Gideon Amichay

• CEO & Founder
• No, No, No, No, No, Yes
• New York

Gideon Amichay is the CEO & founder of No, No, No, No, No, Yes, New York.

He is the former Chief Creative Officer and Joint Managing Partner of Shalmor Avnon Amichay / Y&R Tel Aviv (1994-2011). As CCO, Gideon led the agency to be Israel's market leader in creativity and innovation, and one of the biggest agencies in the country. The agency won Israel’s "Most Creative Agency" Award 7 times. The agency also won an Effie Platinum Award, a Grand Effie and more than 20 additional Israeli Effie Awards.

Under his leadership, Shalmor Avnon Amichay / Y&R became the first Israeli agency to succeed on a global scale winning 19 Cannes Lions (2008 - 2012), 9 Clio awards, and numerous international Grand Prix Awards, such as the New York Festivals Grand Prix, the London International Awards Grand LIA, and many more. For over ten years he was a member of Young & Rubicam's Worldwide Creative Board

Over the years, Gideon has served on the juries of many international advertising festivals. Last year he served as the president of the Direct Jury at the 2012 Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.

Graduated from Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem, with a B.A (HONORS) in Graphic Design/Visual Communication (1990). In 2008 he has graduated from Berlin School of Creative Leadership, with an EMBA in Creative Leadership.

He started his career as a cartoonist (published in all major Israeli newspapers as well as in The New Yorker).

In 2011 Gideon Amichay wrote his first book "No, No, No, No, No, No, No, Yes" on innovation and creativity. He is a lecturer at the School of Visual Arts and a speaker about innovation, creativity and advertising around the world. In 2012 he had the honor of giving a talk at TEDx Jerusalem.

Fernando Bellotti

• Regional Chief Creative Officer
• Leo Burnett Latam
• President
• Leo Burnett Argentina

Fernando Bellotti is Regional Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett Latam and President of Leo Burnett Argentina. Additionally, he is a member of the agency’s Worldwide Creative Board.

He started as copywriter in Ogilvy Argentina. And throughout his career, his work has been recognized in the most renowned advertising festivals like Cannes, Clio, The One Show, New York Festivals, LIA, Eurobest, Epica, FIAP, El Sol and El Ojo.

Prior to leading Leo Argentina, Fernando was ECD at Leo Burnett Lisbon. There, the agency was Portugal´s most awarded agency for two consecutive years and the network’s most awarded agency at Cannes ´06. Fernando was responsible for the achievement of Portugal’s first TV Gold Lion in history, the only one achieved by Latin America in 2006.

During that time, Fernando was named Portugal´s Best Creative Director and Leo Lisbon, “Agency of the Year” at El Ojo de Iberomerica. He also served as jury in many different shows and was one of Argentina´s representatives in Cannes 2008 and 2012.

Since joining Leo Burnett Argentina, the agency was recognized as the network´s most awarded office in 2009 and 2010 and as one of the World´s 20th most creative agencies, according to Gunn Report. In 2010, it also achieved Latam´s only TV Gold Lion.

Warren Brown

• Creative Founder
• BMF, Sydney
• Australia

Coming soon!

Wain Choi

• Cheil Worldwide VP & Global ECD
• Cheil Worldwide
• South Korea

Coming soon!

Mariano Duhalde

• Chief Creative Officer
• Havas Worldwide
• Spain

Mariano was born in Argentina in 1972 and has been working in advertising for the last 18 years. During those years he has been an active member in the creative departments of Cravero Lanis Euro RSCG, Ogilvy & Mather and Euro RSCG Buenos Aires. Resulting with his performance in the latest, the network asked him to undertake the responsibilities of the creative department of the company's offices in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), as Chief Creative Officer at Havas Worldwide Spain (formerly known as Euro RSCG Spain).

He has won several awards at the most important and prestigious national and international festivals, which are: Cannes Lions, Clio Awards, New York Festivals, LIAA Awards, One Show, D&AD, El Ojo de Iberoamerica, FIAP, El Sol San Sebastian, Golden Awards of Montreux, Argentine Creative Circle, Effie Awards, Mexico's Eagle Awards, Golden Pencil, among others.

His experience contributed to a full and complete attention for important clients covering almost all product categories, both at national and international level. Throughout these years he has participated as judge on several occasions in different national and international festivals: FIAP, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, Círculo de Creativos Argentinos, among others.

