CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR JURY

George is currently the EMEA Content Marketing Lead for HP Commercial Print.  Before joining HP, he worked agency side and has helped clients such as Citibank, South Africa Tourism, Morrisons, Which?, McDonald’s, RIM, NSPCC and Audi to conceive and develop remarkable content that delivers tangible results.

Prior to his professional career, George wrote films for a living. He created and co-wrote Valiant, an animated feature film, that grossed nearly $60m worldwide.

CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR JURY

Moz Dee is an award winning content creator with a rich history in developing creative across a range of mediums. Starting his career in Film and Theatre he has worked with the likes of legendary producer David Puttnam and theatre director Nicholas Hytner and was commissioned by the British Arts Council as a writer.

Moving into radio he worked with the BBC as a presenter and journalist before launching talkRADIO in the UK. He returned to the BBC as a commissioning editor before becoming a managing editor.

He joined the UTV group as a programme director building the talkSPORT brand and building a video strategy that had both success with the audience and brands. He has been awarded a Sony Gold as programmer of the year.

CONTENTED was launched with the former MD of talkSPORT Adam Bullock in 2013. A video company that creates, produces and delivers content for publishers and brands across all platforms, from the Cinema screen to DOOH. From Facebook and Instagram to Youtube, twitter and Snapchat. CONTENTED have been made a global creative partner of Snapchat and now has offices both in the UK and US. Clients include Viacom, Pintrest, VISA, HSBC, Heineken Group, Nissan, Eurosport, L’Oreal, SKY TV, Shop Direct, Xbox.

CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR JURY

Andrew is amongst the leading practitioners in branded content and has over twenty five years experience working in marketing communications.

He is Global CEO of the BCMA (Branded Content Marketing Association) which is the pre-eminent global body for branded content practitioners, run by practitioners, promoting best practice, sharing knowledge and growing the branded content industry. He has been instrumental in developing the global content monitoring evaluation system which has been widely used by the industry. He is also responsible for spearheading the development and launching BCMA chapters across the world.

CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR JURY

Maria Dsouza heads up the International Wavemaker Content team. Over the past eight years she has orchestratedcontent marketing programs to accelerate purchase journeys and drive business growth for brands like Danone, Visa, Marriott Hotels, Star Alliance, Michelin, Paramount and Vodafone. In her current role, she is instrumental in developing the global content offer, products and thought leadership, manages a team of content specialists who deliver multi-market campaigns.  She is also an advisory board member at the University of West London where she works closely with the upcoming talent of the PR and advertising world

MILLENNIAL OF THE YEAR – JURY CHAIR

Jim has led external hiring initiatives and provided talent advice and coaching to content owners, technology firms and advertisers for 20 years. With offices in London and Sydney, clients include Business Insider, Amobee, Refinery 29, Jamie Oliver, BBC Worldwide, Rakuten.

Jim has judged the British Media Awards, M&M Globals, PPA Digital Awards, represented the media recruitment market for Guardian Media, and consulted around talent for digital accelerators, including Telefonica’s Wayra.

MILLENNIAL OF THE YEAR JURY

I joined Emap Business Communications in 1994 and after a couple of years of great training, and what I still feel was the best grounding in media sales, I found myself at Media Week as its commercial director. It was 1996, and the industry was just tipping into the exciting and dynamic world of ‘digital’.

It was fascinating, and a huge learning experience, where from its epicentre, I had the opportunity to experience first-hand the transformation of our amazing industry.

I grew the portfolio and launched www.mediaweek.co.uk, the annual conference Media 360 and a host of other digital brand extensions like the Daily Bulletins. Quantum then bought that division of Emap and I became the Associate Publisher of Media Week, seeing through the boom and bust of the initial dotcom era. Media Week grew into a thriving brand serving its community well. It quickly became a very attractive asset and subsequently sold to Haymarket in 2005.

At Haymarket I became Group Commercial Director for the Marcomms Division running brands like Campaign, Brand Republic, PR Week, Media Week, Revolution and Marketing. I centralised the business under the umbrella Brand Republic brand, and developed many extensions including – the Campaign BIG Awards, the BrandMax Conference and the now famous Campaign Cannes Party!

