 Les Kollegian - Jacob Tyler Creative Group
CEO/Chief Creative Officer
For Les Kollegian, great design is more than a profession, it's a passion. He holds a Masters in Communications Design from the University of Baltimore and has more than 18 years of experience designing marketing campaigns. Les shares his enthusiasm for design principles through the weekend seminars he has taught, the customized courses he instructs for some of his corporate clients, and through volunteer activities such as having acted as a volunteer art therapist for nationally renowned Children's Hospital in Washington DC. His forward-thinking visions for digital design and technology have provided the creative direction for established major brands in the digital marketplace.
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 Melanie’s area of focus is in the understanding of human behavior in the social environment. Her writing and research appears in professional scholarly journals. As a designer, she is interested in the juxtaposition of art and text and her research and practice interests include the efficacy of creative processes as a therapeutic tool. |
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 Roberto Pedroso – Regional Creative Director at Saatchi&Saatchi
Roberto’s career in advertising started as a copywriter for JWT Venezuela. He became the youngest Creative Director at Ogilvy and Leo Burnett and went all the way to Regional Creative Director for McCann Panama. The Big Apple has been home for this creative worm for the past 15 years, where he became Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi New York, working on clients for the US Hispanic Market and Regional Accounts for Latin America and Europe. Got the frequent travel miles, the many creative awards and a matching set of luggage to prove it. He’s written for magazines and is finishing his second screenplay.
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 Normand Miron - President, Ogilvy 2B Internative.
Montreal's interactive creative dude and social networks buff Normand Miron, President of Ogilvy 2B Interactive, has won over 120 awards and mentions for interactive accounts such as Volkswagen, Air Canada, Budweiser, l’Oréal Paris, Mastercard, Johnson & Johnson, Rogers Wireless, Tourisme Québec and Maybelline New York.
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 Cindy Stern - As an award-winning retail strategist, writer, creative director and integrated marketer, Cindy has helped build and promote top global brands in a variety of industries. She originated the idea of serving Starbucks on United Airlines as a way of appealing to younger, more upwardly mobile flyers, created the U.S. Postal Service’s ReadyPost® shipping supplies to help busy people “wrap” their gifts, and spearheaded the Club Wedd and Lullaby Club gift registries at Target, the first of their kind in the world of mass merchandising. |
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 Daniel da Hora has been an Art Director and Creative Director for some brazilian northeast agencies. Partner-director of Creatto Communications Agency from 1997 to 2005, advertising company with detached works in the Brazilian northeast market, acting as art director and creative director. Executive Innovation Director for Aporte Comunicação since 2008 to 2009. Nowadays is Creative Consultant for several agencies and clients, been working since 1998 for brands such as Carrier, Apple, Castrol and also local brands and governmental advertising |
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 Tom has 20+ years of experience in advertising and is the Chief Innovations Officer at MCN – the Interpublic Group agency network in the Middle East and North Africa region, head quartered in Dubai. Tom is the catalyst and engine behind all things digital for the regional operations,, and drives online, mobile, out of home, augmented reality and other emerging media projects for the group’s blue chip clients. |
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 Kevin co-founded Mfx served as a computer consultant, university design instructor as well as an illustrator for major corporations and agencies. As Director of New Media, he oversees all aspects of electronic publishing, marketing, presentations, and media production; he is responsible for new technology research and development. |
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 Compiling the highest quality judging teams is one of the Summit International Award's top priorities. This is one of the primary differences between the SIA and other awards programs and colleague to colleague nominations provide the best of the best.
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 As an Associate Creative Director at SK+G in Las Vegas, Ethan Jameson focuses on the MGM Grand at Foxwoods and Bank of Nevada accounts. He has almost 10 years of international advertising experience at agencies such as TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in South Africa, Saatchi & Saatchi in Kuwait, and Ogilvy & Mather in both Kuwait and Bahrain.
