guardian, a global mobile device management (MDM), SaaS company focused on improving education through technology. She leads the sales and marketing teams that are based across South Africa, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Thailand, and Spain. She reports directly to the CEO and is part of the leadership team.

Earlier in her career, Robyn was the fourth hire at a high-growth, mobile technology startup which had a successful exit. She gained a wealth of accelerated experience and then went on to set up a digital marketing firm that consulted with several, high-profile clients including Africa's premium lifestyle retailer. Another career highlight was leading the Social Media team at Woolworths, which at the time served one of the largest online communities in Africa with over 500 000 fans.

Robyn has an MBA (UCT), with 12 years of experience in marketing and 7 in a leadership role. In 2021 She was named a "U35 Marketing Rising Star" (Marketing Achievement Awards, South Africa), and awarded a Bronze Stevie for "Female Executive of the Year in Europe, the Middle East & Africa," in the Women in Business Awards (Stevie Awards, USA). Mobile Guardian was also recognized as a finalist in the B2B Marketing Excellence category (MAA, South Africa) and was featured as a content marketing case study on eConsultancy.com.

Robyn is an OnDeck Fellow and a founding member of their 2021 marketing and growth fellowship (ODM1) and a member of MASA. She has served as a judge on marketing awards programs including the American Business Awards, the IAC, and the MAA Worldwide Globes as a member of the Grand Jury.

United States

Shangning Wang

Design Project Specialist at UNDP, (Former Visual Communication Design Specialist at UNICEF), United Nations Children's Fund

Shangning is a New York-based award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, and all-around creative. He focuses on commercial art, typography, illustration, branding, and poster art. He also sits on the jury for a number of design contests, such as Poster hero 6th, Vega Digital Awards 2016-2018, Muse Creative Awards 2016-2019, COW International Design Festival: COW: ILLUSTRATION 2016, International Reggae Poster Contest 2016-2018, GlobalTrend Awards 2017-2019, 2rd International Poster Competition by Graphic Stories Cyprus, The Rookies International Design Awards, and etc. In the past few years, he also received more than twenty global awards for his work. His works were exhibited in many cities around the world. His design works have been published in many design magazines and featured on more than thirty graphic design blogs. His work has currently been featured by the Adobe InDesign 2020 as the Splash Screen.

He always believes good design can save the world with passion, dream, and love!

Poland

Wojtek Jezowski

CEO and Creative Director, Black Rabbit

Wojtek Jezowski has over 15 years of industry experience both in film and television. For the past 6 years, Wojtek is the CEO and creative director of Black Rabbit video content agency. They have received numerous awards for their groundbreaking productions such as "2020: The series", the first corporate sci-fi web series. After receiving the Webby Award Honoree, Wojtek has been taking part in the selection of content for the festival.

United States

Scott Berry

President, MarketCrest, LLC

Scott Berry has more than a decade of experience as a Senior Executive/Officer in billion-dollar Print Marketing and Direct Mail companies (including CMO). For the past 6 years, he's the President of a Full-Service Digital Marketing Agency that he founded (MarketCrest). His perspective comes from both traditional print and direct background as well as modern online marketing background. As founder of his own agency, he constantly evaluates their works to see if it is ready for the client and represents best in class deliverables. His team won a Vega Digital Awards as recently as 2017 and numerous others Marketing and digital awards worldwide. He admires creative people/teams and has a propensity to see the best in people. "We humans, do great work!"

Russia

Dmitry Ivanov

Head of Production & Design, Proximity Russia (BBDO Group)

Dmitry Ivanov is the Head of Production & Design at Proximity Russia, and is also a jury member at The Webby and The FWA.

He has 8 years of experience in digital production and advertising as an interactive producer and production team lead. He took part in various digital projects including promo, e-com, and corporate websites, mobile applications, rich media, AR, installations, gaming experiences, some of them has gained recognition from awards such as The FWA, Red Dot, Effie, Awwwards, CSS Design Awards, European Design Awards, to name a few.

Now he leads a team in the digital hub of BBDO Group Russia that is responsible for production of national promo campaigns and digital support for remarkable clients like Visa, Google, Leroy Merlin, Bacardi, Mars, and many more.

India

Kadambari Sahu

Senior Vice President, Design, ValueLabs

Kadambari is a Design Leader, working as SVP design at ValueLabs. She founded the award-winning design team, User Experience Group at ValueLabs, and is currently leading 50+ designers to create world-class and award-winning products and services to have a positive impact on businesses. Her forte lies in building, growing, coaching, and mentoring high-performance design teams from scratch. She creates design culture by infusing design thinking within organizations and businesses to create a holistic strategy and customer experience. Her practice in design allows her to work on intangible and tangible aspects of design breaking the boundaries between physical, digital, and service design and creating a seamless experience across media, devices, touchpoints, cultures, and geographies. She has worked for clients across geographies spanning, North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

She has won many awards for her work. The latest includes Red Dot awards 2020, Vega Digital Award, DNA Paris 20 awards for Interactivity and Graphics, India’s Best Design Project 2019, India’s Best in-house design team, and many others. She has been part of many national and international fellowships such as BMW Doathon, VR storytelling guild, etc. International grants and exhibitions. She is an international speaker on design and has given talks on many design conferences such as Interaction 20, Interaction 18, organized by IxDA, UXindia, and many others. She is on the international committee of World interaction design day and organizes and hosts the same in Hyderabad.

She is the founder of Sniffing out the differences collective, that started with the grant received from Prince Claus Fund and British Council to explore storytelling through multisensory installation with a focus on smell interactions.

She is an alumna of the National Institute of Design, India, where she did her Post-graduation in New Media Design, which has led her to examine the impact that technologies have on human interactions and culture. She has been curious about the role of design in everyday life and the ways in which human interactions can be mediated, shaped, enhanced, or augmented by technologies.

Costa Rica

Oscar Solano Brenes

Vice President, Porter Novelli

Oscar Solano Brenes is the Chief Creative Officer for the strategic-creative firm, Porter Novelli.

He is a general leader of the creative and digital unit for the region of Central America, Mexico, Caribbean, Ecuador, and Peru; a believer in data-driven creativity, measurement, and innovation through 13 years of experience with global and regional brands such as Coca-Cola, Heineken, BMW, Toyota, American Express, Samsung, Netflix, Taco Bell, McDonald's, Hasbro Latam, Renault, and others.

He is an advertising, marketing, and strategy professional with experience as a senior strategic trigger in creative, digital, and media agencies with experience in strategic planning, content strategy, detection of opportunities, social media, branding, data-driven strategy, and creativity. Oscar is passionate about reading cultural behaviors and transforming them into business opportunities. He is also a faithful follower of data and its implementation in communication and performance strategies.

He has had experience leading planning, digital and creative units at firms such as DDB, Havas, Findasense, and Ketchum.

United States

Meelad Al-Arashi

Marketing Lead, Branding & Creative Services , Kreative Partners & Company

Meelad Al-Arashi, is an award-winning Marketing & Brand Positioning Advisor at Kreative Partners and Company. She has an exacting eye for quality design and an ability to see what others simply cannot. She can spot creative talents, nurtures it while inspiring catalytic growth.

United States

Harish Srigiriraju

Principal Engineer, Verizon

As a technical product manager, Harish Srigiriraju has led teams to build a wide range of products including investment platforms, collaboration tools, information kiosks, ERP systems, inventory management tools, e-commerce websites, volunteering applications, cancer kits, digital media platforms, and hiring management applications.

