Juries named for The WARC Awards Asia Pacific 2024

The juries are announced for the WARC Awards for Asia Pacific 2024 in association with LIONS. Renowned brands, including ANZ Bank, Google, Lenovo, Livspace, MYOB and leading agencies from across APAC are represented.

Celebrating marketing with strategic brilliance and effective impact, this regional competition will be judged rigorously by top industry experts from leading agencies and renowned global and local brands.

John Bizzell, Awards Lead, WARC, said, “To judge the very best strategic and effective marketing campaigns in Asia-Pacific, we have convened a stellar group of extremely knowledgeable and highly respected professionals from across the region to bring expertise and cultural insight to the judging process.”

The WARC Awards Asia Pacific 2024 juries are:

Brand Purpose, Business-to-Business, Cultural Impact, Customer Experience, Instant Impact, Long-term Growth categories

• Dean Chadwick, Chief Marketing Officer, MYOB, Australia - jury chair
• Astrud Burgess, Chief Marketing Officer, ANZ Bank, New Zealand
• Gary Chi, CEO, Dentsu Creative, Taiwan
• Gautam Ramdurai, Group Marketing Manager, Ads Marketing, Google, APAC and Advisor-in-Chief, Snowbird, Singapore
• Joy Santos, Chief Strategy Officer, Leo Burnett Manila, Philippines
• Kimberlee Wells, CEO, TBWA, Australia
• Rui Nago, Chief Strategy Officer, Grey, Japan
• Suzzane Zhang, VP, McCann Worldgroup Advisory, APAC & Head of Strategy, McCann Worldgroup China, Mainland China
• Thien Thanh Nguyen, CEO, Edelman, Vietnam & Thailand

Channel Integration, Channel Pioneer, Partnerships & Sponsorships, Path to Purchase, Use of Data categories

• Sindhuja Rai, CEO, Wavemaker, APAC - jury chair
• Arindam Bhattacharyya, Chief Strategy Officer, Dentsu, Indonesia
• Arsalan Mohsin, Chief Marketing Officer, One Group, Pakistan
• Connie Chan, CEO, OMD, Mainland China
• Ines Cha, Head of Creators & Media Co Partnerships, YouTube Japan, Google Inc., Japan
• Joshua Lee, National Head of Digital & Data, Zenith Media, Australia
• Kartikeya Bhandari, Chief Marketing Officer, Livspace, India 
• Sharon Soh, Chief Planning & Audience Officer, UM, APAC

Strategic Thinking category (new)

• Bhaskar Choudhuri, Chief Marketing Officer, Lenovo, APAC - jury chair
• Cleef Chong, Global Planning Director, MullenLowe, Global
• David McIndoe, Chief Strategy Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand
• Hun Choi, Executive Vice President, Solution Division, Cheil Worldwide, South Korea
• Jaslin Goh, Chief Marketing Officer, PayMe by HSBC, Hong Kong SAR
• Nomfundo Msomi, Executive Strategy Director, CHEP Network, Australia
• Reiko Ogata, Chief Branding Director, Dentsu Inc., Japan
• Susie Xu, Head of Brand Strategy, Ogilvy, Mainland China

The juries will award Gold, Silver and Bronze accolades across the 12 categories. They will be guided by the frameworks of the WARC/ LIONS Creative Effectiveness and B2B Effectiveness Ladders, which provide a consistent and universal benchmark.

The jury chairs of all the regional awards - Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America, and North America - will form a super jury to award the highly sought after Grands Prix, the ultimate recognition of marketing success, selected from all the regional Golds.