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 Liam Wielopolski
Executive Creative Director
Y&R Johannesburg - South Africa
Liam Wielopolski, Executive Creative Director of Y&R Johannesburg, South Africa, started his career over 14 years ago in TV Production at Ogilvy. |
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 Associate Creative Director, doug agency
Ian is always in search of the next big idea. He currently works as an Associate Creative Director at doug agency in Toronto, working on clients such as Clover Leaf, Olympus, the AGO, and the Worldwide Short Film Festival.
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 Writer, Art Director, and above all an Ideawallah, Gavin Barrett is Partner, Creative Director and Chief
Turban Engineer, Rao Barrett and Welsh. He began his career at Lintas:Bombay, before moving on to DY&R Rediffusion, where he began his collection of awards with a A&M Campaign of the Year for a campaign that went on to run for 13 years.
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 Imelda Suriato Creative Director, Squeaky Wheel Media Imelda is a design and brand development professional with over twelve years of experience in both traditional and interactive agency settings. She came to Squeaky in 2006 after honing her skills as creative lead and information architect at several agencies in the NY Metro area. Imelda is originally from Jakarta, Indonesia, where she ran her own design and photo studio.
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 Tim began his career in advertising as a burnt-out props guy on feature films, by joining Young & Rubicam Sydney as the world’s oldest “junior” copywriter in 1989. In 1996, he moved to The Campaign Palace Melbourne for four years, the last two as Joint Creative Director. Returning to Sydney in 2000, he was Deputy Creative Director at Clemenger BBDO, and later enjoyed four months as a Visiting Creative Director at Mark BBDO Prague.
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 Mario Hoffmann
Senior Art Director
Ogilvy & Mather – Germany Mario has seen it all, done it all and made his mark all over the globe. Diversly educated in economics, visual communications and media design, Mario has played such diverse roles as Presentor, Foreighn Language Group Leader and Senior Art Director.
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 As Director of Creative Services at Digitaria, Daiga leads creative teams to connect brands with people through visual and user experience design. In addition, Daiga preserves the overall creative vision of the company while simultaneously serving as a mentor to a team of visual designers, multimedia designers and user experience designers.
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 Linda Passante CEO
The Halo Group – United States
As Chief Executive Officer, Linda Passante has been the engine driving Halo’s consistent growth and evolution into a finely tuned Brand Development Agency. Halo’s “consultants then communicators” business model is based on Linda’s belief that brand building begins from within a company with clearly articulated goals and a single-minded commitment to those goals.
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| Thomas Bjerregaard Bonde, Art Director at SP3 Denmark. Thomas is educated from the Danish Academy in Graphic Communication, and has over the years made many spectacular campaigns in Denmark. Thomas specializes in outdoor media and motion pictures, and his skills have won the recognition of several awards in spite of his young age (29). |
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 Educated at Boston University's School of Mass Communications, Rodney studied advertising, marketing and film production as well at working for a period in television commercial production in the UK. He has pursued additional education in film, fine arts and architecture at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design, where he is an Adjunct Professor. He has also studied with design masters like Milton Glaser, Paul Davis and Ed Bengait at the School of Visual Arts.
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 Lasha Orzechowski is the owner and creative director of Velocity Design Works located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Lasha graduated with honors from the University of Manitoba and holds a Fine Arts degree with a major in photography and graphic design. She is an active member of The Graphic Design Counsel of Canada, and as a member mentors design students, speaks on a variety of design issues and reviews design student’s portfolios. She also judges both local and international design competitions regularly. |
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 Jay Stuck has been responsible for all advertising, Internet marketing and corporate communications functions for ADT Security Services, Inc. He also managed ADT’s sports and event brand marketing, which has included a diverse portfolio of initiatives including the BCS ADT National Championship Trophy, The ADT Championship LPGA Golf Tournament, Arena Football and U.S. Speedskating. |
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 Palle Victor Rasmussen, Creative Director of SP3 Denmark. Palle is formally educated as a copywriter, and has been in Danish advertising for 15 years. Palle has worked with a broad variety of both national and international clients, such as Philips, Jeep, Chrysler and Citroën.
Palle has a keen interest in motion pictures, and especially viral film is a large work area. Palle has been nominated and won prizes world wide. Latest he got a Eurobest nomination, and won the Danish Bulls Eye 2007.