I received my MA after I completed my Diploma in Publishing through the PPA in 2008 and also won the prestigious Felix Dennis Award for my work on the development of www.mediaweek.tv.
In 2011 I joined C Squared as a senior partner and their Global Commercial & Strategy Director. With the Festival of Media as the core brand, and with a portfolio of 3 festivals – Global, Latin America and Asia, this role allowed me to branch out from the UK and to learn about how our exhilarating business operates in the rest of the world. I spent a lot of time understanding the nuances of the Asian and Latin American media markets and The Festival of Media is now one of the leading media events in all three continents.

Nearly 20 years working in the middle of the business and communications strategies for some of the most influential brands in the world from Google to Facebook, McDonalds to Diageo and Dentsu to MediaCom has given me a huge appreciation of how important having the right talent is to our industry.
From Singapore to Miami and New York to Mexico City, having the right people in the right roles is business critical, and it takes up a huge amount of senior management time. That is why The Lighthouse Company became my next home.
In my next role as the Global Head of Media at the Lighthouse Company I work hand in hand with my business partners and managed all of our media searches globally. Often that means we consulted with our clients business strategy in advance of the search process, and always it meant really understanding the future direction of the businesses we worked with.
We worked with the most talented and inspiring individuals – the New World Talent, matching them with the most innovative media businesses, to create rewarding victorious partnerships. Increasingly these partnerships were born out of matching great talent who can help blend technology based businesses with more traditional media businesses to create those super efficiencies that we crave as an industry. Whether it’s a DSP, SSP, or a video or mobile business, we saw more and more the need for senior talent who are networked and who can interpret technology to enable media commerce.

I now work for Dentsu Aegis Network – a global marcomms network with over 47,000 people. As the Global Talent Planning Director, my role is to work with the amazing Talent and HR teams and individuals across the world to ensure we are thinking about where our next business leaders are currently living, what they do very well, and then where they may come from in the future. This involves redefining our competitive set and going beyond the ‘now’ to the ‘next’ in terms of considering what our clients will need from our suite of services.
As our industry converges towards a consumer-led automated, programmatic and ‘real-time’ inventory position, which is juxtaposed by a brand-led desire for a bespoke, highly engineered and sustainable inventory position, having the right talent will become even more of a panacea – now and in the future. This is what excites me most.

The words that best describe me are curious, brave, agile, adaptive, collaborative and impatient!

Away from work I am husband to Shenda – who has her own amazing personal training business, and dad to my two little girls Siun who is thirteen and Sorcha who is twelve. They are my inspiration – they also spend a lot of time telling me what to do. I like most sports but particularly rugby and golf and I have a keen interest in fashion with a penchant for nice shoes!

MILLENNIAL OF THE YEAR JURY

Akama Ediomi-Davies is Global Product Director at Xaxis the Outcome Media Company which from part of GroupM, the world’s largest media investment group. Xaxis works with over 2,700 clients across 47 markets in North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Ediomi-Davies is responsible for the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative product solution iniatives with regional and local stakeholders.

Moreover, Ediomi-Davies has shown industry leadership. He co-founded Stripes an organisation whose mission is to create opportunities for people from BAME backgrounds, across the media industry. He has offered career mentoring, workshops and placements to youth development organisations and universities including his alma mater, Queen Mary University of London. Recently, Akama won the Rising Star Media Week Media Owner, was listed in Campaign Magazine’s 30 under 30 and The Dots 100 Black Creatives Inspiring Change In the Industry.

MILLENNIAL OF THE YEAR JUROR

Kathleen Saxton is the founder of bespoke headhunting firm The Lighthouse Company, co-founder of Psyched and co-producer of Advertising Week Europe. With a background at organisations such as Sky Television, Capital Radio, EMAP Advertising, Carlton Screen, PHD, Saatchi & Saatchi and Virgin Radio, Kathleen launched The Lighthouse Company in 2009 to create the modern executive search firm clients had been asking for. Listing Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, The Guardian, Snapchat, ITV, Dentsu, Omnicom, WPP and many others as clients – the Lighthouse know what it takes to find and develop New World Leaders for today’s transforming world. In late 2016, Kathleen, who privately practices psychotherapy in central London, launched her second business Psyched (www.psychedglobal.com), in partnership with renowned Psychotherapist, Ben McKie. Psyched offers individuals and corporate boards Executive Development programmes centred on bringing psychotherapy into the boardroom via leadership retreats and individual work.
Kathleen is also a board member of NSPCC Childline (and the chair of the annual Childline Ball) as well as being an active member of WACL, the BACP, UKCP and a regular industry speaker and mentor.

