2024 海外評審
Kentaro Kimura
International Chief Creative Officer and Corporate Officer, Hakuhodo Founder, Hakuhodo Kettle Kentaro is a hybrid, multi-tasking person. His career started as a strategic planner, broadened to creative director, and then as a CEO role for 13 years in a creative boutique, and is now in the CCO role in the mothership company, Hakuhodo. Throughout his career, he has constantly pursued enabling our people to become more highly-motivated and better-performing. He established Hakuhodo Kettle, a multiple award-winning creative boutique in 2006 with the mission of breaking through the boundaries of traditional advertising methods to provide innovative integrated solutions to clients such as Toyota, Sony, Google, Suntory, etc. As International CCO of Hakuhodo, Kentaro leads creatives in international offices and is responsible for strengthening Hakuhodo as a network to better serve its clients. He has won more than 150 international advertising awards including 10 Grand Prix prizes. He served as Jury President in Cannes Lions and Golden Drum in 2024. Kentaro enjoys playing tennis, golf, and the piano. As a youth he backpacked around the world and has currently visited more than 40 countries, and looks forward to traveling to more when the opportunity arises. |
Rojana Chuasakul
Creative Director SEA TBWA / Media Art Lab Singapore The original Thai creative who has once made history in China advertising hall of fame for bringing the first Cannes Grand Prix Lion to China in 2011. His Samsonite “Heaven and Hell” is currently the world’s most awarded print-ad of all time. In 2012 he became one of the ‘Top 3 Art Directors of Asia and was ranked 8th in The World Creative Ranking. After 6 years in Shanghai Rojana decided to move back to his homeland to take the greater role as Executive Creative Director at JWT Bangkok in 2014, where he groomed himself in a creative leadership role. However, his calling dream made him decide to part ways with the global network agency to start his ideal agency, Storyteller Bangkok. And with the matter of one year, Storyteller has no doubt become the hottest, not to mention coolest, rookie agency in Thailand. After 10 years in Thailand Rojana decided to take on the new challenge as Creative Director/South East Asia for TBWA/Media Art Lab in Singapore. |
Natalie Lam
Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe, Asia Pacific Natalie Lam is Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe Asia Pacific, where she’s responsible for overseeing the creative output of more than 40 agency brands including Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, Razorfish, Sapient, and Digitas. With her roots in design, a strong digital background and being a hopeless romantic for big ideas, Natalie advocates for strategic creative work that brings optimism, joy and beauty to the world, in truly media-agnostic ways. Natalie was selected for AdWeek’s Creative 100 ranking in 2022 as an “agency leader defining a new era.” Under her leadership, Publicis Groupe APAC brought home two Grand Prix awards from Cannes Lions 2022 – a first for the region. Her work for global innovative brands such as Nike+, Spotify and Mercedes won top global awards including a Cannes Grand Prix, D&AD Black Pencil, and ADC Black Cube. She is a frequent jury president and judge at global and regional awards shows such as Cannes Lions, D&AD, The One Show, ADC, LIA, and Spikes. |
Valerie Madon
Chief Creative Officer, APAC McCann Worldgroup Valerie's love for painting, since the age of five, has spawned a career of more than 20 years across brand-building and integrated creative solutions for major brands such as Zespri, Caltex, Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, Singapore Airlines, HSBC, Burger King, VISA, Singapore Tourism Board, Changi Airport, Central Provident Fund, Shell, GSK, Cycle & Carriage, Friesland Campina and many others. Known as one of APAC’s top creatives, she joined McCann Worldgroup as Chief Creative Officer, Southeast Asia, in May 2023 and expanded her remit to cover Asia Pacific in August 2023. Previously the Director of Creative Shop, SEA & Emerging Markets at Meta, Valerie is responsible for creative product across the region, as the network continues in its mission to be the irrefutable leader in the business of creativity. She also Chairs McCann Worldgroup’s APAC Creative Leadership Community. Valerie has judged and been awarded at all major shows including Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, New York Festival, Effies, Spikes Asia and AdFest. In her spare time, Valerie flexes her creative muscles crafting ceramics or churning her own homemade ice-cream! |
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Yoshihiro Yagi
Executive Creative Director Dentsu Inc., Tokyo Yoshihiro is a driving force of creativity throughout Dentsu Japan and is one of the top award-winning creatives in Japan, with over 500 medals under his belt. His work is always in the nature of facing human impulses and nurturing long and deep relationships with his clients. One of the most frequently discussed topics at client and team meetings is how to turn business into art. ‘Pocky THE GIFT’, which won Grand Prix at various awards, was a business that shared the human urge to connect with others. JR East's ‘Get Back, Tohoku’ won the Collaborative Pencil at D&AD for the first time in Asia, after more than 10 years of continuous efforts. Now more than ever, he feels the need to follow our own human sense of ethics in finding and solving problems in society. His greatest motivation is to create things that will make the lives of each person in this world brighter and enriched through the power of creativity. Most recently, he proved this with the JR Group’s ‘My Japan Railway’ campaign which won the coveted Black Pencil at D&AD. Yoshi and his wife have two young sons, Minato and Keito. They named the boys in relation to the circulation of water and nature: how mountain streams flow into the ocean, where it becomes rain and eventually goes back to the mountains. He also lectures at Kyoto University of the Arts. |