Judges
Valerie Cheng |
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 | Creative Director of Arc Worldwide Singapore Member of Leo Burnett Global Creative Board, Valerie also sits on the Creative Advisory Board of the 4As in Singapore. Under her leadership, Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide became the biggest winner last year in the Asia Interactive Awards and the agency faired similarly well in the integrated category within the Creative Circle Awards. She has a slew of creative awards from One Show, Webby's, John Caples, Digital Media Awards, London International, Effies and other shows. |
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Jeff Cheong |
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 | Executive Creative Director/Head of Tribal DDB Jeff is recognised as one of the creative leaders in Singapore's digital industry. While at TBWA\Tequila, he worked on Singapore Airlines, Standard Chartered and MobileOne accounts. Currently, he handles Tourism Australia, CAAS, Singapore Institute of Management and the new ION shopping mall. He has a string of awards from Cannes, One Show Interactive, New York Festivals, Effies and in the local Creative Circle Awards and the regional Asia Interactive Awards. |
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Mark Cripps |
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 | APAC Region Digital Director of MRM Worldwide | McCann Worldgroup | Populist Based in Asia since 2006, Mark has managed the development of dozens of award-winning digital initiatives and online marketing campaigns for several blue-chip organisations in his career including Adobe; ; Diageo; France Telecom; Ford; General Motors; Guinness World Records; HSBC; IBM; Intel; Royal Bank of Scotland and Unilever. Mark is a digital pioneer (since 1984) and now has responsibility for the capabilities and digital output of MRM, McCann Worldgroup and Populist (the network’s new social media specialist agency) throughout Asia. He is a regular on the Asia digital marketing speaking circuit and sits on various industry committees and panels. |
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Stuart Godwin |
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 | Creative Director, XM Malaysia Stuart has been a soldier, a cook, a journalist, a lecturer and an advertising person. His somewhat chequered career has taken him from his native South Africa to Zimbabwe, Botswana, New York and now Malaysia - writing, conceptualizing, designing and directing both online and traditional media. For the past three and a bit years Stuart has been at XM Malaysia, an integrated agency with ambitions above its station. While there, Stuart was fortunate enough to have worked with a talented young team, winning recognition at several shows, including the New York Festivals, Webbys, the Malaysian Kancils and of course, our very own Asia Interactive Awards. |
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Erik Ingvoldstad |
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 | Regional Creative Director MRM Worldwide Asia Pacific Erik Ingvoldstad is a Creative Director with 15+ years of experience in digital and direct advertising. He has been with MRM Worldwide for 10 years working out of Oslo, Norway and Sydney, Australia. Erik has won more than 40 awards in prestigious shows such as Cannes Lions, the ECHO Awards, Epica Awards, Midas Awards, Max Marketing Mix, ADMA and others. He has also served as jury member at the ECHOs, Cannes, Midas Awards, the John Caples Awards plus local award shows. He has held presentations at several business schools as well as a number of industry seminars, including the DMA 2006 in San Francisco and ad:tech Sydney 2009. |
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Sean Lam |
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 | Founder/Creative Director of Plate Interactive Co-founder of one of Asia's foremost interactive agencies. In the last ten years, Sean and his agency have been winning awards in the One Show, D&AD, Cannes, Clio, Webby Awards, AdFest, Asia Interactive Awards and the local Creative Circle Awards. Naturally this recognition has led him to be invited to sit on juries at Cannes, D&AD, The New York Festivals, Webby Awards, Malaysian Kancils and many more shows. He work has been published all around the world in interactive/web design journals. Since September 2009, Sean has been continuing his great work with Plate Interactive. |
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Mark Read |
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 | Director of Strategy, WPP Not only is Mark Director of Strategy at WPP but he is also CEO of WPP Digital. His career has also included time at Ogilvy & Mather and Hill &Knowlton in London. Mark has also worked in the media and in marketing for clients such as Universal, Viacom and the BBC. He founded WebRewards in the UK prior to its acquisition by Bertelsmann AG. |
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Sanchit Sanga |
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 | Regional Director, GroupM Interaction After a brief career in an investment bank, Sanchit was bitten by the digital marketing bug. He has had several roles which led to him setting up online ad networks, creating email marketing systems, dabbling in mobile marketing, selling online technologies, handling online media sales and more recently working on social media projects. Sanchit currently heads the Southeast Asia search and contextual marketing practice for GroupM APAC. |
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Chris Schaumann |
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 | Head of Online Sales & Marketing, Southeast Asia Pacific for Nokia. Chris previously spent over 4 years at XM Asia before joining Microsoft as Country Sales Manager. He has spoken at over 140 conferences and conducts workshops as well. |
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Josh Sklar |
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 | Global Digital Creative Director of Enfatico Josh Sklar is Global Digital Creative Director for Enfatico in the USA. Prior to that he was WPP Digital’s BLUE Global Chief Creative Officer. With over 20 years involved in the Internet and digital technology, he is a pioneer in the field. He previously spent nearly ten years in Asia and was considered by trade magazines as the most awarded digital creative director in Asia for 5 years in a row. He has served as Chairman, Jury President, or juror for many interactive award shows. He was a founding employee of the first digital agency in Asia, XM. |
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Chris Soh |
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 | Chief Advisor of Games Convention Asia Chris Soh is a pioneer in Singapore's Gaming Scene. With years of experience in the industry, Chris have advised top companies, government agencies on the gaming and new media roapmap, and is instrumental in bringing in the renowned Gaming Trade show, Games Convention Asia to Singapore. He is an avid gamer and spend his free time lecturing on games development and gaming business in Asia. |
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