Jury president
CHRIS GARBUTT
Chief Creative Officer
Ogilvy France
France
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Since arriving at Ogilvy Paris in 2008, Chris has built a world-class creative community commited to inventive ideas that make a difference in the world.
He has attracted some of the industry’s best creative talent, and together they have managed to produce award winning work on iconic global brands such as Perrier, Louis Vuitton, Mattel, Ford, Europcar, Dove, to name a few.
Under his leadership, Ogilvy Paris has managed to win Agency of the Year twice at Eurobest, and win many international awards at the Cannes Advertising Festival, London International, DandAD, The Andy Awards, The Clios, The New York Festival and the One Show, helping transform Ogilvy Paris into France’s top ranking creative agency.
Before joining Ogilvy, Chris worked at creatively driven agencies such as TBWA Hunt Lascaris, and TBWA Paris. He has always been at the centre of famous work on famous brands. Chris has won loads of prizes for his creative leadership, but more importantly, he has managed to grow client’s business with the work he has produced, always believing that creativity and effectiveness work together in a powerful alchemy.
Chris is obsessed with the future of advertising, and is constantly inventing new ways to inspire people to engage with the brands he works on. He believes that we are living in the most exciting time in the history of our business, and is truly inspired with all the new possibilities we have to find creative solutions for business challenges.
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ADRIAN BOTAN
VP Creative Excellence McCann Worldgroup Central and Eastern Europe/ Creative Partner in Bucharest Office
McCann Worldgroup
Romania
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Adrian studied Architecture & Design in Bucharest in the early 90’s, trying to find a job that is artistic but also has rational side to it. Later, he found out advertising offers the perfect match and something more: lots of fun. Thus he started his professional career in 1995 as a designer in a Romanian creative shop. In 1997 was working for DMB&B (later to become D’Arcy) where he was half of the team that won the first ever-international award for Romania.
In 1998, Adrian joined McCann Erickson, and never left. In the eleven years as a creative director, his team won over 150 awards for creativity and effectiveness in competitions spanning from New York Festivals to Cannes and Epica or Eurobest, while McCann Romania was six times the Agency of the Year in three national and regional competitions. In 2007 McCann Romania entered the Gunn Report’s Top 50 creative agencies in the world.
In 2011 it became the first ever agency in Central and Eastern Europe to take home not one but two Grand Prix and Titanium in Cannes Lions Festival for the campaign “American Takeover” for ROM Chocolate.
Adrian's experience spans from FMCG to retail and telecom working on local and international brands like Coca-Cola, Sprite, and Vodafone. Currently he is coordinating the Coca-Cola brands for 23 countries in Central and South Europe.
Adrian is VP Creative Excellence for McCann Erickson in Central and Eastern Europe, Creative Partner of Bucharest office, founder member and President of Romanian Art Directors Club. In 2010 Adrian completed an MBA degree at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.
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ALEXANDER MATT
Global Brand Marketing Director
Adidas
Germany
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Alexander Matt is currently a Global Brand Marketing Director at adidas. He is responsible for the marketing and communication of the two main sub brands in adidas´ Style Division - Originals and NEO. Based in Germany, the role encompasses all of Alexander´s past experiences in the industry.
Alexander started his career in the internet boom. At skim.com, an innovative online fashion and design venture based in Zurich, where he was surrounded by the fast moving world of start-ups. He moved to Munich in 2001, where he joined the snowboard media house, Powderhausen. Here he set up and was in charge of their marketing department. Next stop for him was running the communication agency Bellaire, and consulting for brands like Red Bull, Smirnoff Ice and Nike.
In 2005 Alexander joined Levi’s where he was initially responsible for the Consumer Marketing in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In 2010, he was appointed as Commercial Director EMEA, where he built the Levi's Streetwear business unit, overseeing product, marketing and sales.
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DANIEL MENCÁK
Senior Art Director
DDB Stockholm
Sweden
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Daniel holds a Master's degree in Storytelling from Konstfack (university college in arts, crafts and design). After a few years at Mother London he moved back to Stockholm to work for DDB.
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JITKA BRET-SRBOVÁ
Associate Creative Director
Young & Rubicam Prague
Czech Republic
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Jitka Bret Srbová (*1976) has a thing for global network agencies. After spending some good years at Leo Burnett and TBWA she joined Y&R team in 2008 as Associate Creative Director. Over more than 13 years in the business she has worked for many local and international brands across all categories. Her work got recognized and awarded on both local and international field, Louskáček, Golden Drum, Epica or Cannes included.
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CHRISTOPH NANN
Executive Creative Director
Serviceplan
Germany
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Born in 1977, Christoph started his career as a copywriter in 1998.
At Agencies such as Grabarz & Partner or Springer & Jacoby, he created several internationally awarded campaigns for brands like Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Loewe over the last decade.
At 2006 he started at Serviceplan Hamburg as a founding member.
As Executive Creative Director he is in response for clients such as BMW, OSRAM, UNICEF and many more.
