TORONTO, CANADA // Helen is the President and Chief Creative Officer at Havas Worldwide Canada. With an agency mission of making meaningful connections between consumers and brands through creativity, media and innovation, Helen leads a multi-disciplinary team across offices in Toronto and Montreal. Her passion for design, technology and integrated branding has helped shape her career for nearly two decades.
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MUMBAI, INDIA // Swati Bhattacharya is a writer whose work focuses on gender, feminism, urban life, love and popular culture and spans many forms including advertising, documentary, short films and blogs. Her writing has been published in everything from national newspapers to viral content sites on the internet. Starting life as a junior copy trainee in JWT… she moved on to become the national creative director before… Read More
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL // When I was a kid, I used to have two passions: Science and Arts (also Judo, but it won’t help telling my story). And somehow, advertising brings me these two things together. However, it wasn't where I've started. My first job was as illustrator in the textile industry. Shortly after, I began designing sets for TV programs; then I became a video and movie editor, moved on to become a TV Art Director, then a… Read More
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC // Jaime Mandelbaum has worked across three continents on clients including Adidas, Absolut Vodka, BMW, Coca-Cola, Danone, Erste Bank, Forbes, Harley Davidson, ING, Nike, Playstation, Vodafone and LG.
With stints at TBWABerlin, Leo Burnett and Jung von Matt, the São Paulo-born creative was appointed Chief Creative Officer of Y&R Central & Eastern Europe in 2013 when he also became part of Y&R’s…
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NEW YORK, USA // Mike Wiese is Head of Branded Content & Entertainment for J. Walter Thompson, where he leads the creative direction, strategy and business development of entertainment and programming solutions for clients including digital video, social content, scripted and unscripted film and television, live experience, licensing, distribution, and talent partnerships. JWT clients include Macy’s, Johnson & Johnson, Royal… Read More
LONDON, UK // At Saatchi & Saatchi Paul has overseen campaigns for clients such as Direct Line, EE, Kerry Foods, Toyota, the European Golf Tour and, perhaps most notably, T Mobile.
In previous roles he created the launch for the BBC’s i-player service, oversaw the creation of an award-winning branded content campaign for Brawny Paper Towels called Brawny Academy, an online reality TV show to help men become more helpful around… Read More
TOKYO, JAPAN // Born in Leningrad, USSR, and raised around the world, Nadya Kirillova settled in Japan and joined Dentsu in 2007. As a copy-based creative, Nadya works at an intersection of traditional and new advertising. Integrating storytelling, digital and interactive executions, product and service development, and business model development, she is always searching for new creative possibilities.
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LONDON, UK // As ECD of R/GA London, James leads the agency’s continuous evolution so it consistently ranks as one of the top agencies in the world. He curates and choreographs a collective equally capable of creating innovative products as they are emotive ads.
James was a founding member of R/GA London, growing the agency to 220 people and forging partnerships with brands such as Beats by Dre, Disney, Google,… Read More
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND // Tessa Westermeyer is the Landor Executive Creative Director for the EMEA region, based in the inspirational Paris office.
Tessa is primarily responsible for the creative leadership of the P&G business in EMEA and is currently leading teams in Paris, Geneva and Hamburg. She has led the development of iconic brand identities, visual toolboxes, brand architecture and brand redesigns for Procter & Gamble… Read More
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA // Collette Wasielewski is Head of Design at FCB Design in Johannesburg, South Africa. She cut her branding teeth at Enterprise IG (now Brand Union) where she was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to rebrand the Nigerian banking giant GTBank (listed on the London Stock Exchange post rebrand).
In the following 11 years and 4 agencies, she worked on and learned from brands such as Virgin Mobile,… Read More
LONDON, UK // Alison Eyles-Owen is head of H+K Strategies Global Marketing Communications Practice and believes that in a rapidly changing world of media noise and fragmentation, unlocking powerful human insights that shape distinctive and compelling brand narratives has never been more important to translate campaign ideas in to effective communications strategies. The ability to harness trends and deep sector knowledge with disruptive… Read More
TORONTO, CANADA // Jordan has worked in advertising for the past 15 years, bringing her boundary-pushing, groundbreaking, transformational touch to agencies such as TAXI Advertising & Design, TAXI 2, TAXI Vancouver, Ambrose Carr Linton Carroll, Grey Worldwide and Gee Jeffery & Partners. At every shop along her journey, she has distinguished herself through an incredible talent for communication and collaboration, as… Read More
HELSINKI, FINLAND // Anu studied advertising in the Arts Academy of Applied Sciences in Finland. After graduation she moved to Sweden and worked at Lowe Brindfors, Stockholm.
In 2001 she jumped to Lowe & Partners Finland and after two years there she achieved a long-term dream of signing on with hasan & partners, Helsinki. Since joining, she’s worked with a range of inspirational and number one brands in Finland,… Read More
LOS ANGELES, USA // Lixaida Lorenzo started her career 14 years ago at JWT San Juan. Throughout her advertising journey her work has been recognized by prestigious advertising festivals such as Cannes, Clio, One Show, Communication Arts, Ad Age and the London International Festival. She has served as president of the jury for the Puerto Rican advertising festival Cúspide and has served as a judge at FIAP. She just landed at… Read More
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA // Emma Daines is Owner and Group Managing Director of Fin Design and Effects.
