Jury 2026

Mat Mroszczak is currently Chief Creative Officer at VML Singapore, with more than 15 years of international experience leading creative teams across Europe and Asia. He has developed culturally impactful work for global and regional brands across categories including FMCG, finance, telecoms, and travel, working with international brands including Land Rover, Campbell's, Unilever, VISA, Colgate, AIA, and Pepsi.

A third-generation advertising professional, Mat is known for building strong creative cultures that drive consistently outstanding work.

Before joining VML Singapore, Mat served as Chief Creative Officer at Wunderman Thompson Singapore, Executive Creative Director at BBDO Singapore, and Group Creative Director at Happiness Brussels / Ho Chi Minh City. Prior to that, he held creative leadership roles at Darwin BBDO, These Days Y&R Antwerp, and Y&R Brussels in Belgium.

Throughout his career, Mat has received more than 295 international creative awards, including Gold wins at prestigious shows such as Cannes Lions, New York Festivals, and London International Awards (LIA). In recent years, VML Singapore under his leadership has also received multiple international industry recognitions.

Mat has also served multiple times as a jury member for international award shows including New York Festivals, London International Awards (LIA), Creative Club of Belgium, and Golden Drum.

With twenty years of experience in internet marketing services, he possesses extensive expertise in industry strategies, planning, creative development, content production, and operational management.

In 2015, he served as General Manager of Marketing Strategy and Commercialization at Sina Marketing Center, optimizing resource allocation and implementing creative marketing solutions tailored to industry insights by leveraging resources from both Sina Portal and Weibo.

In 2019, he assumed full responsibility for Weibo's Automotive Division, advocating marketing principles centered around user insight-driven content production, viral social media dissemination, and brand shaping through accumulating social assets.

In 2023, he became Vice President of Marketing at Weibo, overseeing all sales channel business operations, refining hot-topic marketing models, establishing standardized operational norms for fine-tuned hot-topic management, effectively helping clients across all channels to create and capitalize on hot topics, and providing tailored hot-topic marketing solutions. He advocates that enterprises should seize every opportunity presented by nationwide topics and hot trends, resonate deeply with the public, and build "phenomenon-level" brands to ensure long-term brand success.

The original Thai creative who has once made history in China advertising hall of fame for bringing the first Cannes Grand Prix Lion to China in 2011. His Samsonite “Heaven and Hell” is currently the world’s most awarded print-ad of all time. In 2012 he became one of the ‘Top 3 Art Directors of Asia and was ranked 8th in The World Creative Ranking.

After 6 years in Shanghai Rojana decided to move back to his homeland to take the greater role as Executive Creative Director at JWT Bangkok in 2014, where he groomed himself in a creative leadership role. However, his calling dream made him decide to part ways with the global network agency to start his ideal agency, Storyteller Bangkok. And with the matter of one year, Storyteller has no doubt become the hottest, not to mention coolest, rookie agency in Thailand.

After 10 years in Thailand Rojana decided to take on the new challenge as Creative Director/ South East Asia for TBWA/Media Arts Lab in Singapore.

David B. Doty is a highly respected leader in digital advertising and brand strategy, a brand strategist, and an internationally recognized keynote speaker. As one of the most seasoned executives in digital marketing, he has played an influential role in shaping the development of digital advertising and advancing marketing innovation globally.

David served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) for 12 years, where he helped shape industry standards, strategic direction, and the global reach of digital advertising. During his tenure, he led the MIXX Awards, IAB’s highly regarded program recognizing excellence in digital advertising and marketing across the United States and international markets. This experience has given him deep expertise in global creative evaluation, digital marketing trends, brand value, and innovative marketing practices.

Today, through DD Digital Perspectives, David advises senior marketing leaders on AI, brand strategy, and international market development. He also serves as Executive Content Advisor to the Brand & AI Safety Summit and contributes industry perspectives to the Forbes CMO Network.

David focuses on emerging topics including the future of brands in the age of AI, the next chapter of digital marketing, brand safety, and global marketing strategy. Through his writing and speaking, he continues to share insights on marketing innovation and the evolving value of brands. His perspectives have been featured in Forbes, Wired, Adweek, Esquire, GQ, Food & Wine, and Departures.

Denny Handlin is currently Executive Creative Director at VaynerMedia Australia, with over 20 years of industry experience leading award-winning campaigns, building high-performing creative teams, and developing consumer-first strategies that drive real business impact.

Before joining VaynerMedia, Denny served as Head of Global Business Marketing at TikTok ANZ, where he helped shape the platform’s creative direction and spearheaded groundbreaking brand collaborations.

Denny began his career at Ogilvy Sydney as a copywriter and content designer. In 2012, he joined Clemenger BBDO Sydney as Creative Group Head, working on a number of successful campaigns including Whiskas’ “Catstacam” and Tourism Australia’s “There’s Nothing Like Australia”.

