The EACA Euro Effies Awards Jury Chairman
Guillaume Conteville Head of Marketing / Mastercard Western Continental Europe
Guillaume is currently the head of Marketing for Western Continental Europe at MasterCard, where he oversees, among other things, the roll out of Priceless Cities and Priceless Surprises programmes, various sponsorships such as Champion's League, Roland Garros and Rugby World Cup as well as the launch of new products such as MasterPass, Mastercard's online wallet.
His background is very much media and digital. Prior to this role he was Head of Media for Europe at MasterCard. He has acquired a broad experience in media agencies. Starting in France at Initiative Media buying TV for Unilever. He then moved on to work for Starcom in London, managing the international UBS account before moving to MEC for a 7 year stint working on the Visa account in London. Singapore was his next stop where he managed international clients and returned to London to run the Colgate Palmolive account in Europe.
Guillaume is a Parisian by birth but a Londoner by choice. He is married and has two adorable daughters, who unlike their dad have a pristine English accent and support England in football.
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Lucie Čepivová
Managing Director at DORLAND - Czech Republic
Lucie has been working in marketing for more than 20 years.
In 1994, she worked for PR agency, Creo, and in 1997 she switched to the client side working for one of the biggest banks in the Czech Republic, Česká Spořitelna (part of Erste Bank Group). She was Director of the advertising department where she led the re-design project of ČS and all its subsidiaries.
In 2004, she joined DORLAND, a Czech full-service communications agency established in 1991. It's one of the biggest local agencies in the Czech market and founding member of the Czech Association of Communications Agencies (AKA).
Luigi Accordino
Head of Strategy at The Big Now - Italy
For the past 15 years, Luigi has been working as a Strategic Planner for some of the most important integrated communications agencies in the Italian market.
Between 2000 and 2004 he worked for Lowe Pirella Milan as a Strategic Planner. He had the opportunity to work with clients such as Lever Fabergè, Arena, Axa and Nestlè.
He moved on to work for Publicis Milan as a Senior Strategic Planner where he managed clients such as Nestlè, Bolton Manitoba, Garnier and Parmalat.
In 2008, he was appointed Strategic Planning Director and worked on accounts like Nestlè, Heineken, Unicredit, Whirlpool, Renault, Bolton Manitoba, Garnier, Sisal and Campari.
In 2014, he was appointed Head of Strategy at The Big Now.
Luigi has also started working as a consultant for Pirelli.
Marie Agudera
Global Account Planner at DLKW Lowe - United Kingdom
Born in Sydney, Marie started her career as a graphic designer, creating work as diverse as skincare packaging and library interiors. With an urge to be more involved in brand strategy and less brand execution, she moved into the world of advertising in 2008. Since then, she has worked across the different strategic disciplines of channel, data, digital and brand planning, for industries such as banking, travel and FMCG. Marie moved to London in 2012 and now uses her diverse skill set at the integrated shop of DLKW Lowe.
Ivo Altanov
Managing Director at Noble Graphics - Bulgaria
Since 2006, Ivo has been the Managing Director of Noble Graphics one of the best creative ad agencies in Bulgaria. Under his leadership, the company continued its outstanding performance and became one of the most awarded ad agencies on the market winning EPICA and EFFIE Awards winning Agency of the Year in 2014.
Ivo started his career at S Team Bates Saatchi&Saatchi and has over 15 years of experience in marketing, account handling and strategic planning. Taking part in the creative process as well, he led the work on numerous campaigns for both local and international accounts like Carlsberg, Johnson & Johnson and DSK Bank to name a few.
Axel Averdung
Head of Strategy at SinnerSchrader - Germany
With a scientific and consultancy background in Marketing and Innovations Management, Axel developed his professional expertise in the fields of strategic marketing and communications, user-centric service design and innovations to business models and digital ecosystems. His sound experience in foreseeing the impact of disruptive digital technologies to organisations, has encouraged numerous businesses to undergo a true digital transformation.