Matt Eastwood

• Chief Creative Officer
• DDB New York

Matt Eastwood was described by Britain’s Campaign magazine as a “unicorn” in the communications industry. Having overseen some of the most innovative and recognisable creative projects in advertising today, his ability to guide an integrated agency vision across multiple and surprising media outlets establishes him as a star in the advertising world.

His career has spanned numerous agencies, specialties and countries. Beginning with stints in Sydney at DDB as copywriter and then onto Saatchi & Saatchi as Creative Group Head. Matt quickly excelled to become a partner and founding Creative Director of M&C Saatchi Melbourne in 1996. Under his creative direction, the agency went on to be named Agency of the Year a record four years running. In 2001, Maurice Saatchi caused a stir in Britain by installing Matt “an Australian” as Executive Creative Director of his newly established M&C Saatchi London. Then, in 2003, he went on to be appointed Chairman and Executive Creative Director of M&C Saatchi New York. Settled into North America, Matt then joined Y&R as Chief Creative Officer in 2004.

With home beckoning, Matt re-joined DDB Sydney in early 2006 as National Creative Director and Vice Chairman. Within 18 months, Matt’s guidance resulted in DDB winning the coveted Campaign Brief Agency of the Year title. Whilst the following year he also added AdNews NSW and National Agency of the Year titles, as well as Australian Creative Hotshop to his ever growing list of awards. From Cannes to One Show to D&AD, the awards list is impressive.

Now firmly ensconced back in the United States, Matt works on Madison Avenue and dreams about spending weekends at his Lakehouse two and a half hours North of New York.

Tom Eslinger

• Executive Creative Director
• Integrated Production / WW Digital Director
• Saatchi & Saatchi NYC

Tom works across Saatchi & Saatchi’s worldwide digital capability and is based in NYC. He has both a worldwide focus across network clients for integrated creative, strategy and operations and specifically on NYC-based clients. He concentrates on the creative growth of Saatchi & Saatchi’s integrated and digital talent, adding talent and capabilities and forging worldwide partnerships with best-in-breed creative partners.

Immediately after graduating from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (and completing multiple stints as an 80s-era Minneapolis ad agency intern), the North Dakota native became a senior lecturer and key creative in the establishment of one of the world’s first creative-centred interactive media Degree programmes at the Wanganui School of Design in New Zealand.

He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in Wellington, New Zealand as a digital creative director where he began creating interactive and mobile ideas, launching early text participation and two-screen projects for Rugby Super12, NZ All Blacks, Telecom and NZ Dairy Foods.

In 2006, Tom partnered with The Hyperfactory in a network-wide partnership which embedded mobile creative and technical capability in five key Saatchi & Saatchi offices, creating work for Toyota, Lexus, Procter & Gamble and New Zealand Breweries.

During his tenure at Saatchi & Saatchi, Tom has also worked across social media, mobile, augmented reality and games for Toyota, Burton Snowboards, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, Lexus, Visa, Sony Ericsson, Heineken, Novartis, adidas, Cadbury and Procter & Gamble.

He was appointed to Saatchi & Saatchi’s Worldwide Creative Board in 2002 and now also runs the Hothouse for Miami Ad School interns at Saatchi & Saatchi in NYC from July 2012.

Tom is a multiple Cannes Lion winner across outdoor, cyber, media, direct and promo for web and mobile work. In 2012, Tom will be the first President of the newly minted Mobile Lions, following his 2007 Presidency of the Cyber Lions. This is Tom’s fourth Cannes jury appearance, serving on the 2002 Cyber and 2006 Titanium juries.

Tom lives in a NYC with Berkeley the dog, hoards thousands of comic books, snowboards whenever there is snow around and recharges his batteries at his humble, entirely solar-powered house on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.

Tom has had a lifelong love of typography and has designed fonts for nearly 20 years. His work has appeared in RayGun magazine, The End of Print and CSA Archive/Design. His fonts have spelled stuff in designs for Swatch, Sega, Toyota, Levi’s, Warner Brothers, Urban Outfitters and Burton Snowboards.

Rob Feakins

• Chief Creative Officer, President
• Publicis Kaplan Thaler
• USA

To get there, Rob spent the formative years of his career at Chiat/Day in Los Angeles where he created award winning work for Porsche, Nissan and Eveready. Rob was then lured back east where he served as ECD at Ammirati & Puris. Previous to joining Publicis, Rob was ECD and Vice Chairman at Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners where he created memorable campaigns for Target, Mohegan Sun, Citi and Liberty Mutual.

