Former DDB CEO Tim Evill named jury chairman for the Tasmania Advertising & Design Awards

The Tasmania Advertising & Design Awards (TADA) has announced that the jury chairman will be Tim Evill, former CEO of DDB Singapore and Hong Kong.

The judging will take place in Hobart on Monday February 22nd and the awards presentation night will follow swiftly afterwards on Thursday 25th February at The Salamanca Arts Centre. 

Having grown up in Africa, briefly schooled in England and spent time in the Merchant Navy, Evill sailed into a career in the advertising industry that resulted in him spending the past thirty years in Asia. Over that time he was global creative director for Singapore Airlines and executive creative director at Singapore’s Batey Ads. Executive creative director and CEO of DDB in Singapore and Hong Kong and vice chairman of DDB Asia, all the time building a variety of international brands. His last stint was six years in Beijing as brand strategist and creative head for Mercedes Benz.

Over the course of his career Evill has won numerous awards including D&AD, Cannes, One Show and Clio and many Effies whilst serving as a regular judge on award juries in Australasia and the USA. He headed the DDB ‘Rising Tide’ creative initiative and was a member of the DDB Global Creative Council for several years with Bob Scarpelli. He was a frequent keynote speaker at creative and marketing conferences throughout Asia, and voted Singapore Advertising Man of the Year. Now a nomadic strategic brand building and creative consultant with a passion for making new and exciting brands famous and famous brands new again. Owner of Lawson’s Dry Hills, one of New Zealand’s most awarded wine makers. Living between Waiheke Island, NZ and Bali Island, Indonesia.

Says Mark Ringer, founder, TADA: “Tim was ECD at Batey Ads when there was no better agency in Asia. He ran a star-studded creative department that included talent like current global creative director of Ogilvy Tham Khai Meng, author Malcolm Pryce, Kash Sree and Andy Fackrel. He then went on to run DDB in Singapore and Hong Kong. We are very delighted that he has chosen to chair the judging.”

He will spend the week in Tasmania chairing the judging and speaking on presentation night.

Joining Evill will be Pippa Dickson CEO of GASP!, who will be bring fresh and considered eyes to our industry awards, future creative leaders Sam Dobie of Clemenger and Mat Wearne of Before Creative and Chris Rees who exemplifies the skilled sole practitioner.

In keeping with the goal of nurturing a uniquely Tasmanian vernacular, it is vital that the majority of the jury is familiar with the circumstances in which the work was created, and therefore locally-based.

The Tasmania Advertising & Design Awards is a biennial show that aims to establish and nurture a uniquely Tasmanian commercial creative vernacular; to raise standards in commercial creativity, and to celebrate the very best.

For more information please go to: www.tadawards.com.au  or email mark@tadawards.com.au.