Spikes Asia, the festival honoring creative excellence in advertising and communications across Asia-Pacific, is pleased to announce the final three of the seven juries. With impressive line-ups, the Craft jury will be chaired by Akira Kagami, Executive Advisor & Global Executive Creative Advisor of Dentsu; Media will be led by Jon Wilkins, Founding Partner of Naked Communications; and the Integrated jury, made up of members from all the other juries, including jury presidents, will be chaired by David Lubars, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer or BBDO North America who also heads the Film, Print, Outdoor and Radio jury.
Craft Jury
Akira Kagami, Executive Advisor & Global Executive Creative Advisor, Dentsu, Japan – Jury President
Stanley Wong, Film Director, ThreeTwoOne Film Production, Hong Kong
Shashanka Chaturvedi, Director and Partner, Goodmorning, India
Toshiya Kono, Executive Creative Director, Hakuhodo, Japan
Merlee Jayme, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, DDB DM9 JaymeSyfu, The Philippines
Chris Chiu, Group Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide, Singapore
Haydn Evans, Head of Production & Content Development, TBWAAsia Pacific, Singapore
Barry Munchick, Proprietor, Velocity, South Africa
Media Jury
Jon Wilkins, Founding Partner, Naked Communications, Australia – Jury President
Simon Woodward, Chief Executive Officer China, UM, China
Ashutosh Srivastava, Leader Asia Pacific, Mindshare, Singapore
Vishnu Mohan, Chief Executive Officer Asia Pacific, Havas Media, India
Malcolm Hanlon, Managing Partner Asia Pacific, ZenithOptimedia, Singapore
Barry Cupples, Chief Executive Officer – Asia Pacific, Omnicom Media Group, Singapore
Nick Waters, Chief Executive Officer – Asia Pacific, Aegis Media, Singapore
Integrated Jury
David Lubars, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, BBDO North America, USA – Jury President
Jon Wilkins, Founding Partner, Naked Communications, Australia
Bill Rosen, President, Chief Creative Officer, Arc Worldwide, USA
Bob Greenberg, Chairman, CEO and Global Chief Creative Officer, R/GA, USA
Rei Inamoto, Chief Creative Officer, AKQA, USA
Jean Lin, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Isobar, China
Sonal Dabral, Regional Executive Creative Director Asia and Chairman India, Bates 141, India
Toby Talbot, Group Executive Creative Director, DDB, New Zealand
Andy Greenaway, Regional Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi, Singapore
Calvin Soh, Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer – Asia, Publicis Asia, Singapore
Terry Savage, Chairman of Spikes Asia, said, “The calibre of the jury reflects the prestige of these awards. We are honoured to bring together such highly respected, very talented and multi-award winning professionals to judge at Spikes Asia.”
Spikes Asia is jointly organised by Haymarket and Cannes Lions. To submit entries, register to attend or for more information on Spikes Asia 2010, visit www.spikes.asia.
About Spikes Asia
The Spikes Asia Advertising Festival celebrating and inspiring Asia-Pacific creativity in advertising. Suntec City, Singapore, 19-21 September 2010.
Building on 23 years of the illustrious Spikes Awards, the Spikes Asia Advertising Festival is the result of a collaboration between the International Advertising Festival, organisers of Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx and Eurobest, and Haymarket. The Festival provides the region’s growing creative and advertising industry with a platform to network and exchange ideas, bringing together some of the finest creative thinkers from across the region and around the world.
Spikes Asia, attended by close to 1,000 delegates in 2009, offers a challenging programme of seminars and workshops focusing on creativity and learning, exhibitions of creative work from Asia-Pacific, networking events in the evening and the Spikes Asia award show.
The Awards, judged by leading international and regional creatives, honour the best creative work in the categories of TV/Cinema, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Digital, Integrated, Direct, Sales Promotion, Media, Print Craft, TV/Cinema Craft and Design.
Key Dates: Delegate registration open from 22 April 2010; Entries open from 20 May 2010; More time to submit Entries: 6 August 2010; Festival 19-21 September 2010.
