CANNES LIONS 2006: CYBER AND MEDIA LIONS JURIES ANNOUNCED

This year’s Cyber Lions and Media Lions juries were announced today by the organisers of the 53rd Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

Matias Palm-Jensen, Creative President of Farfar, Sweden, will chair the Cyber Lions jury. The Media Lions jury will be headed by Renetta McCann, CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group. Both juries will start voting in Cannes on the 15th of June. The Media Lions winners will be honoured on Tuesday evening, 20 June and the Cyber Lions winners will be announced on Wednesday, 21 June.

“Since the introduction of Cyber Lions in 1998 and Media Lions in 1999, these competitions have become the most respected in the industry, and therefore we are delighted and honoured to have such international high-calibre jurors, the best in their profession, to judge and honour the work of their peers”, said Terry Savage, Executive Chairman of the Festival.

Australia is represented on both juries – Matt Cumming, CD Digital, M&C Saatchi Sydney (above) is on the Cyber Lions jury, while Gary Hardwick, managing partner of Ikon Communications Sydney is on the Media Lions jury. New Zealand is represented on the Media Jury by Michael Prentice, strategic director of MTC, Auckland

CYBER LIONS JURY MEMBERS

Sweden, Matias Palm-Jensen, Creative President, Farfar (Jury President)

Argentina, Fernando Barbella, Creative Director, OgilvyInteractive

Australia: Matthew Cumming, Creative Director Digital, M&C Saatchi Sydney

Austria, Anitra Eggler, Creative Director, holzhuber/impaction

Belgium, Erwin Jansen, Managing Partner, These Days

Brazil, Ricardo Figueira, Creative Director, AgênciaClick

Canada, Steve Mykolyn, VP, Creative Director, TAXI Canada

Denmark, Lars Cortsen, Creative Director, Framfab Denmark

France, Philippe Simonet, Co-CEO & Executive Creative Director, PublicisNet

Germany, Fabian Sax, Creative Director, Aimaq·Rapp·Stolle Interactive

Germany, Olaf Czeschner, Chief Creative Officer, Neue Digitale

Italy, Raffaella Bertini, Managing Director & Co-Creative Director, Nurun Italia

Japan, Yasuharu Sasaki, Creative Director, Dentsu

Korea, Hye won Oh, Creative Director, Cheil Communications

Norway, Jørgen Bøhle Bakke, Copywriter, TRY Reklamebyrå

Poland, Grzegorz Mogilewski, Chief Executive Officer, Max Weber

Spain, ?ngel Ybáñez, President, BetyByte

Sweden, Gustav Martner, Creative Partner, Daddy

The Netherlands, Sicco Beerda, Creative Strategist, Euro RSCG 4D

United Kingdom, Seb Royce, Creative Director, Glue London

USA, Colleen DeCourcy, Chief Creative Officer, Organic

MEDIA LIONS JURY MEMBERS

USA, Renetta McCann, CEO, Starcom MediaVest Group (Jury President)

Australia: Gary Hardwick, Managing Partner & President, Ikon Communications

Austria, Friederike Müller-Wernhart, Managing Director, MindShare

Brazil, Paulo Stephan, Media Director, Talent Comunicação e Planejamento

Canada, Alain Desormiers, President, Touché! phd

Chile, Martin Osorio, General Manager, Mediaedge:cia

Colombia, Nelson Garrido, Managing Director, OMD Colombia

France, Marie-Laure Sauty De Chalon, Chief Executive Officer, Aegis Media France

Germany, Marianne Doelz, Managing Director, Initiative Media

India, Ashutosh Srivastava, CEO, South Asia, GroupM South Asia

Israel, Oren Yonayov, CEO, United Media

Italy, Riccardo Bandera, Founder/Managing Director, Maxus BBS

Japan, Miki Matsui, Executive Creative Director, Hakuhodo

New Zealand: Michael Prentice, Strategic Director, Meares Taine Creative

Norway, Eddie D’Sa, Managing Partner, Naked Communications

Portugal, Fernando Mendes da Cruz, CEO, Media Planning Group

Russia, Svetlana Shupe, CEO, ZenithOptimedia

South Africa, Lucinda Dare, Media Director, FCB Jhb

Turkey, Banun Erkiran, Managing Director, MediaCom Istanbul

United Kingdom, Derek Morris, Vice Chairman, ZenithOptimedia

USA, Jim Poh, VP, Director of Creative Content Distribution, Crispin Porter + Bogusky