GLOBAL – NEW YORK, MARCH 3, 2011 – The New York Festivals has announced the 28 members of its first-ever Executive Jury, the exclusive group of prominent worldwide chief creative officers and executive creative directors who will participate in a live judging session in New York from May 1 to 5. This elite group will select the 2011 trophy and Grand award winners from the Finalists winners, decided on by the 2011 Grand Jury online. Ogilvy Singapore’s Steve Back, Dentsu’s Akira Kagami, Taproot’s Santosh Padhi, Y&R Asia’s Marcus Rebeschini and JEH United’s Jureeporn Thaidumrong are the five Executive Jury members from Asia. The full list of Executive Jury follows.
Steve Back, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Singapore
Matthew Bull, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Worldwide
Marie-Catherine Dupuy, Vice Chairman, Chief Creative Officer, TBWA France
Pete Favat, Chief Creative Officer, Arnold Worldwide Boston
Rob Feakins, President, Chief Creative Officer, Publicis
Staffan Forsman, Co-Founder, Executive Creative Director, Forsman & Bodenfors
Rei Inamoto, Chief Creative Officer, AKQA
Armin Jochum, Chief Creative Officer, Jung von Matt Hamburg
Akira Kagami, Executive Advisor, Global Executive Creative Advisor, Dentsu
Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer, DDB Group
Tham Khai Meng, Chairman, Worldwide Creative Director, Worldwide Creative Council, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
James McGrath, Creative Chairman,Clemenger BBDO Ronald Ng, Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director, BBDO NY
Peter Nicholson, Chief Creative Officer, JWT
Santosh Padhi, Chief Creative Officer & Co. Founder, TAPROOT Mumbai, India
Benjamin Palmer, Co-Founder, CEO, Barbarian Group
Milka Pogliani, Chairman, Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup Italy
Robert Rasmussen, Chief Creative Officer, Tribal DDB USA
Marcus Rebeschini, Chief Creative Officer, Y&R Asia
Rob Reilly, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer, Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Alexander Schill, Global Chief Creative Officer, Partner, Serviceplan Group
Rob Sherlock, Chief Creative Officer, DraftFCB
Jureeporn Thaidumrong, President, Founder, JEH United
Mark Tutssel, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett
Mark Waites, Founding Partner & Joint Creative Director, Mother London
Graham Warsop, Founder, Chief Creative Officer, The Jupiter Drawing Room
Conway Williamson, Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi NY
Stéphane Xiberras, President, Executive Creative Director, BETC Euro RSCG
Five Filipinos have been appointed to the GrandJury: Leo Burnett Creative Director Alvin Tecson in Collateral, Leo Burnett Executive Creative Director Raoul Panes for Integrated Media, DM9 JaymeSyfuCreative Director Louie Sotto for Outdoor, DDB Philippines Executive Creative Director Joey Ong for Print, and BBDO Guerrero/Proximity Philippines Executive Creative Director Brandie Tan for TV/Cinema/Promo.
Other Asian GrandJury members are:
Art-Technique and Technology
Jong-Yeol Baik, Chief Executive Officer/Director, 617 Productions, Korea
Shun Miyashita, President/Executive, Producer, Lift Corporation, Japan
Prakash Varma, Executive Producer, Nirvana Films, India
Kenji Yamamoto, Film Director, TFC, Japan
Hai-Woong Yoon, President, Namubada, Korea
Avant-Garde
K.S. Chakravarthy, Nat’l Creative Director, DRAFTFCB+Ulka, India
Soo-Chul (Steve) Keum, Creative Chairman, United Kingdom, Korea
Hidenobu Niizuma, Senior Creative Director, Hakuhodo, Japan
Collateral Kum-jun Park, Art Director, 601bisang, Korea
Design
Bhavesh Kosambia, Creative Director/Art Director, Grey, India
Digital and Interactive
Akihito Abe, Sr Creative Director/Interactive, OgilvyOne, Japan
Minoru Fujisaki, Sr. Creative Director, TBWA/Hakuhodo, Japan
Natalie Lam, Executive Creative Director, OgilvyOne, China
Pyo Moon-Song, Creative Director, Daehong Communications, Korea
Integrated Media
Endy Fung, Executive Creative Director/Creater, China Razorfish, HK
Kentaro Kimura, Co-CEO/Executive Creative Director, Hakuhodo Kettle, Japan
Stephen Mui, Executive Creative Director, NEWSUN/JWT Advertising, China
Jody Xiong, Senior Creative Director, DDB, China
Marketing Effectiveness
Guy Barke, VP/Regional Business Director, Grey, Singapore
Outdoor
Nils Anderson, Greater China & Regional Head of Art, Y&R, China
Cathy Chow, Creative Director, The A Team, Taiwan
Kim Jung-A, Creative Director, Innocean Worldwide, Korea
Marky Lo, Creative Partner, Bones Communications, Hong Kong
Isamu Nakamura, Creative Director, McCann, Japan
Satoru Oishi, Creative Director, ASATSU-DK INC, Japan
Sachin Ambekar, Executive Creative Director, Y&R, Indonesia
Ariyawat Juntaratip, Creative Director, BBDO, Thailand
Hideshi Makishima, Creative Director, Dentsu, Japan
Jeong-Han Park, Creative Director, HSAd, Korea
Abhinav Tripathi, Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup, India
TV-Cinema-Promo
Keith Lo, Creative Director, Grey, Hong Kong
Fujiko Shirataki, Senior Creative Director, Daiko, Japan
Santi Suwanvalaikorn, Creative Director, McCann Erickson, Thailand
Nobutoshi Takada, Executive Creative Director, Tokyu Agency, Japan
Emmanuel Upputuru, NCD, Publicis, India
Young-Kug Won, CEO/Creative Director, Solcom, Korea
Juries for Hispanic U.S.A. advertising and the new categories Public Service Announcements and PR/Brand Communications will be announced shortly.