Advisory Board

Corinna was very fortunate to grow up close to the Bavarian Alps, and equally fortunate to move away. Since then, she has lived and worked in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S. Her client-list includes fast German cars (BMW), department store retailers (Target), delectable beers (Stella Artois and Heineken) and intergovernmental organizations (UN). Her work on Coca-Cola and Heineken Champions League ran in over 100 countries, in a dozen languages. Her flag for “The Refugee Nation” has been acquired to the permanent collection of the MOMA as well as the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum and Design Museum in London. Her work has been honored by every major award show, including Best of Show at the One Show and Grand Prix in Cannes. Corinna started her career at Jung von Matt in Hamburg/Germany, followed by a decade at StrawberryFrog in both Amsterdam and New York before spending nearly 5 years at Ogilvy&Mather NY, where she served as CCO. Currently she is CCO and Partner at Mother New York.

David Moon Ki Lee is the Chief Creative Officer of Squarespace, leading their award-winning creative team which has recently been honored as Ad Age 2020 A-List In-House Agency of the Year in addition to also being named 2020 Agency of the Year by Shots Awards. David oversees a team of thinkers and makers who thread all creative, design and production efforts for the company over the last 8 years. David has recently been selected to the 2020 Adweek Creative 100 List as a Branded Content Innovator raising the bar for storytelling and artistic integrity. He has been named as one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and has been nominated as one of the Best Designers in Technology by Business Insider. His experience has led him to work at the unique intersection of product, design and storytelling. Since joining Squarespace in 2013, David has masterminded seven Super Bowl campaigns and won an Emmy Award for most Outstanding Commercial of 2017. He has also led the successful launches of Squarespace Logo and Squarespace 7. Prior to Squarespace, David served as the Worldwide Digital Executive Creative Director of TBWA and led the creation and launch of the Digital Arts Network. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy London and AKQA San Francisco, and started his career as a Designer and Art Director at Sid Lee in Montréal. He currently serves as an Executive Member of the IADAS and the advisory board at D&AD. He has won and served as a judge for almost every industry award, including the Cannes Lions, D&AD, ADC, One Show, Clios, Andy Awards, AICP, Webby Awards, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW and Fast Company.

Eddie Opara was born in London in 1972. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University. He began his career at ATG and Imaginary Forces and worked as senior designer-art director at 2×4 before establishing his own studio, The Map Office. He joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in 2010. His projects have included the design of brand identity, publications, packaging, environments, exhibitions, interactive installations, websites, user interfaces and software, with many of his projects ranging across multiple media and clients including; lululemon, Samsung, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Nike, Grace Farms, the Menil Foundation, the Corcoran Group, Morgan Stanley, New York University, SHoP Architects, buroOS, Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), David Adjaye Associates and Princeton Architectural Press. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has appeared in publications such as Wired, Fast Company, Creative Review, Archis, Surface and Graphis. Opara is also a senior critic at the Yale University School of Art and has recently authored a book, Color Works, published by Rockport. He was named one of Adweek Creative 100 in 2018, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2012 and 2014, and was featured in Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 list.

Farid Mokart is co-founder, CEO, Chief Creative Officer with  at FRED & FARID. The first french independent digital communication group, based in New York, Shanghai and Paris. A 400 people company.  Fred & Farid is composed by Fred & Farid agency and FFDIF (a digital investment fund already investing in 10 digital start-up). During his career in France, UK, USA and China, Farid has work on 300 brands and won 651 international creative and effectiveness awards, including 232 digital distinctions since 2011, and numerous international titles: Independent Agency of the Year at Clio Awards 2016, Cannes Lions Grand Prix, Ad Age's International Agency of the Year, Warc Top 4 World’s Best Digital Agency, 5 times Best Agency at World Luxury Awards, 2 times Best Independent Agency of the Year at Spikes Asia, Cristal Festival Independent Agency of the Year, Campaign Asia Silver Agency, Adweek Top 10 Best Agency outside USA.