At Verizon, his work involves leveraging data to improve software products. Additionally, Harish is also responsible for coming up with new product ideas.

United States

Kyle Johnson

Principal/Creative Director, BlkMrkt. Cr8tiv Labs

As a creative director and marketing manager, Kyle helps clients understand complex ideas, motivates them to action, and cooperates with media outlets to carry out successful strategies. He is also the recipient of numerous international industry awards hosted by AVA, MarCom, Hermes, etc. Kyle is also a competent judge and had opportunities to utilize his passion for meaningful, quality design to give constructive criticism and appropriate advice where needed.

Poland

Alessandro Beda

Loyalty, Digital & Innovation Director, Biedronka

Alessandro is a Digital Transformation Strategy Lead for Central and Eastern Europe at PwC, a MBA student at Berlin School of Creative Leadership, and a professional with 20 years of experience in Marketing, Advertising, Communication, and Design in Brazil, Portugal, and Poland, focused on Retail and FMGC. He’s also a Data Science Specialist who uses Human-centered Design as a main methodology for business transformation and innovation. Prior to joining PwC, he worked for Vershold Group – a Chinese integrated supply chain operating in 13 countries as Chief Design Officer, leading the team responsible for the areas of product development, branding, packaging, and in-store communication, and for Duda Polska, as an Executive Creative Director/Managing Partner responsible for all the related activities with Jerónimo Martins (Pingo Doce and Biedronka) in the areas of omnichannel strategy, customer experience, and communication. Beda also worked for agencies like FCB, McCann and Newcomm Bates.

United States

Meelad Al-Arashi

Marketing Lead, Kreative Partners and Company

Meelad Al-Arashi, is an award-winning Marketing & Brand Positioning Advisor at Kreative Partners and Company. She has an exacting eye for quality design and an ability to see what others simply cannot. She can spot creative talents, nurtures it while inspiring catalytic growth.

Spain

Clim

Creative Director & Founder , Clim Studio

Clim is a multidisciplinary director and designer working between Barcelona and New York City. He first specialized in eye-catching, stylish motion graphics and was known best for his effortless and fluid animation style. Being the co-founder of Sebas and Clim studio took Clim to become an Art and Creative Director and finally a solo film and commercial mixed media Director. The Barcelona native touts over 10 years of in-depth industry experience; his bold and energetic work including diverse films for worldwide clients such as Facebook, Google, Spotify, BBC and Sagmeister & Walsh among others. Clim's unique approach not only yields deceptively simple work but showcases his ability to interpret any kind of script with humor and flair.

United States

Mike Van Linda

Group Creative Director, Wolfgang L.A.

Mike Van Linda is a Creative Director with over 15 years of agency experience. Prior to RPA, he has worked at highly regarded shops: 180LA, 72andSunny, The Martin Agency, and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. In addition to leading creative on the Honda brand, he helps oversee various pro bono accounts: from the Los Angeles LGBT Center to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. The latter partnership resulted in the creation of the Imaginary Friend Society — a two-year project designed to help kids better understand cancer through a series of animated films. The films have been permanently adopted by leading pediatric cancer hospitals worldwide and translated into over a dozen languages. Throughout his career, he has been recognized by Cannes, One Show, Clio, Art Director’s Club, and the Webby award shows. In 2018, he was honored to be named to the distinguished Adweek 100 list.

United States

Yeon Sang Yoon

Creative, Snap Inc.

Yeon Yoon is a creative, art director, and designer living in Los Angeles. He currently works at Amazon as an Art Director, handling various global campaigns and marketing. Yeon started his career as an Art Director at Elephant, a fast-growing digital agency working for Apple, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, and Comcast. Then, he moved to LA and continued his career at Grey West, working for Amazon, AWS, and Hasbro. Next, he moved to Snap inc., working on integrating Augmented Reality into brand and marketing. He was one of the most award-winning students in the School of Visual Arts in New York, and also won Cannes Future Lions as the second winner in the school's history. Recently, he has been nominated as a jury for AdStars, Vega Digital Awards, Summit Creative Awards, and LIT Commercial Awards.

United States

Kushal Birari

Creative, Mother New York

Born and brought up in Nasik, India, today Kushal has worked in five major cities across three different continents. Through his Art Direction & Design, he has influenced multiple International brands such as OREO, MINI Cooper, Make in India, FIFA, Bosch, Instagram, and others. His recent trending work on the OREO pride campaign has resonated with different people from different communities across the globe. His work has received over 100+ National and International recognition and has won several accolades including Cannes, The One Show, Clio, D&AD, Webby, Effie, Art Directors Club Global, Art Directors Club Germany to name a few.

Serbia

Nikolina Popovic

Creative director , Liwa Content. Driven.

Currently Nikolina is lecturer at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Milan and founder of Brain Propaganda, the agency who uses principles and tools of neuroscience in advertising. She has built her career in some of the biggest networks like Ogilvy, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Grey, Havas. Nikolina has been exposed to diverse cultures throughout her career – from China, Italy, Slovakia, to Ethiopia and then from the Horn of Africa to Qatar. She has been regularly recognized for her work, with accolades from several awards shows. She is also part of numerous jury panels.

Canada

James Leal-Valias

Creative Director, Critical Mass

James has over 20 years of experience in interactive design, advertising and film. He has also spoken at several conferences, including nextMedia and HOW Design Conference. He has lead large global design teams at both Critical Mass, iStock and Getty Images.

Brazil

Guilherme Ferreira

CEO, Atom 6

Passionate about innovation and with more than 16 years of international experience as UX / UI Designer, Guilherme Ferreira has been responsible for improving the experience of millions of people around the world. His projects impact the most varied industries, helping from the most promising startups, such as BuildFire, CrewHu, Plannista, to big companies like Mercedes-Benz, AGCO, among others. He was responsible for the security project used at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro and is also the special guest speaker at "Inside the Mind of the Brilliant Designers 2017" a conference of the General Assembly in San Francisco, CA. He is also the outstanding Former Alumnus of UNISUL - University of Southern Brazil.

United Kingdom

Gareth Leeding

Head of Creative Strategy APAC , Snap Inc.

Since joining We Are Social in 2012, Gareth has led campaigns and projects for global brands including Adidas, Audi, Red Bull, YouTube, and PlayStation. In 2018 he co-founded We Are Social Sport, the agency's first specialist division with the goal of rewriting the rules of sports marketing. He specializes in cut-through creative that uses the power of social, with a portfolio of award-winning work for Adidas that includes Pogba x Stormzy and Tango Squad FC.

United States

Paulo Cunha

President, SeatGeek

Paulo Cunha is the President of Consumer at SeatGeek, an online ticket marketplace for sports, concerts, theater, and other live events.

Prior to joining SeatGeek, Paulo spent 8 years at Expedia Group as Vice-President & Global Head of Growth Marketing, the world’s largest travel platform, in various marketing and general management roles. He oversaw a digital marketing budget of over hundreds of millions of dollars across search, social, online display, app marketing, and digital video.

Before joining Expedia, he was a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, led the portfolio operations team for a private equity fund, and was an associate professor of management at Nova University Lisbon.

Paulo Cunha received a PhD in management from Tilburg University, and a BA in business administration from Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.

Paulo is also an Executive Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and a judge for The Webby Awards. In the past, he has also been a member of the judging panel for the Chartered Institute of Marketing 2020 Marketing Awards.

