Rising Stars Awards

2023 Judges

• Mo Bofill

  One Twenty Three West Partner, Executive Creative Director, Design

  Mo is a Partner and Executive Creative Director at One Twenty Three West (123w) – one of Canada’s leading agencies based out of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Born and raised in the Philippines, and growing up in Ontario, she brings a diverse point of view that mixes her passion for design, creativity and business strategy to Canadian design and advertising. She believes in building brands through a human experience: How can we bring humanity into how we work – in how we approach working together, in how we communicate as people and as brands? How can we design something that has a direct impact on our everyday experience? She believes that we should use creativity to not only build business, but to use creativity to appeal to the best in us all. Outside of driving business growth for her clients, her work has also been awarded and recognized internationally by D&AD, One Show, Cannes Lions, The Webby's, Luerzer’s Archive, How Design Awards, Communication Arts, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, Applied Arts, Marketing Magazine, among others. With over 15yrs of experience, Mo has helped transform some of Canada’s most iconic brands from the ground up: Bell, President’s Choice, No Frills, Home Hardware, Winners, Shoppers, and Koodo to name a few. She has also helped transformed global brands like Apple, KFC, Coca-Cola, Plenty of Fish, Corona, Audi, Subaru, Mitsubishi and helped them become relevant brands to Canadians. A strong believer in mentorship, she mentors at the Miami Ad School Toronto, The Remix Project and the RGD (Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario). Most recently she also joined the Board of Directors of the ADCC (Advertising & Design Club of Canada).

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• Alexis Bronstorph

  No Fixed Address Chief Creative Officer

  Alexis is co-Chief Creative Officer at No Fixed Address, but started her career in advertising at 9 years old, when she did voiceover work for a radio commercial. She was hooked immediately. Since then, Alexis has worked on numerous international award-winning campaigns, creating beautiful, disruptive, and effective work for world class brands across all disciplines. Alexis’ approach to problem solving is rooted in strategy and innovation, aiming to create work that gets noticed, talked about, and shared on your favourite social media platform. Most recently, Alexis was named to Adweek’s Creative 100 list for 2021.

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• Anthony Chelvanathan

  Edelman Canada Chief Creative Officer

  Prior to taking on his current position as Chief Creative Officer at Edelman Canada, Anthony worked his way up through a number of creative directing roles at Leo Burnett Toronto, which culminated in his appointment to Senior Vice President. Along the way, Anthony has made a name for himself as one of the most prolific creatives in his industry. His work has garnered acclaim at nearly all of the world's top creative shows, including 59 Cannes Lions recognitions and 500+ international awards from institutions such as D&AD, The One Show, ADC, Communication Arts, LIA and Clios. Throughout his career Anthony has repeatedly landed at the top of Strategy magazine's creative talent lists and even been ranked 6th in the world by The Gunn Report. He has reached incredible heights (his TSN campaign promoting the Rogers Cup was among the most-awarded billboard campaigns in the world) while ranking up tens of millions of views in the process (his follow-up video to the famous #LikeAGirl campaign alone received 90 million). His passion and knack for zeroing in on unique human insights at the heart of a brand's purpose has resulted in major accolades for both his clients and agencies throughout his career, including winning an International Grand Prix for his IKEA project 'Cook This Page'. Anthony's world-class expertise in bringing big ideas to life also knows no categorical bounds, with his creative leadership directly leading to agency wins and business growth across nearly every industry and category. When he’s not unleashing juggernaut creative ideas onto the world and meticulously crafting his way to the number one Art Director spot the country, Anthony can be found in his kitchen, treating his friends to his latest spicy curry recipe.

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• Ryan Crouchman

  LG2 Toronto Partner, VP, ECD, Design

  For over twenty years Ryan has helped build brands, from local startups and cultural institutions to Fortune 500 corporations. His main areas of focus are branding and visual identities, packaging, editorial, motion and interactive design. Over the course of his career he has held design and leadership positions at some of Canada’s most awarded design studios and agencies, and in 2018 he founded the Branding and Design department of LG2 Toronto, helping grow Canada’s largest independent creative agency

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• Christina Yu

  Lifelong Crush Partner, Chief Creative Officer

  Christina Yu is Partner, Chief Creative Officer at Lifelong Crush. Recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 thought leaders, Christina was previously Managing Partner, Creative Director at Rethink Canada, where she helped lead them to Agency of the Year and Design Agency of the Year for both 2019 and 2020. Prior to Rethink, Christina co-founded Red Urban for DDB Network; creating high profile international work for Volkswagen and enjoying 5 years of record-breaking sales growth and Cannes accolades year over year. In 2015, she turned those talents to Subaru and helped them reach record-breaking sales. Christina’s unique design sensibility and brand-building talents have helped drive breakthrough success for blue chip brands in virtually every category, including Stella Artois, Fed Ex, Pepsi, Audi, J&J, Virgin and Capital One to name but a few. She’s been named Top 30 Under 30, “Marketing Icons in the Making” and is frequent industry speaker and visiting professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Although Christina’s been awarded at Cannes, One Show, Clios and even a Canadian Screen Award for film-making, she feels much more comfortable bragging about her twin sons’ ever-growing proficiency in soccer, Roblox and fishing on the Bay of Quinte.