After more than four years at Clemenger, Denny joined BWM Dentsu (now Dentsu Creative) as Creative Director, where he helped the agency win its first D&AD award, Silver Cannes Lion, and One Show award, while also securing new business including Qantas Frequent Flyer and King Living Furniture.

After a two-year stint at Dentsu, Denny joined Meta Creative Shop as a Creative Strategist before later joining TikTok ANZ as Head of Global Business Marketing.

Nicolas has been working in the advertising industry for over 17 years and has won multiple national and international awards. He is a member of the Art Directors Club in Germany and has served on national and international juries, as well as being a speaker at various marketing events globally.

He has worked with major automotive brands such as BMW, Mini, BMW M, BMW Motorsport, and Audi, as well as on automotive-related projects like SONAX car cleaning products, the BMW Driving Experience, and VW football sponsorships.

Megan Lampinen has been writing about future mobility for more than two decades, during which she has interviewed leading figures and innovators shaping the automotive and mobility industries, with a consistent focus on electrification, digital transformation, and evolving mobility ecosystems.

She is a former Editor at Automotive World, where she contributed to in-depth editorial coverage and industry analysis. She now works as an independent consultant, supporting stakeholders through long-form feature writing, ghostwriting, and event moderation.

Megan regularly hosts webinars and roundtable discussions and has contributed to a range of international industry events and forums, including Future Mobility Europe, Future Mobility Detroit, COP26, AutoSens, and Reuters Automotive Summits, where she facilitates dialogue across global mobility and technology sectors.

Boaz Paldi is the CEO and Founder of Full Frame Advisory. Working at the intersection of the climate emergency, sustainability, strategic comms and global engagement, the firm helps leaders and organizations turn ambition into influence.

Before founding FFA, Boaz was the first Chief Creative Officer of United Development Programme, overseeing advocacy, flagship campaigns, events, and activations.

In 2021 Boaz launched the #DontChooseExtinction campaign that has been viewed by over 2.2 billion people across the globe and is the most successful UN campaign to date. Boaz continued the drive for climate actions with the launch the #Weather Kids campaign that clearly illustrates the cost of inaction to the climate emergency for the next generations. Combined, the campaigns reached over 4 billion people worldwide.

Prior to joining UNDP, Boaz worked as a TV journalist for 17 years covering conflicts, natural disasters and human-interest stories in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe first for the BBC then for Reuters TV where he worked as a TV News Executive Producer for over 12 years.

Drew Pautler founded Good Fortune Collective on a simple but demanding belief: creative work should do more than perform—it should matter. He is known for identifying key strategic unlocks and recognizing the precise moment where brand behavior and human behavior converge, turning effective ideas into transformative ones.

This approach spans projects of all scales, from large-scale commercial communications to product and experience design, with a consistent focus on aligning creative thinking with business outcomes.

Before founding GFC, Drew worked at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder on brands including Coke Zero, Microsoft, Best Buy, and Volkswagen. Earlier in his career, he was recognized as a Cannes Young Creative Award winner in consecutive years.

In the automotive and mobility space, Drew has supported creative and communications work for Volkswagen, Indian Motorcycles, Yeti Cycles, and Hyundai, across brand communications, integrated marketing, and product launch initiatives.

This cross-category and cross-market experience has shaped Good Fortune Collective into an agency focused on solving meaningful business challenges and ensuring that products and innovations are seen, understood, and adopted.

Romain Repellin began his career in advertising before joining Buzzman in 2010. Over the following four years, he distinguished himself through internationally awarded campaigns for brands including Mondelez, Durex (SOS Condoms campaign generating more than 25 million organic views), Double A and MTV Mobile.

In 2014, he joined Ogilvy & Mather, where he evolved from Creative to Associate Creative Director, leading key accounts such as Netflix, Perrier, Stimorol, Coca-Cola and Motorola’s worldwide social platforms.

In 2017, he was promoted to Executive Creative Director at Grey Paris, where he worked on brands such as TikTok, Daimler, Schwartz and HSBC, helping reposition FamousGrey Paris within the global creative landscape and bringing the agency back into the Top 10 French creative agencies in the Cannes Lions Report.

Today, at Accenture Song, he develops integrated creative platforms combining storytelling, culture, AI-driven innovation and emerging technologies for major international brands such as Peugeot.

To date, Romain Repellin has received around 50 international awards, including Cannes Lions, D&AD, Eurobest and other major industry recognitions.

Romain believes the future of creativity lies in the ability to connect technology, emotion and culture to create new forms of brand experiences.

Hou Yan joined Sina in 2013, where she was responsible for commercial marketing initiatives at Sina and Sina Auto, gaining extensive experience in brand marketing, market strategy, public relations, and business operations. She currently serves as General Manager of Commercial Marketing at Weibo, leading the development of Weibo’s commercial marketing ecosystem, market strategy, brand communications, and business events, with a focus on creating meaningful connections between brands and users.