19th Golden Drum International Advertising Festival of New Europe, 2-5 October 2012, Portorož, Slovenia, proudly announces members of Single Channel and Multi Channel Juries. Each Jury consists of 11 top experts from communication and creative industry who will be judging this year’s entries in 16 competition groups.
Single Channel Jury will be lead by its president Pawel Hainze with the help of Aljoša Bagola, Martin Dimitrov, Lajos Horváth, Jean-Paul Lefebvre, Róbert Slovák, Tereza Sverakova, Alistair Thompson, Juan Pablo Valencia, Folker Wrage and Shahir Zag.
Multi Channel Jury is composed of Michael Kutschinski, president, and Mihai Gongu, Aleksandra Kolarić, Dan O’Donoghue, Alemsah Ozturk, Katja Petrin Dornik, Anja Radulović, Nir Refuah, Eric Schoeffler, Grigory Sorokin and Jacek Szulecki.
Lučka Peljhan, Competition Manager and member of the Golden Drum Competition Council explained about the competition structure introduced last year and her view of the jury duty experience:
“Golden Drum has last year surprised industry experts by dividing the Golden Drum Competition in two sections, Single Channel and Multi Channel, judged by two separate juries. The first year experience was more than excellent. With the new structure of the competition groups and categories, the entrants gained better oversight and a possibility to enter individual elements from the advertising campaigns in different sections, evaluated by different criteria.
Members of the jury have recognized the novelty as “jury friendly”, because the individual juries could focus on chosen criteria that didn’t had to be altered from group to group. The participants of the festival could in the end compare the results of both juries’ decisions, especially in the case, where individual ads from the Single Channel section also appeared as elements of campaigns in Multi Channel section. Could an excellent film “bring to stage” the whole campaign or was there something more needed for succeeding in the Multi Channel section?
As this year’s participants of the Golden Drum Festival, we will be able to pose similar questions. The original competition formula remains the most distinctive attribute of the Golden Drum Festival which awards the creativity of New Europe.”
Single Channel Jury
President of the 19th Golden Drum’s Single Channel Jury is Pawel Heinze, Executive Creative Director from Leo Burnett Warsaw, Polish agency which last year contributed generously to Leo Burnett CEE winning the Golden Net Award for the best agency network of 18th Golden Drum Festival, ranking second place in the scoring for the Golden Rose Award for best agency of last year’s festival. Helping him select the best entries of the Single Channel section are:
Aljoša Bagola, Executive Creative Director, Pristop, Slovenia who has received over 100 awards for his work, both at local and international advertising festivals, such as Cresta, the New York Festivals, Epica, Eurobest, Golden Drum, AdPrint, SOF, Brumen, Magdalena, Effie and was in the past a member of the New York Festivals and the Golden Drum juries.
Martin Dimitrov, Creative Director and Partner, reforma, Bulgaria, leads the most awarded agency at EFFIE Bulgaria which in 5 years became one of the leading creative agencies in Bulgaria, also winning EPICA and has in 2011 achieved the title of Media agency of the year.
Lajos Horváth, Founder and Creative Director from Cluso, Hungary; agency that in less than 4 years became one of the most awarded Hungarian agencies. Lajos was named Creative of the Year in 2010 by the Hungarian Advertising Association.
Jean-Paul Lefebvre, Executive and Creative Director at Abracadabra, Belgium who was, next to winning numerous awards, also a member of the juries at different events: New York Festivals, Cresta Awards, White Square, Creative Club Of Belgium and others.
Róbert Slovák, Founder and General Director of Respect APP and President of ADC Slovakia is the winner of many Slovak (Zlatý klinec, Aurel, shortlist at EFFIE), Czech (Zlatá pecka) and international awards (EASA Best Practise Award, shortlist at New York Festivals, National Diploma from Cannes Lions).
Tereza Sverakova has been since 2007 appointed as a Creative Director at Leages Delaney Prague, Czech Republic, the most awarded agency in the Czech market. Tereza is a frequent guest of BBC Radio Czech where she contributes advertising industry reports. She has also received many International and local awards and her work appeared several times in Lurzer’s Archive Magazine.
Alistair Thompson, Creative Director at DM&B Austria has established himself as a successful Golden Drummer, with several golden and silver drums on his shelf. As a creative director he has helped DM&B Austria to win numerous major advertising awards, resulting in winning the national creative agency ranking 9 times in the last 10 years.
Juan Pablo Valencia, Creative Director, TBWA\Central Asia & Caucasus, Kazakhstan has received more than 120 awards and honours at numerous international festivals. Since 2008, TBWA\Central Asia & Caucasus is the most creative TBWA among Russia and Ukraine TBWA’s. And in 2011 the agency was honoured as the Creative Agency of the Year in Central Asia and Caucasus region.
