Introducing NYX Awards'

Panel of Expert Jurors

The NYX Awards is proud to feature a diverse panel of judges from various professional industries around the world. The esteemed judges are members of the NYX Judging Council, a group of leading industry experts with years of experience in their respective fields.

Each jury has a keen eye for creativity and innovation, and are always looking for standout projects that push the boundaries of what is possible.

United States

Vitaliy Yakin

Art Director, Creative Director, Motion Graphic Designer, Vitaliy Yakin

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 took part in various international events as a speaker. He has teaching experience and have repeatedly been invited as an expert for the defense and certification of diplomas in an art college. His clients were: Apple, Microsoft, Logitech, SAMSUNG, different Car's Brands and IT Corporations. I have a huge experience working on TV, Music Shows and Cinematography. He is the owner of international awards such as - PROMAX, VEGA Award, NYX Awards, Media Brand, TEFI Award and others.

United States

Anthony Wiktor

Principal and Creative Director, Ad Victorem

Anthony Wiktor is the Principal and Creative Director of Ad Victorem, a design strategy and branding agency, where he is responsible for developing and executing winning creative campaigns, websites and digital designs. Anthony has over a decade of award-winning experience in website design and has worked on projects across a diverse set of industries - from entertainment to consumer products to hospitality to technology. Some of his most notable clients include FOX, ESPN, Nestle and W Hotels. He holds degrees in design from Columbia College Chicago and Woodbury University, and a Certificate in Marketing, Advertising & Branding from UCLA. Anthony is also a frequent lecturer at USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and serves on the board of the Los Angeles Chapter of AIGA. In addition to his diverse and experienced background, Anthony mentors multiple young designers. He is known to be patient and pedagogic, he has an incredible eye for detail. Because of his background, skills and experience in the industry, Anthony Wiktor would be an excellent judge for Digital website design.

United States

Jonathan Winbush

Motion Graphic Artist, Winbush Immersive

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, Happy Madison, 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 (Promax BDA, Bafta, Tellys, and Pixie awards). Jonathan's work has also been recognized in publications such as Advanced Photoshop Magazine, HDRI 3D Magazine, Computer Arts Magazine, and several Art Institute brochures. Over the past several years, Jonathan has also done public speaking engagements for the Art Institute, Siggraph, The Rant Room Podcast as well as put on free workshops for orphaned and homeless kids through the Create Now Foundation. In 2012, Jonathan moved to South Orange County to start his own boutique in motion graphics but also began to experiment with virtual reality after being invited by Oculus to check out their hardware in its early stages. Winbush.tv

Singapore

Birger Linke

Global Group Creative Director, DMG / Hylink

With two decades in the industry, Birger has worked on both, agency and client side, as a creative and marketeer for Peter Schmidt Group, Springer & Jacoby, Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Leo Burnett, BBDO Interone, DMG, set up TBWAVietnam, is partner in two start ups, and currently the Global Group Creative Director at MindChamps - the company leading the revolution in education. Working across disciplines, incl. advertising, digital, and (interior) design, Birger has won more than 120 national and international awards, incl. Gold at Cannes, the first ever D&AD for Vietnam, was named most awarded DM creative in Asia, "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), 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, Ho Chi Minh City. Birger is a member of D&AD and The Design Society. He was a judge at London International, New York Festival, Adfest, Award, Young Guns, Pinasthika, AdStars, Golden Bell, Vega Digital Awards, Chillies and Creative Circle Awards. In 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 Kingdom

Anthony Jones

Creative Director, The Drawing Room

Anthony has spent over 16 years driving insightful and impactful creative solutions at some of the most well known creative agencies in the UK. He has also spent a deal of this time specialising in creating industry-class digital communications and user experiences. Obsessive and passionate when it comes to quality and effectiveness, Anthony revels in moulding large and small scale creative solutions to business problems, making sure that a blend of perspective, real craft and insight-driven strategy remains a central theme. During his career he, and his teams, have produced award-winning work for some of world's most recognisable brands. Some past clients include ghd, BP, EA Games, DHL, Financial Times, Michelin, Nissan, Barclaycard, CITI Financial Europe, Shell, Crown Paints, Virgin, and LG. Anthony admits he is a 'design geek' spending much of his personal time immersed in all areas of the creative gamut. He also lectures at the University of Leeds (UK), teaching the next generation of creatives and designers about interactivity and user experience.