Rob's work has received hundreds of awards, including Cannes Lions, One Show Pencils, Effies and Andy Heads. In his four years at Publicis, the agency's work has won over 350 awards. Rob is on the board of The Art Directors Club of New York and has been a regular juror for the industry's top award shows.

Rob and his wife Mary have two daughters and live in Connecticut.

Chris Garbutt

• Chief Creative Officer
• Ogilvy & Mather
• Paris

I am the Chief Creative Officer and I joined Ogilvy & Mather Paris in 2008. I started my career at Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg and then moved to TBWA Hunt Lascaris. I have worked with many different clients from Rock’n Roll radio stations to Airlines, from VW to BMW, from Nando’s Chicken to KFC, from Luxury to fast moving consumerable goods.
I have had the good fortune of training under some of the best in the business. Tony Granger was my Creative Director at TBWA Johannesburg, Robyn Putter was my Creative Director at Ogilvy Johannesburg, John Hunt was my mentor at Hunt Lascaris and Erik Vervroegen was my Executive Creative Director at TBWA Paris. I have won many awards including Eurobest Grands Prix, Cannes Awards, Clios, One Shows and European Effies on numerous campaigns. And helped Ogilvy Paris win European Agency of the Year at the 2009 Eurobest Awards.

Mike Geiger

• President & Chief Integration Officer
• JWT North America
• USA

Coming soon!

Guido Heffels

• Chief Creative Officer
• Heimat Berlin
• Germany

Guido Heffels (47) is owner, creative director and one of the co-founders of HEIMAT. In the second year of its existence, the advertising agency established at the end of 1999 was named Newcomer Agency of the Year. In all the latest german creative rankings the 150+ agency reaches 3rd place. Clients include Swisscom, Hornbach DIY, Adidas, Der Stern,Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken, CNN International, McKinsey, REWE, Burger King,OTTO and Fonic (O2).  Guido has judged all international advertising shows. He is member of the german ADC and the D&AD. Since 2012 HEIMAT has an additional office located in Hamburg. Guido Heffels lives in Berlin. He has a son, but not a dog. And he most definitely doesn’t play golf.

Merlee Cruz-Jayme

• Chairman & Chief Creative Officer
• DM9 Jayme Syfu
• Philippines

MERLEE CRUZ-JAYME IS DM9 Jayme Syfu’s Chairman or "Chairmom"/ and Chief Creative Officer.

Before this, she was the Executive Creative Director of BBDO GUERRERO and the Vice President/ Executive Creative Director of ACE SAATCHI & SAATCHI.

Since starting her small shop almost 7 years ago, DM9 Jayme Syfu (PRONOUNCED HAYME SAI FU), an affiliate of DDB Worldwide, has been blessed with the country’s very first Media Lion, an impressive number of metals from Cannes, CLIOs, ADFEST, D&AD, AWARD Australia, The Work, and a Gold in SPIKES Asia, EPICA and Digital Asian Awards. It has been ranked the Philippines’ no. 1 in the 2010 Campaign Brief Asia Ranking and awarded the very first Campaign Asia Pacific Creative Agency of the Year for the Philippines 2012.

She was awarded with two major citations in 2009: The HALL OF FAME AWARD from the Creative Guild of the Philippines and the NEW YORK FESTIVALS CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.

Last year, she was Jury president for Outdoor Lotus in ADFEST, Pattaya, a jury member in the prestigious Cannes Lions Festival in France for the Outdoor Lions category and the jury head for Indonesia’s biggest award show Citra Pariwara 2012.

She is currently the Chair of the 4As Philippine Agency Of The Year Committee.

Kentaro Kimura

• Co-CEO
Executive Creative Director & Account Planner
• Hakuhodo Kettle, Japan

Joining Hakuhodo in 1992, Kimura soon established a unique planning & creative style that eliminates strategic, creative, digital, PR and media development boundaries and works seamlessly through the entire process.

He established Hakuhodo Kettle, a creative agency that plans and implements innovative new campaigns that often go beyond ordinary advertising methods, in 2006. Bubbling up and serving his clients new ideas, his goal is for Hakuhodo Kettle to set the whole world aboil.

Kimura’s list of awards includes New York Festivals AME Awards Grand Prix, D&AD Yellow Pencil, CLIO Awards Gold, Cannes International Festival of Creativity Silver Lion, AdFest Grand Prix, New York ADC Annual Awards Gold, London International Awards Gold, Spikes Asia Gold, and many more. Kimura has served as a member of the jury in the New York Festivals, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the London International Awards, the Clio Awards, AdFest, and Spikes Asia.