Jean Lin was appointed Executive Officer at Dentsu Group Inc. in August 2021. In her new role with Dentsu Group, she advises and guides the development of dentsu Sustainable Business Solutions – ‘Dentsu Good’ - across dentsu Japan Network and dentsu International. Dentsu Sustainable Business Solutions aims to achieve ‘growth through good’ for our clients’ business by bringing together dentsu’s deep understanding of consumers and commitments to society, with creativity and technology, to deliver sustainable business innovation critical for people and planet. As an entrepreneur and advocate for the power of innovation and digital transformation, Jean joined the Dentsu group when her digital agency wwwins Consulting was acquired by Isobar. Prior to her current role, Jean held several senior executive positions with the group including Global CEO of Isobar, and most recently Global Chief Executive Officer, Creative, at Dentsu International. Jean has also been a member of Dentsu International Global Executive Board since January 2016. Named one of 30 global “Women to Watch” by Advertising Age in 2009, Jean ranked amongst Asia Pacific’s top female talent in 2010, selected as one of the region’s Top 5 CEOs by Campaign Asia Pacific in 2013, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Campaign’s Digital A-List in 2015. Jean is known for her keen interest in celebrating the progress of modern creativity, serving as Jury President for the Cannes Lions Cyber Jury in 2015 and Digital Craft in 2018. She also served as Jury President for the inaugural D&AD e-Commerce jury and Black Pencil in 2021, Jury President for Mobile/ Digital Craft Jury in Spikes Asia 2022, and Grand Jury of Gerety Awards - the all women jury creative awards.

Joanna joined FCB Brazil in September 2012. She was named the number 1 creative woman in advertising according to the American site Business Insider, declared a “Woman to Watch” by Advertising Age, listed number 5 among the most awarded Creative Directors by the Big Won Report, and was part of the 2014 Ad Age Creativity 50. In 2015, Joanna was listed as one of the 30 most creative people in advertising according to Business Insider. Joanna began her professional advertising career as a copywriter trainee at Ogilvy (1996), and worked as a copywriter at DPZ (1997-99), W/Brasil (1999-02) and Africa Advertising (2002-12), three iconic ad agencies in Brazil. The product of two academic powerhouses, Joanna graduated with an Arts degree from Brasilia University (UnB), and earned her postgraduate degree in Advertising & Marketing from ESPM, one of Brazil’s first institutes of higher learning, known for academic excellence in communication, marketing and business management.

John is Global Creative Council President and Global Executive Creative Director at McCann Wordgroup. In this role, John has helped McCann Worldgroup rise to #2 global network in the Gunn Report, in addition to numerous Network of the Year recognitions. Prior to this, he was Chief Creative Officer of McCann Australia. Under John’s leadership, McCann Melbourne became the world’s most awarded agency. Honors include The Gunn Report Agency of the Year, D&AD Agency of the Year, Cannes Agency of the Year (Runner Up), AWARD Agency of the Year, Spikes Asia Agency of the Year and Campaign Brief Agency of the Year. As both a writer and a creative director, John has won over 60 Cannes lions including 6 Cannes Grand Prix, Black and Yellow Pencils at D&AD, One Show Best of Show, and multiple Clio, Spikes, LIA and Webby awards. John was named in the 2013 Creativity 50: AdWeek’s annual listing of the world’s 50 most influential creative thinkers and doers, and Business Insider ranked him the 8th most creative person in advertising worldwide.

Lisa is Executive Creative Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie in New York. With over 20 years of experience, she is best known for transforming some of the world’s most-loved brands. She led the global rebrand for Burger King at JKR, using design to help improve quality and taste perceptions across the full brand experience. Prior to JKR, Lisa was ECD of Chobani where she was responsible for putting creativity at the heart of the company, overseeing a rebrand that transformed the business, expanding its product offering and increasing customer loyalty, directly translating to top-line growth. Lisa was also Head of Design at Wolff Olins NY, focused on creating ground-breaking and commercially successful work for USA Today, Grubhub and The Met. Lisa was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People for her role in delivering some of ‘the biggest redesigns of the decade’. In recognition of this, Lisa has picked up notable accolades throughout her career including Fast Company’s Rebrand of the Year and a Gold Cannes Lion for Burger King, a Brand Impact Award in Culture for The Met, a Cannes Lions Silver and a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award for the rebrand of USA Today. Lisa played the role of jury president at Cannes Lions, D&AD and ADC.

