Over 75 years of winning memories to inspire the next generation.

Astrid Stavro

Astrid Stavro Studio Founder & Creative Director

Astrid is a globally recognised and awarded creative director with over two decades of leadership in design. Her goal is to create idea-driven work that is emotionally engaging and meticulously crafted. From her London studio, she and her team collaborate with a wide range of brands and institutions in the cultural and commercial sectors. Prior to this, Astrid was a partner at Pentagram and co-founded the design agency Atlas. She is the President of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2010. __ Astrid is this year's Jury President for Design jury

Kemp Attwood

AREA 17 Founding Partner and CCO

As a Founding Partner and CCO, Kemp works across the New York and Paris studios. With a background in design and strategy, Kemp guides the delivery of value through craft with a global interdisciplinary team. A 17-year veteran of AREA 17, Kemp joined the agency first as a Design Director in the Paris studio before becoming a partner and returning Stateside to lead the New York studio. As with all partners, he is hands-on with clients, working as an executive creative director on client engagements. Previously, Kemp worked as a senior art director at Second Story in Portland Oregon, creating websites and museum installations for National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He began his career as a designer at Blast Radius in Vancouver. Later, his work at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio 3 garnered awards from Communication Arts, the Art Directors Club and the New York Festivals awards. Kemp studied in Toronto, Canada where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from York University and a Post-Diploma Certificate in New Media Design from the Bell Center for Creative Communications.

Talia Cotton

Cotton Founder & Creative Director

Talia Cotton is a designer, coder, creative entrepreneur, and leading specialist in the intersection of branding and technology. She is the Founder & Creative Director of Cotton, an award-winning design and technology agency and consultancy. Prior to Cotton, Talia spearheaded the design and development of data-driven and algorithmic brand identities on two teams at Pentagram, working alongside design giants Michael Bierut and Giorgia Lupi. Talia has received recognition from major design awards and publications such as The One Club, The TDC, Fast Co Design, and It's Nice That. Fast Company recently described her as “one of the leading graphic designers of the moment to embrace the possibilities of code.” As a frequent lecturer, Talia has spoken on international stages including the Google Visual Design Summit, OFFF Barcelona, and the Latin America Design Fest in Peru. She was recently named a “Responsible Designer to Watch” by GDUSA and awarded the Young Guns Award, recognizing top creative professionals under 30. Talia also teaches Interaction Design and Advanced Coding at Parsons School of Design. Her practice revolves around educating businesses and brands on the impact of coding as a design medium, and inspiring designers to pursue the study of code.

Chris Cyran

Independent Design Director

Chris Cyran is an independent Design Director based in NYC. Prior to working independently, Chris began his career at R/GA New York and then the Google Creative Lab. With a curiosity for all things creative and design, he has worked with various clients independently, and in-house. In-House / Clients: Spotify, Nike, Google, Meta • Agency: Kin, R/GA, Google Creative Lab, Schoooool. His work has been consistently recognized over the years by top judging shows including D&AD, ADC, and Comm Arts, which led to judging at these shows in the Brand / Communication Design category the past few years. If he is not designing, Chris enjoys picking up random hobbies, raising a 2 week old kitten, or connecting with fellow creatives around the globe.

Max Ottignon

Ragged Edge Co-Founder

Max Ottignon is co-founder of Ragged Edge, a branding agency for changemakers. Alongside fellow co-founder Matt Bland, Max has built an agency for people who care less about how things are, and more about how they could be. Whether at scale or scaling up, Ragged Edge works with businesses with the conviction to challenge the status quo. Brands like Wise, Papier, Monzo, East London Liquor Co, and Mindful Chef. From their London studio for clients around the world, the agency uses brand to solve complex, critical problems. Transforming businesses from the inside out with brave, conceptual thinking across strategy, creative and implementation.

André Toledo

DAVID New York Chief Creative Officer

André is the Chief Creative Officer of DAVID New York, listed in Adweek’s Creative 100 and ranked twice among the Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Most Awarded Creative Directors. During its first year, the office grew more than twice in size and revenue, working for brands like Supercell, CLIF Bar, Powerade, Stella Artois, and Nike. It won its first Cannes Lions, a Grand Prix at the Clio Awards, and was an Adweek Agency of the Year finalist. 
 Before the Big Apple, he was a founding member of DAVID Madrid, the network’s first European office. In less than three years, the office has been named AdAge’s A List International Agency of the Year, produced two Super Bowl spots (a first for a Spanish agency), and ranked twice in Cannes Lions’ Top 10 Most Creative Agencies. Previously, André worked as Global Creative Director at LOLA MullenLowe, overseeing all communication for brands like Magnum, Cornetto, Scrabble, and Burger King. He helped LOLA become the most creative agency in Iberoamerica for three years, the best agency in Europe according to WARC, and one of the Cannes Lions’ Top 10 European Agencies of the Decade.
 André started his career in his hometown, Lima, Perú, working at DDB and Y&R, where he won the country’s first Mobile Lion. __ André is this year's Jury President for the Print & Out of Home, Experiential, and Digital panel.

