2019 Global ACE Awards Judges
Chris Bagnall
CEO
Transmission
Chris is a senior international media and marketing professional with 20+ years experience in the B2B industry, both client and agency side. As founder of the global data-driven B2B marketing agency Transmission, Chris provides leadership and direction for one of the fastest growth agencies in the B2B industry. Only 5 years old, Transmission is a top 10 B2B agency, has over 100 employees, has won numerous awards for its data-driven approach to B2B marketing and recognition from the likes of the Financial Times and LinkedIn as one of the fastest growing businesses around.
Jeremy Cochran
Chief Client Officer & CEO
Iris Business
Jeremy is the CEO of Iris Business, Iris’ B2B offering. Iris Business was recently recognized by B2B Marketing as a Top 10 International B2B Marketing Agency. Leading over 300 people from across Europe, Asia and North America, Jeremy has overseen the growth of Iris B2B services – from brand strategy to content and Lead Gen to ABM. Jeremy’s 25 years of agency experience has seen him lead a multitude of award-winning campaigns for some of the biggest B2B brands in the world.
Kate Cox
CEO
Bray Leino
Kate has over 20 years of agency experience, working in just about every area of marketing; from brand strategy, TV and digital to sales promotion, experiential, conferences and PR. Kate is proud to be CEO of Bray Leino Ltd, leading their integrated businesses in the UK, Asia and North America. Kate’s experience spans numerous sectors, such as Food & Drink, Healthcare and highly complex B2B industries, and she is privileged to work with a fantastic range of clients, such as Muller, Jägermeister, BP and Visa. Outside of Bray Leino, Kate is active with the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and also the IPA (Institute of Practitioners of Advertising), where she helps drive Client Service excellence in the industry. She is honored to be a Trustee of the North Devon Hospice and is also about to become a Trustee of a newly-formed plastic-reduction charity. She is married to Toby, practices yoga, runs (badly) and kite surfs (but only when it’s hot!).
Chris Duffey
Strategic Development Manager, Creative Cloud Enterprise
Adobe
Chris Duffey spear-heads Adobe’s Creative Cloud strategic development partnerships across the Creative enterprise space. Chris' keynotes have received over 50+ million impressions. His sessions have been reported around the world by media outlets including Access Hollywood, Extra, Ok Magazine, Hello, People, Daily Mail and Euro News. In addition, Chris and his work have been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, Inc., Adweek, Adage, Cheddar, The Guardian, The Mirror, The Drum, Campaign, CMO.com, NY Post, Business Insider... and featured by Google, McKinsey and Wharton in their digital marketing book. Chris also serves on Rutgers University Data Advisory Board and The Board of Directors for the Association of National Advertisers NY. Prior to Adobe Chris was an award-winning executive creative director, noted speaker, author and AI and mobile technologist.
Mike Fredrick
Chief Creative Officer
Nelson Schmidt
Mike Fredrick is the Chief Creative Officer at Nelson Schmidt in Milwaukee. He’s responsible for the overarching creativity of the agency across all clients, including Panduit, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, Laborie and InSinkErator. Mike’s been an ad agency copywriter and creative director for nearly 25 years and his work has won numerous B2B awards, including recognition in the Global ACE, The Drum and B2 shows. He’s also a passionate voice in the industry and has been invited to speak about creativity at global B2B marketing conferences.
Stu Garrett
Creative Director
Doremus
Stu understands the power of images to tell a story and influence perceptions. He has spent the bulk of his advertising career at Doremus, Young & Rubicam and J. Walter Thompson, where he’s created breakthrough programs for leading brands, such as Accenture, AT&T, United Airlines, Pella Windows, Dr Pepper, 7 UP, Citibank, HP, Intel and Visa. Stu is a winner of National, District and New York Gold ADDYs, Cannes Film Awards, EFFIES, London International Awards and the Society of Illustrators National Merit Award.
Ty Heath
Global Lead, Market Development
LinkedIn
Ty is the Global Lead for Market Development for the Marketing Solutions group at LinkedIn and the former President of LinkedIn's Black Inclusion Group (BIG). Ty is passionate about connecting people to information needed to make intelligent decisions, delivering educational content to help marketers stay on top of the latest in digital marketing strategy with a bit of humor. Ty teaches B2B marketing, inbound marketing strategy, account-based marketing, social selling and content marketing, as well as leadership, diversity and inclusion. Ty was also the contributing author in the recently published book "The Professional Black Woman" and the full author of "Marketer's of Tomorrow: A Step by Step Toolkit for Inbound Marketing".
Natasha O’Rourke
Creative Director
John Hancock
Natasha started her career as a *gasp* account person, then quickly realized creative was where it’s at. She worked at FCB in New York before moving to Boston, where she wrote at Connelly Partners and PJA before a brief stint in freelancing. She’s since settled in as a Creative Director at Maidenhouse at John Hancock. Outside of work, she deals with her neat freak husband, two hilarious children, neurotic dog, Words with Friends addiction, and a raging case of misophonia.
Emmeli Österdahl
Creative Director
MRM//McCann
Emmeli has a background at the top agencies in Scandinavia, such as McCann, Lowe Brindfors, DDB and Great Works, the latter a leading independent digital innovation agency. Emmeli has taught digital advertising at numerous ad schools, including Berghs School of Communication – voted Best Advertising School four times at Cannes Future Lions. In spring 2016, she was asked to be the creative lead to restart and rebuild MRM//McCann Nordics and that path led to the headquarters of MRM//McCann in New York. Emmeli’s achievements include metals at all the major award shows, such as Cannes Lions, One Show, Clio, New York Festivals, Eurobest, FAB Awards and Epica, among others.