Lisa McDonald is Global Chief Creative Officer for Storyful, responsible for the development and execution of social media intelligence and creative solutions for Storyful clients. Lisa leads a global team of creatives and intelligence strategists, helping organizations protect and enhance their reputation and their shareholder value in the fast-paced and ever-changing social and digital ecosystem. Previously, Lisa was the Creative Director of notorious PSG, one of Ireland’s leading creative brands communications agencies and a Board Director of parent company PSG Communications, now Teneo PSG. Prior to that Lisa was a Director at Slattery Communications.

Final Jury 

In his role as the UM EMEA Strategy, Tom leads the development of product, team and process for EMEA which includes some of the world’s most exciting brands (Coca-Cola, Spotify, J&J). He also runs strategy Globally Coca-Cola across 40+ markets.

Tom started out in London as a digital strategist at i-Level (BskyB and COI) before broadening out into comms planning at Goodstuff (Virgin media and Xbox). He then moved to UM Australia in a full-service planning role (brand, creative, connections) which evolved into a strategy lead role in APAC for Microsoft and Coca-Cola.

Tom’s career highlights include winning the WARC Connections Planning Grand Prix for his work on the Coca-Cola ‘Colour Your Summer’ campaign and previous to that Campaign Asia’s ‘Young Achiever’ award.

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Tommaso Di Giovanni is Director Communications at Philip Morris International (PMI) – the leading tobacco company that recently announced the ambition to replace cigarettes with science-based smoke-free products that are a much better choice than continuing to smoke.

Tommaso leads international deployment of PMI’s corporate PR and societal communications. His priority is to create global awareness of the opportunity presented by innovation, science and technology to achieve a smoke-free world.

He joined PMI’s business planning and development department in France in 2001, and had assignments in regulatory affairs and communications in Lausanne, New York, Curitiba (Brazil) and Rome. In 2012, he returned to Lausanne to pioneer corporate communications on science-based smoke-free alternatives. A graduate of Bocconi University (Milan) and Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Sao Paulo), prior to joining PMI, he worked for the European Parliament, and as a contracted economist to the European Statistical Office focused on R&D statistics.

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Claire Valoti is the Vice President of the International Business at Snap Inc., Snap Inc is a camera company – the mobile app that represents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

As the VP of International, Claire is leading growth and revenue across four continents, including key markets: UK, France, Germany, Nordics + Netherlands, Canada, Australia and MENA. Her priority is to unlock the potential of International markets while continuing to scale those that are already realized.

Prior to joining Snap in 2016, Claire was the Director of Agency Partnerships at Facebook UK; Media Director at Weve, and Managing Director of Weve’s predecessor, O2 Media. Claire began her career agency- side, spending more than 11 years at Mindshare across world-class brands.

She lives in London with her husband and two daughters, Arianna and Alexia.

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Samantha Glynne is Global Vice President of Branded Entertainment at FremantleMedia. She is based in London but drives branded entertainment activities for FremantleMedia around the world, working with regional commercial and digital teams to deliver brand strategy, lead key relationships with brands and agencies, and maximise advertiser engagement on TV and digital platforms.

Samantha was formerly Managing Partner and Director of Channels at Publicis Entertainment in London and Paris and Head of Commercial Content at North One Television/All3Media.

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Louise Bond is the CEO of PHD Group and the current president of the Commercial Communications Council (CCC) and Chair of the CCC Media Committee. With more than 25 years’ experience in the media and advertising industry, Louise previously worked for agency giants Clemenger Group and WPP before establishing Spark (now PHD Group) with her two business partners in 1999, all while balancing a busy personal life as Mum to her two boys. While PHD has received multiple awards in its history including 2018 Comms Council Agency of the Year. Louise has also received local and international recognition including the 2018 Campaign Asia Women Leading Change award and she was personally awarded the Sandy Smith Inspiring Individual Award at the 2013 CAANZ Media Awards, by the industry and her peers.

