Premutico co-founded his agency, Johannes Leonardo, in New York at just 29 years of age. It was named in Ad Age’s 2018 A-List at #4 in its top 10 American agencies, and ranked #3 Effective Independent Agency by the North American Effies.
He has been chosen as chair of judges for the 40th AWARD Awards this year.
The Aussie ex-pat’s career moved upwards quickly from its start. He was named Best Young Creative UK by Campaign Magazine, receiving the Ansett Encouragement Award for Young Creative of the Year and became the youngest-ever ECD at Saatchi & Saatchi New York before he began Joannes Leonardo.
Joannes Leonardo is built on the philosophy that the consumer is the new medium and is internationally regarded for creating transformative brand ideas for some of the world’s most influential companies.
The 1999 AWARD School top ten student has twice been featured in Creativity’s 50 Most Influential People and his Tide, Talking Stain, commercial was nominated as one of the top twenty Super Bowl ads of all time. Premutico ‘s work has also been recognised at every major international award show including, the One Show, D&AD, Cannes Lions and the Clios.
AWARD Chair Mike Spirkovski commented, “We are excited to welcome Aussie expat Leo Premutico as our Chair of Judges for the 40th AWARD Awards.
“Leo’s experience, influence and impressive body of work made him a natural choice for the role, and we look forward to hearing from one of industry’s most highly regarded and awarded creatives.”
Premutico stated, “If someone told me when I was pounding the pavements, portfolio in hand, that I’d chair AWARD one day I’d have laughed at them.
“To me AWARD is so much bigger than an award show. It’s a reminder that ideas will always be our most powerful business tool. Proof that a love for what you do will always prevail over inexperience and self-doubt. But most importantly, AWARD is a community of people very generous with their time because they themselves experienced first-hand the difference encouragement and guidance can make as you’re coming up through the ranks.”
The AWARD Awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 11 2019 at The Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh.
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