Chile

Pancho González

Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Inbrax

Pancho González studied advertising at the Universidad de Santiago in Chile and coursed an EMBA 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. 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, and many more. He is also the Associate Member of IADAS (USA); AIVA (USA); Mentor at Red de Mentores (Chile) and Mentor at Acción Emprendedora (Chile). Pancho González is one of the most influent creative in his market. Recently nominated in the Top 25 Worldwide Chief Creative Officers by Creativepool, London; ranked number 2 overall Chilean creative directors at Lüerzer's Archive 2015; Adlatina ranked his agency Chilean Top Ten at Crema Ranking 2014 and his agency was located at 7th place in WINA Festival 2016 overall. Throughout his career he had worked for local and global brands and is happily married with Carolina whom he has a son called Caetano.

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. He is now the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at DH,LO Creative Boutique since 2010. As a creative with a 20 years carrier, he helped building successful regional, national and international cases for brands such as Apple, Carrier, Castrol, Honda, GM, LG, Alphasphere, ASA Industries, Government of Pernambuco, LD & Cia, Eletroshopping, Exclusive Line and many others. Beyond the art direction and creative direction skills, he also works with graphic design, branding and product insight, bringing together creativity, technology, innovation, and culture for shifting the value of projects. 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, Muse Creative 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), International Awards Associates (IAA), 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.

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.

Belgium

Sam De Win

Executive Creative Director, iO

Sam started his career almost 18 years ago as a copywriter for agencies like Euro RSCG United, Y&R and BBDO. During this period he made some remarkable campaigns in Belgium. At Y&R, he and his Art Director came up with Devos & Lemmens, 2 guys promoting sauces for the company Devos Lemmens in some hilarious radio-commercials. Every year new commercials are added to this very popular saga that's already running for more than 15 years! He also wrote the copy of one of the most popular Belgian tv-commercials for Belgacom whilst working at BBDO - "Who took my badges" - where he used a mixture of English and Flemish and invented: Flenglish. It resulted in some very popular quotes. You can still hear people yelling: "Helaba, sebiet no koffiekoeken for you!". He then became Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy Brussels. This resulted in some strong creative work and the first ever Cannes Lion for Ogilvy Brussels! After 3 and a half years he took on a new challenging role as Executive Creative Director at Serviceplan Benelux. After one and a half year and a lot of awards he chose to become Creative Director at Make Lemonade. His portfolio includes TV, print, radio, interactive, direct & social content for clients such as Devos Lemmens, Volvo, Mercedes, Amnesty International, Pepsi, Belgacom, European Parliament, KBC, ING, and many many others. He has won several awards made of metal, wood, and paper at CCB, NY Festivals, Cannes Lions, OneShow, Eurobest, Effie, Epica. He loves his bicycle(s), girlfriend, daughters, music, and wine. Not necessarily in that order.

United States

Emaneul Kapp

Director of Media, Stewards of Wildlife

Growing up in northern of South Africa on a farm, Emaneul has always had an immense love and respect for wildlife. During the past 8 years, his love for conservation has been unmistakable in everything he does. Recently, joining Stewards of Wildlife Conservation (SWC) as their Director of Operations, it has blossomed into a passion, growing with each new project. SWC has given him the platform from which he can make a difference, with not just African animals, but species from all over the globe. Supporting both in-situ and ex-situ conservation it has allowed him to further his expertise in conservation and make a difference on both sides of the spectrum. Being involved in the everyday planning, organizing and operating of several different projects are both exciting and rewarding. His recent trip to South Africa was a huge success in documenting information for their Rhino Forever Project and has brought them closer to bringing Southern White Rhinos to Texas. He also has the privilege to work with like-minded individuals in the industry by attending tradeshows to promote and raise conservation dollars for both SWC and our conservation partners. He believes in what he does, and what they do as a team at SWC does make a difference, and the proof is evident in all his projects.

United Arab Emirates

Shadi Al Hroub

Founder & CEO (Chief Creative), menamonsters

Shadi Al Hroub, an award-winning leader and creative director with over 16 years of experience and 9 years of research in branding, has been recognized by the international community for his outstanding achievements and has earned 29 international awards.