He loves traveling and has visited over 30 countries. He dreams of retiring so he can travel to even more, but will never realize this dream as he loves his current occupation too much.

Chris Kyme

• Chief Executive Officer
• Kymechow Communications
• Hong Kong

Chris started life as a copywriter with FCB London in the early 1980s (true to popular advertising legend, his career actually began in the mailroom). His early years were spent cutting his teeth on TV commercials, and poster and press advertising for clients like The Daily Mail, Cadbury's, Dulux Paints, London Transport, British Airways and Heinz Foods.

In 1987, he accepted an offer to come and work in Hong Kong with Leo Burnett, where during his first year he created an acclaimed TV campaign for property developer Hong Kong Land which won ‘Best TV Campaign for Asia’ at the Media and Marketing Awards. Thus marking his arrival on the scene.

He then joined Grey Hong Kong where he became Executive Creative Director, creating some of Hong Kong's best known TV campaigns during the first half of the 1990s, helping build Grey’s creative reputation locally, as well as serving as Chairman of the Hong Kong 4As Awards several times.

In 1997 he joined FCB Asia, and was soon posted to Singapore to help drive the newly formed office for FCB there. As FCB began to make its mark in award shows, Chris was appointed regional creative director for Asia, and was made a member of the worldwide creative board. He was also voted Singapore Ad Man of the Year in 2001, thanks to his efforts helping set up creative workshops for young people.

In 2002 he returned to Hong Kong for personal reasons, and after a brief spell twiddling his thumbs, joined Eight Partnership as a managing partner and Creative Director. During a 5 year spell, he helped develop Eight from being a relatively unknown small company into an award-winning brand communications agency with offices in Hong Kong and Beijing. Eight’s ‘MC Farmer’ viral film for Nokia was one of the most talked-about pieces of work to emerge from China in recent years.

In 2010, Chris set up Kymechow, his own creative services agency in Hong Kong. With life in the old dog yet, Kymechow picked up a Gold and 4 Silvers for one of its regional Sun Life Financial short films at the 2012 Hong Kong 4As Creative Awards.

Chris is an active speaker and presenter at industry events in Asia, and a part-time Associate Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he helps train students looking to get into the industry. He has also been working on a book which charts the creative history of Hong Kong advertising.

Nick Law

• EVP/Global Chief Creative Officer
• R/GA
• USA

As Global Chief Creative Officer, Nick is responsible for the creative vision of R/GA, the New York-based agency for the digital age. He guides teams of visual designers, copywriters and interaction designers as they create award-winning work for a many of Fortune 500 companies. He also ensures that R/GA stays true to the company’s unique legacy of collaboration between world-class creative and groundbreaking technology.


 
Since 2001 Nick has played a significant role in shaping R/GA’s creative vision. In that time, his work has won numerous international awards and has been widely published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia-Pacific. Within a year of joining the company, he was promoted to vice president of visual design and shortly thereafter named executive creative director on the Nike account, an account responsible for some the industries most innovative and high profile work.


 
Nick’s background is extensive and diverse, spanning multiple marketing disciplines during 20 years at agencies in the United States and abroad. He began his career in branding and corporate identity and design before switching to advertising, and then ultimately, focusing on digital marketing.

Nick has won every major industry awards, including a Titanium Lion and Grand Prix Cyber Lion at Cannes, and a prestigious Black Pencil from D&AD. Three times he has been named in Creativity Magazine’s “Creativity 50”, a list of the world’s most influential creatives.

Jason Peterson

• Chief Creative Officer
• Havas Worldwide
• USA

Jason has more than 20 years of creative experience in television, print, interactive advertising and brand identity. He is an expert in concept and strategy development, with a proven ability to motivate creative teams to deliver standout creative for high-end campaigns. At Havas Worldwide Chicago (formerly known as Euro RSCG Chicago), he led the integrated team behind Sauza Tequila’s first solely digital effort, which encouraged women to “Make It With A Fireman” by watching – and sharing – a sexy, playful 2-minute video that has been seen nearly 9 million times across all platforms.

