Judges

The Chip Shop Awards are judged by a panel of respected international creatives. Below are those on the 10th anniversary panel with more to be announced over the coming weeks.

As usual there are two judging mechanisms. As usual, our panel of CDs. will peruse the 2013 entries to choose the most deserving recipients for this year’s Chip trophies. But we’ve also made it possible for the public (AKA your marketing peers, mates and arch nemeses) to vote too and decide who wins 'ad of the week'.

You can also see previous judges by clicking on the years below.

Judges:

2006 Judges

Bil Bungay

Founder, Beattie McGuinness Bungay

In the mid 80’s Bil left St Martins School of Art heavily in debt financially but with an Honours Degree in Advertising of incalculable intellectual value.

After several months attempting to sell his degree on the open market, a sympathetic TBWA employee found him slumped over the bar at the Lamb and Flag and, taking pity on him, gave him a job paying less than his student grant.

Several vague years followed punctuated by bad fashion, acne, puns (some good), back-stabbing, Steenbecks and wrestling with the pica rule - all set to a mostly crap late 80’s soundtrack. Bil left the 80’s to join Trevor Beattie in the 90’s at GGT working as his Art Director on a soon to be infamous (and ironically for Bil) fashion brand.

By the 00ties Bil had finally run out of ideas (his last decently buried without trace). Then one fateful day (back at TBWA) Bil innocently offered to help Beattie and McGuinness to the taxi with their boxes and in their haste was accidentally bundled in with them, thus becoming one of the founding partners of Beattie McGuinness Bungay. It was 05/05/05.

Since then, Bil has made a name for himself largely on the backs of the talents of others. Including a couple of movies, one of which actually won a flippin’ BAFTA. The other, ‘When The Lights Went Out’, is the second most purchased movie of the year and is available from Amazon or most big supermarkets actually.

Bil loves to refer to himself in the third person, so it’s a shame he was too busy to write this.

Alfredo Marcantonio

Alfredo Marcantonio started out as a client at Volkswagen. Inspired by the work of David Abbott then Creative director of VW’s Agency DDB, he quit to become a copywriter.

In the mid 70's he joined Collett Dickenson Pearce, arguably the world’s most most creative agency and in 1981 helped MD Frank Lowe to found Lowes.

In 1987 he joined what became WCRS Matthews Marcantonio, and in the early nineties ran BBDO London, until its merger with AMV reunited him with David Abbott.

By 1998 he was Vice Chairman of AMVBBDO in London and Creative Vice President of BBDO Milan.

Marc has worked on some of Britain's most successful advertising including Hamlet, Heineken, Stella Artois, BMW, BT and Carling Black Label.

He contributed to D&AD’s 'Copy Book', showcasing the world's best copywriters. His own publications include 'Remember those great VW ads?' and the Economist poster book “Well written and red”.

He is currently a partner in Hobbs Holmes Marcantonio. Major clients include Albert Bartlett Rooster Potatoes and Prostate Cancer UK.

Jeremy Green

CEO at The Creative Circle

Dave Birss

Dave Birss is the founder of Additive, the inspiration and training company. He’s a former creative director of Poke, OgilvyOne and McCann Worldgroup and hosts the Future of Advertising Podcast where he talks to top people in the industry to find out where they think the future lies. He also mentors at the School of Communication Arts, hires out his mind to agencies, speaks at conferences around the world and recently wrote 'A User Guide to the Creative Mind'

John Jessup

Creative Director Leo Burnett

John has spent the last 39 years working on just about every client catagory, in a number of large and not so large agencies, trying to figure out where the next idea is coming from, and loving every minute of it. He has also been on the panel for a number of years now and is delighted to return for the 10th Anniversary.

Mike McKenna

Mike began in advertising as a despatch monkey but one D&AD course later, (as well as a grave misjudgment by the agency ECD) and he was propelled into the creative department as a writer.

That was a long time ago.

In the intervening years he has worked in some nice places and had the good fortune to work with some very talented people including; Dave Dye, Richard Flintham, Nick Bell, Greg Martin and Dave Droga.