He had the privilege of working with some of the most innovative brands and organizations in the world including Leo Burnett, Hilton Worldwide, Jordan Aviation, Royal Falcon, Jordan Duty-Free, Samsung Electronics, Macdonald Hotels & Resorts, G2000 AG (formerly G2000 Clothing Group), Hublot Watches and The One by Young Couture as well as various NGOs including UNRWA, International Trade Center (UN), Global Health Development and USAID.

Additionally, Shadi was the chair of the Media Awards Judging Committee for our 17th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. And a team facilitator for the World Design Challenge on Sustainable Packaging that tackles UN Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, and a peer reviewer for the Journal for Artistic Research. Finally, he was a judge for the next creative leader of the USA 2021 by One Club for Creativity, and Biennial exhibition 2022.

United States

Tracey Miner

Executive Producer, Miner Productions

Tracey Miner has been in the advertising industry and then corporate event production business for 30+ years. He supports Silicon Valley Corporations currently and have an eye for what is new, edgy, and ground breaking in a world that lives quarter to quarter. After a hard-earned grounding in the advertising fields in NY and event fields in the California Bay Area, Tracy Miner founded Miner Productions. Now a 30-year-old Nevada based corporation, MinerPro has a proud history of producing live corporate events & video projects for some of the world's most notable corporations while also helping start ups get off the ground. He currently serves as a judge for Telly and Aurora awards.

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 identity with their brand values and aesthetic. 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.

United States

Keisha Salmon

Director of Communications and Strategic Initiatives, John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity

Having worked with nonprofit and for-profit companies across many different industries for 9 years, Keisha has often been tasked with developing and refining the creative process behind various marketing and communications engagement initiatives. For over 15 years she has used her experience in marketing, communications and advertising to create meaningful and strategic campaigns that elevate the branding of any product, service or organization as a whole. Those experiences, which include a lengthy history of her own successes and learning curves help her to identify creative elements that are most impactful.

Spain

Taejay Lee

Managing Director, Peculiar Frame

Taejay is a digital native who got his professional start in the gaming industry in Korea, his homeland. During his time with the game maker Min Communications, he helped commercialising 3D MMORPG game globally and launched an international game tournament show across 8 countries. His creative wanderlust then took him to a variety of places such as Bangkok, London, and Amsterdam at shops like FCB, Saatchi & Saatchi, Nomads, and THEY where he honed his skills in advertising that won client's hearts and awards. He has conducted an orchestra with animals, made people to taste a cracker with ears, turned every gamer into Leo Messi, crafted an art with a vacuum cleaner, and built a hoverboard racing circuit at the F1 Monaco GP along the way. At home TJ dedicates himself to cooking Korean BBQ for his Spanish wife and Scottish Terrier, and nurturing a love for Kimchi in anyone who shows an interest on fermented spicy food.

Portugal

Leandro Peixoto

Head of Design, Remote

Leandro (aka Leopat Magnus) is a self-taught Designer & Maker from Lisbon. Founder & Art Director at INFINIT, Design Lead at GadRing, Smatch and member of the AWWWARDS jury. With over 12 years work experience he worked with some pretty great people at some pretty awesome companies. He also spend about 3 months a year working on self-initiated projects.

United States

Vitaly Shytnev

Creative Director / 3D Artist , PREGMATE

Vitaly Shytnev is a Creative Director and 3D Artist based in Miami. Over the past 15 years, Vitaly has created award-winning projects in the fields of advertising, projection mapping, motion design, video, and post-production. He has worked for various international agencies, event and video productions, collaborating with high-profile clients such as Audi, Porsche, Maserati, Volvo, Stella Sport, Samsung, Adidas, and LG. Currently, he works as a Creative Director for a company called PREGMATE, where he produces 3D stills and videos to effectively communicate ideas to customers, while fostering excellence through innovative and creative concepts across all media.

United States

DJ Summitt

Senior Motion Designer, SiriusXM

DJ Summitt is an award-winning Art Director 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, meticulous process, international experience, and a heaping dose of the x-factor to help his clients' projects and products leap out of the screen and into the audience's lifestyle.