Pakistan

Muhammad Ali Khan

Associate Director Creative & Strategy , Synergy Dentsu (Dentsu International)

A brand strategist by heart with creativity running through his veins, Muhammad Ali Khan is known to bring insight-driven ideas to the table and has developed communication for many leading brands including Colgate, Caltex, Yamaha, Pakistan State Oil, UNICEF and KFC along with many others. As an established thought-leader in the Pakistani advertising industry, he regularly contributes to Aurora Magazine, Pakistan's premier advertising and marketing publication, as well as Synergyzer Magazine. He is also an honoree of the WPP Atticus Awards, where his article on 'Orchestrating Brand Experiences' received the Highly Commendable position in 2022. He was also selected to represent Pakistan at the Young Spikes Integrated Competition at Spikes Asia 2018. In addition to this, He serves as Visiting Faculty at two of Pakistan's top-most universities, SZABIST and Indus Valley School or Art and Architecture, where he teaches creative strategy & digital marketing.

Iran

Mohsen Arjang

Digital Marketing Manager, EBmedia Corp.

Mohsen Arjang is a Digital Marketing Manager and Business Consultant with a strong background in Marketing and Branding. Currently serving as a Business Development Manager at EBmedia, he has demonstrated expertise in digital marketing, branding, business planning, and advertising.

As a consultant and executive in digital marketing projects, Mohsen has contributed to the success of various initiatives. His expertise spans social media marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing, and online advertising.

In addition to his professional contributions, Mohsen is an avid knowledge-sharer. He has translated two books, "Digital Marketing Wrench" and "Please be different!", which highlight his dedication to staying up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in digital marketing.

With his diverse skill set, industry knowledge, and passion for digital marketing, Mohsen Arjang brings valuable expertise to the jury panel. His ability to analyze marketing strategies, understand the importance of branding, and provide strategic guidance ensures a fair and knowledgeable assessment of the submissions.

As a jury member, Mohsen Arjang contributes his extensive experience, business acumen, and passion for digital marketing to recognize and celebrate exceptional achievements in the field.

United States

Christine David

Founder | Director, Chriss David & Associates

Chief Creative Marketing Officer at Chriss David & Associates, Chriss David has an MBA from St. Bonaventure University and a BFA from State University New York as well as over 20 years of expertise in integrated marketing and advertising. Her expertise in the industry has led to the development of hundreds of successful marketing brand campaigns for Fortune 500 companies and many non-profit organizations in the local and international community. As an award-winning designer, professor and department director in higher education, Chriss is nationally recognized. Her clients have included The Florida Justice Association, Zippo Mfg., Harley-Davidson, Truly Nolen, Coke, the Ronald McDonald House, the Boys and Girls Club, educational institutions, numerous law firms and doctors, Beverly McClellan (Grammy-nominated artist), Prince Andrew’s Foundation, the Dali Lama, and the United Nations to name a few. Most recently, she received the American Advertising Federation’s National Silver Star medal and was induction into the Advertising Honor Society, Alpha Delta Sigma. Chriss is devoted to causes that protect the Earth, children, and animals. She is a volunteer for Luna Mystics Equine Sanctuary and is proud to call Martin County her home. She has served as a member of the YMCA Advisory Board, Chair for the Library Board of Trustees, Vice Chair for the Enterprise Zone, Vice Chair for the Public Art Advisory Board, and the Historic Preservation Board in Martin County, Florida. She states, “Within each of us there lies a creative spirit capable of unimagined things. It is my goal to bring all that cross my path into the light of the creative spirit and back to knowing that universally, we are all interconnected, and together with gratitude we can make a difference in the world.” That is what she aims to do for all clients... help them make a difference with their communication efforts.

Germany

Leonardo Zakour

Co-Founder & CEO, Refokus

Leonardo Zakour is an Argentine Product Designer currently living in Hamburg, Germany. After getting his degree in Graphic Design, he worked as a freelance branding and interaction designer with various international brands and agencies. In 2009 he founded BONS, a digital agency working with startups and forward-thinking companies to build amazing digital products. For the past eight years, Leonardo has been building new products of his own and helping entrepreneurs build successful startups. He is a full-stack Product Designer, capable of taking concepts and ideas all the way to high-quality finished products. Leonardo is passionate about UI/UX and technology. If not at his desk, you can find him in conferences and meetups around the world. He is highly focused on quality and innovation, always searching for new and exciting products that solve real problems and give great value to the user.

Spain

Victor Gutierrez de Tena

Chief Strategy Officer, MediaCom

Victor is a member of the Executive Committee at Havas Media Barcelona and agency's Strategic leader, with a vision to develop communication and business worlds in a way that allows them to build solutions based on four pillars: the context in which they are, business goals and brand identity, consumer needs and the definition of a media mix which converge new media with traditional media based on affinity, reach and influence. The department's mission is to work together with the different departments (Creativity, Research, Data & Analytics, and Media) in order to enrich a global strategic vision, with the goal to evolve and adapt brands to the new economic paradigm. Working in a media agency, added to his previous experience in a creative agency, has allowed him to proficient on an integrated 'know-how' technique: Metrics and KPI's, research tools, targeting, digital communications and media, digital buying, branding, strategy, innovation, business, marketing plan, new media and leadership.

China

Ronn Lee

Creative Director, BEAMY

Ronn is a multidisciplinary brand and design creative with over 20 years of industry experience – leading concept, branding, graphic design, interactive and product ideation projects across different industry sectors.

She is the Founding Partner and Creative Director of BEAMY, a branding and multi-disciplinary creative outfit headquartered in Shanghai, with offices in Singapore and New York.

A fearless pioneer, she moved from Singapore to Shanghai and eventually co-founded BEAMY, after discovering China’s burgeoning market potential for branding and creative services. Prior to Shanghai, Ronn worked as an Art Director in Tokyo. Her experience in Singapore, Japan and China has exposed her to vastly different working cultures, creative and design sensibilities.

Till date, Ronn’s works have garnered over 100 international design and creative awards. She is also on the jury panel alongside some of the industry’s greats in a number of international award shows.

China

Zhou WenJun

Founder & Design Director, 524 Studio

Zhou Wenjun is the Founder, Creative Director, and Architect of 524 Studio based in Beijing. His work focuses on architecture, visual communication, product design, and other fields. Zhou's work has been published and exhibited globally, including U.S., Japan, Germany, British, China, to name a few, and have earned a plethora of international awards. With his international jury experiences, Zhou was invited to the U.S. and Italy as a judge for several international design awards.

United States

Jules Mercado

Owner, Mixtapepsd.com

Jules Mercado has been a graphic designer for over 10 years. He owns www.mixtapepsd.com, which he designed everything by himself. His website is ranked #1 in its category on every search engine. The website is a PSD Template site with Flyers, Mixtapes, DJ Business Cards, and Banners along with plenty of free PSDs to help other designers. Jules has the experience needed to critique other designers work.