Mark Becher
Client Service & Strategy Director at FCB - Switzerland
Becoming a lawyer was Marks business goal until he discovered his passion for analysing advertising instead of juridical matters. He started his career at Swiss boutique agencies before he moved to Publicis. In 2008, he was appointed International Senior Account Director for the Global Business of Zurich Insurance and managed the global B2B and Sponsorship.
Later on he took over full responsibility for Swiss International Airlines and the European Business of UBS.
He joined FCB Zürich in January 2014 where he has full responsibility for key clients, overall strategy development and implementation.
In his freetime he enjoys swimming in the lake of Zurich and barbecuing with friends.
Marek Biskup
Client Services Director at Millward Brown - Poland
Marek is Client Services Director in Millward Brown and has been one of the pillars of SMG/KRC Poland, the largest Polish research institute since 1992.
He has led market research for the last twenty three years for clients such as Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, ING, Johnson&Johnson, Nestlé, P&G, Philip Morris, Philips, SabMiller, T-Mobile, TVP and Unicredito.
He is involved mainly in qualitative projects that support strategic consulting,
brand architecture construction, communications designing, creative thinking techniques and ethnographic research
Marek is a social psychologist specialising in non-verbal communication. He is an author within the qualitative research area and is responsible for innovations such as BrandEgo visual projective technique to diagnose brand personality and IGroup mini groups that use a Microsoft Surface interactive table.
He is also a member of the EFFIE jury for many years.
Fredrik Blomberg
Founder at Doe Blomberg Gottberg - Sweden
Fredrik is the Founder of Doe Blomberg Gottberg. The agency was awarded as Sweden's Agency of the Year in 2013 and 2014. Fredrik has won many awards in competitions such as the Swedish Golden Egg Awards (Guldägget), the Golden Key Awards (Guldnyckeln) and at Eurobest. He was the creator behind the worldwide campaign, "Experiment Alone - Bob Dylan", where Dylan had a concert for just one single person in the audience. The campaign was written about in over 90 countries and covered by The Rolling Stones magazine, The Telegraph and the BBC.
Andreas Cordt
European Client Services Director at INNOCEAN Worldwide Europe - Germany
Andreas Cordt joined INNOCEAN Worldwide Europe (IWE) in November 2014 as European Client
Services Director heading up all European client services from the company headquarters in
Frankfurt. The appointment reflects an increased focus on client management by IWE under Andreas
leadership as the company continues its expansion in Europe beyond automotive and into other
sectors.
German-born Cordt joins INNOCEAN from his previous role as Managing Director of Publicis Group, here he worked with brands including Renault and Dacia. He has also gained experience over the course of his career with automotive brands Fiat, Cadillac and Corvette and worked with other well-known clients, such as Commerzbank, LOreal, Kraft, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble. In addition, he is an honorary member of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce, dedicating himself to improve the conditions for the creative industry in Frankfurt.
Luka Duboković
Managing Director at BBDO Zagreb - Croatia
Luka has been working for agencies since 1996. He started off in BBDO then moved on to Publicis and back to BBDO. In Publicis he was Account Director for Coca-Cola working across three markets: Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia.
In 2002, he founded BBDOs strategic planning department and worked in sectors such as food, drinks, dairy, finance, telecom, B2B, government, travel/tourism and non-profit.
In 2005, he was appointed Managing Director of BBDO where his responsibilities include new product development, strategic brand development, brand platform development and implementation and leading all major client pitches. He has been cited and interviewed numerous times in all relevant Croatian business press.
Lukas Dudek
Managing Director & Planner at Taste! Food & Beverage Communications - Germany
Lukas discovered his passion for communications in his early years. After completing his Abitur in 2002, he engaged in an advertising Apprenticeship at Grey and simoultaneously studied Marketing and Communications at the Frankfurt Marketing Academy. In 2004 he started off working at Havas Media in the fields of Media Planning and Channel Planning. Next he acquired advanced skills in Strategic Planning by joining Jung von Matt in 2008. Two years later, Lukas was hired by DDB Tribal as a Senior Planner.