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.

Portugal

Leandro Peixoto

Head of Design, Remote

Leandro (aka Leopat Magnus) is a self-taught Designer & Maker from Lisbon. Founder & Art Director at INFINIT, Design Lead at GadRing, Smatch and member of the AWWWARDS jury. With over 12 years work experience he worked with some pretty great people at some pretty awesome companies. He also spend about 3 months a year working on self-initiated projects.

Czech Republic

Klaus Sommer Paulsen

CEO Creative Director, 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 States

Andrea Ferguson

President, AndiSites Inc.

As the founder/President of a digital agency celebrating its 10th anniversary, Andrea deeply familiar with web trends, marketing effectiveness, and what makes an excellent website. For more than 20 years she has worked in corporate communications, experiencing first-hand the transition from print-only assets to online marketing. she has also worked as a successful film/TV actress (as Andrea Powell) so recognize creativity in all its forms. She is fair, open-minded, thorough, encouraging, and unfailingly supportive of the digital marketing community. She would be proud to help recognize and reward excellence that helps further and enhance our industry.

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.

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. 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 Iberoamérica, Cóndor de Oro, Festival del Caribe, Diario El Comercio, among others.
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 has been able to participate as a jury in some of the most prestigious advertising festivals in the world like: New York Festivals, EL SOL festival, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, Lisbon International Awards, Lisbon Healh Awards, Adstars Festival, Muse Awards, Cresta Awards, Luxury Advertising Awards, American Business Awards, Vega Awards, Global Trend Awards, Wina Awards, FEPI Awards, among others.
At the present time he works as a Creative Director in Ludikom, Digital Consulting at PRESS NETWORK and Founder of Bross Studio.

India

Shashwat Das

Founder Director, Almond Branding

Saswata 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. Saswata Das is capable of judging not only traditional forms like print and films and photography but also newer media and social media campaigns.

Canada

Thomas Jankowski

Chief Executive Officer, Medimap

As a recognised global leader with worldwide corporate experience, Thomas is a disruptive digital executive with extensive management and hands-on experience in all facets of technology, product, marketing and sales. A visionary thinker, Thomas focuses on the future while dealing with today through exemplary leadership and knowledge sharing. Winning Gold for Maverick of the Year in the 2019 Stevie Awards, Thomas is also a master at converting emerging technologies into explosive business ventures. His interests also include blockchain, crypto, AI and IoT, having a passion for turning ideas and datas into products, insights and experiences.

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.

Spain

Taejay Lee

Managing Director, Peculiar Frame

Taejay is a digital native who got his professional start in the gaming industry in Korea, his homeland. During his time with the game maker Min Communications, he helped commercialising 3D MMORPG game globally and launched an international game tournament show across 8 countries. His creative wanderlust then took him to a variety of places such as Bangkok, London, and Amsterdam at shops like FCB, Saatchi & Saatchi, Nomads, and THEY where he honed his skills in advertising that won client's hearts and awards. He has conducted an orchestra with animals, made people to taste a cracker with ears, turned every gamer into Leo Messi, crafted an art with a vacuum cleaner, and built a hoverboard racing circuit at the F1 Monaco GP along the way. At home TJ dedicates himself to cooking Korean BBQ for his Spanish wife and Scottish Terrier, and nurturing a love for Kimchi in anyone who shows an interest on fermented spicy food.

United States

Shangning Wang

Design Project Specialist, UNDP

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 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!

India

Deepti Kshirsagar

Partner & Director, TCT Branding

A purveyor of the thought that good design is the one which impacts lives. Deepti has over a decade of experience in Design and Branding and has been instrumental in launching few notable, global brands in India. She believes that Design is evolving with culture and perspective of looking at design merely as a good looking piece of art needs to evolve too. New energy is pumping in exploring the undone in design and communication, and its imperative to channelize that energy in the right manner. She believes in the ability to nurture and hone the new breed of design basis the experience and intuit. She has done so as a founder of WOW Design, for last 6 years, honing the best talent and delivering some path breaking brand experiences across category.

Japan

Masanori Eto

Director | Coordinator | Package Designer, ADBRAIN Inc.