Patrick Bennett

Jack Morton Global Chief Creative Officer

Patrick Bennett is Global Chief Creative Officer at the leading brand experience agency Jack Morton. In this role, he spearheads the creative vision of the agency to inspire the world to experience better. As a key member of the executive leadership team, he also chairs Jack Morton’s Creative Council, guiding senior creative leaders worldwide. Joining Jack in the summer of 2024, Patrick brought with him a wealth of experience from his tenure as SVP, Executive Creative Director at Momentum Worldwide, a fellow Interpublic Group of Companies agency. His impressive career includes stints at world-class agencies such as Ogilvy, R/GA, and Digitas, where he led groundbreaking global creative initiatives for top-tier clients like American Express, Walmart, Verizon, Corona, Pacifico, Samsung, Amazon, British Airways, SAP, DIRECTV, Kraft, and Six Flags. Patrick is a fervent advocate for diversity and inclusion in the industry, committed to amplifying new, diverse, and often overlooked voices. He was featured in the award-winning documentary "Black Madison Avenue" and recently joined the board of directors of BLAC, dedicated to creating a more inclusive future in advertising. Based in New York City, Patrick’s first loves are Caribbean travel and culture and culture.

Cassidy Buzin

Energy BBDO SVP, Creative Director

Cassidy Buzin is an SVP Creative Director at Energy BBDO with a knack for crafting brand stories that reach consumers in uniquely human ways. She is currently leading The General Car Insurance and in her tenure has helped to develop innovative 360 campaigns for brands like Extra Gum, Kerrygold, Almay and Kind Bars. Prior to joining Energy BBDO, Cassidy worked at Edelman on the Kellogg’s Olympics and Special K rebrand campaigns. Her work has been recognized by some of the industry’s best awards, including Cannes Lions, Effies, Clios, WARC, Shorty Awards, Jay Chiat and Lürzer's Archive. Outside of working hours, Cassidy spends a lot of time chasing her two kids and convincing them not to hit the “skip ad” button. The irony.

Mike Czako

David&Goliath Group Creative Director of Integrated Art

Mike Czako joined David&Goliath as Group Creative Director of Integrated Art and is a thought leader on social, digital, innovation, and experiential for all agency partners including Kia and Jollibee. Prior to joining D&G, Mike has spent the past 20 years working in the ad, tech and film industries for agencies including TBWA Chiat Day, Saatchi & Saatchi, Deeplocal, MullenLowe LA, and Warner Bros. Discovery, and has created advertising campaigns and innovative marketing programs for some of the world’s largest brands such as Netflix, Google, Toyota, Acura, Proctor & Gamble, Taco Bell, Bacardi Limited, Sony, and Whole Foods Market. He’s worked hand-in-hand with partners across all disciplines and departments while leading and overseeing creative ideation and development across multiple platforms, including creation and production of traditional, digital, social, experiential, and mobile content. Mike’s work has been featured in almost every advertising industry award show including the Art Directors Club, Effies, ADDYs, Graphis, AICP, D&AD, and The One Show, and covered in publications including The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Campaign, Esquire, and Wired.

Maria Lee

Droga5 Creative Director

Maria Lee is a world-class, fearless creative leader who combines her passion for design, technology, and storytelling to put brands at the center of culture. She’s been named “Creative Director of the Year” by AdAge A-List, “Champion of Change” by Campaign US Inspiring Women Awards, "Creative Team of the Year" by Campaign US Awards, and “Rising Star of Madison Avenue” by Business Insider. Earlier in her career, she was recognized twice as “USA Young Lion” by Cannes Festival of Creativity. She’s spent the past thirteen years pushing boundaries of traditional and non-traditional media on both agency and brand side. Her work has been recognized by Fast Company, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, WARC, and Ad Council to name a few. She is currently leading creative at Droga5 New York.

