International Judges - 2009

Graham Kelly

"One of the few creatives to have achieved international recognition across all media. One of the most awarded Creative Directors in Asia. In 1991, Scottish-born Graham moved to Singapore, joining O&M Direct as a copywriter. The journey that started 16 years ago has to date produced some of the most iconic communication pieces Asia has ever seen. From O&M to Saatchi & Saatchi, BBH to TBWA\ Graham has brought agencies and their clients to the helm of its game, till recent Graham was ECD TBWA/Tequila, Singapore and “Creative Integrator” for Asia. Graham’s first major achievement at the agency was winning the global Singapore Airlines account.

Name an award show, you’ll find Graham's name in almost all of it, Media “Spikes” and One Show, Clio, D&AD and Cannes. Under his guidance his agency also won its first Gold Effie plus at Caples, Echos and the Asian Direct Marketing awards where he has won Best of Show twice. Graham loves to spend most of his time in his home in Bali."

Agnello Dias

In 2006, JWT India was ranked India’s No. 1 creative agency in the Campaign Brief rankings for Asia in 2006. In 2008 he made history by winning India’s first every Grand Prix at Cannes and the first ever Titanium-Integrated Lion with JWT India not only being the network’s top performer but also returning the best ever performance by an Indian advertising agency at the festival..

In a career spanning 18 odd years, he has worked on a host of Indian and multinational clients and his name features in almost every award book from the One Show, Clio and Cannes to the British D&AD, Asia Pacific Ad fest, Media Magazine, New York Fest, the Times Asia-Pacific awards of course the local shows where he has been Jury Chairman several times.

In Jan this year, Agnello Dias partnered Santosh Padhi to set up Taproot India where he is founder and Chief Creative officer..

Senthil Kumar

Vice President & Executive Creative Director : JWT India Senthil indulges in raw passion as the youngest ever Creative Chief in India. His portfolio includes edgy work on: Levi's, Ford Automobiles, The Diamond Trading Corporation, The Times Of India Newspaper, Smirnoff, Pepsi, Lipton, Hindustan Petroleum, Spice Telecom, Kingfisher Beer, The Murugappa Group, Sun TV Network, Sri Lanka Tourism and a host of Unilever brands for India and the AsiaPacific regional markets.

The Metallurgy includes: India’s first  Cannes Grand Prix - Runner Up and Campaign Gold Lion for Levi’s Slim Jeans, India's first ever Young Gun with the coveted Silver Bullet for Spice Telecom Radio Campaign, One Show Design Merits, British D&AD Merit selections, Clio Festival Statues, Asia Pacific Adfest Awards, New York Festival WorldMedals, Several Abby & AAAI National Gold Awards, A few Brand Building Awards, Several Regional Copywriter Of  The Year Medals and such other shining pieces of heavy metal.

Senthil Featured on the Home Page of YouTube through June 2007 for the 'Birds Of Paradise' Documentary on Sri Lanka post the Tsunami, which was also featured on National Geographic & Discovery Channels.

He has served on the prestigious Cannes 2008.

Tom Ormes

A student of advertising from the very beginning, Tom spent most of his high school holidays annoying the creatives at Saatchi Sydney. A week after school got out, he landed a gig at McCann Sydney. A couple of years later (at the ripe old age of 20) he was transferred to McCann India to handle Levi's for South Asia. And then onto sunny Sri Lanka for a year. He made a trip over to Dubai with LOWE for 3 years, and then onto Singapore for a couple of years, he then joined FCB New York as Senior Writer/Vice President, before returning to Asia as regional CD on Sony for Y&R. He is now CD of 360 agency, irisnation..

Tom has won at Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Clio, New York Festivals, London Internationals, World Press Awards, Communication Arts, AdFest

His short film 'The Bollywood Star' has also collected awards

"Advertising can do things that politics or other systems can't." Masako is now Creative Director at Dentsu and the pioneer among women to hold such a position in Japan’s largest advertising company. Masako has won major international creative awards, including Cannes, Clio, Mediaspikes, London International Awards, NY Festivals and AdFest. Particularly successful were her public service ads for the Ad Council (in Japan and the U.S.)

Other works included campaigns for Liberal Democratic Party (for Junichiro Koizumi), Toyota, Shiseido, Suntory, Thai Airways International and Shizuoka broadcasting. She has also judged for the Times Asia-Pacific Awards, Clio, YoungGuns, AdFest, 4A Awards, Cannes、Mediaspikes and One Show.

She is also a trendsetter who spread the word ‘Kawaii’ since she presented creative works and culture of Tokyo at Cannes 2005, and has spoken at other countries, such as Australia, Korea, U.S., HK, Colombia, Indonesia and China. She has also written a book, ‘How to Be a Copywriter’. In 2009 she’s due to publish her second book – “How to Make Someone Love You”

Once a week, Masako also works as a part-time professor of Advertising.

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