At the beginning, he had worked on advertising. Afterwards, he developed the Package Design business. And, he has worked on the package design for over a quarter century. Now, he was the Creative Director of the Package Division at ADBRAIN, and worked for many Japanese brands and Global brands in Japan. Masanori was a Board member of "Japan Package Design Association" (JPDA) Until July 2022. He has been the Director of Public relation, and Regional development by design, and international exchange about Package design. And he had teached about package design and branding for some Art schools and College in Japan (Tokyo, Sapporo, Sendai, and Kobe) and China (Beijing, Shanghai) and Taichung on ASPaC (Asia Students Package design Competition) events. His next challenge is teaching branding & planning for students majoring in web design in the Japan Electronics College. In addition, he participates as a jury for some international design awards, "ADC Annual Awards" (2022), "A' Design Award and Competition" (2014 to 2023), "The Vertex Awards" for retail brands (2015 to 2023), "The Dieline Awards" (2015.2016), and "Kiev International Advertising Festival" (2015). Since 2022, he has been an advisor to the "Asian Designer Communication Platform", an international design business exchange organization.

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.

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, tradeshows 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 usage of the right dose of technology, preferably in an interactive and immersive way. Being a 18-years 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.

Russia

Aleksandr Tikhonov

Director, Contorra Family

Aleksandr Tikhonov was born and raised in Sochi, Russia. He entered the IT world in 2005 while living in Ukraine with his 2nd wife. Started as a translator, rewriter, and copywriter, he then continued his career in the customer service line, junior marketer, and business development specialist. In 2008, Aleksandr founded Contorra, a web agency in Sochi with big love for Drupal. It was a small team of dedicated people who made some of Russia's most impressive Drupal sites. Later they mastered Magento and WordPress, and by 2017, there's a big number of 150 active customers' websites - not to mention numerous logos and identities. He now resides in a wooden house in a picturesque village of the Sochi outskirts with his wife, little son and red dachshund.

United States

Mark Bloom

Founder/Creative Director, A Willing Participant, Inc.

For over 25 years, Mark Bloom has been a creative professional who understands what makes a great campaign and how to bring it to life. He has won multiple awards and has worked on multi-million-dollar commercials down to simple one camera testimonials. His direct mail/response work helped him know early on how best to get better response for his clients on their emails. He has written for every medium, worked on everything from credit cards to cancer research foundations. His biggest accomplishment is setting out on his own to build an agency. No easy task in today's environment where there seem to be more and more shops popping up every day. But he has managed to be very successful and continue to grow with clients who trust what they do.

Germany

Philipp Nottelmann

Brand Experience Director, Landor & Fitch

Philipp works as a brand experience director for the creative network of Landor. He brings knowledge from several areas, including digital, brand identity, concept and art direction, as well as interaction and installation. He has a strong cross-cultural competence combined with an interdisciplinary skill- and mindset. Overall he developed his solution orientated thinking.
He is keen to find solutions for regional and global key clients, corporations of all size and individuals. Philipp takes interest in the environment, new technologies, emergent futures and advocates circular economy and polymath working. Therefore he offers impactful ideas and design with values.

Netherlands

Richard A. Neve

Executive Creative Director / Partner, Cognito Media Amsterdam

Richard Neve started his career in journalism. He worked for daily newspapers and several magazines before shifting to public relations when moving to American broadcaster NBC Europe as Communications Manager for Nordics, Benelux and France. After this he started his first agency. That agency merged into Citigate and was renamed into Grayling.

Neve worked as Director PR & Brand Activation at Havas Worldwide and founded the agency that is Cognito Media Amsterdam. Richard was MD of this office until early this year and now works as Executive Creative Director on various international campaigns. Richard assisted and advised a wide range of clients on their media relations, branding and corporate communications.

India

Shashwat Das

Founder Director, Almond Branding

Saswata 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. Saswata Das is capable of judging not only traditional forms like print and films and photography but also newer media and social media campaigns.

Germany

Claudia Goergen

Managing Director, FILMUNIQUE Medienproduktion

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.