Which ensured he won some awards.

He has been President of the Creative Circle, served on D&AD committees, the Ideas Foundation and spoken at the IPA, the London Business School and Feltham Young Offenders Institution.

Mike has two pieces of advice to people starting off as creatives.

The first: have a goal, an ambition. This could be to get into Wieden’s or Mother, work for Finky in China or Rosie Arnold at BBH, start your own agency, or become ECD. You decide.

Set yourself a time period for this: a year, three years, five…and then go for it.

His second, even more profound piece of advice is to have fun.

At the moment Mike is working as a consultant, you can see his work on gregandmike.com

Jason Andrews

Executive Creative Director, RAPP
Jason specialises in integrated ideas. He has been a creative leader in the UK, Australia, advertising, digital, America, direct, design and a lot of places in between. He has founded agencies, built tech start-ups and won lots of awards for clients ranging from BMW, Waitrose, Nike and BT to Harley Davidson, O2 and Guinness. He is responsible for RAPP's entire creative department, comprising concept teams, creative technologists, designers, UX experts, developers and 3D specialists.

Mark Denton

Creative director at COY! Communications

Abi Ellis

Group Creative Director at LBi

Dave Waters

Dave founded Watermill with Bertie Miller in 2008.

Watermill is a multi-discipline project based company. As well as accepting commissions for advertising, design, film and TV work, Watermill creates and produces it’s own projects including digital and publishing.

Before Watermill Dave was Creative Director of D,F,G,W a top 30 ad agency for 18 years.

D,F,G,W were the only Independent on Pizza Hut’s international roster, (Hit the hut). Launched the most successful car company in the UK ever (that’ll be the Daewoo) And did for the BBC what ITV heroically failed to do, launching Britain’s new digital platform, Freeview and made it bigger than Sky.

Freud communications bought D,F,G,W in August 2007.

Dave designed the interior of the Body Zone, the only part of the Dome to have Queues. He has been President of the Creative Circle and received their lifetime achievement award. He’s won almost enough advertising awards and worked with talented people who’ve won loads more.

Before that there was GGT, the hottest agency of the 80’s, were he got to work on everything, LWT, Toshiba, Lurpak, Cadbury’s, Ariston and his slogan for Morrisons, is still proudly on their bags 25 years later.

Paul Burke

Paul is the most awarded radio advertising writer in the country. He has won sixteen Aerial Awards (more than anyone else in the industry) for, among others, VW, Sony, Budweiser, Kit Kat and Virgin Trains.

He has also written some of Britain’s best loved and most famous TV commercials including award-winning campaigns for Barclaycard, Budweiser and John Smith’s bitter.

In 2005, Paul was awarded a Radio Advertising Fellowship at the House of Lords and all those Aerial Awards earned him a special Lifetime Achievement Award.

Paul is a regular contributor to Radio 4, Five Live and BBC London.

He has also written four novels: Father Frank, Untorn Tickets, The Man Who Fell In Love with His Wife and The Life of Reilly.

Paul is married with two children and lives in London. His hobbies include sitting in Starbucks with a laptop.

Ben Stott

Previously: Co-Founder, Designer & Director of NB Studio

Russell Speed

Creative Director / Copywriter: Currently freelance at Kane & Finkel, London.

Darts walk-on music: Saturn 5 by Inspiral Carpets.

Other information: To be found on LinkedIn.

The Chip Shop Awards prove that people still crave to be in the advertising and communications business. Given some of the stupidity you have put up with, this is very encouraging. I'm relieved that my own enthusiasm for creating is no less than it was when I first skipped through the doors of Watford college. Digital integrated projects take up most of my time but I've resisted the temptation to call myself a trans-media specialist. I've also enjoyed catching up with some old friends on the freelance circuit.

Patrick Baglee

Thinker and writer for brands and businesses living in New York. Ex Director of Creative Strategy at

Navyblue and Executive Creative Director at ehs4d

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