International Judges | Media Judges

Nicke Bergstrom Creative Director VICE Scandinavia Nicke Bergstrom is a proud Swede and Creative Director. He joined the ad industry back in 95, after studying advertising and graphic design in Sweden, England and the US. Five years later Nicke helped open the Swedish agency Farfar, quickly ranked number one digital agency in the world by Gunn Report. There he produced ground breaking campaigns and picked up hundreds of international awards, which includes two Grand Prix statues from Cannes. In late 2009 Nicke became a creative director for Mother New York, a multidimensional creative agency selected as the US Agency of the Year in 2010. There Nicke helped Mother to develop into one of the most interesting creative companies on earth. Then, In July 2011, Nicke joined VICE. Stay tuned.
Yuya Furukawa Executive Creative Director Dentsu, Japan Yuya is known to be a quiet and reserved person, but his work proves to be quite the opposite, with a strong voice. He has won numerous international and domestic awards including Gold, Silver and Bronze awards at Cannes, New York Festivals, and Grand Prix at Adfest and the Times Asia-Pacific Awards. He also won the Best Creative of the Year by the Japan Advertising Agencies Association in 2005. He has served as a judge for Cannes, Clio, Media Spikes, Busan International Advertising Festival, and as both judge and speaker at Adfest and Young Guns Awards. Besides his work as a Creative Director, Yuya is also known for writing scenarios for TV & radio programmes, lyrics for pop songs, and a column for a major national newspaper. He also lectures at Nihon University College of Art.
Hei Yiyang Founder & Director SenseTeam, China Founder & Creative Director of SenseTeam. Born in 1975. Found SenseTeam in 1999. His works are about branding, exhibition planning, environmental design and publishing. He is one of the most active cultural exchange pioneers in China. He devotes himself to putting different mediums like graphic design, contemporary art, advertising, architectural space, city, society together, to make the works interesting, meaningful and valuable. He is the leader of SenseTeam - the most energetic and farsighted team in global Chinese creative teams. It focuses on civility and sociality. He has won: New York ADC - One Golden Award, Two Silver Award, Three Merit Awards, Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival - Two Silver Awards, New York One Show Design - One Golden Award, One Silver Award, Six Merit Award, D&AD - Four in book, Adfest Design Lotus - Two Golden Award, Two Silver Award, HKDA Awards - One Golden Award, Two Bronze Awards,Sixteen Merit Awards.
Masato Mitsudera Creative Director Beacon Communications, Tokyo, Japan His career started at domestic advertising company as a CM planner, then moved beacon, joint company of Dentsu and Leo Burnett. He produced many strong campaigns, both local and global, and received various local and international awards. He achieved Cannes Promo Lions Grand Prix and Cannes PR Lions Gold in 2009 for “YUBARI CITY CAMPAIGN” which was started from his voluntary presentation. Also achieved Grande Lotus Roots and INNOVA Lotus at ADFEST2010, Grand CUP at ADFEST2011. He experienced Cannes, ADFEST and CLIO award Jury, and selected STAR Reacher at Leo Burnett Group.
Jureeporn Thaidumrong CEO and Creative Chairwoman nudeJEH, Bangkok, Thailand. Judee’s started out as a Copywriter at DY&R Bangkok before joining Leo Burnett Bangkok, followed by Far East DDB Advertising Bangkok, Results Advertising Bangkok, and later Saatchi & Saatchi Bangkok as Executive Creative Director. Under her leadership, Results won Thailand’s first-ever Cannes Gold Lion in 2000 and Saatchi and Saatchi won Thailand's first-ever D&AD Pencil and became Agency of the year in Asian region in 2003. She made history again in 2005 for winning another Cannes Gold Lion for the Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) TV campaign. Judee opened her own creative shop, “JEH United”, in 2005. Her world famous Smooth E campaign in 2006 won the independent agency a Gold at Cannes, Best of Film at ADFEST, Best of Show at Asian Awards, and Australia’s AWARD. In 2006, she was named Creative of the Year by Hong Kong’s Media Marketing Magazine, and ranked #1 in Campaign Brief Asia as the Hottest Creative in Asia while JEH United became the Gunn Report’s 18th most awarded agency in the world. She won another Gold at Cannes in 2008 with Sylvania Light Bulbs “Picnic” TVC, and 2011 has already witnessed her winning Best of film at Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (ADFEST), for The Positive Network’s “Sorry Thailand” and Chang Soda’s “Fizzy Billboard” has won Best Outdoor at Adstar, Busan. June 2011, after six years of outstanding success in creative advertising and a succession of award-winning campaigns, Judee and JEH United have made another big step forward by merging with NUDE Communication – a boutique brand agency focusing on Strategic Branded Communications.
Alistair Wood Executive Creative Director Cheil Worldwide Inc., Seoul, South Korea Started as a copywriter in London, Alistair has won various awards at D&AD, Cannes, One Show while working at various agencies Lowe, Leo & JWT, and worked in various countries (UK, US and now Korea)
Noel Yeo Creative Director BBH Singapore Noel Yeo is an award-winning creative director, whose work includes the industry-changing “YourSingapore.com” campaign for Singapore Tourism Board. He is one of only four Asia-based creative directors featured in the book CD:Y0, which features, amongst others, Ari Merkin, Gerry Graf, Rob Schwartz and Luke Sullivan.
Richard Yu Executive Creative Director Bates 141 Taiwan Richard has 18 years of experience in advertising industry. After joined Bates in May 2006, Richard lead Bates141 became the Top 1 Taiwan Agency of the Year in 2008-2010 by Campaign Brief Asia Creative Rankings, and also listed as Taiwan’s No. 1 hottest creative in the same time. Richard’s work has won over 700 major awards include numerous international and local awards.