In 2011 Lukas started off as a Planning Director at taste!, where he first introduced a Planning department to the agency. With a team of 65 employees, taste! has specialised in creating communications concepts and brand strategies for food and beverage brands such as Griesson-de Beukelaer, Löwensenf and Ehrmann as well as retail concepts and brands. He was appointed Joint Managing Director in early 2014.
In his free time, Lukas enjoys discovering new food and gastronomy concepts and going for a run. He is married and has a 3-year-old daughter.
Gordon Euchler
Global Planning Director at Ogilvy & Mather - Germany
Gordon is Global Planning Director at Ogilvy & Mather since the beginning of 2015.
After completing his PhD in Management at the University of Cambridge, he did the obvious thing and joined the advertising industry. Working for Grey and then for Saatchi & Saatchi, he developed European strategies for brands such as Deutsche Bank, Sony Ericsson, Nürburgring and Fortis.
For the last few years he ran the strategy team at DDB in Berlin. The European work for Bwin, Electrolux and Deutsche Telekom won all the major creative awards but, equally important, it won various prizes for advertising effectiveness such as the Global Grand Prix at the AME, a Euro Effie and an IPA Effectiveness award.
Maria Fotiou
Group Account Director at DDB - Greece
Maria joined DDB in 1998 as an Account Executive and in the past 17 years climbed her way up but also became a true banking communications expert, since, from day one, she has consistently handled the biggest Greek private bank client.
Besides that, Maria got involved in numerous other projects and clients, leading different teams and gaining significant experience in not only diverse categories but also in various communications disciplines such as digital, BTL and events. She is very result-oriented and with that, she managed to win a few Effies along the way.
Maria is a mother of an 8 year old princess, a book addict and a rather lazy sportswoman.
Darko Ivancevic
Marketing Director at Zagrebacka Brewery - Croatia
Darko is Marketing Director of Zagrebacka Brewery, part of global Moslon Coors Brewing Company. With its strongest brand, Ozujsko, the company is a leader in the Croatian beer market, in both sales results and strenght of its beer brands.
He spent 7 years of his career in the strategy department of a pharmaceutical company then went on to working in a market research agency for 3 years and since 2007, he has been working for Zagrebacka Brewery in sales and marketing. Darko is a father of two. He enjoys playing sports, nature and having fun.
Toshka Ivanova
Creative Director at reforma - Bulgaria
Toshka joined reforma in 2013. She has more than 10 years of experience in Publicis Sofia and Leo Burnett Sofia, being responsible for brands such as P&G, Diageo, Philip Morris, NESTLE, LOreal and Unicredit Bulbank. Now she leads a creative team, developing local creative campaigns for MasterCard, Pernod Ricard and Discovery Networks CEEMEA to name a few.
Toshka is proud to be part of the only agency in Bulgaria which for the past 4 years creates projects that were awarded both at the EFFIEs and FARA (the local creative festival). In her work she aims to prove the right creativity that leads to meaningful results.
Ieva Kravcenko
Strategy Director at Carat - Latvia
Ieva has been with Carat for more than 13 years where she started off as a Media Specialist. Over the years, she has developed excellent communications planning skills through her extensive media market knowledge and account management experience. For the last few years, Ieva is involved in major Baltic client communications strategy developments and client relationship management.
She truly enjoys team trainings, running integrated communications planning workshops for Baltic Dentsu Aegis employees as well as media and communications workshops for clients.
Ieva has worked with Carlsberg, Adidas, Nivea, Ferrero including many other international and local brands.