Ecuador

Jimmy Landaburu

Digital Creative Director, Ludikom

Through his career he's had the opportunity of working in some of Ecuador's top agencies such as Maruri Grey, Norlop JWT, Lowe and Y&R. Always aware of the need to acquire different perspectives to expand his knowledge about the advertising industry he worked as an intern in top agencies Agulla & Baccetti, Y&R (Argentina) and Grey Brasil. Jimmy's creative portfolio includes some recognitions and awards in both national and international festivals, such as New York Festivals, El Ojo de Iberoamerica, Condor de Oro, Festival del Caribe, Diario El Comercio, among others. Has had several publications of his work and interviews in diverse advertising and design sites like Latinspots, Abduzeedo and Fubiz Recently in 2016 he had the honor of being invited by The One Club to participate as a Mentor on the Creative Bootcamp New York hosted by Wunderman & Creative Bootcamp London hosted by Wieden + Kennedy, and chosen to be part of preliminary jurys on Adstars Festival in Korea. As also it represents Jury in FEPI Festival Independiente de Publicidad. This year Jimmy was confirmed like Grand Jury on New York Festivals, Chief Jury on Luxury advertising Awards, Grand jury on Muse Awards, Mentor & Jury on Adobe Design Awards and Preliminary Jury on Cresta International Awards in New York. At the present time he works as a Senior Creative Art Director in Creacional AAG, On line Academic 3D teacher in Crehana creativity school, Academic Mentor on Bendita carpeta Argentina.

Portugal

Liliana Farinha

COO , WYcreative

With more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing, Liliana closely follows social media and web advertising projects as well as the more complex websites regarding specifications and implementation, among other communication projects. Her portfolio includes clients such as NOVO BANCO, REN, Minipreço, Pestana Group, FOX International Channels, The Navigator Company, Casa da Música, Honda, MSD, Zippy, NOWO, BFA, LACS, L'Oréal, Sogrape Vinhos, and Bayer, among others. Dedicated and passionate about the Web, project management and team management, she does not dispense with music and travel in her life.

United States

Chloe Fan

CEO, design with FRANK

Chloe Fan is the Co-founder and CEO of design with FRANK. The company received the BLT Design Award and Fast Company Innovation by Design Award. Chloe Fan graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture with a full scholarship in 2018. Recognition for her graduate work include the highest academic honor, the Toni & David Yarnell Award for Excellence in Architecture. The wallpaper magazine named her an Outstanding Architecture Graduate of 2018.

Her graduation projects have been exhibited at galleries in New York and at the University of Santiago de Chile. She has worked on major museum projects, including the Grand Canal Museum and the Tesoro di Dan Gennaro Museum. Her work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018. In the same year, she also designed and invented a large-scale 3D printer, which was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Her invention, "Instant Lounge", a 3D printer that prints furniture in real time, was unveiled at the 2019-2020 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

China

Olivier Hero Dressen

Director / Photographer, Studio Supreme | designhero.tv

Olivier Hero Dressen has a long experience in media, extending to various places in the world. His work is eclectic in different areas and medium. Olivier is passionate about art and design in any form.

United Kingdom

Andrea Foresi

Senior Creative, Art Director, Media.Monks London

Andrea is an award-winning Creative and Art Director based in London. Over the years, he has honed his conceptual, tech-driven approach, always pushing into new ground, especially in digital. He has worked for a variety of global and independent agencies, from Publicis Milan to Wunderman UK, and tackled the big issues for many major brands, including Bentley, Renault, Microsoft, Heineken, Shell, and GSK.

China

Hao SHAN

Creative Director, Creplus Design

Hao Shan graduated from National Higher College of Fine Arts in Limoges, France, obtained DNSEP (diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique).

He served as Art Director of Publicis Conseil in Paris and Visual design Director of THOMSON Group’s headquarter in Paris. He returned to China in 2009 and founded Creplus Design studio in the same year. Currently, he serve as the Director of the Department of Visual Communication, School of Art Design&Media, East China University of Science and Technology. He is also a visual design project evaluation expert of the Shanghai Municipal Government, a jury member at A` design award & competition.

With oriental and western design art education background, years of design and management experience in French international first-class design corporations, rich experience in international brand design projects, such as L'oreal, Garnier, Nike, SFR, Dassault, Renault, Citroen, Clubmed, Nestlé, PMU, Disney, Banque of Communication, etc, the works he designed have won the Gold Award in Graphis International Advertising Design Competition, How International Design Awards, Platinum Award in MUSE Creative Awards, Award of Excellence in 2019 Communication Art Competition, Silver Award of “Corel” European Youth Image Design Competition, ChinaStar Design Award, etc. His works have been published in professional magazines such as Graphis, Etapes, HOW, The Best of Design, New Graphic, Packaging and Design, Idea & Design, etc.

Hao Shan has also been invited to serve as the design review in several important events and projects, such as Visual design of Shanghai International Film &TV Festival, Brand design of Shanghai World Expo Museum, International Tourism Image design of Shanghai, and Visual design of Shanghai Lawrence International Sports Award.

United Arab Emirates

Vladimer Botsvadze

Advisory Board Member, United States Artificial Intelligence Institute

Ranked as the No. 1 Global Marketing, Social Media and Retail Thought Leader by Thinkers360 in 2023 with over 130,000 followers across his social media platforms, Vladimer Botsvadze is a world-renowned digital transformation and social media influencer and keynote speaker who initiates change, drives growth, and positions brands as market leaders in their industries. He has more than 15 years of international experience with a proven track record and has enjoyed an outstanding career at the top of the technology industry. Vladimer has been described as ''a pioneer across the globe'' by the Exeleon Magazine.

Vladimer has become one of the world's top-rated speakers on technology and he has been booked by Startup Grind, Digital Talk Forum, AI Conversational Summit, and Global Marketing Summit. His performance at the Global Marketing Summit has been watched by 50,000+ participants from 143 countries, 6 continents, and 922 cities. His keynote speeches center around his social media career and his marketing strategies provide a foundation for success. He helps high-performers achieve their growth and prepares organizations to think with a new perspective on the future of marketing. His expertise is trusted by the American Marketing Association.

Always ahead of the curve, Vladimer is an Advisory Board Member of the United States Artificial Intelligence Institute and the United States Data Science Institute. He has been elected as a jury member at the Digital Revolution Awards and the Prolific North Marketing Awards in the UK. In addition, he is a member of the Marketing Judging Committee of the American Business Awards and he has recently been invited as a judge to the Gartner Marketing and Communication Awards in London. He has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance. Moreover, Vladimer is a career mentor at the University of Westminster and a marketing mentor at global start-up accelerators including UCL Hatchery Startup Incubator, Abu Dhabi SME Hub, Seedstars, Take Off Istanbul, Hype Sports Innovation, FasterCapital and APX VC. He has recently started mentoring start-ups at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

One of the world's most recognized marketing personalities, Vladimer has contributed to the European Business Review. He has been interviewed by World Biz Magazine, Natfluence, Billion Success, Thought Leader Magazine, Irish Tech News, and Emerging Europe. He sets the highest standards for marketing and delivers extraordinary results. With many successful projects to his name, he provides the matchless opportunity to global clients in navigating the ever-changing modern business world. Vladimer is equipped with a plethora of game-changing strategies tailored to give his clients a competitive advantage that guarantees long-term success and sustainability.

Vladimer has been recognized as a Transformative Leader of the Year by Exeleon Magazine, Enterprise World Magazine has listed him among the Top 5 Successful Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022 and Insights Success Magazine has named him among the Top 10 Inspiring Business Leaders Making a Difference. The CIO Today Magazine has recognized him among the Luminaries The Most Iconic Leaders You Must Follow For Inspiration. Vladimer is among the Top 25 Digital Transformation Influencers by Sparity and the Top 100 Global Retail Influencers by RETHINK Retail.

United States

Matthew Smith

CEO, Modmacro, Inc.

Matthew's agency, Modmacro, has won hundreds of marketing communications, branding, and design awards. His firm has completed over 1,000 projects working in partnership with their small business and nonprofit clients.

