Cannes release Outdoor, Direct & Design juries

Cannes has announced the jury members for this year’s Design, Direct and Outdoor Lions and, of course, Asia is well represented.

Akira Kagami, Executive Officer & Global Executive Creative Director, Dentsu – is Jury President of the Outdoor Lions, becoming the first Japanese to ever lead a Jury at Cannes. KS Chax (DraftFCB+Ulka, India), Victor Ng (Euro RSCG Singapore) and James Dennis Makanas (BBDO Bangkok) join Kagami on his panel.

On the Direct Jury are Farrokh Madon (McCann Erickson Singapore), Ronald Ng (BBDO/Proximity Malaysia), Masaru Kitakaze (Hakuhodo), Leena Basrur (Direxions Marketing Solutions, Mumbai) and Dominic Stallard (Lowe Bangkok).

The Design Jury has Ali Shabaz (JWT Singapore), Morihiro Harano (Drill Inc, Tokyo) and Sujata Keshavan Guha (Ray+Keshavan, India)

OUTDOOR LIONS JURY

Japan, Akira Kagami, Executive Officer & Global Executive Creative Director, Dentsu – Jury President

Argentina, Gonzalo Vecino, General Creative Director, JWT Argentina

Australia, Matt Eastwood, Vice Chairman & National Creative Director, DDB Sydney

Brazil, Alexandre Peralta, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Creative Officer, StrawberryFrog

France, Anne De Maupeou, Co-President, Marcel

Germany, Christian Mommertz, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy Frankfurt

India, KS Chax, National Creative Director, DraftFCB+Ulka

Singapore, Victor Ng, Executive Creative Director, Euro RSCG Singapore

South Africa, Andrew Whitehouse, Executive Creative Director, FoxP2

Spain, Jürgen Krieger, Executive Creative Director, Grey Barcelona

Thailand, James Dennis Makanas, Creative Director, BBDO Bangkok

United Kingdom, Graham Fink, Creative Director, M&C Saatchi

USA, José Mollá, Founder & Executive Creative Director, la comunidad

DIRECT LIONS JURY

USA, David Sable, Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Officer, Wunderman – Jury President

Argentina, Roberto Patxot, Regional Creative Director, OgilvyOne Worldwide

Australia, Gavin McLeod, Creative Director, M&C Saatchi/Mark

Australia, Grant Rutherford, Executive Creative Director, DDB Group

Austria, Gerda Reichl-Schebesta, Creative Director, TBWA\Wien

Belgium, Stijn Gansemans, Creative Director & Partner, Openhere

Brazil, Rui Piranda, Senior Creative Director, Giovanni+Draftfcb

Canada, Philippe Meunier, Creative Chief & Senior Partner, Sid Lee

Chile, Rodrigo Edwards, Chief Executive Officer, Edwards Asociados

Denmark, Chandra Benjamin Mostov, Partner & Chief Operating Officer, Wunderman France, Nicolas Taubes, Executive Creative Director, Tequila\

Germany, Walter Ploetz, Executive Creative Director, Publicis Hamburg

Germany, Roman Kretzer, Executive Creative Director, gkk DialogGroup / Scholz & Friends

India, Leena Basrur, Executive Chairman, Direxions Marketing Solutions

Italy, Michele Sechi, Creative Director, Arc Leo Burnett

Japan, Masaru Kitakaze, Creative Director, Hakuhodo

Malaysia, Ronald Ng, Chief Creative Officer, BBDO/Proximity Malaysia

New Zealand, Wayne Pick, Executive Creative Director, RAPP New Zealand

Norway, Stein Simonsen, Copywriter, Dinamo

Portugal, João Geada, Creative Director, JWT Lisbon

Singapore, Farrokh Madon, Executive Creative Director, McCann Erickson Singapore

South Africa, Pepe Marais, Executive Creative Director, Joe Public

Spain, Alfonso Marián, Executive Creative Director, Shackleton Direct

Sweden, Gunnar Skarland, Senior Art Director, GOSS

Switzerland, Daniel Bruengger, Managing Director, Bruengger Bachmann Dialog

Thailand, Dominic Stallard, Executive Creative Director – Regional Unilever (Asia), Lowe The Netherlands, Antoine Houtsma, Creative Director, Doom&Dickson

United Arab Emirates, Peter Bidenko, Executive Creative Director, Impact Proximity

United Kingdom, Steve Aldridge, Creative Partner & Chairman, Partners Andrews Aldridge

United Kingdom, Daren Kay, Executive Creative Director, Tullo Marshall Warren

USA, Victoria Azarian, Senior Partner & Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, New York

DESIGN LIONS JURY

France, Sylvia Vitale Rotta, Chief Executive Officer, Team Creatif – Jury President

Australia, Vince Frost, Creative Director & Chairman, Frost*Design

Brazil, Luciano Deos, Chief Executive Officer, GAD

Canada, Lisa Greenberg, Partner & Creative Director, GJP Advertising + Design

Germany, Mirko Borsche, Creative Director, Bureau Mirko Borsche

India, Sujata Keshavan Guha, Managing Director & Executive Creative Director, Ray+Keshavan

Italy, Alberto Baccari, Creative Director, TW2

Japan, Morihiro Harano, Creative Director, Drill Inc.

Singapore, Ali Shabaz, Executive Creative Director, JWT Singapore

South Africa, Gaby De Abreu, Group Creative Director, The Switch Design Company

Sweden, Hans Brindfors, Creative Director, The Brand Union

United Kingdom, Stephen Bell, Executive Creative Director, Coley Porter Bell

United Kingdom, Greg Quinton, Creative Partner, The Partners

USA, Jennifer Morla, President/Creative Director, Morla Design

USA, Marc Shillum, Vice President & Director of Brand Design, R/GA