Minakshi Achan, Max Hegerman, Jasmin Sohrabji, R. Gowthaman and Ashwini Desphande to judge the entries across 4 categories
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | August 1, 2012
Spikes Asia, the regional creative advertising and communications festival for Asia Pacific, taking place 16-18 September in Singapore, has announced a further five of the ten juries that will be present in Singapore to judge this year’s awards: Direct and Promo & Activation, Digital & Mobile, Media, PR and Design.
The Direct and Promo & Activation jury will be: Tina Manikas, Executive Vice President, Global Retail & Promotions, Draftfcb, Global – Jury President Brandie Tan, Executive Creative Director, Lowe Malaysia, Malaysia Joji Jacob, Group Executive Creative Director, DDB Group, Singapore Julian Schreiber, Creative Director, Clemenger BBDO, Australia Junichi Tanaka, Creative Director, ADK, Japan Minakshi Achan, Co-Founder, Salt Brand Solutions, India Victor Ng, Chief Creative Officer, Euro RSCG South East Asia, Regional Chee-Guan Yue, Executive Creative Director, Grey Group, China
The Digital & Mobile jury is: Morihiro Harano, Creative Director, Founder, PARTY, Japan – Jury President Dwayne Serjeant, Regional Practice Leader, Isobar, Hong Kong Laurent Shen, Founder, Director, Moulin-Orange, Taiwan Mark Kozlowski, Creative Director, R/GA, Singapore Max Hegerman, Senior Vice President, Head of Digital, JWT, India Melvin Mangada, Managing Partner & Chief Creative Officer, TBWA\SMP, The Philippines Thierry Halbroth, Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup, China Tim Buesing, Digital Creative Director, Publicis Mojo, Australia Youngmin Cho, Creative Director, Cheil, South Korea
The Media jury line-up is: Dominic Proctor, President, GroupM Worldwide, Global – Jury President Andi Sadha, Chief Executive Officer, Activate Media, Indonesia Bertilla Teo, Chief Executive Officer, Greater China, Starcom MediaVest, China Jasmin Sohrabji, Managing Director, OMD, India Joe Nakamura, Chief Executive Officer, Universal McCann, Japan R. Gowthaman, Chief Executive Officer, Mindshare S&SE Asia, Asia Pacific Stuart Clark, Managing Director, Havas Media International, Asia Pacific Toby Hack, Managing Director, PHD, Australia
The Design jury members are: Yang Yeo, Chief Creative Officer, JWT, China – Jury President Andrew Petch, Executive Creative Director, Ace Saatchi & Saatchi, The Philippines Ashwini Desphande, Director, Elephant Strategy + Design, India Ikmyung Cho, Executive Creative Director, SK Marketing & Company, South Korea Jeffry Gamble, Executive Creative Director, DDB Group, Hong Kong Kazoo Sato, Executive Creative Director, TBWA\Hakuhodo, Japan Mike Staniford, Executive Creative Director, Landor, Australia
The PR jury have been named as: Glenn Osaki, President, MSL Group Asia, Regional – Jury President Angelina Ong, Regional Managing Director, Burson-Marsteller Asia Pacific, China Diana Lesaca, President & Chief Executive Officer, Weber Shandwick, The Philippines Kelly Bennett, Managing Partner & Regional Director, Eleven PR, New Zealand Ong Hock Chuan, Partner/Technical Advisor, Maverick PR, Indonesia Richard Tsang, Chairman & Managing Director, Strategic Public Relations Group, Hong Kong Tadashi Inokuchi, Senior Division Director, PR Planner, Dentsu PR, Japan
Terry Savage, Chairman of Lions Festivals says, “To ensure that Spikes Asia continues to set the creative benchmark within the region, it’s crucial that the people judging the entries and casting their opinions are respected, passionate and forward-thinking within their fields. In these five juries we have these qualities, which will help the truly great work to get recognised and rise to the top.”
