Goafest 2011: Jury chairpersons announced for Creative Abbys

Ad Club Bombay has announced the jury chairpersons for the Creative Abbys scheduled during Goafest 2011 on April 9. Jury chairpersons for Film Craft and Print Craft categories will be announced later.

On the appointments, Shashi Sinha, chairman, Awards Governing Council and chief executive officer, Lodestar UM said, “We are proud to have such an impressive jury line-up for the Awards this year.”

                                    

L to R: Piyush Pandey, Prasoon Joshi, Ravi Deshpande, KV Sridhar

Piyush Pandey, executive chairman and creative director, South Asia, Ogilvy & Mather India, will head the jury for Integrated category, while Prasoon Joshi, executive chairman and regional executive creative director APAC at McCann Erickson will head Film category. Ravi Deshpande, national creative director, Contract Advertising, will be the jury chair for Print, and KV Sridhar, national creative director, Leo Burnett, will handle the duties for OOH category.

                   

L to R: Josy Paul, Senthil Kumar, Sujata Keshavan

Josy Paul, chairman and national creative director, BBDO India will head the jury for radio while Senthil Kumar, executive creative director, JWT India and chairman, JWT India Creative Council will head Digital category. Farida Sabnavis will be head the jury for Direct category and Sujata Keshavan, managing director and executive creative director, Ray + Keshavan, India will handle Design category.