Andrea Siqueira

Energy BBDO Executive Creative Director

Andrea Siqueira is a passionate Creative Latina Leader deeply involved in inspiring the power of creativity to move businesses and society forward. In her role as an Executive Creative Director at Energy BBDO Chicago, she’s one of the driving forces behind the creative transformation of all Bayer's brands, including recent projects like Miralax “The Gut Gap”, Bayer Claritin “DiversiTree”. Before her time in the US, Andrea Siqueira honored to be named The Best Brazilian Creative of The Year in 2019, by Caboré Award, and scored tenth most awarded Executive Creative Director at the One Show Creative Ranking in 2021. Some of her most awarded work is Hershey’s “HerShe”, Puma “The 9’58” Biography Book”, Pepsico eQlibri “The Sorority Packs”, Samsung “Defy Barriers”. To this date, Andrea’s work has been recognized by just about every prestigious advertising award festival worldwide, having received more than 78 international awards, and has served as Jury Member in almost all of them. Andrea is passionate about transforming thought-provoking ideas into memorable crafted work. And as a member of #GoodLatinasForGood, Andrea is a huge champion for giving a voice to diversity and empowering the next generation, being a mentor, sharing the knowledge and insights she has gained over the years. In her personal life, Andrea finds joy in sharing her love for storytelling and literature with her two children, fostering a bond rooted in the magic of imagination and the power of narrative. __ Andrea was a first-round judge for the Print & Out of Home, Experiential, and Digital panel.

Icaro Doria

President & CCO DM9

From founding Wieden+Kennedy São Paulo, to relaunching DM9, Icaro has done it all, and yet he feels he’s just getting started. Icaro has led multiple agencies to their best creative periods, with the belief that kindness and generosity are the only path to great, inspiring, transformative work.

Mike Donaghey

Apple Creative Director

Mike is an Emmy-nominated Creative Director, currently at Apple. In his nearly 20 year career, he has created Cannes gold-winning campaigns at four different companies, in three different countries. More importantly, he’s a very proud dad. He believes that “actions speak louder than ads” and strives to create brand behavior instead of brand messaging. His innovative work on Ted Lasso picked up the 2023 Cannes Grand Prix for Brand Activation, and his subversive campaign for Jet.com won the 2017 Grand Prix in Media. His pseudo-interactive films for Skittles were featured in the book “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This”, and his filmed stunt, “The Love Cam” received an Emmy nomination for Best Commercial. Mike began his career at FCB Toronto, followed by BBDO Toronto. In 2012, he moved to Ogilvy London to work on some great clients (and to travel all around Europe, and also to be closer to Manchester United). In 2014, Mike moved to R/GA New York, where he became Executive Creative Director. In 2020, Mike and his longtime creative partner, Chris Joakim, moved to Apple in Los Angeles as Creative Directors on Apple TV+. And in 2023, he helped form a new group focused on activations across products and services.

Della Mathew

22Squared Executive Creative Director

Della is an award-winning creative director, art director, and strategic thinker. Her major clients have included Baskin-Robbins, Southeast Toyota, Varo Bank, Smithfields, IKEA, Citizens, Heineken, Coca-Cola, Stolichnaya, and Philips. She is currently an Executive Creative Director at 22Squared, building on her passion for creating culturally impactful work that’s impossible to ignore. Under her direction, she is enabling Baskin-Robbins, the legacy ice cream brand, to retain its OG status in culture by using social, digital, and experiential to bring out the optimist in all of us with the Seize the Yay campaign. With Southeast Toyota, the brand uses data to deliver highly personalized story-telling to capture the audience through the shock of recognition. A brand builder at heart, she is most at home molding strong foundations of trust internally and with her clients. Before 22, she spent 13 years at Ogilvy New York, primarily leading the IKEA USA and Citizens Bank accounts. Under her direction, the team repositioned the IKEA Brand in the U.S. beyond a flatpack cheap choice for dorms & starter homes to a popular and regular contributor to contemporary culture through social and experiential activations. She was also part of a diverse team of talent leading the transformation of the stereotypical banking experience for Millennials with Citizens. With her help, the bank modernized its brand to challenge old ideas and industry conventions. From big brand moments to activations, and experiences, she leads a multi-disciplinary team of skilled specialists across design, production, social, digital, printed media, and video content.

