Announcing The 2019 Tangrams Strategy & Effectiveness Awards Jury

Tangrams Strategy and Effectiveness Awards @ Spikes has announced the full jury line-up across five award types.
The award categories are; Effectiveness, Media Strategy, Digital Strategy, Data & Analytics and e-Commerce.
The stellar line-up of 79 judges from agencies and brands representing over 20 different industry types will review this year’s entries and award the most effective campaigns at Asia-Pacific’s largest strategy and effectiveness awards.
Spikes Asia festival director, Joe Pullos commented: “We have hand-picked this year’s jury who we believe to be the highest calibre from across the region who will ensure our rigorous 3-stage judging process recognises only the very best campaigns from Asia-Pacific.
“This is simply a great opportunity for entrants to have their work judged and recognised by the top marketers and strategists in Asia.”
The recent alignment of the Tangrams Strategy & Effectiveness and Spikes Asia awards entry and judging timeline also makes it easier for entrants to work on submissions for a single piece of work once, rather than multiple times throughout the year.
A campaign can be judged and awarded simultaneously for both strategy and effectiveness as well as creative excellence at the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity in September 2019.
The Tangrams Strategy & Effectiveness @ Spikes Awards 2019 winners will be announced and awarded on 26 September at a dedicated award show to celebrate the best campaigns by strategists and planners in Asia-Pacific.
Early Bird delegate passes to the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity which includes entry to the Tangrams Awards are on sale now.
Tangrams Strategy & Effectiveness key dates:
Call for entries: | 17 April 2019 |
Early Bird deadline: | 12 July 2019 |
Final entry deadline: | 02 August 2019 |
Tangrams Awards show: | 26 September 2019 |
Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity: | 25 to 27 September 2019 |
Further information on all categories, rules, entry fees and the entry kit can be found on www.tangrams.asia. The 2019 entry kit is available in English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Effectiveness Jury | ||
Name | Job title | Company |
Anindya Dasgupta (Jury President) | Head – Global Consumer business & CMO | Fonterra |
Andy Wilson | Head of Strategy Asia | BBDO Singapore Pte Ltd |
Ann Yang | CMO – Head of Marketing for Electrolux and Midea JVC China | Electrolux |
Carolyn Devanayagam | Senior Vice President, Client Experience | Weber Shandwick |
Cecilia Wong | Executive Director | Head Of Marketing | Group Retail Marketing | UOB |
David Angell (Australia) | Chief Commercial Officer, Havas Group APAC | Havas Group |
Dominique Touchaud | Integrated Communications Leader | P&G |
Ed Booty | Chief Strategy Officer | Publicis Communications APAC |
Frederique Covington | SVP, Visa Asia Pac Marketing | Visa Worldwide Pte Ltd |
Janelle Tong | Marketing Director SEA | Pernod Ricard |
Jaslin Goh | Chief Strategy Officer / Managing Partner | McCann Hong Kong |
Jerome Louis | General Manager Marketing Planning | Toyota Motor Asia Pacific |
Michael Chadwick | Chief Strategy Officer APAC | Dentsu Brand Agencies |
Nion Masrungrong | Head of Regional Communications | Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific Pte Ltd |
Nirvik Singh | Chairman & CEO Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa | Grey Group Pte Ltd |
Richard Morewood | CEO Asia | M&C Saatchi |
Rohit Bhasin | Global Brand Vice President | Unilever |
Shantanu Dasgupta | Chief Strategy Officer, SEA | ADK |
Tripti Lochan | co-CEO | VMLY&R Asia |
Urara Takeuchi | Regional Brand Director, Asia Pacific | Glico Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. |
Vincent Digonnet | CEO, APAC | MullenLowe Group |
Media Strategy Jury | ||
First name | Job title | Company |
Sindhuja Rai (Jury President) | Director, Media, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa | Mondelez International |