Brazil

Augusto Correia

Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi MEA

Augusto Jesus Correia is an ACD, currently working at TBWARaad, Dubai. He believes advertising has only 2 ways to be relevant: being useful or being entertaining. With that in mind he was lucky enough to earn over 400 awards through the years, including Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, Clio Awards, Effie, New York Festivals, Webby Awards, FWA, Epica, El Ojo, Young Guns among others. He also holds a chair as a Miami Ad School mentor, teaching creativity and case video storytelling. He topped 1st place worldwide on Creative and Art Directors Rankings in Best Ads website for 2014 and was named "Newcomer of the Year" by Creative Pool for 2016. At Grey, his work helped the agency to be the most Brazilian awarded agency at Cannes Lions for the second time in a row. His work had several social impacts. The “What Family Means” project managed to change the meaning of the word "family" in dictionaries to help non-traditional families to keep their rights. “Priceless Pets” helped more than 500 animals to get adopted in a year and became a bill to change the law. "Miles for the People" reverted to the people the air miles generated through politicians' air tickets paid with public money. And became a law.

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. 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 Iberoamérica, Cóndor de Oro, Festival del Caribe, Diario El Comercio, among others.
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 has been able to participate as a jury in some of the most prestigious advertising festivals in the world like: New York Festivals, EL SOL festival, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, Lisbon International Awards, Lisbon Healh Awards, Adstars Festival, Muse Awards, Cresta Awards, Luxury Advertising Awards, American Business Awards, Vega Awards, Global Trend Awards, Wina Awards, FEPI Awards, among others.
At the present time he works as a Creative Director in Ludikom, Digital Consulting at PRESS NETWORK and Founder of Bross Studio.

Italy

Patrizia Burra

Professional Photographer MQEP (Master qualified European Photographer), Patrizia Burra Photography

Patrizia Burra began her career in art as a painter first and then, self-taught as a photographer. Specializing in portraits and Digital manipulation, Patrizia has received during her career, and in particular the last three years, numerous international prizes and special mentions, has been published in prestigious journals such as 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide 2014/2015 by Lurzer's ARCHIVE 200 Best Digital Artists Worldwide 2013/2014 by Lurzer's ARCHIVE or Vogue, and has exhibited her works in Italy and abroad. She is MQEP MASTER QUALIFIED EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHER.

United States

Yeon Sang Yoon

Creative, Snap Inc.

Yeon Yoon is a Los Angeles-based creative, art director, and designer, currently working at Amazon as an Art Director, overseeing various global campaigns and marketing initiatives. Yeon began his career as an Art Director at Elephant, a rapidly growing digital agency that served clients such as Apple, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, and Comcast. He then moved to Los Angeles to work for Grey West where he collaborated with Amazon, AWS, and Hasbro. Later, he joined Snap Inc., focusing on integrating Augmented Reality into branding and marketing efforts. During his time at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Yeon was one of the most decorated students, winning numerous awards. He was also the second winner in the school's history to win Cannes Future Lions. Recently, he has been nominated to serve as a jury member for Vega Digital Awards, LIT Commercial Awards and a few other prestigious names as well.

Hong Kong SAR

Eunice Wong

Chief Brand Consultant, wowwowtank

Eunice Wong has extensive marketing & management experience as the C-suite in international brands, MNC media groups, and global branding/ creative/ communications agencies in Greater China & Asia. Her exposure covers B2C & B2B on financial products, consumer tech, retail & FMCG, travel & hospitality, lifestyle & luxury sectors with a stellar track record of business growth. Her marketing experience stretches from product development, market development, marketing communications, corporate communications, data application, strategic business planning. Her achievement in both mainstream and digital marketing received over 200 awards. She is also an active judge in international marketing awards and a popular speaker in universities.

United States

Alejandro Benzaquen

Director / VFX Editor, Creative Concept Lab, LLC

With over 8 years of active presence on digital platforms, Alejandro Benzaquen has gained recognition as a global content creator with over 600 million views on my videos. His work on social media has allowed him to collaborate with brands, renowned artists and influencers such Lele Pons, Hannah Stocking, Markos, among others including directing and editing music videos and lyric videos for popular singers like Joey Montana and Reykon. As a "Wizard of the Networks," as recognized by international media such as the BBC, he has developed a keen eye for creative content and trends, with a deep understanding of the importance of visual storytelling, technical skills, and innovation in the digital space. He is well-versed in various creative disciplines, including video production, editing, and visual effects, which has honed his ability to assess and appreciate creative works from diverse perspectives.