Shannon Murphy

Independent Creative Director

Shannon Murphy has been told she’s “a creative’s Creative Director”, which is, in her opinion, one of the best compliments ever. She stumbled into advertising after a short stint as a development assistant in the film industry. Over a decade later, she’s worked for global brands at some of the top creative agencies in New York City, including adam&eve, TBWA\Chiat\Day and Ogilvy. She still prefers entertaining to advertising and sees so much potential for brands in that space, and she loves work that adds real value to culture. Her clients have included Beats by Dre, Molson Coors, PepsiCo, Nike, JetBlue, Peloton, Columbia Journalism Review, Mayo Clinic, IBM and Nissan, and she’s lived and worked in Los Angeles, Denver, San Francisco, Mumbai, Chicago and New York City. She’s created something newsworthy and/or award-winning almost every year of her career, but the mark she wants to make on her industry is bigger than that. She's particularly passionate about sextech, femtech and women-centric brands and business models. Her personal projects include @femininecritique, an Instagram account where she reviewed sex scenes in movies, and an upcoming collaboration with artist Cynthia Talmadge. She currently freelances and divides her time between her homes in Brooklyn and Richmond, Virginia. She's a California native, and part of her brain still lives on the West Coast.

Craig Shervin

Mischief Associate Creative Director

Craig is an award-winning Associate Creative Director and copywriter at Mischief in Brooklyn, New York. Before Mischief, Craig spent over 8 formative years at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco and New York. Craig believes the reports of humor’s death in advertising are greatly exaggerated. He has a mustache now (not pictured). And he’s never been to Toronto, but he hears good things.

Maria Devereux

Accenture Song ECD & Head of Innovation

Maria Devereux is the Head of Innovation and Executive Creative Director at Accenture Song, North America. Based in Los Angeles, working across North America and usually found out at the magical intersection of creativity, innovation, and technology. Previously Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Creative Director at Colenso BBDO, her passion for creativity is deeply ingrained. In her role at Accenture Song, she’s working at the forefront of new realities and creative technology, helping to build the ‘the world’s largest tech powered creative group’. She is currently ranked #1 Creative in New Zealand by The One Show, ranked #35th ECD globally by The Drum’s World Creative Rankings and was listed in Creativepool’s top 100 creative leaders for 2023. In 2020 she was awarded a Certificate of Excellence at Campaign Asia’s Women Leading Change Awards and in 2019 she was named in Adweek’s Creative 100. She's collected over 400 international and local awards for her work, has judged at D&AD, One Show, Clio, Spikes, Caples and New York Festivals and sat on the executive jury at Gerety, Australia’s Award Awards and was Convener of Judges at the New Zealand Axis Awards. Her passion for creative innovation helped build Pedigree SelfieSTIX - the world’s first doggie AR filters, light Auckland’s iconic harbor bridge with over 96,000 solar powered lights to demonstrate the city’s commitment to becoming 100% renewable, create a treehouse restaurant for Yellow Pages halfway up a redwood tree, an in-flight fashion show for Air New Zealand which took two years to receive civil aviation approval, a digital tool for NZ Breast Cancer Foundation which uses haptic technology to teach your hands how to check for breast cancer, wrap a New York water tower in 50 kilometres of yarn for D&AD’s call for entries and spend four weeks in an RV roaming from New York to Los Angeles to share the music of America from a Samsung ‘smartphone’ before influencers were even born (literally). Maria has spent over half her career at Colenso BBDO. In her time at Colenso, the agency was named Cannes #1 Agency of the Decade (Pacific Region) and #10 in the world and named one of the best and bravest creative companies on the planet from 2017 –2021 by Contagious. In addition to the many years spent at Colenso, Maria has held creative leadership roles at Special Group NZ and Y&R NZ and spent three wonderful years at TAXI Toronto. Maria is passionate about the creative industries and in her role at Accenture Song, she’s uniquely positioned to explore how emerging technologies can enhance our creativity - not detract from it. As Sam Altman, CEO Open AI says “With the rise of technology, we’re experiencing a loss of humanity. So,with a belief that creativity has never been more important, Maria has recently developed ‘How to be Human’ - a program for anyone in the creative industries looking to bring more humanity to the way they work and the work they do. Created in partnership with Dr Graham Mead the course contains practical knowledge and tools designed to help amplify our humanity and in turn, our creativity. With a passion for the importance of humanity in leadership, in 2021 Maria partnered with Mentally Healthy Australia to conduct an industry wide audit into the ROI on increased empathy in the workplace. Designed to combat the perceived ‘fluffiness’ of the term, The Empathy Project uncovered interesting insights including; 86% of people identified empathetic leaders as a key metric to business success and 67% of people saw greater empathy (across all levels) as a key driver of the collaboration needed to drive business growth. __ Maria is this year's Jury President for the Creative Effectiveness, Direct, Innovation, Integrated, Promo, and Public Relations panel.