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Originally from Asturias in the North of Spain and currently based in Dubai, Alberto Canteli is the chief executive for Havas Group in the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Common Wealth of Independent States, Turkey and the Middle East, among others.

Alberto joined the Group in 2000, and he has been a key pillar in the international expansion of Havas Media Group during the first decade of the new millennium.

He holds an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa, a Master’s in Marketing Management from Esade Business School, and a GMP from Insead. Alberto is a prolific speaker and visiting lecturer at several forums and business schools.

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Instrumental to GOODSTUPH’s coveted Social Agency of the Year title for 4 consecutive years since her joining of the Agency, Janice Lin serves as the Creative Group Head leading a team of 10, heading up on brands The Macallan, Hewlett-Packard, and Singtel.

Recognised at Hall of Fame 2016 as Young Talent of the Year, Janice was a pivotal team member for Grant’s – It’s The Ship campaign, that won over 20 metals at the Marketing Magazine Agency Awards show, Marketing The Loyalty & Engagement Awards 2015, and The Marketing Events Awards 2015.

Never one to rest on her laurels, Janice feeds her adrenaline addiction by constantly tempting fate. Her love for animals has also turned her into a fishetarian.

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Celia started her career off in the Financial/Off shore Investment/Treasury & Trade Finance.

In 1997 Celia joined a company called the African Extension, which researched and booked media across Africa.  She held the position of General Manager from 2000-2003 and handled clients such as Tiger Brands, South African Breweries and L’Oreal.

In 2003 Celia joined Starcom as Media Manager Africa to start a “Best of Breed” network on behalf of Starcom.  In 2005 her commitment and passion for Africa was recognized and was elected to the PAMRO Harmonization committee which she is still a part of today.  In December 2005 Celia was appointed to the Board of Directors in Starcom.

In August 2007 Celia was given PAMRO achiever of the year award for continued support and continuous driving of research into Africa.  Celia has created a network of 37 offices which Starcom works with and has travelled to 26 different countries on the African continent

At the beginning of 2008 Celia took on the Head of Buying for Starcom to challenge herself and push her knowledge to greater heights.  In 2012 Celia was made Deputy Managing Director of Starcom MediaVest Group.

Celia decided in 2014 to expand her horizon’s further and joined the Carat Group as Business Director and within a few short months she was promoted to Managing Director.  In a short period of time she has managed to double the revenue figures for Carat South African and has just won one the biggest accounts in South Africa – ABSA.

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Anna, a sociologist with 13 years of experience in the advertising industry, is currently responsible for strategy and insights at Havas Media Group in Poland. A part from working for agency clients, she supports students of the University of Warsaw and Warsaw School of Economics in the consumer knowledge area and is a speaker at key events for strategy and insights in Poland. Anna has also been working for a broad range of clients like Reckitt Benckiser, Hyundai, Danone, Pandora, Red Bull, Oriflame, Carrefour, Perfetti van Melle, BNP Paribas, AXA, Ubisoft, Coty, Canal+ etc.

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Shortlist Jury

Chiara Martini is a Brazilian marketeer, with more than 14 years of experience in content, digital platforms, communication strategy and media planning, both on client and agency sides. Today she is the Global Head of Content & Media at Diesel, working on its Headquarter in Italy and responsible for the brand’s communication strategy and campaigns execution.

Prior to this, Chiara was Strategy Director at DDB New York working for Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, State Farm and Heineken. Her previous experience was Media & Content Manager at Heineken in Brazil.

Martini is also a Board Member at BCMA South America and at ASAS.BR.COM, an International Collective of Storydoers.

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Having started out in the world of aviation conferences, Graham has travelled a diverse path through business to business marketing, with core values around collaboration and creativity through technology. Before Teads, he was at GroupM where he joined the global marketing team at, what was then called Maxus, is now called Wavemaker.

Joining Teads in January 2018 as UK Marketing Director, Graham is responsible for all local marketing activity for the world’s number 1 video advertising marketplace.

