Andy Chang |
 | Andy is the General Manager of MRM Worldwide, Hong Kong. Originally from Taiwan, he has over 10 years of experience in strategic planning, digital marketing and CRM, serving multinational and Chinese clients including General Motors, Microsoft, Intel, UPS, ExxonMobil, Kenneth Cole, Goodyear, Nestle, Lufthansa Airlines, MasterCard, PCCW and Ping An Insurance. Prior to moving back to Asia, Andy worked on several award-winning e-commerce and interactive projects as Director of Analytics and Web Producer at MRM Los Angeles. |
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Dirk Eschenbacher |
 | Dirk Eschenbacher joined Tribal DDB in 2007 as Executive Creative Director and Managing Partner for the Asia Pacific region. Dirk is best known for his award-winning online, offline and integrated work for clients such as Motorola, IBM, Audi, Cisco, Nokia, Unilever, and China Mobile's M-Zone, for which his creative team was honoured with the first silver Cannes Lion for China. Before his life in China, he worked in Thailand and Germany for several advertising agencies, dot.com companies and a sportswear fashion label. |
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Stuart Godwin |
 | Stuart Godwin leads the digital team at XM in Malaysia. His career has taken him to Africa and all over Southeast Asia. On the way he has picked up a string of awards in the New York Festivals, the Malaysian Kancils, Asia Interactive Awards and the Webby Awards. |
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Karl Gomes |
 | Karl Gomes joined Tribal DDB India in 2004 with the mandate of bringing Web 2.0 ideas to build brands. Under his leadership as National Creative Director, Tribal DDB India won its first international digital award in 2006 at Asia Pacific Adfest followed by Cannes, One Show, New York Festivals, Webbys and national awards like the Abby and AAAI. He kept the momentum going in 2007 with more local and international wins. Karl is now at Arc Worldwide India and Leo Burnett India as Executive Creative Director. Karl was on the Cyber Lions jury this year at the Cannes International Advertising Awards. |
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Rei Inamoto |
 | Born in Tokyo, Rei Inamoto is AKQA’s Co-Chief Creative Officer, responsible for delivering worldwide creative solutions for the agency’s international clients such as Nike and Xbox. Rei was added to the 2008 Board of Directors for the Art Directors Club (he was the Internet Jury Chair of the 2007 ADC awards) and will also serve on the jury for the 2008 One Show Interactive Awards. Rei also served as the 2006 Internet Chairman of the Clio Awards. And in 2004, The Art Directors Club, which annually selects the best young talents working in the design and advertising industry, named Rei as one of the Young Guns. |
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Mark Read |
 | Mark Read is WPP’s Director of Strategy and CEO of WPP Digital. He is also a member of the Board of WPP. Mark worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 at the parent company and also at Ogilvy & Mather and Hill & Knowlton in London. Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, he was a Principal at the consultancy firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton where he worked in the media and marketing areas for clients such as Universal, Viacom and the BBC. He subsequently founded and developed the company WebRewards in the UK prior to its acquisition by Bertelsmann AG. |
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Yasuharu Sasaki |
 | Yasuharu Sasaki is currently the Interactive Creative Director of Dentsu Tokyo. He began his career as a copywriter and has worked with a variety of clients including: Honda, Kirin, Toshiba, Japan Airlines, and Seiko. He became one of the first members to work for the newly created Interactive Communication Division of Dentsu. In 2006, he was temporarily assigned to IconNicholson and Strawberryfrog in New York. He has received international awards at Cannes, Clio, New York Festivals, the One Show and ADFEST. He was also a jury member of Cannes Cyber Lions, One Show Interactive, Clio and Webby Awards. |
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Tim Scheibel |
 | Tim Scheibel is Art Director at Lowe Brindfors in Stockholm, Sweden, where he helped establish the agency as a Gunn Report top 10 worldwide interactive agency. He has over 10 years of experience in digital advertising, creating global campaigns for clients such as Stella Artois, Magnum and Saab Automobile. His work has been recognized and consistently awarded at the Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, Epica, Eurobest, including an unpreceeded 8 golds at the NY Festivals and Creative Review's Site of the Year. |
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Josh SKlar |
 | Josh Sklar is WPP Digital’s BLUE as its global Chief Creative Officer joining them recently from New York. 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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Sean Lam |
 | Sean Lam is the Co-founder and Creative Director of one of Asia's foremost interactive agencies, Kinetic. He has been winning awards every year including Golds and Silvers from international award shows – One Show Interactive, Clio Awards, D&AD, New York Festival, Communication Arts, Cannes Lions, Art Directors Club, Young Guns, FWA(Favourite Website Awards), Webby Awards, Asia Pacific AdFest, Asia Interactive Awards and the Singapore Creative Circle Awards. As a testament to the industry's recognition of his stature, Sean has also been asked to judge at numerous international award shows such as Cannes Cyber Lions, Oneshow Interactive, Clio Awards, D&AD, YoungGuns and many others. |
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John Lambie |
 | John Lambie is currently the Regional Digital Creative Director for Bates141 Asia. As one of Asia’s pioneering digital creative directors, John Lambie held the creative reigns of XM Asia and XM Australia during the heady days of dot-com boom and bust and the phoenix-like emergence of Web2.0. He has worked and consulted in Australia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Thailand and Cambodia for numerous brands, including: Nokia, Telstra, Optus, Singtel, Starhub, Compaq/HP, Sony, Visa, Singapore Airlines, MTV, , Heineken, Coca-Cola, Audi, Mercedes Benz. |
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Melvyn Lim |
 | Melvyn Lim is currently the Creative Director of OgilvyOne Singapore. He has work at several digital agencies as well as with MediaCorp TV12. He has won a Silver at Promax, a Cyber Lion at Cannes, a Bronze at the New York Festival, honours in the One Show and last year Asia Interactive Awards. |
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