Agnieszka Kwasniewska
Managing Partner at Saatchi&Saatchi Think Tank - Poland
Agnieszka graduated from Warsaw University with a degree in Psychology. She has 15 years of experience in the field of marketing consulting which she gained through working in advertising agencies and brand consulting entities. Since 2009, she has been managing Saatchi&Saatchi Think Tank an integrated strategic unit within the Saatchi Group in Poland.
Agnieszka has broad experience in brand and communications strategy projects, focused on brand support at different stages of its life (launch, repositioning, strategic dilemmas). She has also conducted many implementation projects for the following market sectors: FMCG, financial services, telecom, pharmaceutical, automotive and retail.
She is a Lecturer at the Brand Strategy School which is part of the Marketing Communications Association. She has been a jury member for Effie Poland numerous times in the past.
Tommi Laiho
Executive Creative Director at FOLK - Finland
Tommi Laiho is leading the advertising agency, FOLK. In 2014, FOLK won a Grand Effie for their work for Lidl.
He is a passionate spokesman for creativity and ideas. At the same time he challenges the traditional way of doing things. He rather works with challenging brands than market leaders.
Tommi has won several advertising awards in Finland as well as internationally. He has won 3 Grand Prixs, 6 golds, 9 silvers and 7 bronzes in the Finnish Effie awards.
Maria Marcheva
Client Services Director at New Moment New Ideas - Bulgaria
New Moment New Ideas is one of the most creative and awarded agencies in Bulgaria. Maria joined the agency in 2004. She has more than 10 years experience in marketing, account handling and strategic planning. She also took part in the creative process for clients such as VIVACOM, Toyota, Lexus, Microsoft, Bulgartabak, Nestle and UBB.
Mindaugas Mockus
Director at REMarketing - Lithuania
Mindaugas is a marketing and sales professional with 20 years of experience in marketing and sales at various positions in Kraft Foods International (Mondelez International), Fazer and Royal Unibrew. He has successfully cooperated with leading alcohol industry companies such as Diageo, Bacardi Martini, Hennessy and Brown Forman to name a few.
Currently Mindaugas is leading REMarketing which helps clients re-think marketing and sales strategies and implement them in the Baltic and CIS markets. During the last five years, the company has built a strong reputation of efficient partnerships for solving difficult business cases. Mindaugas educational background covers history, communications and business management with numerous practical marketing and communications trainings across Europe.
Teemu Neiglick
Marketing Architect at ToinenPHD - Finland
Teemu Neiglick is a Marketing Architect at ToinenPHD. He also works as Chief Digital Officer in Omnicom Media Group developing digital marketing capabilities across the Group.
In addition, he works as an adviser and is a board member in various companies across the marketing field such as Customer Insight Company, Kopla Helsinki, digital production company, Kuubi Oy and digital performance agency, Ainoa Resolution.
His passion in work points to all directions of digital marketing, data utilization and digital storytelling.
He is also father of three active kids, who keep him pretty much occupied in his spare time.
Katarzyna Okularczyk
Marketing, Communications & Citizenship Leader at IBM - Poland
Katarzyna joined IBM in 1999 as a Market Analyst for the Services Department in Poland. In 2001, she went on an assignment in Paris to further develop her analytical skills in Market Intelligence and became a Market Analyst for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. In 2005, she went on another assignment in the regional headquarters in Vienna to continue supporting the region with market intelligence and returned to her role in Poland in January 2006 as Country Marketing Manager. In 2009, she was promoted to Country Marketing and Communications Manager. Since 2011, she has also been responsible for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Katarzyna is actively involved in working with Chief Marketing Officers in Poland and has been a member of the Polish EFFIE Jury several times.
She is a graduate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing with a Diploma in Marketing and completed the IBM Marketing Leadership Development Program.
Katarzyna is married and has two children.
Marja-Liisa Pollari
Strategy Director at Reputation - Finland
Marja-Liisa started her career as a journalist in the media company, Talentum.
She worked as an editor at Marketing&Advertising, Managing Editor at IT-week and Editor-in-Chief at business.fi. She got into advertising in 2001, where she started off as a Planner.
