Amit Akali, Chief Creative Officer, Medulla Communications and What’s Your Problem, is the only Indian on the London International Awards (LIA) Health and Pharma Jury. Jeremy Perrott, Global Chief Creative Officer, McCann Health, is the Jury President for Health and Pharma at the LIA. The judging for the awards will take place from September 29 to October 7 in Las Vegas and the winners will be announced on November 1, 2017.
Perrott said, “London International Awards not only recognises the outstanding work being achieved but the quality of the craft it takes to connect communities, governments, institutions, patients, doctors and many others who rely now on health to be informed, educated and connected.”
He added, “This new festival is what we need in our industry to continue raising the standards, expectations and goals so that we do not stagnate or become mundane.”
The other jury members in the category are:
- Jeanie Caggiano, EVP / Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett, Chicago
- Oliver Caporn, Creative Director, CDM London
- Chris Duffey, Strategic Business Development, Strategic Cloud, Adobe, New York
- Todd Henwood, VP, Creative Director, GSW InVentivHealth, Toronto
- Ricardo Sciammarella Pereira, Creative Director, Ogilvy, São Paulo
- Masaya Shimizu, Planning Director, Dentsu, Tokyo
- Scott Smith, Creative Director, DDB Remedy, Sydney
- Shahbaz Zobairi, Executive Creative Director, MullenLowe MENA, Dubai
- Phil Brown, Creative Director, Bill Curtis & Phil Brown, Sydney
- R John Fidelino, Executive Creative Director. InterbrandHealth, New York
- Mirko Kaminski, Chief Executive Officer, achtung!, Hamburg
- Martin Martinez, Executive Creative Director, TANK, Montreal
- Alison McConnell, Global Client Lead, Publicis Healthcare, New York
- Brett O’Connor, Creative Director, VCCP Health, London
- Carles Puig, General Creative Director, Grey, Santiago
- Ronnie Caltabiano, VP, Associate Creative Director, New York
- Anna Fawcett. Executive Producer, Sydney
- Laura Gregory, CEO and Founder, London
The awards are a global festival honouring creativity and new ideas in advertising, production, digital, design, music and sound and technology.