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 Christopher is Principal and Creative Director of Stellar Debris Creative Studios in Tokyo. Over the course of nearly 16 years, Christopher has taken several leaps back and forth across the Pacific and has amassed experience in a wide range of design disciplines including magazine design and publishing, web and interactive development, copywriting, and print and online marketing. His work has been honored numerous times by a wide range of competitions, including the ADDYs, Webbys, Summits, Daveys, and PRINT Magazine. |
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 Richard is an experienced marketing and branding professional. He set up RT Strategy in late 2009 as a consultancy providing strategic, creative marketing solutions with a 360-degree philosophy. This involves working with clients on Research and Planning, Setting Measurement Criteria, Managing the Tactical Execution of Marketing Plans, Analyzing Results and Adjusting Marketing Activity accordingly. He is also the founder of (2nd Thursday) - a local Marketing, Creative and Media Association for Canada's Okanagan Valley. |
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 Ilan's career spans four decades and four continents, beginning in the early 1970s and including the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. He joined Ogilvy & Mather in the 1980s as Design Head and Creative Director in Johannesburg, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and later held senior creative positions with Leo Burnett, Frankel & Co., Kragie Newell, Des Moines, and Gage Marketing, Minneapolis. |
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 Pier Lalonde
Principal
Pixel & Co. Creative Marketing – Canada
I ABHORE
Talking about me. But since I’m supposed to include a bio so here it is:
A little over 30 years’ experience in design studios and ad agencies in Canada (Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Quebec City). Won my share of awards over the years. Some really glamorous, some less, some extremely meaningful, some less as well. Started out as a graphic designer, became art director, eventually a copywriter. Today, they call me creative director. Which means I do all I did before, plus take care of the ups and downs of my creative teams. Oh, did I say I love my life?
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 Stéphane Veilleux – Vice-President & Creative Director at Brad
Stéphane Veilleux has held the position of Vice-president and creative director at Brad since 2001. He then became a partner in 2002. But it all started really one Christmas Eve at the age of 6, when the Super-8 camera he received from his grandfather went on to shape his career path years down the road. |
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 Jonathan Steinmann's experience includes 11 years of designing and developing web based applications on a variety of platforms, including the PHP/Apache/Linux and .NET/IIS/Win stacks, Windows and OSX operating system based softwares, and mobile devices, with a broad variety of well known national and international clients. Having owned and operated many successful 7 figure online business ventures, his experience goes well beyond theory. |
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 During his 18 years career in Integrated Marketing Communications in the Middle East Louai Alasfahani has worked on a plethora of key international accounts including IKEA, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Dominos Pizza, Chevrolet, Cadillac and Café Supreme to name but a few. In Kuwait alone he founded and managed three agencies which still stand; Bozell Worldwide, Graffiti and the award winning agency Paragon Marketing Communications which he holds the titles of Partner and Chief Creative Officer. |
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 Founder and Creative Director, Elevator
Tony's twenty-year career spans over three countries. Having lived and worked in the United States, Italy and Croatia Tony brings to table broad perspective and practical understanding of multiculturalism.
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 Lisa Charlebois has worked at a variety of shops in Toronto, from a local retail agency to BBDO then Ogilvy. In 2007, she joined the Canadian Brain Drain and moved to New York City. After a brief stop at Digitas, she has now settled at Ogilvy New York as a Senior Copywriter on the Six Flags account.
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 Simon Coffin is an Art Director in the Animation/Design department at Turner Studios. As an Art Director, Simon develops creative for commercials, identity packaging, new media and interactive projects for the various Turner Entertainment Networks. Simon works closely with clients to pull together the variety of disciplines available at our studios including: digital and cel animation, digital compositing, non-linear editorial and film/video production. |
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 Dan Geva - Art Director, Harrison and Star
Dan Geva has come a long way from Israel to New York, and everywhere in between. Currently employed at Harrison and Star, a healthcare advertising and communications agency in NYC, he is a Senior Art Director who balances two accounts, day to day.