Fin Design, with facilities in Sydney and Shanghai, is one of the most well reputed and highly awarded Visual Effects Companies in South East Asia.
Emma’s experience in the Advertising Industry spans nearly 30 years working in leading Post Production facilities in Melbourne, London, Asia and Sydney and working in Production… Read More
MOORE PARK, AUSTRALIA // Tim is a highly sought after commercials director with a solid reputation for comedy. He has been honored as one of the world’s young commercial directors to watch at the New Directors Showcase at Cannes, featured in the SHOTS Top 10 Directors list and awarded as Best Ads on TV’s Director of The Year. His work has featured for 3 consecutive years in the UK’s prestigious APA Top 50. He has received… Read More
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL // Dulcidio Caldeira was born in Brazil and started his career as a copywriter in 1988. In 2000, joined AlmapBBDO. In 2005, was the most awarded copywriter of the country. In 2007, was hired by BBDO/NY, where he stayed for two years. In 2008, went back to Almap to run the creative department of the agency. In 2009, the Big Won Report appointed him as one of the two most awarded Creative Directors of the world. In… Read More
SHENZHEN, CHINA // Bohong Deng, the founder of Shenzhen Dans Digital Technology Co., Ltd in China.
Since the foundation of Dans Digital in 2003, he has directed more than 100 advertising works. The awards he was granted for his works include: Best Film-3D Simulation at IMAGINA Awards 2009; Award for the best animated commercial or logo at AniFest 2010;Silver Award in the Category Craft & Imagery at Epica Awards 2012; Screening… Read More
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA // Nacho Gil is a Creative Director & Director who leads MTV International’s World Design Studio based in Buenos Aires, a multidisciplinary creative team focused on enhancing the audience’s experience with MTV and it’s properties. The team develops creative strategy and implements it across almost 100 channels worldwide. He has experience providing global creative services and direction to… Read More
LOS ANGELES, USA // Kristin McCasey’s editorial career spans TV, music videos, feature films, shorts, commercials, and trailers. Her work includes the acclaimed HBO Documentary Series SONIC HIGHWAYS, directed by Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl. Critics called it “a license to fly for every fledgling writer, musician, painter, actor, dancer—for every dreamer, everywhere.” Kristin edited the… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Valerie Lasser found her start 20 years ago at Big Sky Editorial, a state of the art film-editing boutique in Manhattan. She landed the job after earning her BA from NYIT in just 3 years time and started right in as an assistant editor. Soon she was taking on her own projects including audio mixing and radio spots with her knack for sound design, and recording. Today as a Senior Editor she… Read More
DUBLIN, IRELAND // After a few years playing guitar in Dublin bands, exposure to Kraftwerk and John Carpenter soundtracks inspired me to discover synthesizers, drum-machines and then DJing at raves in the early 90s.
I studied Graphic Design and spent a few years working by day as a designer in both Dublin and Sydney while spending my nights experimenting with electronic music. In 1997 I began to combine my audio experiments with… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Michelle Curran began her career as head of promotions at both Island and London Records working with such notable artists as U2, Grace Jones, Bob Marley, Robert Palmer, leading to an extensive network within the music industry. Michelle set up and ran Logorhythm Music and the Real Music co. before starting up Amber music 15 years ago.
Under Michelle, Amber Music has gained a reputation for producing tracks that have an… Read More
NEW YORK, USA // Considered by Advertising Age “one of the world’s most influential people in the communications business,” Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy & Mather, made history by leading the agency to win Network of the Year at Cannes four times in a row in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Khai studied in London at St. Martins and then the Royal College of Art where he took an MA in… Read More
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA // Jose Miguel – President, Lowe Global Creative Council & Co Chairman and CCO Lowe SSP3 Colombia, is one of the leading Latin American creatives and agency leaders. His work towards bringing about a new, peaceful Colombia is at the heart of his multi award winning FARC Guerrilla demobilization campaigns and has seen him awarded around the world.
He has been recipient of the only D&AD Black Pencil… Read More
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL // Tal Riven is the Executive Creative Director at Grey Tel-Aviv, Israel's second largest agency.
Riven began his career in advertising in 2001, as an Art-Director at Y&R Tel-Aviv, after graduating with great honors from The Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem.
In 2007, he moved to Grey and under his leadership the agency became Israel’s
"Creative Agency of the… Read More
ATLANTA, USA // A little about my life in Advertising:
Back in the day I co-founded two South African ad agencies – Joe Public and FoxP2. Today they're amongst the very top agencies in the country thanks to my amazing original partners.
I've won quite a few creative awards at Cannes, One Show, D&AD, London, New York and Clios. Enough that they'd make a din going through the metal detectors at Nice… Read More