Brand, communications and content strategies are her core competencies as well as strategic communications, innovative HR solutions and new networking ecosystems.
She has four Effie awards (MPS, VIA launch, Valiojogurtti, Valio Play) under her belt.
Marja-Liisa is currently managing clients like SCA, Kariniemen and VR Group.
Jan Rauschert
Managing Director at Comtech - Czech Republic
Jan has been active in the advertising industry for 19 years. During this period he has learned to truly understand a brand and how to develop it further through using all communications tools.
He has worked on numerous "360 degree branding" campaigns in Ogilvy and Mather, Kaspen and also on the client side.
In 2008, he was appointed Managing Director of one of the best independent Czech agencies Comtech.
He is a member of the Czech Advertising Agencies Association - AKA.
Edgar Schnedl
CEO at Schnedl & Partner Agentur für Marktkommunikation - Austria
Edgar is Chair of the department of advertising and marketing at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. He uses his knowledge to support and promote entrepreneurs and represents the interests of more than 3.500 businesses in Styria.
He also owns his own marketing agency.
He holds a Master's degree in International Marketing and has been working in this field for years. As a Global Marketing Manager in the area of motor sports, automobile and high technology businesses, he gained a lot of work experience in Asia, Australia and Europe.
In 2008, he moved back to Austria. Edgar became self-employed and founded his own marketing agency, focusing on the development of efficient marketing strategies. In addition he started publishing a magazine dealing with the economy and people.
Grażyna Skarżyńska
Partner, Managing Director, Strategist at Albert Lumberjacker - Poland
Grażyna has worked in the operational and marketing department of as PepsiCo Poland /Tricon where she was responsible for Pizza Hut and KFC. She was Strategic Manager and then Strategic Director at BBDO Warsaw's Strategy Department, providing service to brands from a range of market sectors including: mBank, Multibank, GE Money Bank, Polish Telecom, Bayer, P&G, Mars Polska, PepsiCo, Wrigley and Dr.Oetker.
Currently, she is the owner of "Good Company" developing brand and communications strategies for Polish and global brands and creating co-operation between businesses and NGOs locally.
She is a Lecturer at the Polish Advertising Association's School of Brand Strategy. She is a member of the EFFIE Committee in Poland and Board Member of the Union of Associations Advertising Council and The Polish Self-Regulation Organisation.
Brit Stakston
Founder at Stakston - Sweden
Brit is an author, lecturer and media strategist focused on digitisation. She has a long career within the communications field both from the client and consultant side. She has worked with clients like Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Unicef. Today she runs her own communications agency - Stakston - and is currently writing her third book on social media. She is regularly appointed as one of the most digital influential PR consultants in Sweden.
In Sweden, she is well-known for her work within the press freedom field and for her fight for the release of Swedish journalist, Dawit Isaak, imprisoned for 13 years in Eritrea. The campaign for his release show the role and importance of communications to keep awareness alive in difficult situations like this. The 'Free Dawit' campaign was recently on the short-list for the Swedish PR Award "Spinn" in the category NGOs. Please follow her on twitter @britstakston to discuss communications in a digital era.
Manfred Strobl
CEO at Mediaschneider AG - Switzerland
Manfred started out as a researcher at Roland Berger Group Munich in 1986. Back then he worked mostly on primary market research in the automotive, food and other industries.
Four years later he joined Philip Morris in the same field and was able to add many facets of the corporate business before becoming a marketing services manager to Lancaster Group, a cosmetics and fragrance division at that time already owned by Reckitt Benckiser.
Manfred started his media career with the Verlagsgruppe Milchstrasse (Burda Group), where he set up a regional sales office for the publishing house. Years later he advanced to Executive Managing Director of Optimedia Germany and then was appointed as CEO of Omnicom Media Group Switzerland (OMD, PHD, Rightcallmedia).