United States

DJ Summitt

Senior Motion Designer, SiriusXM

DJ Summitt is the award-winning Creative Director of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Application and Content Globalization team and Founder, Motion Designer of Summitt FilmWorks in San Diego, CA. Sitting at the juncture of generations and the edge of nations, DJ fuses bleeding-edge techniques, proven design theory, international experience, and heaping dose of the x-factor to help his clients' projects and products leap out of the screen and into the audience's lifestyle.

United States

Zizhu Zhao

Founder and CEO, Pantawit Music Production Corporation

Zizhu Zhao is founder of Pantawit Music Production. She is a music producers/ music supervisor, pianist and guzheng player, She is currently producing the score to the first Chinese sic-fi film by China Film Group Corporation which is set to hit theaters later this year. Her other producing include Digital Domain’s "Micro Giant", a Warner Brother’s new short film "LUNA"and contracting credits NETFLIX's "Chef's Table" and many others. As a performer Zizhu has given piano recitals in the US, Italy and China. Most recently she collaborated with a prominent visual artist Refik Anadol in a work combining Chinese ancient culture with world modern technology. Zizhu received her Master’s degree at USC in piano performance.

United States

Shefik Macauley

Technical Lead, NBC Sports at NBCUniversal

Currently celebrating 20 years in the entertainment and technology industries, Shefik is an accomplished industry insider, who has appeared on MTV, SiriusXM, PBS, network television, and in print media, as well as internationally on TRT World (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, based in Istanbul, Turkey). He has held senior-level positions at many Fortune 500 companies and celebrated brands, including IBM, NBCUniversal, MTV World, Merck, Merriam-Webster, and Wolters Kluwer. A seasoned pro in social media with a career background as a Lead Architect and Senior Web Developer, Shefik is on the cutting edge of new media. As a videographer and producer, his work has been featured in television broadcasts and video productions for TIME Magazine, The Washington Center, “Unsung” (TV One), and Broadway World. Additionally, his photography has been featured in print and online publications, such as Daily Mail (based in the United Kingdom), Harvard Kennedy School Magazine, Playbill, and China Press. He is currently the Executive Producer and Host of the nationally-syndicated radio show “Shefik presents Invocation”, which is broadcast on 21 terrestrial radio stations and frequencies throughout the United States.

United States

Vasile B Tiplea

Head of Design, Colgate-Palmolive

Vasile B. Tiplea is the man, mind, and mobile development magician behind the curtain at Creative27. More formerly, he’s the award-winning Director of Product and Design at Creative27 with more than 10 years of experience under his belt. Vasile’s work and leadership at the helm of Creative27 have earned this digital agency international recognition and Fortune 500 clients such as Samsung, BBC Worldwide, Westfield, BCBG Maxazria Group, US Cellular, Univision, and Meijers to name a few. Recently, Creative27 was selected as Best Digital Agency for Innovation and App Design in California by The Corporate America Boardroomelite Twenty Sixteen. This is an honor given to showcase the most respected companies and their C-level executives while recognizing and rewarding outstanding success, innovation, and ethics across America’s business communities.

Brazil

Daniel da Hora

Professor, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Considered one of the most important creatives of his generation, Daniel da Hora is a multi-awarded creative with 20 years of experience in the industry. He built successful regional and national cases for brands such as Apple, Carrier, Castrol, Honda, GM, and others. He majored in Graphic Design, with postgraduate (Master's / Doctorate) in Communication and Semiotics. Daniel is an awarded speaker and member of the jury at several global creativity festivals, such as Cannes Lions; Clio Awards, New York Festivals, London International Awards, A-Design Awards, Cristal Festival, El Ojo de Iberoamerica, among many others. Named one of the "Ten most influential creatives in Brazil in 2009" by AdvertLatina. In 2014, Daniel was named by the Brazilian media as the "Brazilian creative that most attended to creativity juries in the early 21st Century" and was appointed the "Number 1 Creative Juror of the World in 2015" by The NextGag Magazine. He is also a member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (iADAS), The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA), and Art Director's Club (NY/USA). In 2016, he was named by Creativepool as the TOP 3 Creative Directors of the world.

Malaysia

Jae Leong

Judging Committee Chairperson, International Awards Associate (IAA)

As the chairperson of IAA's extensive judging committee, Jae is the forerunner of the organization, leading the way in the pursuit of quality assurance and creative excellence in primary fields like design, creative advertising, marketing communications and video production, and business. She is also one of the primary award representatives at IAA, not to mention her various successful administrations of assessments throughout her career.

Jae also emphasizes on the coordination of strategic arrangements across diverse jury panels, positioning herself as one of the best there is in the industry. With a remarkable perception for management, Jae has overseen her role explicitly, ensuring that each entrant receives the evaluations they so rightfully deserve for their efforts and endeavors. Additionally, working with professionals worldwide has allowed her to be in the center of specialization, developing top-notch communication and relation management skills in the process.

United States

Matthew Fitz-Henry

Founder | CEO, Genome

For over 15 years, Matt has been immersed in the convergence of digital media, entertainment, and brand. Matt is the Founder & CEO of Genome, an experiential digital innovation agency based in lower Manhattan, NYC. Genome currently works with clients ranging from early stage start-ups, to Fortune 100 brands, in addition to being a digital production partner for larger agencies and holding companies. Before starting Genome, Matt was the EVP / GM of the digital agency startup HYFN that grew to over 55 people and was acquired by LIN Media (NYSE: LIN), a broadcast television company. In his role at HYFN Matt was responsible for overseeing business development, operations, and client services and worked directly with clients including Google, Microsoft, Intuit, Levi's, Pepsi, and many others. While at HYFN the company was the recipient of numerous awards including, the 2012 OMMA Award for Best B2B initiative (Google Gomo), the 2012 Golden Tweet Award (Wendy's), and the 2012 Promo Award (Olympus Pen Ready Campaign). Prior to joining HYFN Matt was the head of digital for Disney Music Group where he was responsible for the digital business and content deals for Hollywood Records, Lyric Street Records and Walt Disney Records. The roster of these labels include such artists as: The Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Rascal Flatts, Breaking Benjamin, Plain White T's, and Selena Gomez, in addition to the franchise properties such as: Tron, High School Musical, Cars, The Chronicles of Narnia, Hannah Montana, Alice in Wonderland and many others. While at Disney Matt also co-produced "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat: Disney Jazz, Vol 1" a collection of Disney standards re-imagined by jazz artists including Grammy award-winning Esperanza Spaulding, Gil Goldstein, Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, the Bad Plus, Regina Carter, Gilad Hekselman and many others. Matt holds degrees in both Jazz performance and Music Business from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He is a voting member of the Grammy's and the CMA's. He is also an active speaker, company advisor, and product development consultant. Matt also owns and operates a restaurant in Los Angeles, CA.

Canada

ISHAN GHOSH

CEO, Barrett and Welsh

As CEO and Partner at Barrett and Welsh, Ishan leads a team of Idea Generators. Ideas that help build his clients businesses. Ideas that engage and change the game in the markets that its clients operate in and which give them the cutting edge. As a marketing entrepreneur for three decades and having worked in network agencies, like Leo Burnett, Ogilvy, Lowe, etc, in several markets around the world, Ishan guides the agency’s clients, to recognize the relevance and criticality for marketers to engage the Diversity and Inclusion market in Canada and helps them see the limitless business opportunities that it brings. Ishan’s 30+ year career has spanned branding and advertising companies such as JWT, Ogilvy & Mather, Leo Burnett, and Vickers & Benson. He has been involved in the marketing and development of several international brands such as McDonald’s, Mothercare, Kellogg’s, Bata, Holiday Inn, P&G brands, Unilever brands, Walmart, TD Canada Trust and the Bank of Montreal. Ishan has been on the Summit Creative Awards jury in 2012. He has also served on the jury of the Georgie Awards (the marketing excellence awards of the Canadian Home Builders Association of British Columbia) for 15 years successively. He has been a judge for the Canadian Marketing Association, Marketing Effectiveness Awards for 4 years as well as the national Marketing Awards for creative for 2 years. He has also been on the awards jury of the MaRS centre for innovative startups competition twice.