Shortlist Jury

Shortlist Jury

Rob Watt is Managing Director of MC&C’s global arm, MC&C International, and is responsible for centralised strategy and growth for MC&C’s multi-market client base, as well as business development. Rob has extensive experience across the media, advertising and technology world, most recently as Managing Director at celebrity shopping rewards site, TBSeen. Prior to this he held senior roles at digital agencies Razorfish and Pixelpark, as well as the ad agency, Ogilvy Primary Contact. Rob is a prominent figure on the advertising scene, having spoken at events such as Ad Tech London, YourDigitalFuture and iStrategy. In addition to this he has participated in judging panels for the International Festival of Media Awards and Vibrant Media Awards.

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With almost 20 years of experience in the media and sports marketing industries, Carsten is currently Vice President of Media Strategy for global sports and entertainment agency Lagardère Sports & Entertainment, based in London. He oversees the company’s initiatives in the rapid disruption of the media landscape as well as original content creation and content marketing projects globally. Previous roles include Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Strategy at Olympic sports marketing agency IEC in Sports in Stockholm.

Carsten firmly believes that the brands and distribution platforms that thrive today, and will continue to do so tomorrow, are those that find a way to add fun, value and interest to the culture and activities that their intended audiences already love. Contribute to your audiences’ culture and you’ll be welcomed into their world.

Outside of work, Carsten has a 9-year-old daughter, lives between London and Stockholm and is an avid traveller and scuba diver.

Yandis is an award winning Creative Director of Publicis.Sapient She leads the Experience Studio which is dedicated to innovation and helping brands and consumers connect in new ways.

Yandis is an expert in nurturing the re-thinking and re-design of global brand’s digital expression. She has a wealth of creative leadership experiences gained from global agencies like SapientNitro and Razorfish, as well as client sides experiences gained from Google and Selfridges. Her experiences in working for both agency and client side meant that her approach to total experience design is strategic with a deep understanding the issues the clients faced and the opportunities ahead in their world.

Yandis has led multi-disciplinary teams on the creation of a wide range of innovative digital solutions and has been recognised with numerous international awards, including Lovie Awards, Digital Impact Awards, W3 Awards, DADI Awards and UXUK Awards.

Yandis has been a judge twice for the D&AD Awards, and most recently for The Drum Scottish Creative Awards and Eurobest 2016. She has also been a speaker at multiple international design conferences, including Digitized 2015 in Greece and Google Creative Council in Sweden.

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Jose-Guillermo’s experience spans 30+ years, during which he has held positions with Interior Design Magazine (Design Director), Ogilvy/ Miami (Senior Art Director), AAF Miami – Former President and Current AAF Scholarship Foundation Trustee, fourdiaz vargas, Partner, and Creative Director, fourdiaz design, a brand strategy agency, Founder CCO, and, finally, his crowning career achievement, co-Founder / Director of Miami Ad School Punta Cana. His work has graced clients including IBM, KODAK, AMEX, BP/Castrol, Swisher International, and DISNEY/ LatAm among many more. Jose-Guillermo was selected Advertising Person of the Year in 2003 and 2014, and in 2009 was awarded the AAF Silver Medal Award for his contribution to the local advertising community.

Shortlist Jury

Shortlist Jury

Shortlist Judging

Frederik has been working in various parts of the media industry for the past 15 years. Beginning his career in TV production (TV2) and Sales (MTG) shifting focus to the media-agency side and working as a truly digitally oriented Account Director.

After nearly a decade with GroupM (MediaCom) and IPG Mediabrands responsible for brands such as Nokia, VW and Coca-Cola. He has since 2015 been championing the Hutchison Whampoa owned Telecommunications brand: “3” / “Three” as Head of Marketing and CRM and transforming planning and buying into datadriven effectbased activities. Frederik is committed to accelerating the use of data and tech to facilitate better customer experiences.

Frederik holds several positions on advisory boards and mentors upcoming talents as well as helping businesses grow.

He is also a part of ‘Copenhagen Fintech’ as founding mentor through which he aims to help building a thriving Fintech community in Denmark.

Shortlisting Jury

Jim Piercy is Creative Director for EMEA & ASIA at WSJ. Custom Studios, a unit of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, based in London. Jim joined The Wall Street Journal in 2014, and now gives creative oversight to custom projects across the globe. He has worked on a wide variety of campaigns including partnerships with Samsung, Star Alliance & Netflix. Jim previously worked at Bloomberg where he developed their custom content model for television. If he’s not working, you’ll find him on his bike or re-arranging his trainer collection.

