Creative Director, Leo Burnett, - London

John has spent the last 39 years working on just about every client catagororie,in a number of large and not so large agency’s, trying to figure out where the next idea is coming from,and loving every minute of it.

John has judged the awards many times before and returns to the judging panel in 2012 as he believes in the benifits Chip Shop Awards give to the industry.

Founder Watermill - London

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.
 

Exec Producer, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners - San Francisco (USA)

Previously Creative Director at The Partners and now setting up something new.

Patrick Baglee was the director of Creative Strategy at Navyblue, a strategic international brand development agency with offices in London, Edinburgh and Budapest. Before joining Navyblue he spent 2 years as Executive Creative Director at EHS Brann, one of Europe's largest direct marketing agencies. He has written off, on, through and above the line for print, digital and TV and worked with Audi, British Gas, Barclays, Cambridge University Press, COI, Diageo, Diesel, The FA, Gilbert & George and UK Trade & Investment. He is the former chair of The Typographic Circle, and the founder of 4Designers, an annual student conference held in London and New York. His writing on design and advertising has appeared in eye, Campaign, Grafik, Creative Review and u&lc. He is the son of a compositor, and lives in London.

Executive Creative Director, Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R

Creative Director - Copy - TBWA\PALINGWALTERS 

In a dark and distant past, l completed a degree in accounting. Half way through this course, I had an epiphany. Ok, so I saw Mark Reddy on TV talking about being an advertising creative. Roll on 20 years and I am a Creative Director at TBWA\Paling Walters. We still make advertising for press and TV, but more and more of our time is spent creating online engagement, iPad tools and social campaigns. To clear the creative cobwebs, I cycle through South London to Soho most days.

Director of Creative Technology, McCann Worldgroup
 

Deputy ECD at DDB Sydney.

Prior to that spent 4 years at BBH in London, creative-directing Vodafone and Gordon’s Gin. Prior to that spent 7 years at DDB London.

Awards include a Cannes Grand Prix (for the VW Polo ‘cops hiding behind the car’ print ad), 2 Cannes Golds, 2 D&AD pencils and 6 pencil nominations, plus various One Shows and Clios.

Previously I wrote a blog called Scamp, which became the most popular ad blog in the UK. In four years it received just short of a million unique visitors.

That blog led to a book deal, and How To Make It As An Advertising Creative was published in May 2010. It won’t make me rich but it was a lot of fun to write. David Droga wrote the foreword.

Recently I've been crowdsourcing ads to promote atheism. I may not be able to defeat God but I aim to worry him.

Another interest (and blog) which I one day hope to turn into another book is Dogs Of The World. It’s amazing how much you can tell about different societies purely by looking at their dogs. A dog in Santa Monica, for example, looks very different to a dog in New Delhi.

Before advertising : After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy and French, I had a brief and unsuccessful career as an investment banker. I then went into journalism, writing articles for (of all things) women’s magazines. I was the bloke informing women about what men ‘really’ like in bed. Over the years I have continued to do occasional journalism, for the likes of The Sunday Times, GQ magazine and Campaign.
 
Personal life – I’m married with two kids and two cats. In my spare time I'm writing a novel. Usually with a kid or a cat on my lap. I have two girls aged 8 and 5, so the house has turned pink and is filled with unicorns and fairies. And I am no longer allowed to watch football.

I can be contacted on +61 402 123 823 or simon.veksner@gmail.com.
 

Adrian McNamara Senior Art Director, Euro RSCG, Sydney – now freelance.

A self-confessed ideas addict. Born and educated in the UK and now residing in Sydney, Australia. Originally trained in Graphic Design before moving into Direct Marketing and Advertising.

Adrian’s professional experience comes from an integrated background, spanning gigs at M&C Saatchi, Clemenger BBDO, Ogilvy One, Ogilvy & Mather, Euro RSCG and a stint as the Creative Director of River Orchid, Vietnam – an independent network in South East Asia.

Currently working as a freelance consultant whilst seeking out new opportunities.

Awarded locally and internationally at Caples, One Show, AWARD (Australasian Writers & Art Directors Association) and ADMA (Australian Direct Marketing Association) to list just a few.

Previously, he’s been a creative judge at AWARD, ADMA, and Caples. Tutored the industry’s AWARD School, Direct Marketing Creative School and is the current Co-Head of AWARD School for 2011-12.

When he’s not knocking out ideas, he’s smashing the Thai pads down at his local Muay Thai gym.

Here Adrian’s opted for a black & white self portrait, with tilted head, extra contrast and a Photoshop ‘noise’ filter – in true Art Director fashion.

That and he’s written this rather large bio to make himself appear far more important than he actually is.