United States

Shakir Dzheyranov

Co-Founder, Hello Robo

Recognized in Business Insider 2016 The 30 most creative people in advertising under 30, Shakir Dzheyranov's unique style and confidence mark him out as a powerful force in the advertising industry. He has won numerous awards, including Awwwards, FWA, Webby, Addy, CSS Design and Key Art, One to Watch. Besides being a strong creative, Shakir has lots of experience in adjudicating design competitions as well as giving workshops.

Germany

Claudia Goergen

Managing Director, FILMUNIQUE Medienproduktion GmbH

Claudia Goergen is the managing director of FILMUNIQUE Medienproduktion GmbH and has already worked in and for many different media in her professional career. She has many years of relevant professional experience in the field of public relations, web and film and worked as a person in charge within companies as well as a creative for companies. Claudia is able to perceive the strength of a campaign, but also the deficiencies when it comes to viability or reaching the intended target groups.

Germany

Diane Schulz

General Manager, SERVICEPLAN GROUP

Diane Schulz started her career in advertising during 1999. As an Account Manager, she worked at different agencies in Hamburg and Munich on clients such as Miller Beer, Danone and Payback/Plenti.

After finishing her Diploma in Marketing at the BAW, the leading German academy for marketing and communications at the time, she started as Head of Direct Marketing at Hubert Burda Media, one of Germany’s largest media companies.

In 2012, she joined the SERVICEPLAN GROUP to develop the group’s Innovation Team. In this position, she acted directly under the Global Chief Creative Officer Alexander Schill.

As International Account Director for METRO C&C and member of the Innovation Team, Diane was responsible for navigating the SERVICEPLAN brand while it expanded internationally.

This was achieved by managing creative excellence, innovation and pushing integration across 20+ countries, as well as handling all relevant participation in creative and efficiency awards.

In her current role as Business Director, she oversees the global key accounts of the group, and is responsible in establishing new structures and processes to steer and monitor clients globally plus developing strategic growth.

Chile

Pancho Gonzalez

Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Inbrax

Pancho González studied advertising at the Universidad de Santiago in Chile and MBA at the Berlin School in Steinbeis University, Germany. He has worked in the best Chilean advertising agencies and currently is Chief Creative Officer at Inbrax Chile; Director at Achap (Chilean Advertising Association) and Director & VP at IAB Chile. He has been judge at major worldwide advertising festivals, including Cannes, Clio Awards, The New York Festivals, Art Director's Club, LIAA, Mobius, Webbys Awards, Ad Stars, PIAF Awards, Grand Jury at Cresta, FIAP, FICE, Effie Awards, Golden Awards of Montreaux, Cristal Festival, Eagle Awards, El Ojo de Iberoamerica and Achap (Chile), among many others and was the first Chilean to chair the jury of AME Awards in New York and teaching at Miami Ad School. He has been speaker in Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Mexico, Germany, United States, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Czech Republic and Chile.

More than 100 national and international recognitions (Cannes, ADC's, New York Festivals, FIAP, Ojo de Iberoamerica, Effie, Grand Effie, Grand Prix FICE, Young Guns, Epica Awards, Cristal Festival, Creativity, Young Creatives One Show, Cresta Awards, Graphis, Eagle, AdStar, IAB, WINA Awards, Achap, Archive, Creativepool, The Indie Summit Awards, Creativepool, FICE, Fepi, Eagle Awards, Summit Creative Awards, A’Design Awards, Never Zapping Festival). Recently nominated in the Top 25 Worldwide CCO and Worldwide Top 100 Influencer by Creativepool 2017- 2018, London; Adlatina ranked his agency Chilean Top Ten at Crema 2014 and it was located at 7th place in WINA Festival 2016; Top One Creative Director, Top 10 ECD and Top 10 Creative Agency at Bestadsontv.com 2017; Top one worldwide CCO jury at TheNextGag 2017 and nominated MKTG BEST 2018 as Chief Creative Director in Chile. Throughout his career he had worked for local and global brands and is happily married with Carolina whom he has a son called Caetano.

What happened in 2018?

First Chilean to be a jury at the World Media Awards (England), and also jury at Muse Awards (Germany), Mobile Web Awards (USA), Webby Awards (USA), Cresta Awards Grand Jury (USA), Lisbon International Advertising Awards (Lisbon), Web Awards (USA), W3 Awards (USA), The Indie Awards (England), Summit International Awards (USA), Golden Awards of Montreaux (Switzerland) and The Communicator Awards (USA); speaker at Academia Achap “Content Marketing” (Chile), Universidad Autónoma (Chile), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile); and Global Trend Awards Panelist (Germany); shortlisted Small Agency of the year at Creativepool, In Book Top 200 Best Digital Arts at Lüerzer’s Archive and Best of Show Summit Creative Award.

Italy

Francesco Milaneso

Executive Creative Director, Triplesense Reply - Italy

Francesco Milanesio is the Executive Creative Director at Triplesense Reply. He's passionate about innovative solutions that assist brands to entertain, inspire, and inform; creating beautiful ideas, products, and services.

He has designed integrated communication plans, services, digital brand experiences and content for global and local brands such as FCA, Ferrari, Google, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Samsung.

Since 2016, he has been Executive Creative Director and UX lead at Triplesense, a design and creative consulting firm that aims to address and improve digital interaction and engagement between people, products, and brands, through user-centered design.

He doesn't believe in stories, but he loves telling them.

Specialties: digital design, integrated communication, UX/UI, storytelling.

Denmark

Klaus Sommer Paulsen

CEO & Founder, AdventureLAB

Klaus Sommer Paulsen is an award-winner with more than 20 years of experience and a regular judge with the Web Marketing Association's Web Awards. He has numerous judging experience from various International and national awards, and has been awarded an associate membership with IADAS, signifying him as a regular judge with Webby Awards and Lovie Awards.

United Kingdom

Kate Tancred

Chief Executive Officer, Untold Fable

Kate is the CEO and Co-founder of a video commissioning platform. The Smalls connects advertisers, broadcasters and publishers with a global community of award-winning video creators. They combine agency-style service with a direct-to-source model to create high quality, original video content with expert creators from around the world.

Russia

Aleksandr Tikhonov

CEO, Contorra Family

Aleksandr Tikhonov deals with numerous websites and designs with various shades of greatness, coolness, trendyness, and he has to differ them every day. Aleksandr often explains his choices to other people with different levels of knowledge, experience, as well as taste in design, web, and art.