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 Peter Gorman - Vice President-Creative & Brand Strategy - Restaurant.com
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 Jeff , the Engineer of Creative Identity for the one-person design shop Jeff Fisher LogoMotives, has been designing logos, creating corporate identity systems and branding organizations, businesses and products for over 25 years. Clients have included one-person entrepreneurial companies, education facilities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, professional sports teams and major international corporations. |
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 Ravinder is the CEO and founder of Kulwant Kenya, a web strategy outfit providing corporate strategy with core emphasis on online medium. He is on survey panel of Penn Schoen and Berland Associates, an online research company, panelist of EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit), member of Society of Industry Leaders, past judge of WEB AWARDS and also sits on the board of Nairobits (a Holland and Kenya e-initiative for youth).
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 Raised by a pack of wild sewer rats in New York City, David has spent his entire career in the wonderfully whacky world of advertising. David began his career as a Production Assistant, getting coffee for various commercial directors and producers. While he avoided getting burned hurrying the joe across film sets, he managed to pay attention to what was going on and before long was working as a Production Coordinator, then Production Manager, and then began placing his own coffee orders as a Producer. |
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 Vanessa DiMauro is the CEO and president of Leader Networks. A pioneer in business-to-business community building, Vanessa has been creating successful virtual communities and networks for more than fifteen years. Vanessa is a popular speaker, researcher and author on the topics of virtual communities, social networking, and Web 2.0 for businesses.
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Kathleen C.(KC) Mc Culloch |
 KC has a doctorate in psychology from New York University. Her main areas of expertise are implicit social cognition and self-regulation. Her research is centered upon investigating the mechanisms underpinning nonconscious and conscious goal pursuit. |
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 Jon is the co-founder and Creative Director & Chief Executive, Play. Jon studied English at King's College London and Education at Cambridge University before beginning his career in interactive advertising in the mid-90s. After cutting his teeth conceiving interactive campaigns for brands including Virgin and United International Pictures, Jon joined Agency.com in 1999 where he was appointed Director of Digital Marketing.
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 Rick Penn-Kraus is design director at the 79-year-old international public relations firm Hill & Knowlton in Los Angeles. His duties include designing logos, brochures, posters, and collateral material, as well as illustration, photography, in-house movie creation and video editing, songwriting/performing, and managing the graphics department. |
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 Technology Director, Tantramar Interactive Inc. Chris has immersed himself in the ever-changing digital world since 1993. Prior to co-founding Tantramar Interactive, Chris held various positions at Mount Allison University, a favorite higher-learning institution of MacLean’s Magazine for the past 13 years. He was Multimedia Developer at the Centre for Learning Technologies, guest-lecturer for the Education Department, distance education courseware developer and lecturer for the Department of Physics. |
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 Saurabh Dasgupta, Creative Team Head - Innocean Worldwide India
After having experienced managing hotels, being a traveling musician, a wireless modem importer, leather handbag dealer, television serial actor, production assistant, teacher, poet, and dreamer, I chanced upon advertising. For twelve years now, I have worked as a copywriter for Leo Burnett on Coke, Creative director with Mudra DDB on Samsung, Electrolux, HBO and the works. Currently I am a Creative Team Head with an agency called Innocean Worldwide engaging in and creating advertising for all car brands of Hyundai.
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 Designer, developer and all around Webmaster, Mahiette, has made her mark on the digital world. She has been immersed in the graphics and interactive world for years and began her quest at KPILA-CENTRAL serving a wide range of clients from TimeWarner to National Geographic. Her critical eye and breadth of international marketing communications expertise has caused her to be sought out by a multitude of leading companies.
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 Prentice is the creative director of Door Number 3 in Austin, Texas. He came to Austin via California where, most recently, he worked as Senior Copywriter at Ignited Minds of Marina del Rey. Account experience includes Anheuser-Busch, Texas Rangers Baseball Club, W Hotel & Residences and Loyola Marymount University Athletics. His work has been recognized by Archive, Creativity, Print Design Annual, Association of Independent Commercial Producers, Shoot Magazine, Step Magazine, National ADDY Awards, The Summit Creative Awards, Cannes Lions and London International Advertising Awards. He graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Advertising, completing Temerlin Advertising Institute's portfolio program. |
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