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In her role as Spark Foundry’s Global Head of Strategy, Shula Sinclair drives overall product output and strategy for the agency’s international client teams and practices in EMEA, MENA and APAC.

After a stint in military intelligence, Shula started her career in advertising at M&C Saatchi to work on the British Airways account. Over the next 15 years, she worked at CDP, JWT, and Barclaycard, developing expertise in a variety of sectors. In 2010, Shula transitioned into media, working as a regional planning director at FCB. Prior to joining Spark Foundry in April 2018, Shula served as Senior Partner for Global Strategy at Wavemaker, where she oversaw work for clients, such as VISA, Danone, Johnson & Johnson and Marriott.

As a respected hybrid strategist, Shula has won awards for creative and media strategies alike over the course of her career.

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Kate Brady is a Director of Media for PepsiCo’s North America Beverages marketing team. In this role, Kate leads the development of the paid consumer engagement strategy to best connect PepsiCo’s brands with consumers. Kate manages the Carbonated Soft Drink portfolio which includes several brands like Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Mist TWST, but has worked across almost every beverage in NAB during her over 8-year tenure. Kate is charged with maximizing all traditional media channel investments while simultaneously identifying and applying innovative and emerging media platforms across the portfolio.  Prior to working at PepsiCo, Kate spent almost 10 years working at several media agencies across a number of different verticals.

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Considered one of the most important Northeast Brazilian creatives of his generation, Daniel is a multi awarded creative with a 20 years carrier, helped building successful regional and national cases for brands such as Apple, Carrier, Castrol, Honda, GM, and others.
Awarded, speaker and member of the jury at several global creativity festivals, such as Cannes Lions, CLIO, New York Festivals, London International Awards, Ad Stars, Cristal Festival, Webby Awards, A’Design Awards, Summit Awards, Mobius Awards, El Ojo de Iberoamerica, among many others.
Named one of the “Ten most influential creatives in Brazil in 2009″ by AdvertLatina. In 2014, was named by Brazilian media the Brazilian creative that most attended to creativity juries in the early 21th Century.
Member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (iADAS); member of The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA); member of Art Director’s Club (NY/USA).

Shortlisting Jury

Head of Social Media for the MENA region at global IPG media agency Initiative, Mazher has been with the business in the region for 5 years working on award winning social media projects & executions for clients across a range of verticals including food & beverage, FMCG, automotive and telcos, amongst others.

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Chris is Strategy Director at UK independent media agency the7stars – named agency of the year 3 times in the last 3 years. His role is to ensure the agency creates work which people genuinely care about, work which sets brands apart from their competition. This includes recent work on the multiple award winning #SuzukiSaturdays campaign.

Shortlisting & Final Judge

As Director- Marketing at RAKBANK, Banali Malhotra is responsible to grow RAKBANK’s brand dominance in the Banking and Finance segment in the UAE. A consummate marketing professional with over 20 years of experience across regions, she has successfully launched several campaigns and products that have earned many international accolades like Summit International Creative Awards in USA and Advertising Campaign of the Year award by the Asian Banker in Singapore. Her interview is featured in Oxford University’s Marketing textbook showcasing RAKBANK’s success story in Relationship Management. Her career and personal experiences have been showcased in the success stories of the world’s most inspirational women in the international bestseller book “Break the ceiling, touch the sky” by author Anthony A. Rose. She was felicitated as an Unstoppable Women Achiever by Femina Middle East in 2015. She was also conferred the title of “Asia’s Most Influential CMOs” (GCC Edition) in 2015 by Asian Leadership Awards and “GCC’s Best Marketer” in 2016 by the Middle East Leadership Awards. She has been part of the jury for prestigious Marketing award platforms like Effies and FOMA. Banali has in her previous role as Head Strategic Alliances, American Express won the prestigious Chairman’s award amongst other accolades.