Malcolm joined Cheil Worldwide at the beginning of 2015 as the Network's Global Cheif Creative Officer. Having led teams responsible for award-winning firsts as diverse as Foot Locker's Sneakerpedia, Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, British Airways' Johnny Foreigner campaign and Samsung's #BeFearless VR program, Malcolm is a recognised industry influencer and speaker. Recently named one of AdAge magazine's "World's Top 10 Digital Minds" and named by TechCity Insider as one of the UK's leading Digital Innovators, Malcolm has twice served as Cannes Jury President. Under Malcolm creative leadership, Cheil Worldwide has emerged as one of the world's leading creative networks, helping Samsung win Marketer of the Year titles at Cannes Lions, EPICA and AdFest. Prior to joining Cheil, Malcolm was Chief Creative Officer at SapientNitro and a member the Sapient global leadership team. M&CSaatchi, Saatchi&Saatchi, Ogilvy and SapientNitro have all won Agency of the Year titles during his creative leadership.

After graduation from Musashino Art University, Naomi started working as an art director/graphic designer for Shiseido Co., Ltd. In 2005, She engaged herself in designing many ads for different products and creating a number of package and book-binding designs as a freelancer. She has completed identity, print, and packaging work for a wide range of clients including, NTT DOCOMO, Toshiba, JT, Issey Miyake, United Arrows, ARTS&SCIENCE and Shiseido. She is currently working as an art director for a Japanese fashion magazine “GINZA.” The works she created has been widely published and exhibited and has received many creative awards.

Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe APAC & MEA. I lead 60+ agencies within Publicis Groupe in the most interesting and dynamic parts of the world, to do work that leads with simple human truth, regardless of medium.

Nick studied Graphic Design in the early 80’s at St Martin’s School of Art in London. He joined BBH in London in 1986 and, under the watchful eye of Sir John Hegarty, produced many award winning campaigns including Levis Creek and Drugstore. After 10 years at BBH Nick joined AMV BBDO under David Abbott, and over the next 7 years created award-winning work for Road Safety, Dulux and Wrangler. In 2003 Nick joined Dave Droga on the Publicis worldwide creative board and moved to New Zealand, first as ECD at Publicis Mojo, and later as ECD at Colenso BBDO in Auckland. Nick is now Creative Chairman at Colenso BBDO. In New Zealand, the kind of work Nick and his team were doing began to change: they floated a fully working pub around the world to thirsty Kiwis in London for Speights; built a tree house restaurant for Yellow Pages; launched a yellow-flavoured chocolate bar that outsold Snickers; created a radio station for dogs for Pedigree; and launched Brewtroleum, a bio fuel made from beer waste, for Heineken DB Export. Colenso BBDO was recognised as the “Best Agency in the World” by the Big Won Report in 2013. Nick has been recognised by D&AD as one of the Top 10 copywriters of all time, and No.1 ECD in the world by the Big Won Report. In 2016 Nick founded The Tuesday Club, a fledgling creative hub in Auckland; he sits on the One Show worldwide creative board; has interests in Sunergise, a solar energy company; HECS (Human Electro Magnetic Concealment system); and Stolen Rum, the world’s first smoked rum. When Nick isn’t working he likes to fish, ride motorcycles and retreat to an eco house on Great Barrier Island with his partner, two sons and his chickens.

Paco is founder and ECD at Activista Los Angeles, a company committed to provoke social, cultural and economic change through the power of their ideas. Previously, Paco was Creative Director at Sra Rushmore Madrid, Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy Brazil; Group Creative Director at BBH London, and Executive Creative Director and Partner at Anomaly LA. Paco is behind some of the most celebrated social impact ideas of the last years: A social experiment about beauty conducted by an FBI sketcher that became the most watched ad ever on YouTube with over 180 million views. The first organ donation card for a soccer team that increased by 61% organ donations, reducing to zero the waiting list for heart and corneal transplants and saving dozens of lives. A training program to help tattoo artists detect skin cancer followed by thousands of artists across Brazil. Mothers of hooligans as stewards during the most violent game of the season in Brazil, reducing the incidents to zero. A series of photos exhibited in the Parliament of the UK, featuring 72 people from the 72 countries where same-sex relations are illegal, sharing a same-sex kiss. The flag of the United States and Oceans of America that turned patriotism into environmentalism. Paco has had the privilege of working with some of the most iconic brands, including Dove, Coca-Cola, United Nations, Absolut, Axe, Ray-Ban, British Airways and Google. According to Cannes Report, Paco was among the Most Award Creative Directors in 2013, 2014, 2015 (including number 1 in 2013). Elected Creative Director of the Year by the ABP in 2014 (Asociação Brasileira de Propaganda). And included on the list of the 100 most creative people of the world by Forbes Magazine in 2017.