Formerly, Jason was Executive Creative Director at Translation nyc (an IPG agency), where he worked on Target, McDonald’s and Wrigley’s, just to name a few. Jason was a driving force behind Coke Classic’s “Real” campaign and has an innate understanding of the millennial target. His State Farm “Hot Tub” work was a huge online hit, with more than 500,000 views and 200-plus parodies, and the line “Can I get a hot tub” was a trending topic on Twitter. Jason targeted the general young adult market with a McDonald’s Super Bowl spot featuring LeBron James. He also led the national launch of the McRib sandwich and handled sports and music sponsorships.  

Jason has a healthy collection of industry awards as a result of the work he’s done for, not only McDonald’s and State Farm, but, other prestigious brands including Samsung, Reebok, Vitamin Water, Comcast, NBA and MTV/VH1.

Santosh Padhi

• Co Founder & Chief Creative Officer
• Taproot India, India

Popularly known as 'Paddy' Started his advertising career 15 years ago with Mudra Mumbai. Completing an eventful 10-year stint at Burnett, where he was a Executive Creative Director and National Head of Art (India), 2 years back left the Leo Burnett network to start his new creative venture 'Taproot India'.

Worked on some of the prestigious global brands like: McDonalds, P&G Tide detergent, Johnnie Walker, Heinz Tomato Ketchup, The Times Of India, Times Broadcast, Hallmark Channel, Mumbai Mirror, Hitachi Air Conditioners, Fiat India, Bajaj Auto, Bajaj Electrical, ICICI Bank, Reliance Telecom, Luxor Writing Pens, Perfetti Van Melle etc

Currently Taproot India is working on some of the national and international iconic brands like; The Times Of India, National Geographic Channel, Fox History and Entertainment channel, DSP Black Rock Mutual Funds, The Conde Nast India, Nirma Detergent (one of the iconic brand of India ), Mumbai Mirror, The Crest Edition, etc.

In the last 2 years, Taproot India has risen to become one of India's most prominent independent creative agencies in India winning Asia's only Gold Clio in 2010 and was ranked India's best performing agency at Cannes also declared the No. 1 Independent agency from India and rated as top best 20 Independent agencies in the world by Cannes survey, Again last year Taproot India was declared as best performed Indian agency at Spikes Asia with 4 gold's and 3 silvers and also topped the table at Adfest with six metals as well.

His Conqueror Paper print campaign was one of the most awarded and celebrated print campaigns from Asia last year in 2010 which won a golds at Cannes, Clios, Spikes and Adfest

Santosh Padhi holds the record of most number of Cannes lions (11) & also most number of One Show Pencils (4) by an individual Indian creative from India

Last 2 year he has been voted as the No. 1 creative person from India, by the Campaign Brief Asia magazine

He was voted as the 3rd best Art Director in the world, in a survey conducted by Campaign (UK)

Paddy is also been a proud holder of the 'Art Director of the Year' title for 3 years in a row at the local Indian award show in his early days.

Besides being part of the team that led the creative renaissance at the Leo Burnett, his creative leadership took India to bag "Agency of the Year" title twice in the global Leo Burnett network in 2003 and 2008. In 2008 he also managed to make Leo Burnett India the No.1 creative agency in India in the local award show

He has won gold in almost every international and national awards show with over 200 International awards and more than 250 local awards, with two Grand Prix's

He has been a judge on various international advertising festivals like this the Clio's, the Dubai Lynx, Adfest Pattya, New York Festivals, London International Awards, Adstar Busan (Korean) award and many local awards shows

Martin Pross

• Chief Creative Officer
• Scholz & Friends
• Germany

Martin Pross is Executive Board Member of the Scholz & Friends Group and Partner of the Scholz & Friends Holding Commarco.

Martin Pross was born in Mainz in 1966. He studied communications design at the Saarbrücken College of Fine Arts. Having graduated in 1994, he started his career as Art Director at the agency Maksimovic & Partners.

In 1996, Martin Pross joined Scholz & Friends Berlin, becoming Creative Director two years later. In 2001, having won numerous national and international creative awards, he joined the management. In 2007, he took over group-wide and cross-instrument tasks in Germany as International Creative Director in the Scholz & Friends orchestra and in the international Scholz & Friends offices. Since April 2008 he has been Executive Board Member of the Scholz & Friends Group.

Pross has been a member of the Art Directors Club for Germany since 1998. His work, amongst others for the State of Baden-Württemberg, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Mercedes-Benz, has been honoured at the Clio, LIAA, The One Show and won Gold in Cannes and at the ADC for Germany.

Robert Rasmussen

• CCO
• Story Worldwide

Coming soon!