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Chris has managed all Shell’s Global Media activity includes covering consumer insight, marketing planning and strategy, campaign and media planning and proposition development. In this role, Chris has bought a commercial lens and rigour to marketing practice by reviewing previous campaigns and implementing learnings, ensuring campaign budgets are aligned to ROI measures, impartially assessing campaign results and identifying source of growth to maximise campaign impact.   Since taking the media role Chris has been an innovator in areas such as development of media value and driving media accountability.  By working closely with tech companies and Digital media vendors, he and his team has developed first time programmatic and digital solutions for Shell organization to deliver efficient and effective results.

Prior to the Global media role, Chris has spent 15 years in Brand Management with most recent role of Global Brand Director for Passenger Car Lubricant Brands.  His role included strategic marketing, portfolio and product positioning and business planning including launched of innovative products such as Gas to Liquid Technology for Motor Oil.

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Alejandro [Alex] Betancourt Buzás (Brand Operations Latin America Leader. Associate Brand Director, Procter & Gamble). Brand Building executive with 15 years of experience in CPG, split in between strategic planning, innovation, communication development, P&L management, and Corporate roles. He´s particularly passionate about Marketing Communications, Innovation, and Capability Building.

Venezuelan, Mass Media major by Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas, Venezuela), holds an Executive MBA by IESA (Venezuela), a Masters´ Degree in Commercial Management and Marketing by ISEAD (Spain), and a Specialist title in International Business by UNIMET (Venezuela). Guest Lecturer on Marketing Communications at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA – Caracas, Venezuela). Baseball, golf and tennis fan, he lives in Panamá with his wife, Patricia, and his two children: Nicolás and Rocío.

Shortlisting and Final Jury

Niti calls herself a born & brought up media planner. She specialized in media planning at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) and has held various roles managing the media investment for clients across agencies like Lodestar, Universal McCann, DDB Mudra and Mediacom.

She has worked in planning, strategy, new business and management roles across a variety of brands and categories – Makemytrip, Shell, Gillette, Reckitt, Royal Enfield, Bose, Subway among others. She grew the Mediacom Delhi office over 10x through a participative, people focused pitch culture at the office and was also awarded the GroupM Emmie for Focused on Excellence in 2015.

Creating stories out of dull excel sheets of numbers is what excites her most about being in media!

Shortlisting Jury

Shortlisting Jury

Rajiv Dingra, the Founder and CEO, WATConsult, the most awarded digital and social media agency of India, founded in the year 2007 has been an entrepreneur and a thought leader in the digital space. Rajiv started his journey in the digital space at a young age of 20 years.

Over the last 11 years, Rajiv has worked with more than 100 Global and Indian brands for their digital media campaigns and strategies and under his guidance and leadership WATConsult has won over 150+ digital and social media awards for work done across distinct marketing campaigns.

Rajiv was featured in the prestigious Campaign Asia 40 under 40 list of advertising media and marcomm professionals across APAC region. He has also featured as a Linkedin Power Profile for Marketing and Advertising category for 2 years consecutively (2016 & 2017) in India. He has won ‘The Young Social Media Entrepreneur of the Year’ at CMO Asia Singapore (2015) and the Agency CEO of the year (runner up) at the Media Ace Awards (2016). He is also a part of the Digital Council and the Executive Board at Dentsu Aegis Network India.

A great storyteller, Rajiv has been speaking globally at digital and social media seminars and forums across New York, Bangkok, Dubai, Amsterdam, London, Malaysia and Africa along with India. He is an active jury member across prestigious awards shows like Effies, DMA Echo, Smarties, Abbys and many others.

Shortlisting Jury

Shortlisting Jury

Emma Fraser – your strategic marketer with a creative and insightful mind, she is a strong PR advocate with a real passion for creating and delivering results-oriented initiatives across the business, principally acting on guest behaviour and insights.

Through a genuine belief in the power of relationships and partnerships, Emma ensures all Marketing and PR activities are collective, responsive and market driven. Continually creating multi- channel, integrated and targeted campaigns, whilst managing alignment across brand portfolios, Emma ensures initiatives are always delivered through a guest focused lens.

With 15+ years in Marketing and Communications in the Luxury and Hospitality industry, Emma’s wealth of international experience includes working for major hotel groups such as TFE Hotels, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, Raffles Hotels & Resorts, Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts and Starwood Hotels after starting her career with InterContinental Hotels Group.