Patrick's key focus as the CEO of Re is to build creative cultures that enable highly diverse teams to design and make audacious brands and experiences. Brands that inspire provocation and cultural impact – brands that ultimately deliver sustainable long term growth for their underlying businesses. Since founding the business in 2009, Patrick has led the global vision and growth of the Re Group for the M&C Saatchi Network including two studios in Sydney (Re Sydney and Yes Agency), Re London (EMEA) and the soon to be launched Re Greater China and Re New York City. As a design business Re's assignments stretch from non-for-profits and start-ups, to large-scale national and global brands. At its heart, Re believes branding starts with an intrinsic truth. Once you understand what’s true of a business, you can express that through how a brand looks, how it behaves, the broader conversations it gets involved in and the experiences that ultimately make it live and breath. Re is a multi award-winning design business with recent wins including both wood and graphite pencils at the 2017 and 2018 D&AD Awards. Patrick has over 20 years experience in brand consulting and brand and experience design. His experience covers a board range of categories: country/place branding, telecommunications, financial services, sporting events and codes, FMCG, community services and social justice, property development, retail, the arts and a broad range of not-for-profits.

Tara Ford is Chief Creative Officer at The Monkeys, Sydney. She’s worked at advertising agencies around the world including London and Amsterdam. Her experience ranges from cars, banks and politics to fashion, alcohol and gaming and everything between. She’s won hundreds of awards, across clients and categories, both for creativity and effectiveness. This includes her GAYTM campaign for ANZ Bank which was also named the ‘Best Direct campaign in the World for 2014’ by the Big Won and #1 ‘Best of Print/Outdoor/Design for 2014’ by Creativity-online.com She also judged or chaired every top award show. Tara has also been an active mentor to young creative talent through the Cannes 'See It Be It' and young Lions Program, RMIT student program, Miami Ad School and AWARD School. She was a panelist at the inaugural 3% Conference Australasia and D&AD Rare. In between all this, Tara also squeezes in raising her four spirited boys and making art.

Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of FITCH, Tim steers the creative output of 14 multinational design studios, driving design standards and influencing the shape of brand and retail design worldwide. Overseeing the group’s Global Creative Council, he upholds the agency’s standards of quality the world over and chairs debates on what is happening in our industry, stimulating bold thinking from a global vantage point. A forecaster of trends and marketing developments, Tim is widely published and has developed a number of influential insights and opinion pieces including trends ‘The Serious Business of Play’, ‘Generous Brands’ and most recently, ‘Dreaming, Exploring and Locating – how consumers shop today in physical, human and digital ways’.

Yuya Furukawa Chief Creative Officer Dentsu Inc. Yuya is Chief Creative Officer at Dentsu and under his leadership, Dentsu’s creative teams work on projects ranging from product development, branded content creation, pure content creation, including TV programs and movies, content export, space planning and design, digital platform development, business strategy and consulting, and PR to traditional advertising. Yuya himself is also involved in government projects such as the Olympic Games and the National Stadium. He is also Director of Dentsu Lab Tokyo, an initiative to bring new forms of creation through technology by combining research, ideation, and development. International accolades for Yuya include gold, silver, bronze awards at Cannes, D&AD, One Show and Spikes, among others, as well as Grand Prix at Adfest. In 2005, he won the Creative Person of the Year award of the Japan Advertising Agencies Association. He has also been selected Campaign Brief Asia’s Creative Director of the Year for three years in a row. He is a familiar face as a judge at international awards such as Cannes, D&AD, Clio, Spikes and Adfest, and as a speaker at various conferences, including D&AD President’ s Lecture. Yuya is also a member of the D&AD Advisory Board as well as the author of the book ‘All Work is the Work of Creative Direction’.