• Chief Creative Officer, Asia
• Y&R Asia

In 2006 Campaign Brief Asia named Marcus ‘Advertising Person of the Year’ for consistent creative excellence over a two-year period, and ranked him as the number one creative in Asia Pacific. His work has won a host of best of shows, and his campaigns have been ranked in the top 10 of the Gunn Report.

Marcus helped TBWA Singapore win its first two Gold Lions, lifting them to number one in the market, as well as earning five local and regional Agency of the Year citations. Marcus returned to Asia in 2008, from a stint with TBWA/Chiat/Day in New York with another Gold Lion from Cannes to his credit for Snickers.

Y&R Asia has experienced a creative resurgence in the last four years. Y&R Jakarta won the country of Indonesia it’s first Gold Lion in 2010 and went on to win Agency of the Year and Y&R Singapore won Republic of Singapore Navy after the client being with Saatchi & Saatchi for 28 years as well as multiple back to back new business wins whilst winning 3 agency of the year finalist. The network Asia now also has two Guinness World Records for its clients.

In 2011, Y&R Thailand won its first ever Gold Cannes Lion, two for that matter; another first after more than 20+ years for Y&R Thailand. In 2013 Y&R Malaysia won it’s first ever best of show and Agency Of The Year in the 19 years it had been opened.

Hugo Rodrigues

• Chief Operating Officer
• Chief Creative Officer
• Publicis Brazil, Brazil

Hugo Rodrigues has just been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO), accumulating as CCO (Chief Creative Officer) of Publicis in Brazil, in January, 2011. Therefore, he is the first creative professional to assume the responsibility to manage all departments at the Publicis Brasil, Salles Chemistri and Publicis Dialog agencies.

Two years ago Hugo Rodrigues took over as Vice President Creative Director for Publicis Brasil. In this period Publicis grew 47% compared to 2008, and jumped 19 positions in the Brazilian agency ranking. That was one of the biggest turnarounds in the local advertising market and the best performance among all Publicis Worldwide offices in 2009.

He was one of the founders of Salles Chemistri, which in just 4 years built a solid and respectable image in the market. In the Brazilian ranking, it appears ahead of large agencies such as Grey Brasil and Age Isobar (source: Ibope Monitor).

As a marketing graduate, he's obsessed by results and understands that this is what the client needs. Hugo Rodrigues always supported relevant clients such as Nestlé, GM, Citibank, P&G, Sanofi-Aventis, HP, L'Oréal, Swatch, Groupe SEB, Carrefour, Philips, Bradesco, and Mitsubishi, among others.

He has a professional background as copywriter, but he creates events, internet, promotional and relationship campaigns with the same punch that makes his advertising campaigns part of the Brazilian pop culture. Hugo Rodrigues is the guy who made the famous "Tô Nem Aí" and "Poeira" campaigns that shook the entire country, and helped GM conquer the sales leadership in Brazil that year.

One of his most challenging works created to GM - "Transformers" - had the approval of Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay's studio.

In 2009 Hugo Rodrigues won a Cannes Lion with a Procter & Gamble campaign and 2010 he won another with the Swatch Wristbands case, an idea that became a global media platform for the brand. Swatch Wristbands is still winning important awards around the world.

He has awards from many other important advertising festivals, such as: Clio Awards, The One Show, New York Festivals, Fiap (Festival Iberoamericano de La Publicidad), El Ojo de Ibero-America, Golden Drum and Ad Stars. He was also awarded at top local festivals as CCSP (São Paulo Creative Club), Globo Professional of the Year, Columnists Award, ANJ (National Newspaper Association), Maximidia and Folha/Meio&Mensagem Award.

Recently Hugo Rodrigues was elected one of the ten best Brazilian communication professionals in 2011, ranked by Meio&Mensagem (M&M) one of the most relevant newspaper specialized in marketing and advertising in Brazil.

Hugo Rodrigues was also elected "Creative Professional of the Year" by the Advertising Professionals Association (APP - Associação dos Profissionais da Propaganda).

Hugo Rodrigues was a juror at several festivals and prizes, such as Cannes, D&AD Awards, London Festival, El Ojo, Ciclope Internacional Advertising Craft, Abril Award, CCSP, Effie Awards and Brazilian Advertising Association (ABP - Associação Brasileira de Propaganda) Festival. He recently was invited to be part of the first Executive Jury of New York Festivals 2011.

For all his history and experience, Hugo has been invited to minister talks to communication and marketing professionals all over Brazil and Latin America.

David Rolfe

• Director of Integrated Production
• BBDO
• USA

Coming soon!