United States

Alexia Bregman

Director of Marketing, The Bureau of Small Projects

Alexia started out as an advertising copywriter in her hometown of Cape Town, South Africa, working with some of the world’s largest brands like IBM, Avis, AT&T, P&G, Lever Brothers, South African Breweries, and Smithkline Beecham. She has created campaigns for hotels, radio stations, food, headache pills, beer and more, and has worked on everything from omnichannel digital, below-the-line promotions, million-dollar TV ads and radio spots. Her love of branding and business led her to taking the leap as an entrepreneur. Founding businesses became a passion, working across a diverse selection of industries including kids toys, sports, apparel, surf accessories and even a triathlon. Her biggest business success was having created and grown Vuka Energy Drinks. After 14-years Alexia was enticed back into the advertising industry by The Bureau of Small Projects where as Director of Marketing her focus is imparting Fortune 500 big brand thinking to small business, starts-ups and non-profits. Alexia lives in San Diego as close to the beach as she possibly can, with her husband, three teenage children and two dogs. She fills the rest of her time surfing and playing jazz flute. She is currently completing her degree in extension studies through Harvard University with a major in Business Management. No she does not sleep.

Pakistan

Omar Qureshi

Creative Director, SadaPay

Omar Qureshi is a Creative Director at SadaPay, Pakistan, and a MarCom Professional who practices design thinking and expansive thinking to constantly drive innovation. Omar unlocked his way to becoming a Creative Director at SadaPay in 2020, and since then, he’s been spearheading a team of Creatives to take SadaPay’s branding and content production to the pinnacle of the FinTech industry in Pakistan.

Omar possesses a keen eye for aesthetics and detail, and his work is renowned for its thoughtfulness, precision, and consistency. His diverse agency and client experiences across a range of industries, including chemicals, transport, food, and publishing, have enabled him to craft both large and small-scale creative solutions to solve complex business problems and requirements, and be on Grand Jury panels for platforms ie New York Advertising Awards & Global Social Media Awards.

Post six, Omar can be found reading Marty Neumeier & David Airey, listening to the Crazy One, playing squash, or connecting local creatives & marketers with recruiters through Pakistan Creatives.

Singapore

Debadrita Choudhury

Partner APAC, Gain Theory - Marketing effectiveness & foresight consultancy

A Masters in Statistics from IIT Kanpur, India and an MS in Stochastics from London School of Economics, and a Leadership Certification from INSEAD France, Debadrita has an extensive Marketing Analytics and Data Science experience globally. She currently represents the Global Senior Leadership team of Gain Theory – a WPP Marketing Effectiveness consulting firm, as a Partner based out of Singapore. In this role, she is responsible for leading APAC client engagements, supporting new business efforts and on co-creating relevant new products for the Global team. She has also held multiple leadership positions at Genpact, Ab Inbev, Course5i Consulting and Accenture, where she was responsible for setting up Global Data Science capabilities focusing on partnerships, innovations and delivering effective marketing solutions for different Fortune 100 and 500 brands. Her core expertise lies within Sales and Marketing analytics, covering the entire value chain including brand building; acquisition modelling; pricing and promotions; demand forecasting; and measuring investment effectiveness.

United States

Sofia Tavares

Chief Brand Officer, Preply

Sofia Tavares is the Chief Brand Officer at Preply, leading the company's transformation into a global iconic brand. Sofia has over two decades experience running global strategies in FMCG organizations worldwide. This includes serving as Senior Vice President of Brand at Delivery Hero, where she led all global brands including Talabat in the MENA region, PedidosYa in Latin America, Foodora in Europe, and Foodpanda in the Asia-Pacific region. Her work in the field earned her the Drum Awards for Best Design in 2021. Sofia has also worked as SVP of Brand, Head of Brand, and Brand Manager, at companies such as PepsiCo, Bacardi, Cadbury plc, Black & Decker, PetroChina and Maison Camus. Fluent in eight languages, including Spanish, German and Chinese, Sofia is originally from Portugal and holds a Master's degree in Marketing and Commercial Management from Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya and a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from IADE.