It’s time to meet our complete all-star line-up of Jury Presidents who’ll be joining ADFEST 2018. Collectively, we like to call them our ‘Magnificent Eight’ thanks to their truly magnificent credentials as creative thinkers and leaders.
This year’s Magnificent Eight will be led by
Joyce King Thomas, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of McCann XBC. As Grand Jury President, Thomas will not only guide eight jury panels overall, but will lead the Branded Content Lotus and Integrated Lotus panel as Jury President.
From Tokyo,
Timo Mitsuaki Otsuki iscoming to ADFEST 2018tooversee the Film Craft and New Director categories. Otsuki is
Executive Producer at Cutters Studios. From Hong Kong, we have
Kitty Lun joining asJury President, Interactive Lotus and Mobile Lotus. Lun is
Head of Creative Shop for Facebook, Greater China.
From Mumbai,
Santosh Padhi is returning to ADFEST to helm the Outdoor Lotus and Press Lotus jury. Padhi is of course
Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder of Taproot Dentsu in Mumbai, and we’re proud to say he describes ADFEST as “THE Asian festival of creativity”.
Derry Simpson is flying to ADFEST 2018 from Perth, Australia. Simpson is Group Managing Director of 303 MullenLowe, Perth, andwill be Jury President of Media Lotus and Effective Lotus.
From Auckland, we have
Levi Slavin, Chief Creative Officer of Colenso BBDO in New Zealand leading ourFilm Lotus and Radio Lotus jury.
Representing the Philippines is
Melvin Mangada, Chief Creative Officer at TBWA\Santiago Mangada Puno, who is our next Jury President of Design Lotus and Print Craft Lotus.
Based in Bangkok,
Saharath Sawadatikom, Managing Director, Creative, and Partner of CJ WORX, will have the smallest distance to travel to ADFEST 2018, which takes place in Pattaya. Sawadatikom will lead the Direct Lotus and Promo Lotus categories.
We’d like to extend our thanks to our Magnificent Eight for making time to be part of the 21
st ADFEST festival, we look forward to welcoming you to Thailand in March!
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