Diane Ruggie

• Partner / Creative Director
• Velocebella

Hair, skin, eyes, legs, breasts, feet, clothes, food, phones, cars, computers, credit cards, cleaning supplies, tax returns, antiperspirant, anti smoking, dinosaur bones, crown jewels, French fries, memory loss and chocolate. These are a few of the categories in which Diane Ruggie has award-winning brand experience. Juries from The New York Festivals to Cannes, Clios to London International have recognized her work with every metal made, and a few with special judges awards for writing excellence.

After more than 25 years at DDB Chicago and long known for contributing her female point of view in that big agency pond, Diane established Velocebella in 2012. Velocebella (“fast and beautiful” in Italian) is a creative and compassionate, independent agency that specializes in ideas that click, quick, with women. Most recently, Velocebella won a large fashion retail account in collaboration with another independent Chicago agency.

Diane is featured in the book Copywriting—Successful Writing for Design, Advertising and Marketing and a contributor to Remedy Quarterly. This is Diane’s second year on the august executive jury of the New York Festivals and she looks forward to seeing and judging this year’s best work.

Alex Schill

• Partner & Global Chief Creative Officer
• Serviceplan Group, Germany

Alex Schill was born with a Canadian passport, studied at High School of Fine Arts in Berlin for four years and then joined Springer & Jacoby Hamburg as a junior copywriter in 1994.

In 1998, he became the youngest Creative Director within Springer & Jacoby ever and in 2003 he was asked to lead as Chief Creative Officer. 2005 was the most successful year for the agency since its foundation: Springer & Jacoby won seven Lions and had 20 shortlists in six different categories at Cannes Lions.

In 2006, Alex left Springer & Jacoby to become Global Chief Creative Officer, Member of the Board and Associate Partner at the Serviceplan Group. The Serviceplan Group (Serviceplan, Mediaplus, Plan.Net) is one of the biggest independent agencies in Europe with around 1,000 employees in six countries and clients like BMW, Lufthansa, O2 and Sony Ericsson.

Within four years Alex managed to push Serviceplan to number two in the German Creative Ranking (Manager Magazine 2010), number three in the Interactive Ranking (W&V 2009), number three in the Cannes Ranking of Design Agencies (Cannes Report) and number fourteen overall ranking of agencies worldwide (Big Won 2008). Alex is listed number twelve Executive Creative Director worldwide (Big Won 2009).

Paul Silburn

• Creative Partner / Executive Creative Director
• Saatchi & Saatchi UK

Paul Silburn joined Saatchi & Saatchi in January 2008 as Creative Partner and is one of the most prolific and awarded creatives in the UK advertising industry. He has worked at agencies including Fallon Minneapolis, TBWA\London and Leo Burnett across a career that includes creative highlights such as the “No Nonsense” campaign for John Smith's, starring Peter Kay, which won Campaign magazine’s 2002 Campaign of the Year, and the “Bear Fight” spot for John West Salmon, which to date has been viewed more than 300 million times online.

Paul is behind famous advertising for Stella Artois, Nike, Levi’s and Sony PlayStation and created the “Lynx Effect” for Unilever, now one of the company's most established and successful global campaigns.

KV Sridhar

• National Creative Director
• Leo Burnett India
• India

From humble beginnings as a bollywood film billboard painter to the Chief Creative Officer India Sub Continent of Leo Burnett, Pops has seen it all and today is widely respected as a creative leader in Indian Advertising Pops has not just won more than a bounty of International metals including 22 Cannes lions and a Grand Global at NYF, over 230 international recognitions and over 500 Indian awards. He is known for his vision and understanding of where brands and brand communications are going.

Under his creative leadership, Leo Burnett India went on to win agency of the year in the Leo Burnett global network, twice.
 Pops, as he is popularly known, is credited with the emergence of Leo Burnett as a creative powerhouse in India. Creativity magazine ranks Leo Burnett India among top 20 creative agencies in the world. Pops has been on many Indian & International award juries. Back in 2006-07 he was nominated for the ‘Teacher’s Achievement Awards’. In 2008, he was recognized by the United Nations for his contributions made against Gender bias in Media & Advertising. In July 2009, Pops was honoured with the New York Festivals Creative Achievement Award and in November of 2010 he was cited with the 2010 creative of the year (Indian Subcontinent) award by Campaign Asia-Pacific’s Agency of the Year awards.

