Former AAAN President and CEO/Lead Consultant of LadyBird Limited, Mrs Bunmi Oke has been named alongside global brand leaders from Philips, Heineken and PepsiCo on the 2023’s Gerety Awards jury.
In a press statement made available to Brand Communicator, Lucía Ongay, co-founder of the Gerety Awards says, “We could not be prouder of the jury of personalities from around the world that will be choosing the 2023 winners.”
Ongay adds, “Next year we celebrate the fifth year of the Gerety Awards and just like in previous editions, our jury includes some of the advertising and marketing industries’ most respected and awarded leaders.”
The 2023 grand jury includes the following: Antoinette Beatson, VP ECD and BETC of Havas, France; Brogan Simpson, global communication manager at Heineken, Netherlands; Cristina Reina, EVP and global executive creative director at McCann New York, United States of America; Diana Ceausu Caverly, global chief strategy officer at MRM, United States of America; Gabrielle Fenton, head of LATAM at VaynerMedia, Mexico; Jo Wallace, global executive creative director at Media.Monks, United Kingdom; Joan Colletta, senior director in global brand marketing at McDonalds, United States of America and Kinga Grzelewska, managing director and creative director at MullenLowe, Poland
Others are Maya Karanouh, CEO / co-founder at Tagbrands, Lebanon; Nicky Bullard, group chief creative officer at MullenLowe Group United Kingdom; Ghada Wali, creative and co-founder at Wali Studio, Egypt; Marcela Morales, senior brand and digital manager at Whirlpool, Mexico; María Luján Donaire, executive creative director at HOY, Argentina; Masako Okamura, creative director at Dentsu Inc, Japan; Nancy Delhalle, founder and chief marketing officer at Serviceplan, Belguim; Sann Sava, chief creative officer at Publicis Montreal, Canada; Sorada Sonprasit, CEO at Publicis Groupe Thailand among other. To view a full list of the jury, kindly click here.
The 2023 Gerety Awards will open for entries and announce the full jury in January. Named for Frances Gerety, the copywriter who in 1948 coined the slogan “A diamond is forever” The Gerety Awards brings together a jury to select the best in advertising that resonates most with a female audience, creating a benchmark that is relevant to the market reality, all while redefining the standard to which advertising has traditionally been held.