United Kingdom

Nick Ford-Young

Co-founder / Co-CEO, Boldspace

Nick Ford-Young has extensive knowledge producing a range of work from brand consultancy to creative content for some of the world's biggest brands. His work has taken him around the globe, delivering award winning work for clients such as Cadillac, Bulgari, One & Only, Clinique, Diageo, American Airlines and Barclays Wealth, recognised by Webby, Shorty and Travel Video Alliance awards. Nick has an innate ability to question and critically analyse all the work he produces to ensure it answers objectives in the clearest and most concise way possible. This is how he drives not only his own work to be the best, but the agency's as a whole. Nick has also previously run his own enterprise business, bringing him experience on both sides of the fence and putting him in a great position to understand brands' short and long term strategic needs. As a result of Studio Black Tomato's close ties with mother company Black Tomato, Nick perfectly understands the worlds of lifestyle and travel, the respective market trends and more importantly what stands out. He strongly believes that in order to connect to an audience and build long-term, lasting brand loyalty, cultural connections must be established between the brand and its audience.

United States

Yaroslav Zubko

Founder, Zubko Studio

During his professional career, Yaroslav Zubko has collaborated with big corporations and small startups from all over the world recently led a product design team in the New York-based company called Uptop. Currently, he is facilitating technology to help people make connections as a Product Designer at Tinder.
Among his achievements in the field, he had highlight dozens of Best on the Day/Month awards at Uplabs, interviews at such professional internet sources as Dribbble and Uplabs. His work and name have been featured on 365awesomedesigners, Muzli, CollectUI, and other design inspiration sources. As a part of his professional activity, he has been featured multiple times as a Design Mentor and Coach at Uplabs, Judge at DevChallange, WebAward, ItAwards, Jury Member at CSS Design Awards, etc.

Malaysia

Alex Tan

President, NOKUA International

Alex is the President at Nokua International, an award-winning agency, with more than 10 years of experience in both advertising agencies and in-house teams in various roles, including design, art direction, and creative direction. As a President and Creative Director, Alex has created successful initiatives for international brands such as Walt Disney Licensee, DreamWorks Production Licensee, Herbalife, Nu Skin, Cartivia, Avon, Singapore Expo, MPH Bookstores, Garnier etc. Alex is also responsible for company strategy, creative vision, and user experience. He works directly with clients to leverage concept and idea in order to create meaningful experiences designed that inspire and improve clients' brand and peoples' lives. Alex brings his passion for design to Nokua's office by creating a work environment that fosters collaboration and personal growth, and a culture that celebrates a healthy work/play balance. With a focus on creative design, his goal is to create work that is not only beautiful to look at but produces the results a client needs.

United States

Alex Mathias

Vice President, Isadora Agency

Alex Mathias is the VP at Isadora Agency. Alex has significant experience in building small business and Fortune 500 client partnerships alike, by maintaining lasting relationships through trust, results and tailored business solutions. He has demonstrated the ability to partner with executive teams on strategic decision-making. Highly developed in analytical, organizational, and leadership abilities as well as extremely well versed in digital infrastructure including content, email marketing, SEO, and social media marketing.

Russia

Pavel Kozlov

Founder, Designer, Writer, Peopleofdesign

Founder of Peopleofdesign and co-founder of Radugadesign, Pavel Kozlov, is a Russian based graphic, web, UI, and fashion designer. He is experienced in creating graphic designs for restaurants, UI and web design for banking systems as well as having the experience in both retail and production companies. His work was exhibited in Moscow, at The Central Hour of Artists for his extraordinary designs. Pavel also served as a judge at A' Design Award & Competition last year.

Germany

Holger Koenig

CEO, KOENIGSFILM

With more than 20 years of television and marketing film production, Holger Koenig is able to distinguish the outstanding from the mainstream work. He is the Head of Film Jury at Best of Content Marketing Awards in Germany, judge for Healthcare Marketing Spots, and an expert in Storytelling and StoryBrand Certified Guide.

United States

Nicholas Jackson

Creative Director, Barbarian

Nicholas Jackson is a Creative Director living in Brooklyn. His work is concentrated in branded content, interactive design, advertising and branding. His extreme passion for design helps drive his passion for creating exciting new interactive experiences across digital and print. Over his career Nick has worked with clients such as Philips, GE and Shell and worked for companies such as Sapient Nitro, The New York Times and Frank Collective.

Ukraine

Olga Shevchenko

Creative Director, Vintage Web Production

Olga Shevchenko's life is dedicated to designing. She loves her work and that's what inspires her and helps her grow! While all her childhood friends liked to play different games, she liked to play with fonts :) She's a member of the jury at Awwwards, The Webby Awards and proud to be a Creative Director at Vintage, the most awarded web production in Ukraine. The works are winning awards as the best sites in the world (The Webby Awards, International Design Awards, Golden Hammer, CSSDA, Awwwards, ADC, European Design Awards etc.).

Hong Kong SAR

Ken Ip

Chairman, Asia MarTech Society

The author of "Life Hacks" and "Growth Hacks", Dr. Ken Ip is an award-winning brand strategist, Associate Professor, columnist and expert commentator in Tech, Web3, Branding and e-Commerce. Ken has held a variety of senior positions for leading multinationals and conglomerates, ranging from corporate consulting to public affairs advisory. He currently serves as Chairman of the Asia MarTech Society and on the Advisory Boards of several professional organizations, including two universities. He is also a strategic advisor for a USD75 million Web3-focused VC firm.

Italy

Alessandro Miasi

Creative Director, Bcube

Alessandro - or Ale - is an award-winning copywriter with international experience. As a Senior Copywriter, he mentors young creatives through their first years in the business. Throughout his career, he worked for big networks and independent agencies, on a wide range of global and national accounts, and had the chance to bolster and broaden his experience and business understanding, working on different media, and always manage to deliver top quality ideas and solutions.

India

Shashwat Das

Founder Director, Almond Branding

Shashwat Das has a rare combination of business logic and creative flair. His strong foundation in Marketing coupled with decade of experience leading Design agencies has given him the skillset to objectively judge a subjective piece of design or creative - being able to differentiate between what only looks good vs what works good for the consumer or TG or the market. He has worked with established brands as well as startups across markets with enriched experience of creating brands, leading teams and growing businesses. While on the journey of helping companies in launching new brands, revamping existing brands, defining categories and achieving business growth, he developed the expertise in Brand Creation, Positioning, Brand Architecture and Strategic Design Consultancy. Being an alumnus of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), he possesses strong foundations in creative advertising, design, PR, an eye for good branded content and have kept himself abreast with the latest trends in this field through blogs, journals and events. Shashwat Das is capable of judging not only traditional forms like print and films and photography but also newer media and social media campaigns.

United States

Vitaliy Yakin

Art Director, CG Supervisor, and Motion Graphic Designer, VY Animation

Vitaliy Yakin has been working in the field of computer graphics and motion design for almost 15 years. During this time, He took part in many international projects, and in various international events as a speaker. He has teaching experience and has repeatedly been invited as an expert for the defense and certification of diplomas in an art college. His clients include: Apple, Microsoft, Logitech, SAMSUNG, different Car's Brands and IT Corporations. Vitaliy has huge experience working on TV, Music Shows and Cinematography. He is also part of the jury panel of international awards such as - PROMAX, VEGA Award, NYX Awards, Media Brand, TEFI Award and others.

United States

Matthew Job

Account Executive, Knock

Matthew Job is a highly competitive professional possessing a blend of emotional, social, and business intelligence that accelerates new revenue acquisition and market penetration. Proven experience exceeding sales quotas and managing internal and external partners to create and analyze comprehensive business development, customer management, product marketing, and GTM campaigns. He has served as a: IFA Roundtable Facilitator, Guest Speaker at Vanderbilt University, Belmont, Lipscomb and MTSU, Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference Panelist as well as Director of award-winning digital marketing campaigns.