Cynthia Scheid
Director of Creative Operations
Stein IAS
Cynthia leads Stein IAS’ U.S. copywriting team and oversees creative operations in New York, San Francisco and Manchester. With proficiency in translating value propositions into brand-activating, long ideas, she has played an integral part in the development of industry disrupting campaigns and experiences – landing her a nomination for Drum’s Rising Star Award in 2016. Her tenacity and drive to find innovative creative solutions to business marketing challenges has made Cynthia instrumental in some of Stein IAS’ most successful and refreshing campaigns.
Alan Schulman
Chief Creative Officer
Deloitte Digital
Alan Schulman is Chief Creative Officer of Deloitte Digital US. He leads Deloitte Digital's Brand Creative & Content offerings from content strategy, digital campaigns and content marketing through digital production and content factory offerings. Prior to joining Deloitte, Alan held Executive Creative & Content leadership roles at such leading global agencies as McCann-Erickson, FutureBrand Worldwide, Foote, Cone & Belding and most recently, as Chief Creative Officer of Sapient NY. He has served as a member the Association of National Advertiser's (ANA) School of Marketing faculty and the Creative Review Committee of The AdCouncil, as well as co-chair of the 4A’s Creative Technology Committee, the Adobe Global Creative Director’s Council and the Wharton School of Business’ “Future of Marketing” Digital Marketing curriculum committee.
Kash Sree
Executive Creative Director
gyro
In the over 25 years Kash has been in the business, he’s worked in good and not so good agencies. When people say “this is a bad agency!” or “you’ll never get good work out there!”, he thinks, “but what if I can?” Kash is presently the ECD of Gyro’s New York and San Francisco offices. Previously, he has been the CCO at SSK, ECD at Pereira O’Dell and ECD at JWT, as well a GCD at BBH New York. Kash’s most notable time was 5 years at Wieden and Kennedy, Portland where he won lots of shiny accolades, including an Emmy and a Film Grand Prix at Cannes. Kash was sure he’d be told this isn’t the way to write a bio. But what if it is?”
Anne Swan
Executive Creative Director, Client Services
Siegel+Gale
Anne brings 20 years of strategic branding and design experience and an expert sensibility to the solutions, strategies and stories she delivers to clients. Leading with simplicity and decisiveness, she cultivates a diverse, strong and business-savvy creative team that can visually express any business strategy and simplify any challenge. She works directly on Siegel+Gale’s largest and most impactful client engagements, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CVS Health, DXC, P&G, GE and eBay. Additionally, her contributions have been vital to the company’s long-standing position as American Express’ brand agency of record. Anne’s work has been featured in Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, the AIGA Design Journal, the Transform Awards, the Creativity Awards, the ANA Reggie Awards, the BMA ACE Awards and many more. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her three kids and Goldendoodle, Fergus.
Chris Wilson
Managing Partner
Earnest
Chris has spent over 20 years in marketing, working with organizations such as Google, Vodafone, Samsung, Walgreens Boots Alliance, BT, Fujitsu, Centrica, Kaspersky, RBS, SAP and Allianz. Chris founded the full-service agency Earnest in 2009 to help B2B marketing step out of the shade and stop being labeled a poor cousin to FMCG. It’s an ongoing mission... He is passionate about harnessing real human insight for marketing’s benefit – studying Behavioral Economics and psychology to help make it happen. In his spare time, Chris chairs the UK’s Business Agency Council and is on the founding Board of the Business Marketing Collective, and is a member of the DMA B2B Council.
Kali Winkler
Senior Art Director
PJA Advertising + Marketing
Kali’s experience as a creative in both agency and in-house environments has allowed her to use the yang and the yang of both to her advantage. She started her career at the fashion start-up Rue La la and then moved to the transportation start-up Zipcar, where she was able to push the brand to what it’s known for today. Kali has spent the last 3 years at PJA where she has spearheaded award-winning creative for B2B and B2C clients like TracFrone, Total Wireless, Bed Bath & Beyond, PimaCott and HomeGrown Cotton, Shire Pharmaceuticals, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and Enterprise Community Partners. She loves working with brands that are redefining and disrupting the marketplace to help them push forward visually and conceptually. Out of the office, you'll find her with concert tickets, her passport, and a yoga mat.
Susan Young
Executive Creative Director
BBDO
Susan has created award winning campaigns for iconic brands like Microsoft, MasterCard and Tide as well as non-profits like March For Our Lives, Girls Who Code, the AdCouncil and The Brady Campaign. She is passionate about work that is brave, beautiful and makes a difference but will settle for at least 1 out of the 3. Prior to BBDO, Susan was an Executive Creative Director at McCann and a Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi. She has been featured in Adweek’s Creative 100 and AdAge’s Creatives You Should Know and her work has been recognized by Cannes Lions, the One Show, D&AD, Clios, Webby’s and numerous others. Susan lives in Brooklyn with her entrepreneur husband, genius daughter (this bio is written in third person so clearly there’s no bias in that statement) and almost completely blind and deaf Boston Terrier.