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    5 Gerety Awards Grand Jury members for 2025 from the African continent

    The African continent has five jury members represented on the Gerety Awards Grand Jury for 2025.
    The African continent has five jury members represented on the Gerety Awards Grand Jury for 2025 - two from SA, and one each from Nigeria, Kenya and the Côte D'Ivoire (Image supplied)
    The African continent has five jury members represented on the Gerety Awards Grand Jury for 2025 - two from SA, and one each from Nigeria, Kenya and the Côte D'Ivoire (Image supplied)

    Andrea Quaye, marketing director at Heineken, and Vuyo Henda, chief marketing officer at Spur Corp, represent the continent from South Africa.

    Nwakaego Boyo, founder, ex-producer & CEO Temple Productions, represents Nigeria, Oriane (Abouattier) Canfrin, head of marketing and communications at Ecobank, represents Côte D'Ivoire and Waithera Kabiru, Africa Digital Hub—lead Diageo, Kenya.

    The five will join respected and influential leaders from the advertising and marketing industry from around the globe on the Grand Jury.

    Exceptional jury members

    Named for Frances Gerety, the copywriter who in 1948 coined the slogan A diamond is forever the Awards jury is made up of women only from different parts of the world.

    “Gerety assembles an exceptional group of global judges to evaluate work from a powerful and unique perspective,” states co-founder Lucía Ongay.

    “Our criteria are clear: we prioritise the originality of creative ideas and the excellence of their execution. We are eager to recognise the best campaigns out there and are already curious to find out what the jury will select.”

    In 2025, the Gerety Awards will host judging sessions in 15 locations.

    The judges for the executive jury will be announced in the new year. More than 45 countries will be represented in the Gerety Awards jury in this edition.

    Additionally, each executive jury session will select the Agency of the Year from their region within the entrants of the Agency of the year category.
    The 2025 Gerety Awards will open for submissions and announce the full jury in January.

    The Gerety 2025 Grand Jury

    Anu Igoni, ECD & partner, Bob the Robot, Finland
    Nwakaego Boyo, founder, ex-producer & CEO, Temple Productions, Nigeria
    Paula Gaviria, founder and CEO, marketing & Innovation, Colombia
    Kelly Pon, CCO, BBH, China
    Hope Nardini, global ECD, Grey, US
    Ute Poprawe, non-executive chairwoman, DDB, Frankfurt Germany
    Andrea Quaye, marketing director, Heineken, South Africa
    Karen Ovseyevitz, president, Latina America Porter Novelli, Mexico
    Jin Yang, creative partner, Leo Burnett, Taiwan
    Tiffany Rolf, chair & global CCO, RGA, US
    Ioana Zamfir, CCO, MRM, Romania
    Menaka Menon, president & managing partner, growth & strategy DDB Mudra Group, India
    Kavi Rajapaksha, CMO, Sunshine Consumer Ltd, Sri Lanka
    Diana Triana, CCO, Dentsu Creative, Colombia
    Atiya Zaidi, CCO/CEO, BBDO, Pakistan
    Marilou Aubin, partner & ECD, lg2, Canada
    Stefania Siani, CEO & COO, Serviceplan, Italy
    Kristin Cohen, global head of product, DDB Worldwide, US
    Anke Herbener, founder & CEO, Digital Changers, Germany
    Kopal Naithani, founder/ director,r Superfly Films, India
    Tan Tze Kiat, CEO, BBDO Asia, China
    Cecilie Oberg, senior creative, Accenture Song, Denmark
    Nayla Tueni, CEO & editor-in chief, An-Nahar and Annahar Arabi at Annahar Media Group, Lebanon
    Luciana Olivares, CEO & founder, Boost Brand Accelerator, Peru
    Alina Mirzaeva, founder and CEO, Synthesis, Uzbekistan
    Carolina Carmona, marketing manager, Falabella, Colombia
    Lali Koehler, global president, Craft Worldwide, US
    Simone Tam, group CEO Dentsu, Hong Kong
    Jolene Dsouza, group strategy director, Special Group, New Zealand
    Suzzane Zhang VP, MW advisory, APAC & head of strategy McCann Worldgroup, China
    SooHee Yang, CCO, Publicis Groupe, South Korea
    Gry Sætre, founder & executive producer, Tangrystan, Norway
    Vuyo Henda, chief marketing officer, Spur Corp, South Africa
    Jo-ann Robertson, CEO global markets, Ketchum, UK
    Helena Henneveld, luxury senior brand manager Tequila| Northern Europe, Diageo, Netherlands
    Klaartje Galle, CCO, VML, Belgium
    Waithera Kabiru, Africa Digital Hub - lead, Diageo, Kenya
    Elina Kettunen, senior creative / copywriter, N2 Creative, Finland
    Suzanne Powers, founder & CEO, Powers Creativity, US
    Maria Lashari, founder + creative director, 1000WORLDS, Sweden
    Oriane (Abouattier) Canfrin, head of marketing and communications, Ecobank, Côte D'Ivoire
    Yuliya Tushina, managing director, GForce Grey, Kazakhstan
    Tammy Sheu, CEO, BNBALOON, Taiwan
    Maja Sand-Grimnitz, member board of directors, Asetek, Denmark
    Rifah Qadri, executive director marketing, easypaisa, Pakistan
    Kimberly Paige, EVP, chief marketing officer, Paramount, US

    Download the 2025 entry kit at here.

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