Manfred now heads up Mediaschneider AG in Zurich, an independent media and analytics agency with an outstanding domestic market position.
Mauro Ussardi
Brand Planning Consultant at Regione Lombardia - Italy
Mauro began his career 1980, working for A.C. Nielsen in the Client Services department. After two years he joined J. Walter Thompson as the first Italian Account Planner. During 25 years of his career he gained experience in all kinds of markets and brands, mainly multinational, and had european and global planning responsibilities including managing the WPP Italian Academy.
After having developed the biggest Planning deptartment of the Italian market and having been appointed Vice President and Head of Strategic Services, he left JWT to work as a Brand Planning consultant. He works for Regione Lombardia and for multinational and local agencies in the fields of advertising, web, events, exhibitions and marketing research.
Dario Vrabec
Director of Marketing and Development at Ledo d.d. - Croatia
Dario is Marketing and Development Director at Ledo d.d. (part of Agrokor d.d Group) which is the biggest regional producer of ice cream and frozen food. He has more than ten years of marketing and sales experience in global and local companies and the past 7 years at Agrokor d.d. Group, has seen him in different managerial positions.
He is the President of the Croatian EFFIE Jury for 2015.
He holds an MSc in Economics and in his free time he enjoys reading and playing sports.
Marcin Winkler
Head of Internet Marketing at Play - Poland
Marcin is Head of Internet Marketing at Play the fastest growing mobile operator in CEE with over 12 million clients in Poland. He runs initiatives in a wide variety of digital marketing areas such as user experience, ecommerce, portal & e-care applications development, online communications, social media and email marketing.
Previously he was Head of OMD where he led projects for clients in the telecoms industry, banks and financial services, car manufacturers, CPG and media in Central and Eastern Europe. He has particular expertise in marketing effectiveness and ROI optimization.
Marcin holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Thomas Zenz
Founder and CEO at Doppelpunkt - Austria
Thomas Zenz is Founder and CEO of Doppelpunkt consulting in Graz, Austria. The agency focuses on strategic communications, content strategy and storytelling. He represents the creative industries in the Wirtschaftskammer Steiermark (Styrian Chamber of Commerce) as Vice Chairman.
Before launching Doppelpunkt, he was Head of Marketing and Communications in Wirtschaftsbund Styria, CEO of Management Club Styria and Head of B2B marketing for South East Austria at UTA Telekom.
Neil Godber
Head of Planning at JWT - United Kingdom
Neil's career started at Publicis where he was responsible for planning on The Army, ASDA and made D&AD winning work for the Depaul Trust. Since then, he has worked at MCBD on Greene King and Premier Foods and M&C Saatchi, where he made Dixons "The Last Place You Want To Go", the most awarded advertising of 2010, winning the APG Grand Prix and Jay Chiat Gold.
Latterly, Neil worked at BBH, where he led the planning for Audi, Barclays, Dulux, Gordon's and KFC, until arriving at JWT last year to lead the strategy for The Army and Kenco.
Andrew Hammett
Global Head of Brand & Communications at Procter & Gamble - Switzerland
Andrew is Global Head of Brand & Communications in an internal consultancy for P&G on communications and brand building called BBIC. He has 32 years of experience working on nearly all major categories globally and currently working on dish care and baby care.
He has been jury president and jury member of the Golden Drum Awards in 2010 and 2011.
Andrew is a Trustee of Oxfam Germany. He is a chemistry graduate from Oxford University and lives in Frankfurt.
Andy Johnson
Global Business Leader at GlaxoSmithKline - United Kingdom
Andy Johnson is Global Business Leader for GlaxoSmithKline Gum Health Oral Care brands. He is the proud owner of four Effies and created the Sensodyne advertising campaign that transformed the business and created a £2 billion global brand. His most recent success was winning an Effie in 2014 for Corsodyl mouthwash.
