The Global Awards: Who’s judging the World’s Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising?

For the first time, New York Festivals Global Awards for the World’s Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising will have separate Executive Juries for Pharma(Rx) and Health & Wellness, to ensure the most accurate judging possible.

The juries’ chief creative officers, managing partners, EVPs, and executive creative directors come from the world’s foremost healthcare advertising agencies and represent the top creative talent from 15 countries on 6 continents.

Australia has one judge on the 2017 Pharma (RX) Executive Jury – Gerrard Malcolm, Owning Director, Insight Agencies Australia.

To date, the 2017 Grand Jury is made up of 46 creative executives and leaders from 44 world-wide agencies representing 13 countries around the globe.

Six of those are Australian:

Noel Smetanig, Design Director, Deepend, Australia
Hugh Fitzhardinge, Founder, Creative Director, Ward6, Australia
Cherie Davies, Creative Director, Sudler & Hennessey, Australia
Craig Chester, Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, Australia
Micheal Zivkovic, Senior Art Director, Ogilvy Common Health, Australia
Thomas Dirnberger, Creative Director, Sway Creative, Australia

2017 Pharma (RX) Executive Jury:

Chairwoman: Robin Shapiro, Global President, TBWA\WorldHealth USA

Dick Dunford, Creative Partner, Loooped UK
Tina Fascetti,Chief Creative Officer, Guidemark Health USA
Tim Hawkey, EVP Managing Director & Executive Creative Director, Area 23 USA
Rich Levy, Chief Creative Officer, FCB Health USA

Gerrard Malcolm, Owning Director, Insight Agencies Australia
Guy Mastrion, Chief Creative Officer, Brandforming™ USA
Shaheed Peera, Executive Creative Director, Publicis LifeBrands UK

Gustavo Pratt, Managing Director & Chief Creative Officer, Asterisco Healthcare Communications Mexico
Xavier Sanchez, Founder, CCO & CEO,Umbilical and Amniotic.tv Spain
Scott Watson, Global Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide USA

2017 Health & Wellness Executive Jury:

Chairwoman: Elizabeth Elfenbein, Partner, Chief Creative Officer, The Bloc USA

Praful Akali,Founder & Managing Director, Medulla Healthcare Communications India
Kathy Delaney, Global Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness USA

Diego Freitas, Creative Director, Havas Life São Paulo Brazil
Diane Iler-Smith, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy USA
Steven Michaelson, Founder, CEO, Calcium USA
Graham Mills, Global Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Health USA
Jeremy Perrott, Global Chief Creative Officer, McCann Health USA
Beth Sabbatini, EVP Executive Creative Director, H4B Chelsea USA
Gary Scheiner, EVP, Chief Creative Officer, Grey Health Group USA
David Sonderman, Chief Creative Officer, GSW USA
Andrew Spurgeon, Executive Creative Director, Langland UK

The 2017 Grand Jury:

Augusto Correia Senior Creative DIrector, MullenLowe Brasil, Brazil
Noel Smetanig, Design Director, Deepend, Australia
Debra Polkes, Managing Partner, Executive Creative Director, CDM Princeton, USA
Carolyn Gargano, Creative DIrector, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, USA
Vinayak D. Shinde, Creative Director, Medulla Healthcare Communications, India
Eva Neveau, Group Creative Director,SapientRazorfish, USA
Abhinay Patil, Creative Director, Art, Medulla Healthcare Communications, India
Eric Houseknecht, Executive Creative DIrector, Seiden Advertising, USA
Hugh Fitzhardinge, Founder, Creative Director, Ward6, Australia
André Hansen, Creative Director, Ogilvy Healthworld, South Africa
Jeromie Misenheimer, SVP, Group Creative Director, Digitas Health, USA
Sean Riley, Executive Creative Director – Japan & North Aisa, McCann Health, Japan
Cherie Davies, Creative Director, Sudler & Hennessey, Australia
Jana Apostolopulu, Chief Creative Officer, Pink Carrots Communications, Germany
Josh Tumelty, EVP, Executive Creative Director, Discovery USA, USA
John Scott, Creative Director, Ward 6, Singapore
Mike Devlin, EVP, Group Creative Director, FCB Health, USA
Anand R Ramakrishnan, Creative Director, Artiligence, India
Stephen Broadhurst, Executive Creative Director and Managing Partner, Grey Health Group, UK
Pierre Loo, Executive Creative Director, McCann Health, Hong Kong
Lee Williams, Executive Creative Director, Sudler & Hennessey, UK
Craig Chester, Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, Australia
Jeanie Caggiano, EVP, Executive Creative Director and Business Lead, Leo Burnett, USA
Marty Martinez, Executive Creative Director, Health Tank, Canada
Shaheed Peera, Managing Director, Publicis Lifebrand, UK
Tony Miller, Executive Creative Director, Anderson DDB, Canada
Paul Foster, Creative Director, BBH, UK
Ayu Sasaki, Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan
Vineet Bhagchandani, Group Chief Creative Officer, Aakanksha Healthcare, India
Christoph Bohlender, Creative Director, Service Plan Health & Life, Germany
Bruce Murphy, Executive Creative Director, McCann Johannesburg, South Africa
Tim Jones, Creative Director, Havas Lynx Europe, United Kingdom
Sandra Loibl, Creative Director, Service Plan, Germany
Erin Schwarz, Associate Creative Director, FCB Health, USA
Micheal Zivkovic, Senior Art Director, Ogilvy Common Health, Australia
Harry Yates, Creative Director, Langland, United Kingdom
Andy McAfee, VP, Group Creative Director, Abelson Taylor, USA
Rafael Araki, Creative Director, Arteria, Brazil
Malcolm Badger, Creative Director, Cognite, United Kingdom
Nick Schanche, Creative Director, Ogilvy Health World, United Kingdom
Kevin McHale, Managing Director, ECD, Neon – An FCB Health Netlwork Company, USA
Matt Low, VP, Creative Director, Crowley Webb,USA
Lauren Naima, EVP, Group Creative Director, FCB Health, USA
Alok Saini, Creative Director, McCann Health, India
Jun Ogawa, Creative Director, Pharma International Inc., Japan
Alok Gadkar, GM & Executive Creative Director, The Classic Partnership Advertising, India
Thomas Dirnberger, Creative Director, Sway Creative, Australia