Abhishek Grover | Head of Media & Dotcom, SEAO | Samsung |
Amaresh Godbole | CEO, India | Digitas |
Anupama Biswas | Regional Director AMEA, Digital Acceleration, Media & Analytics | Kellogg Asia Pacific Pte Ltd |
Audrey Kuah | Executive Director, Media, Asia Pacific | Dentsu Aegis Network |
Josh Gallagher | Chief Product Officer, APAC | MediaCom |
Linda Pathamawan Sathaporn | Managing Director | Mindshare Thailand |
Matt Scotton | Chief Strategy Officer | Initiative |
Puja Bhargava | Connections & Media Activation Lead, APAC | Airbnb |
Rajesh Mahtani | Head of Business Development, APAC | Publicis Media |
Rebecca Nadilo | Head of Strategy | BBDO Singapore |
Richard Frampton | VP, Customer Solutions | Dentsu Aegis Network |
Ronnie Thomas | Head of Strategy and Planning | PHD SG |
Rose Huskey | CEO, South East Asia | Wavemaker |
Sidharth Bhasin | Associate Director Media Procurement – APAC | Johnson & Johnson |
Stephen Li | CEO, Asia Pacific | OMD |
Vilia Chia | Marketing, VP | HBO Asia |
Yvette Templar | Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Asia Pacific, Allied World | Allied World Insurance |
Digital Strategy Jury | ||
First name | Job title | Company |
James Keady (Jury President) | Director Digital Engagement | Citi |
Chandler Nguyen | Vice President, Product | Essence Global |
Cherry Koay | Director, Marketing & Communications | Shangri-La Asia Limited |
Debbie Aryandari | Head, Group Digital Marketing | Great Eastern Singapore |
Dino Cabrera | Chief Digital Officer | Leo Burnett Manila |
Edwin Garcia | Head of Digital Center of Excellence – Consumer Health Division (APAC) | Bayer |
Elaine Chum | Head of Digital, ASEAN Pacific | Philips |
Felicia Li-Gaillard | Marketing Director, APAC | Integral Ad Science (IAS) |
Hideki Nick Watanabe | Director of Brand Strategy and Consumer Marketing JAPAC | Twitter APAC |
Justin Peyton | TBA | Wunderman Thompson |
Khim Lynn Tan | Head of Digital Marketing | Sony Electronics Asia Pacific |
Margery Lynn | Head of Social | Grab |
Matteo Resta | Regional Digital Director | OMD |
Nic Burrows | Digital Strategist | |
Patrick Rona | Chief Digital Officer, Asia Pacific | McCann Worldgroup |
Pedro Ramirez | Digital Lead Team Unilever | Mindshare APAC |
Shamsuddin Jasani | Group MD, Isobar South Asia | Isobar |
Simon Talvard | Head of Digital Solutions | Reprise |
Yorf Guo | Chief Strategy Officer | BlueFocus Communication Group |
Data & Analytics and e-Commerce Jury | ||
First name | Job title | Company |
Michelle Wong (Jury President) | Director, CRM & Analytics (Global Marketing) | McDonalds Global Franchising Limited Singapore Branch |
Abdul Rahim Bawa | Director, B2B marketing and analytics | Mastercard |
Anusha Babbar | Senior Director South East Asia and Australasia – Ecommerce and New Business Models | Unilever |
Ben Wightman | Head of Data Strategy | Dentsu Aegis Network |
Chitkala Nishandar | Marketing Operations Lead Asia-Pacific | 3M |
Chris Walls | Director, CRM & Loyalty | Sephora |
Dheeraj Sinha | Managing Director – India, Chief Strategy Officer – South Asia | Leo Burnett |
Ervin Ha | Head of Plan & Track, Asia Pacific | YouGov |
Esther Leck | Consultant | NA |
Haruna McWilliams | SVP Strategy | Essence |
Herve Bullot | Director, Insights | Levi Strauss Asia-Pacific |
Jonathan Edwards | Vice President, Data & Technology, APAC | Dentsu Aegis Network |
Kabeer Chaudhary | Managing Partner APAC | M&C Saatchi Performance |
Katie McClintock | CEO, Insights Division | Kantar Singapore |
Oliver Spalding | Chief Customer Officer | Digitas |
Pinaki Dutt | Global Head of Applied Connected Intelligence | MediaCom |
Rahul Bibhuti | Director Marketing – Infant Nutrition, Pacific Asia | Abbott Nutrition |
Rana Saha | Senior Director, Growth Marketing | Grab |
Tuomas Peltoniemi | EVP, Managing Director, APAC | R/GA |
Yean Cheong | Head of Cadreon, Asia Pacific | IPG Mediabrands |
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