Christoph has won several hundred international awards – amongst others numerous Golds at Cannes Lions, One Show, ADC, Clio and many more. He is member of Art Director’s Club Germany and tutor at Texterschmiede, Hamburg, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, and Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
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FRANCESCO SIMONETTI
Vice Creative Director
Leo Burnett
Italy
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Francesco is one of the most awarded Italian creative. He started his career as journalist and satiric cartoonist before serving as copywriter for BBDO Italy. Then in Leo Burnett Italy, in won his first Cannes Lion in 2000 with Poste Italiane. In charge of clients like Ariston and Montblanc he collected several awards both in tv ( Aqualtis ) and interactive (The Beauty of a Second ). Among the others: 9 Cannes Lions, 3 gold One Show, 3 Clios, 1 Grand Clio for TV, 1 Yellow Pencil D&AD.
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SEBASTIAN BILLING
Global Communication Director of Absolut Vodka
Pernod Ricard
Sweden
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Sebastian started his career in marketing & communications by launching his own ad agency after University in 1993. A couple of years later his agency was bought by Arbmans, one of Sweden’s’ largest agencies at the time. In 1998 he then moved to London to join Bartle Bogle Hegarty as an Account Director but soon went back to Sweden to join Speed Ventures, a Venture Capital firm that invested in dotcom & telecom start-ups.
Some 35 start-ups later Sebastian joined V&S Group in 2004 as a Global Brand Planner consultant for ABSOLUT VODKA, Cruzan Rum and Level Vodka. In 2007 he moved to Brussels as Marketing Director EMEA for the denim brand Levi’s.
In 2010 he returned to the drinks industry as Global Communications Director Malibu & Kahlúa for Pernod Ricard. He now heads up global communications for ABSOLUT VODKA.
During his career he have worked with numerous global creative agencies, such as BBH, TBWA Chiat Day, Publicis, Ogilvy, Sid Lee and Razorfish and won several advertising and interactive awards.
He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with wife and son and spends most of his leisure time skiing or watching Real Madrid games
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FRANCOIS CHILOT
President
CFP-E (Commercial Film Producers of Europe)
Founder at LES PRODUCERS
France
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In 1984, after having worked for 10 years at TBWA, Francois Chilot founded LES PRODUCERS. By adopting this name, the company was underlining its multicultural identity. In 2000, LES PRODUCERS entered the list of the 10 best production companies in the world at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
For the past 15 years, Francois Chilot has been President of CFP-E (Commercial Film Producers of Europe), which brings together the associations of advertising film producers from 17 European countries. CFP-E gathers 600 production companies throughout Western Europe.
CFP-E is the instigator of Young Director Award. YDA is the not-to-miss off event of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. YDA is the award, which is only aimed at promoting young talents.
CFP-E together with APA (UK) and AICP (USA) is also the instigator of the World Producers Summit (WPS), which gathers 100 producers from all parts of the world in Cannes.
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SERGIO SPACCAVENTO
Associate Creative Director
BCube Publicis Milan
Italy
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Sergio is currently an Associate Creative Director at BCube Publicis in Milan, an art director, a copywriter, a scriptwriter, a Tv&Radio show writer, an advertising teacher and a member of the Art Directors Club Italy as well.
He started his carrer doing proper advertising, then he fell in love with new and alternative media – found out that fun is mixing it all together.
He worked for small, medium and big agencies on small, medium and big accounts.
He has been a juror for several local and international awards like the New York Festival, Art Directors Club Italy, Red Apple, Chipshop Award and many more.
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PAUL STECHSCHULTE
Executive Creative Director
Arnold Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Executive Creative Director Paul Stechschulte delivers a hybrid of creative and digital experience. Bringing nearly two decades of experience to his role Stechschulte last served as Executive Creative Director at Pereira & O'Dell in San Francisco. Prior to that Paul was a Group Creative Director at Goodby Silverstein & Partners for nearly four years where he was key in creating the international award-winning Sprint “Now Network” campaign. His television spot, “Wedding,” for Nextel was nominated for an Emmy. Stechschulte has served in various creative capacities with Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, 180 Amsterdam and Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami. Achievements include reintroducing the MINI brand to the US for BMW. The highly successful launch did not include a single television ad, which is unheard-of in the US automobile category. He has also created campaigns for Virgin Atlantic, Nike, Glenfiddich, Sprint, Burger King, EA Games, Carlsberg, IKEA, Google and Twitter to list a few. Paul's work has been honored by every award show in multiple mediums in the industry from One Show “Best of Show” to the Titanium Lion in Cannes. |
SERDAR EKREM SIRIN
Advertising Manager
Turkish Airlines
Turkey
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Serdar Ekrem has been Advertising Manager for 4 years at Turkish Airlines. He is mainly responsible for global creative, media planning and buying operations both online and offline. Serdar started his career in Foursense Int. London as Country Manager then moved to Turkish Airlines Academy where he worked as Marketing and Business Development Executive. He is currently enrolled in a PhD. Program on Sociology.
In 2011, he has been elected as International Marketer of the Year at M&M Global Awards.
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