Alexandre Abrantes

FCB NY Executive Creative Director

Alex continues to prove that his talent pushes the confines of creativity while serving as an economic multiplier for clients. Consistently ranked among the best creatives in the advertising industry, Alex is currently the #1 Creative Director in the world in both The Drum’s Global Creative Rankings (2024) and The One Club’s Global Creative Rankings (2023). He was crucial in fueling organic growth from FCBNY’s AB-InBev business. His leadership on Cannes Lions 2023 Entertainment for Sports GP Winner DREAMCASTER, coupled with the development of a physics-bending experience featuring tennis legend John McEnroe in McEnroe vs McEnroe – has led AB-InBev to its first-ever Innovation Lion in the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and more importantly, to further expand its business. But Alex’s talent isn’t limited to AB-InBev’s success. His leadership also helped push the work that became the first-ever Gold Lion in B2B, Spotify’s ‘A Song for Every CMO’ – and over the years helped propel FCBNY to become WARC’s #1 Most Effective Creative Agency of 2023, the 2023 CLIO Agency of the Year, the #5 most awarded agency in the world at the 2022 Cannes Lions festival, and to FCB’s consecutive wins as Cannes Lions North America Network of The Year.

Fede Garcia

Independent Global Chief Creative Officer

A native of Argentina, Fede’s 30-year career in advertising has included roles in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and New York. His most recent position was as the Global Chief Creative Officer (CCO) at BCW, WPP’s largest PR agency. There, he was responsible for fostering innovative and compelling creativity and expanding the agency’s roster of creative talent globally. He also brought the agency recognition from some of the world’s most prestigious creativity festivals. Before joining BCW, Fede spent four years at Huge, ultimately serving as Global Executive Creative Director. In this role, he had creative oversight of the agency’s Brooklyn headquarters and key global accounts. Prior to this, he was a Group Creative Director at Translation in New York, contributing to projects for the NFL, History Channel, and HBO, among others. Earlier, he worked for Ogilvy Tokyo for four years, overseeing the creative development of celebrated campaigns for many of the agency’s premier accounts, including Coca-Cola, American Express, IBM, Citizen, and others. Fede’s work has received accolades from Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, Clios, Effies, the New York Festivals and the London International Awards, among many others. His projects have been featured in global news outlets such as NBC, ABC, CNN, The Washington Post, The Mirror, The Independent, Fox, People Magazine, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Business of Fashion, and Business Insider. He has served as a juror at several international awards, including Cannes, One Show, Clio, and LIA, and was President of the Jury at the New York Festivals.

Megan Skelly

Edelman EVP/Executive Creative Director

Megan Skelly is a 25+year veteran of the marketing business in NYC who joined Edelman in 2018 most recently from RGA.​ As an EVP/Executive Creative Director leading the NY Brand Creative Team, she is the creative lead for Unilever which includes Dove, Dove Men+Care, Vaseline, Hellmann’s, Breyers and more. ​ Megan’s prior experience spans retail to fashion, beauty to tourism, personal care to food+bev. As well as some financial services and spirits. Her client track record includes creative oversight for TJX, Target, Nestle, Coke, LVMH, Chase, Clinique, Verizon and the city of New Orleans. ​ ​ Megan has been lucky enough to serve on lots of juries over the years including Cannes and The Effies, and Business Insider selected her as one of its 30 most creative women in advertising in 2016. She’s especially proud to have led the Vaseline See My Skin work at Edelman, the agency’s most award-winning campaign to date.​ But she’d say that the best brief she’s ever worked on is raising her daughter Maxine. Which she does happily with her husband Mike in the West Village of New York City.

Yelan Tong

VML Kansas City Group Creative Director

Yelan Tong is a group creative director at VML for Microsoft and ADT. She’s worked on many different brands ranging from Burger King, Smartwater to Zillow, and E*Trade at places like CP+B, Mullenlowe, and Deutsch LA. Her work has been recognized at shows like Cannes, D&AD, the Clios, FWA, and written up in publications like The NYTimes, WSJ, AdAge, and Fast Company. With a background in art direction, she extends her passion to other places as well. The last few years, she took a 1950s ranch down to the studs and rebuilt it ground up. She is also in the process of helping family members reno their home. Yelan also loves to snowboard, travel, mentor creatives and volunteers at a local language school.