Folker Wrage, Chief Creative Officer, McCann Turkey is a member of Art Directors Club, Germany and was a member of several juries at Cannes Lions, New York Festivals, ADC Germany, ddp Germany, Caples Award, Cristal and SDV Switzerland. In his career he won approximately 80 Awards, excluding Shortlist nominations.
Shahir Zag, Copywriter, Y&R Dubai, UAE has served on the jury at the Cannes, The Clios, the Loeries and The New York Festivals. Cannes Report 2011 ranked Y&R Dubai as the sixth most creative agency in the world, the 2nd most creative agency in Europe, Middle East & Africa, the 2nd most creative agency in Press in the world and 6th most creative agency in Outdoor in the world. Shahir is ranked as the 6th most creative person in the world.
Multi Channel Jury
President of the 19th Golden Drum’s Multi Channel Jury is Michael Kutschinski, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy&Mather – OgilvyOne Germany. He is a member of the German Ogilvy Board and the Ogilvy EAME Creative Council. In his career he won several international gold, silver and bronze awards as well as national Online Agency of The Year Awards during his time as an Advertising Man. Other members of the Multi Channel Jury are:
Mihai Gongu, Creative Director, Grafitti BBDO, Romania, who in the past judged at Eurobest in 2011, The New York Festivals in 2012 and tutored at the local Cannes Lions Academy after being a member of the first Romanian Young Lions Team in 2005. Mihai has a lot of great memories from Portorose, the place where he made new friends, learned new things, won several Drums and a couple of Grand Prizes in creative contests.
Aleksandra Kolarić, Communication Consultant, Quadrans, Croatia is also the President of the Croatian Public Relations Association (HUOJ). Since 2003 Aleksandra has been managing corporate communication and marketing for Croatia, Slovenia, BiH, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Hungary (a team of 12 people) in charge of the regional Marketing & Public Relations Communication programmes.
Dan O’Donoghue, Worldwide Strategic Planning Director, Publicis, UK is a creative professional with a rich career which started in Rowntree Mackintosh (now Nestlé UK) marketing in the late 60’s working on Kit Kat to Smarties to After Eight. From 1991 he ran the Publicis UK agency with Rick Bendel (agency moved from 34th largest to 4th) and then global strategic planning from 1999 to date. He was appointed Publicis Director responsible for Ireland in 2006.
Alemsah Ozturk is the Chief Happiness Officer & Founder of 41? 29!, Turkey, an agency that has won more that 70+ awards in 5 years with innovative projects. In Turkey, Ozturk has won many awards and shortlists at local festivals such as Crystal Apple and his work has been shortlisted at Cannes, Golden Drum and New York Festivals. At the age of 24 he became the youngest Creative director in Turkey.
Katja Petrin Dornik, Creative Director, LUNA TBWA, Slovenia has been a jury member on New York Festivals and Slovene advertising festival. In her career she has won numerous international and domestic advertising awards (Epica, Golden Drum, SOF, Effie, YoungGuns, Memefest and Magdalena).
Anja Radulović, Creative Director, Leo Burnett Belgrade, Serbia is the owner of numerous international awards, including several Grand Prix, Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards at prestigious award shows such as Eurobest, Golden Drum, Epica, London FAB Awards and EACA. One year after Anja began working at Leo Burnett Belgrade, they became the Best Agency of the Adriatic Region at the Golden Drum Festival in 2010.
Nir Refuah, VP Creative, McCann Digital, Israel is the founder & CEO of “Othello”, first Israeli social network for journalist and artists (1996-1998), Co-editor @ Tapuz portal and Head of content @ Walla! Network. With his 16 years of experience in creating online interactions and campaigns, he will strongly contribute his knowledge of the new world of Digital advertising and Social Media interaction to Multi Channel Jury.
Eric Schoeffler, Chief Creative Officer, DDB Tribal, Germany, a member of ADC Germany and D&AD has, with his teams, won more than 100 national and international awards in the last five years. Eric was selected as a member of the Jury at Golden Drum Festival, D&AD, Prague International Advertising Festival, ADC Germany, New York Festival, Cristal Festival, Spotlight Festival, Dubai Lynx, Cannes Young Lions and Cannes Lions.
Grigory Sorokin, Chief Creative Innovation Officer, Leo Burnett Eastern Europe, Russia is a frequent juror on major international and local festivals. During his tenure at Leo Burnett Moscow, the agency was named Russia’s Interactive Agency of the Year 2010 and 2011.
Jacek Szulecki, Creative Director at Euro RSCG Warsaw, Poland, where he built a Creative Department that has led to a tenfold increase in the number of local awards won, as well as winning silver and bronze Lions last year and two shortlists at Cannes this year, placing Euro RSCG Warsaw among the most creative agencies in Poland. Before coming to Euro RSCG Warsaw, Jacek was a member of the Saatchi and Saatchi European Creative Board and during his time there, the agency was awarded Agency of the Year two years in a row as well as achieved success at Cannes and the Grand Prix at ADCE.
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