United States

Laura Barrera

Founder, Journey, The Antidote Within

A Fashion & Lifestyle Branding Expert, Laura is the founder of Gig Miami, where she focuses on branding and creative alignment, web design and e-commerce experiences for all exceptional brands. Helping fashion brands create a beautiful visual identity with compelling messaging, Laura allows fashion brands to connect with their ideal audiences who identify with their brand values and aesthetics. Laura is also very well versed in all things branding and web design, always looking at the big picture and long term vision of the brand itself.

Hong Kong SAR

Thomas J Elliott

Creative Director, APV

Thomas is the Creative Director at APV, a full service visual content agency based in Hong Kong. He believes that great creative ideas can be universal and have the power to truly transcend cultures, markets and technologies. He has a drive to find the human truth behind every idea and a passion for exploring new ways for these ideas to spark, connect and resonate with people. This passion has taken Thomas on a global creative journey where over the last twenty years he has constantly challenged himself to work as a creative leader in multiple markets and across all forms of commercial visual content storytelling, with the goal of bringing stories, products and platforms together in a way that has tangible meaning and value for the audiences who consume it.

Germany

Zhanna

Creative Producer, Mondlicht Studios

Zhanna is a marketing director and creative producer of Mondlicht Studios. With a master's degree in international economic relations, She is well-versed in building a global business. As a marketer with 15 years of experience, She knows how to build a brand from scratch, understand customers, look for new contact points, and build PR communication. As a journalist, she is responsible for creating unique articles and releases. She is a jury at several awards and a speaker of educational courses, webinars, and workshops.

United States

Ali Jaffar

Chief Experience Officer, Key Medium

Ali is a professional with vast expertise in human-centered design, UX research and design, creative direction and production, web design and web development. He's also a social entrepreneur and founder of the award-winning digital agency Key Medium, which is based in Philadelphia. Ali has been building dazzling websites and creating amazing online experiences for more than a decade. His mastery of the latest innovations in web development results in world-class website experiences set apart by show-stopping style and seamless functionality. A Google Mobile Sites and Google Analytics qualified individual and award-winning web development guru, Ali lends his talents to build and bolster digital experiences for a wide array of clients like J&J, DonorPerfect, NJ Department of Agriculture, and more.

United States

Shahen Markarian

Head of Design, SugaringNYC

Shahen Markarian is a seasoned product designer with over six years of experience in the digital product design industry. Throughout his career, he has worked with a diverse range of clients all over the world, including big companies such as Prepply and MantraDao, led the design team in Shanghai, created digital products that greatly contributed to the growth of the company. Currently serving as a team lead within the design department of a Florida-based company, Shahen has consistently demonstrated his expertise in leading teams to create highly innovative and usable digital products. He also contributes greatly as a judge at the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. Known for his ability to create enjoyable and user-centered designs, Shahen takes great pride in delivering visually appealing solutions that address the specific needs of his clients. He thrives on the challenge of crafting designs that strike a balance between aesthetics and functionality, resulting in highly usable and impactful digital products. With a commitment to staying current with industry trends and emerging design practices, Shahen continuously seeks opportunities for growth and learning. His dedication to producing innovative and user-centric designs has established him as a respected professional in the field. In summary, Shahen Markarian is a dedicated and results-driven product designer with a proven track record of creating highly usable and innovative digital products. His passion for design, coupled with his ability to understand and address client needs, sets him apart as a valuable asset in the industry.

India

Kiran Kumar C K

Sr. User Interface Designer, Media. Monks

Kiran Kumar C K is a Designer responsible for solving problems and making beautiful products and services for the world’s most recognized brands! Currently working at Media.Monks as a Sr. User Interface Designer for their international clients. As a designer, He develops concepts and strategies for complex interactive initiatives. And he is really passionate about finding the best tools to execute content-driven visuals, visually appealing designs, subtle details, and brand guidelines combined with innovative interfaces across various touch points. Kiran's projects have gained top-notch international recognition and attention many times, like Awwwards, CSS Winner and Unsplash Awards, etc. He is a judge at Awwwards, Webby Awards, The Gail Awards, Shorty Awards, Anthem Awards, The Lovie Awards, UK Creative Festival, W3 awards, Indigo Design Award, D&AD, and also a Regional Design Advisor of ADP. Kiran works directly with clients to develop strong relationships to deliver strategic, and emotionally-resonant creativity that also successfully achieves business goals!

India

Shrenik Gandhi

Co-Founder and CEO, White Rivers Media

Shrenik Gandhi is an entrepreneur with a passion for solving business problems with insightful digital marketing. He co-founded White Rivers Media in 2012; the company is driven by his vision of bringing global digital marketing trends to India and creating innovative digital solutions for Indian brands and international brands in the country. Shrenik is a regular on CNBC's panel, specializing in digital forecasts and analysis, while his opinions are regularly featured by Economic Times, Exchange4media, AFAQS, and more reputed digital publications. Featured in the 30 Under 30 list by IMPACT Magazine 2017 & Social Samosa 2016, Shrenik is also a regular speaker at various digital marketing conferences and entrepreneurship summits.

United States

Vijay Yadav

Chief Technology Officer, Brooklyn Health

Vijay is the co-founder and CTO at Brooklyn Health. Overall, he posesses 8 years of professional experience in Data Science and Analytics in the mental health and psychiatry domain. Currently, he also holds a position of Adjunct Professor at University of South Wales Australia. His research focus has primarily been on the development of digital biomarkers and the application of machine learning models in diagnosing and predicting the severity of mental health behavior and associated cognitive symptoms in clinical populations. Through the analysis of digital data generated by patients, he specializes in identifying quantifiable indicators of their health status. Additionally, his research involves examining cognitive patterns and psychological data in the field of digital health, contributing significantly to the understanding of trauma, stress and other cognitive disorders. Vijay has published over 15 research papers in peer-review journals on all the research work he has conducted over the years.

Hong Kong SAR

Jan Harling

CEO, Virtus Asia Consulting

As a seasoned professional with a rich background in communication and marketing, Jan Harling brings a wealth of experience from diverse roles, including serving as the Global Media Investment Director at Huawei, Global Media Director at OPPO, and Regional Director for Brand Media and Performance at foodpanda. Currently leading his own consultancy alongside a team of experts, Jan has a nuanced understanding of the industry's intricacies. His journey has been marked by a commitment to excellence, evident in his role as a judge for prestigious awards. This extensive exposure has not only refined his discernment of outstanding work but has also equipped him with the ability to recognize and appreciate excellence across diverse domains. Jan brings a holistic perspective, combining insights from agency and client-side experiences, to assess entries with a keen eye for creativity, strategic thinking, and measurable impact. Serving as a judge for your esteemed awards would be a privilege, and he is eager to contribute his expertise to recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in our dynamic industry.

Russia

Aleksandr Volodkovich

UX/UI | Product designer, Tinkoff

Aleksander Volodkovich is an experienced User Experience and User Interface Designer with over 8 years of expertise. Currently, he holds the position of a Product Designer at Tinkoff, serving more than 32 million users. He is also a member of the jury for various international design competitions and has been awarded several prestigious honors, including the MUSE Design Awards, Vega Digital Awards, GDUSA Design Awards, C-IDEA DESIGN AWARD, Online Design Awards, and Best App Design Award. Aleksander Volodkovich actively participates in mentoring for designers and has been consistently recognized as one of the top mentors on the ADPList platform.