Creative & iDA Judges | Media Judges

K K Tsang CEO, HK & Shenzhen GroupM K K Tsang has been in the advertising business for almost 20 years. He started his advertising career with McCann and joined WPP group in 1993. He was the Media Director of Ogilvy prior to setting up MindShare in 1997. Under his leadership, MindShare pioneered the pillar and train body advertising in MTR and a lot of new advertising formats with various media. In 2005, MindShare was named The Employer of The Year by JobsDB. MindShare was the only marketing communication company having won similar awards in Hong Kong. KK was promoted to CEO of GroupM Hong Kong in 2006 to oversee all the WPP media agency properties in Hong Kong. KK is a member of the School of Communication Advisory Committee at the Hong Kong Baptist University and a part-time lecturer at Shue Yan University.
Torie Henderson Managing Director, International OMD Hong Kong Torie joined OMD in 2006 to lead business development and global accounts for OMD Asia Pacific. In her Hong Kong based role, Torie leads the team that manages OMDs global and regional accounts including McDonalds, Intel, Shangri-La and FedEx. She was an instrumental part of the team that won the Johnson & Johnson AOR and Intel business in the Asia Pacific region. In a career that spans over 20 years in four countries, Tories career began in her native New Zealand working in the media departments of full service agencies. After a three year stint during the early days of the media agency start ups in London, she returned to New Zealand and fulfilled an ambition to build and lead a strong local market media operation for McCann-Erickson. Another call to spread her wings resulted in Torie moving to Hong Kong to lead the Cathay Pacific Airways global account for Universal McCann. After an exciting six years, Torie moved further north to manage Universal McCanns China operations. She returned to Hong Kong in 2006 to join OMD. Torie is the recipient of Asia Pacific Media Planner of the Year award, was named as one of Internationalist Magazine Global Agency Innovators in 2007 and has won local festival, internal and client awards for her work. Torie is an avid follower of the sporting defeats of any country daring enough to take on her native New Zealand and a passionate tifosa of Scuderia Ferrari.
William Swayne Managing Director Carat Hong Kong 9+ years international client experience across FMCG, sports, youth, consumer electronics & retail clients. Joined Carat International, London in 2000 to head the global adidas account. Moved to Carat Asia Pacific in 2005 heading all regional APAC accounts and in 2007 became Managing Director of Carat Hong Kong Prior to Carat worked at IMG, the global sports marketing group.
Mr. Alan Wong Director of Marketing DHL Express (Hong Kong) Ltd Mr. Alan Wong is the Director of Marketing of DHL Express Hong Kong, responsible for developing new business development strategies, marketing and branding initiatives to support the company in achieving its profitability and revenue growth targets. Mr. Wong joined DHL as a planning manager in 1996. He was then named the Product Development and Sector Manager of DHL Express Hong Kong in 1997. Prior to his current position, Mr. Wong was the National Marketing Manager of DHL-Sinotrans, a DHL joint venture in China, from 1999 to 2005. Based in Beijing, he set up and managed a full-fledged marketing department, driving DHLs marketing communications, pricing, product research and planning functions across China. He played an instrumental role in positioning DHL-Sinotrans as the most innovative and customer-oriented leader in express and logistics industry in China. With his leadership and outstanding achievements in building DHLs marketing capabilities in Hong Kong, Mr Wong received the Distinguished Marketer award at the HKMA/ TVB Awards for Marketing Excellence 2007. Mr. Wong holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Bachelors Degree in Marketing and Finance from the University of Oregon.
Shirley Chung General Manager, Customer Relationship Development, Marketing Division SmarTone Vodafone, Hong Kong Shirley Chung is General Manager, Customer Relationship Development of SmarTone-Vodafone. In her role she manages the companys branding, marketing communication and relationship management programmes. The SmarTone-Vodafone brand aspires to be differentiated, rise above technology to help bring people closer to what matters to them through all the products and services that they offer. In addition to a major re-branding exercise, Shirley has launched many mobile devices that are exclusive to SV, initiated numerous service campaigns to getting the brand in the new music, mobile TV and Internet space. Most recently, Shirley has worked on launch of its new wireless fixed line service called HomePhone+. The campaign has been very successful in generating high brand awareness and buzz in the market in a short time. Shirley also carries responsibilities for the design and displays in all SmarTone-Vodafone stores to ensure that they have the right brand look and feel and deliver the SV brand promise to create an unbeatable customer experience. A veteran of the marketing communication industry, Shirley has over 20 years experience in marketing gained principally in the hospitality industry and, latterly, the consumer banking industry as well. She has been the group director of public relations at Marco Polo International Hotels; the marketing director at the British Tourist Authority; and also the marketing director at Ocean Park. In consumer banking, Shirley was head of marketing for mortgage banking at Dao Heng Bank prior to joining SmarTone-Vodafone.
CC Tang Assistant Professor School of Design The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Some wise guy once said the following about various stages of ad peoples life For those who can do it, they do. For those who cannot do it, they manage. For those who cannot manage, they teach. CC has gone through all these. He was doing it in Hong Kong from 1980 to 1995. He was managing it in the Greater China region from 1996 to 2005. And he has been teaching it in Hung Hom at the School of Design, Polytechnic University since September, 2005. When asked, he reflectively murmured, Do it while you can, it is miserable when you have to manage. Not to mention teach. He still believes that doing it is, ipso facto, a lot more fun than managing it or teaching it.
Clory Wong Marketing Director, SSD, Hong Kong & Macau Region Coca-Cola China Limited Clory Wong is the Marketing Director of sparkling soft drinks, Coca-Cola China Limited, Hong Kong & Macau Region. In his current role, he is responsible to enhance brand equity, identify new beverage opportunities, formulate marketing strategies and programs, and develop new products. Joined Coca-Cola in 2001, Clory was promoted to marketing manager, responsible for several non-carbonated beverages including Bonaqua, Healthworks and Nescafe. Clory has 16 years of marketing experience. Prior to joining Coca-Cola China Limited, he was responsible for retail marketing at Watsons Wine Cellar. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Hong Kong and an MBA from the University of Leicester. He is married, with 2 children.