Unusually for clients he also writes and edits ads and apart from the Sensodyne campaign, has written long running and successful campaigns for both Mars in Australia and for GSK in the US. Andy is a big supporter of the Effie Awards believing them to be the worlds leading advertising awards, because effectiveness is what matters most.
A joint Australian and British citizen Andy has run international brands for over 13 years.
When not loving ads he enjoys cricket, beekeeping and walking his dog!
Artur Martins
Vice President Marketing at KIA Europe - Germany
Artur is Vice-President Marketing for KIA Europe where he is responsible of over 31 European markets.
He has many years of experience in marketing through his work at Kia Motors, Volkswagen Group, Toyota Motors and FIAT Group.
He has played a fundamental role in the successes of companies where he has worked in. He has acquired extensive experience and in-depth knowledge within all the Marketing disciplines in different executive positions.
He is ad enthusiast has had the opportunity to win two silver Effie Awards in Brazil with the new Beetle launch campaign in 2013 as well as other important communications awards such as Cannes Lions, Clio Awards and El Ojo.
Radek Miklaszewski
CEO at WALK - Poland
Radek has worked for many national and international brands. POLSAT TV, the first commercial TV station in Poland, was his first job during his studies. He created the base for a model of modern sponsorship and product placement which was pioneering work for that time.
In 1999, he started to work for a leading media agency in Poland OMD. He gained experience in new business development and international media campaign coordination.
Between 2004 and 2011, he worked for TBWA Warsaw where he was in charge of the agency's development as Managing Director.
In 2011, he joined WALK, one of the most dynamic independent marketing and communications groups in Poland, as a partner and co-owner.
He is a board member of the SAR Marketing Communications Association. For two years he has been active in EFFIE Committees and was twice invited to join the EFFIE jury.
David Moynihan
Head of Client Strategy EMEA at MediaCom - United Kingdom
David is MediaComs Head of Client Strategy for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He joined MediaCom in January 2012. He is responsible for ensuring strategic output and creativity across the region and delivering insight and innovation alongside plans that achieve business growth across multiple markets. In doing this, David is at the forefront of evolving, distributing and championing MediaComs 2020 Connections strategic planning approach.
Across 20 years in media and advertising he has worked in a variety of local, global and regional planning roles. He started his career at creative agencies Ammirati Puris Lintas and WCRS, before joining Naked Communications in 2004. In 2008, David became Worldwide Group Planning Director at ZenithOptimedia.
Andris Rubins
Partner and Managing Director at DDB - Latvia
Andris is Partner and Managing Director of DDB Latvia, one of the most respected and awarded advertising agencies in creativity and effectiveness festivals. DDB has also won many awards in regional and international advertising awards such as the Euro Effies, Golden Drum, Golden Hammer and Creative Excellence Awards.
Andris is a charismatic leader of the agency and an energetic advertising professional. He joined DDB Latvia in 2000 and together with a team of 45 talented individuals he continues to develop respected and loved brands in the Baltics. Andris is a board member of the Latvian Art Directors Club and Latvias Advertising Association, Curator of TEDxRiga and co-founder of MAMMU.
He is a graduate of the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and received a Masters degree from Latvia University. Andris is married, has three children and a troop of Labradors.
Harjot Singh
Vice President, Regional Strategy Director at McCann Worldgroup EMEA - United Kingdom
Harjot is Executive Vice President, Regional Strategy Director for Europe at McCann Worldgroup EMEA and lives in London. Over the last 19 years of his advertising career, Harjot has lived and worked in 5 countries.
He has worked on nearly every category from packaged goods to banking, cars, retail, paints, telecom, tourism, cosmetics and credit cards.
Prior to his arrival in London in 2015, Harjot worked in several leadership roles in global, regional, and new business strategy.
His contribution in influencing and shaping award winning work and an unflinchingly common sense based approach to strategy and creativity has been widely recognised by leading publications, ivy league universities, forums and award shows across the world.