Associate Creative Director,
DDB Group Singapore

While majoring in business, Ed discovered that he had no business sticking to that path or wearing tapered pants. Ad land was more than happy to welcome another lost child.

After being told that the best thing about his book was the bag that contained it, he has thankfully seen better days. At TBWA he bagged his first CCAs, but JWT was the place where he first cut his teeth on leading a mean team on the Pizza Hut account. Gratefully, he did not make a mess of things and some accolades followed – which included the first Singapore Media Award, Effies and Markie for the client. His lucky streak also continued at One Show, D&AD, Spikes and Young Guns.

Today, he is an Associate Creative Director at DDB/Rapp Singapore. Where he has the great fortune of leading a pack of hungry and eclectic creatives. Where digital folks work on TV spots and “print” peeps dabble in digital. Early signs of the experiment has been encouraging by coming up tops in Singapore’s Young Lions Film Challenge, and a recent finalist in the digital category at Spikes. The tinkering continues.

Executive Creative Director,
JWT Singapore

Medical school, architecture, radio production, book publishing, …after many wrong but incredibly fun turns, Juhi agreed to kill her summer as a trainee at Lowe and got hooked. Growing up in agencies like McCann, Ogilvy and JWT, Juhi got the opportunity to work with the finest creative and strategic talents in the country before she left India.

Within one year of being ECD at JWT Jakarta, she changed the face of Indonesian advertising at international award shows by bringing home the country’s first Cannes metal.

Her work for WWF’s mybabytree.org, done at a time when digital advertising in Indonesia was still emerging, won one of only two Green Spikes (the other was for the famed ‘Earth Hour’ campaign). mybabytree.org is still up and has till date planted over 15,000 trees in Borneo.

She soon took over at Saatchi Indonesia as ECD, and the agency went from one bronze in the local show to their first ever Cannes haul of multiple shortlists and metals. Before moving to Singapore, Juhi had won multiple Silvers, bronzes and finalists at Cannes, Spikes and Adfest. Cannes Dove for best interactive at ACT. Creative Director of the year Indonesia, golds, silvers, bronzes, best of show and agency of the year multiple times. 
Gold and silver Adsoftheworld, BestadsonTV.


Today Juhi works as ECD on Unilever’s Global Lux business and Friesland Campina’s Global Friso business at JWT Singapore. After 3 shortlists at this year’s Cannes for Lux, she brought home one shortlist, one bronze, one gold and one grand prix for JWT at this year’s Spikes Asia. The fact that most of her wins have come on big clients like Sunsilk, Panasonic, Listerine and Lux, is something she finds exceptionally rewarding.

Juhi has a special passion for filmmaking, creative use of media, ambient, and loves working with young creatives. She has conducted sessions for students at Award School Asia, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and spoken at Marketing to Women 2011 and Women in Media at INSEAD.

Creative Director Designate,
Y & R Singapore

With more than a decade of experience in Advertising and Design, Jon has worked in some of the top agencies including Leo Burnett Singapore, Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore, Ogilvy & Mather Singapore and Mother London.

Throughout his career, Jon was lucky to have worked with some of the most talented creatives, creating numerous heavily awarded campaign which were ranked among the world’s best.

For the last 12 years, Jon has consistently won national and international accolades for both creative and marketing effectiveness awards across all categories on key agency brands including multiple hits at Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Clios, Communication Arts, Young Guns, Spikes Awards, Asia Pacific Advertising Festival, AWARDS, LIA, AME, Effies and Singapore Creative Circle Awards.

Jon was also ranked among the Top 10 Young Guns in the world, named Adfest Asia Pacific Young Creative of the Year and was also awarded the Best New Art Director in the 2003 Creative Circle Awards.

Jon is currently Creative Director at Y&R Singapore.

Vice President,
MediaCorp OOH Media

Thomas is a veteran in the Out–of–Home arena, where he was instrumental in setting the standards of taxi advertising as General Manager of Comfort Ads. The Cannes Creative Challenge was pioneered under Thomas’ leadership at Comfort Ads and was regarded as an industry standard by both advertisers and creative agencies. In 1999, he supported TBWA Singapore in achieving its first International Cannes Silver Lion Award for SAMSONITE’s taxi advertising campaign.

In 2005, Thomas joined Posterscope SE Asia – a global OOH Specialist, as the Executive Director to spearhead the development of Hyperspace projects in Singapore. In 2006, he was tasked by JWT Singapore’s creative team to bring to reality a creative project for Unilever – ORGANICS, which subsequently won the “Best of The Show Award” at the Singapore Outdoor Awards ( 2006 ).

In 2007, he launched the inaugural Asia Pacific Out-of-Home Creative Awards Show – AOA, which gave recognition to the crème de la crème of out of home creative campaign across the Asia Pacific region. Thomas is also a passionate about nurturing young creative talent. He is a multi-year supporter of the 4As Crowbar Awards.

He currently heads up OOH Media at Mediacorp and enjoys providing communication solutions to clients by combining his 25 years of experience in out of home advertising and event management skills.

Regional Creative Director,
Ogilvy & Mather Singapore

Richard is Regional Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather Singapore.

He works with the many Ogilvy offices across Asia Pacific focusing on new business and elevating the creative offering of the agency in the region.

Richard has over 15 years of experience in the industry, 12 of which were spent in Asia. Before Ogilvy he was Executive Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi during which time the agency walked away with many awards and accolades, including Campaign Brief Asia’s Creative Agency of the Year in 2007. In 2008, the agency also won the title of Creative Agency of the Year, awarded by Gunn Report and Campaign Asia separately. Richard was also Creative Director of the Year in 2007 (CB) and the number 1 Creative in Asia Pacific (Media) in 2008.

He has created award winning work for global brands such as Sony Ericsson, Heineken and ESPN. His work has also been awarded at Cannes, D&AD, Clio, The One Show and many others.

Executive Creative Director,
Publicis Singapore

A love for pop culture, a degree in Psychology and an inability to get those damn jingles out of his head led Ajay to his first writing job at JWT India.

Since then, Ajay went on to become an unofficial citizen of the ASEAN- spending the last 18 years across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore with McCann-Erickson in two markets, Bates/141 and now Publicis Singapore.

While at Bates/141 in Malaysia, he came up with his cleverst creative idea ever- to take on the job of Managing Director. He ran the agency for two profitable years before returning to the Fold.

He's been lucky enough to have worked on some of the most famous and influential brands in the world: Coca-Cola, P&G, BMW, Nokia, Honda, Heineken, Levi's, Nestle, MasterCard, General Motors and Citibank, to name in few.

In the past two years alone, Publicis Singapore has won metal at Cannes, multiple metals and awards at Spikes Asia, The One Show, Adfest, multiple metals at the Effies, metal at the AMEs, New York Festivals, entries in The Work and more.

He has judged at the New York Festivals, the Effies, Hall of Fame and most recently represented Singapore on the Outdoor Jury at Cannes 2012.