Emma has just launched her own business – Fraser Marketing International – Branding, Marketing and Communications Consultancy, based out of Sydney, Australia but working with clients worldwide.

Shortlisting and Final Jury

Shortlisting and Final Jury

As President, Ruth is responsible for the global iProspect proposition, business growth strategy and the development of focused initiatives and workstreams supported by the Dentsu Aegis operating model with over 3,800 people in 52 markets and 83 offices around the world. Ruth has over 25 years’ experience in Media and Digital Marketing. She joined iProspect Asia Pacific to oversee the search and performance marketing services and accelerate the digital media capabilities across the group in 2011. Prior to this, Ruth held leadership roles with Mediabrands and GroupM Interaction Asia Pacific in the capacity of founding CEO, and spent 10 years with Euro RSCG Worldwide heading its digital media operations in New York, Hong Kong and Sydney.

During her five years as CEO for iProspect Asia Pacific, Ruth increased the business from 40 people to over 1,000, brought seven businesses into iProspect through acquisition and achieved over 50% growth in revenue YOY.

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Mark Beard is Senior Vice President, Global Subscriber Acquisition and Publisher of The World In at The Economist. Prior to his current role Mark was Global Licensing & Syndication Director, UK Circulation Director, EMEA Circulation & Marketing Director and then SVP, Digital Media and Content Strategy.  Today, in addition to managing breakthrough subscriber marketing activities, he oversees the publication of The World in.., annual sister product to The Economist, and the Group’s £4M syndication and licensing business. Prior to joining The Economist Group, he held many management roles including Circulation Marketing Manager at The Telegraph Group (The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator), Publishing Manager at Haymarket (What Car?, STUFF and What Hi-Fi?), Associate Publisher at EMAP in Cape Town and International Business Manager at Bauer Media.

Shortlisting and Final Jury

Shortlisting and Final Jury

Carrie Timms is Vice President of Global Media, Categories and Partnerships at Unilever. The Unilever Media function’s ambition is to ‘connect our brands with people by delivering on today and PIONEERING for tomorrow, with global scale and local agility through our media expertise and industry leadership’

Carrie joined Unilever in February 2012, and prior to her current role she was Head of Media for Unilever UK, where as lead for the media function her remit encompassed media investment decision making, full end to end media planning and buying including eCommerce, building capabilities, driving innovation and leading the UK industry agenda on topics such as viewability.

Carrie holds a BA honours degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, and started her career with Carlton TV (now ITV) in 2002, before moving to Mindshare as an investment planner working her way up to group director before departure. Subsequent roles have included senior media manager positions in Nestle and Reckitt Benckiser before taking up her current position in February 2018.

Shortlisting and Final Jury

Paul is the CEO of iotec, the intent marketing specialist, applying machine learning to identify consumer
intent without assumptions.

Prior to joining iotec, Paul was the Director of iAd, Apple’s Mobile Advertising Platform across Europe, the
Middle East, India, Africa and the Asia-Pacific. As part of his role at Apple, he led the international (outside of
the Americas) iAd teams driving advertising revenues across the mobile app ecosystem and developing
creative solutions for a wide range of clients and agencies.

Before joining Apple he was the Chief Digital Officer at one of the UK’s leading media groups, Omnicom
Media Group (which included the media agencies MG OMD, OMD, PHD and M2M) and prior to that held the
same role at OMD Group while serving on the board of both of these companies. Paul has worked across all
digital disciplines including the emerging programmatic space. Additionally, he has advised and worked for
many startups, such as his own startup Aura Sports, a premium ad network, which was sold to BSkyB in 2006;
Web TV Enterprise which was sold to Collective in 2011; and other companies such as 4th Screen Advertising
(now part of Opera Mediaworks), Brainient (now part of Teads) and Mobile Interactive Group.
Paul has nearly 30 years of experience in the media and advertising industry and is an experienced digital
leader who has kept pace with all key developments in the digital marketplace since the late 1990s. He has
held senior roles within companies such as Bauer where he was leading and managing digital strategy across
the organisation, and was also VP Commercial for ADTECH (part of AOL Advertising) where he was in charge
of developing their services across Europe. Furthermore, he holds strong experience in digital broadcast
having spent numerous years at British Sky Broadcasting in a variety of roles heading up sales and business
development.