Andreas Ullenius

• Executive Creative Director
• / Senior Partner
• Akestam Holst
• Sweden

Andreas Ullenius stumbled trough the door of the independent creative agency Åkestam Holst in Stockholm about ten years ago when it still was a small and rather new agency. He started out as an art director assistant pretty much because he needed the money but a decade later he is still there, now the executive creative director at one of the worlds most awarded alternative agencies and working with clients all over the world, he’s still wondering what he should do for work. Someone said that if you find a job that you love – you wont work a day in your life. Andreas couldn’t agree more. The Agency’s alternative and open view on problem solving, and their passion for the change we live and work in, has earned the agency an international reputation and something like 300 awards in the last 6 years.  Andreas believes that the totally confused time of now is a fantastic time to be a creative. The toolbox is bigger and more dynamic than ever, the possibilities are endless and whoever embrace the change will have the time of their life.

Debbi Vandeven

• Chief Creative Officer
• VML
• USA

As Chief Creative Officer, Debbi draws on 20 years of industry experience combine with her artistic energy and strong interpersonal skills to lead VML’s creative teams around the globe.

Debbi is accomplished in both traditional and interactive creative development, earning a reputation for exceptional, on-strategy creative solutions rich in design and functionality. Her range of expertise covers multiple industries, including CPG, hospitality, retail, health care and financial.

Debbi’s creative leadership has been instrumental in differentiating VML from its competitors, helping the agency to become one of the top global digital agencies today.

Recognition for outstanding VML creative output includes awards from: Cannes Lions, London International Awards, One Show Interactive, CLIO, New York Festivals, Webby Awards, IAB MIXX Awards, and the Tomorrow Awards, among others.

Prior to joining VML, Debbi worked at MMG Worldwide. She previously owned and operated an award-winning design firm.

Debbi is a graduate of the University of Kansas, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Debbi spends most of her time away from the office with her husband and two daughters; she is an avid reader and traveler.

Erik Vervroegen

• International Creative Director
• Publicis Worldwide
• France

Erik Vervroegen has led agencies in South Africa, Paris and New York. He has worked on iconic brands such as Nissan, Playstation 2, McDonalds, The New York Times, Excedrin, BMW, Wonderbra, Land Rover and Rayban.

He began his career in his native Belgium, moving to TBWA Hunt Lascaris in South Africa and then onto Bozell New York. From there Erik moved to France as Executive Creative Director and President of TBWA Paris. Under his leadership TBWA Paris became Cannes Agency of the Year four years in a row. Returning to the USA Erik joined the San Francisco based, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.

Most recently Erik has taken up the new challenge, International Creative Director Publicis Worldwide, which sees him sharing his experience with agencies throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. Erik has been a juror or featured guest speaker at every major international awards show.

Yang Yeo

• CCO
• JWT Shanghai
• China

Coming soon!

Shahir Zag

• Chief Creative Officer
• Young & Rubicam
• United Arab Emirates

Shahir Zag joined Y&R Dubai in 1997 and has been instrumental in turning the creative spotlight on to the Middle East. In 2006, he was promoted to Executive Creative Director and since then the agency has become the most creatively successful in the region with award-winning brand work for Harvey Nichols, Colgate, Land Rover and LG Electronics.

In 2010, he took on the role of Chief Creative Officer of Y&R Middle East and North Africa and was tasked with improving the creative product of 14 offices. He was also appointed as a core member of Y&R's global creative board.

In 2011, under Shahir’s leadership, Y&R Dubai became the most awarded Middle East agency in Cannes Lions history following its winning of gold, silver and bronze in the press and design categories at Cannes. Earlier this year, Y&R Dubai was named both agency and network of the year at the Dubai Lynx. Its tally of awards included the grand prix in both print and design.

The 2011 ended on big high for Shahir and Y&R Dubai when Cannes Report 2011 ranked Y&R Dubai as the sixth most creative agency in the world. The 2nd most creative agency in Europe, Middle East & Africa. The 2nd most creative agency in Press in the world. The 6th most creative agency in Outdoor in the world. Shahir is ranked as the 6th most creative person in the world.

His work was featured in the annuals of D&AD, Communication Arts and Luerzer's Archive. Shahir has served on the jury at the Cannes, The Clios, the Loeries and The New York Festivals.

Shahir's writing, design and art direction have won trophies at Cannes Lions, ANDY, Art Directors Club, D&AD, One Show, Clio, London International, New York Festivals, EPICA, Loeries and Dubai Lynx.