Chief Executive Officer, TBWA\Group Istanbul After graduating from Istanbul University, Burcu Özdemir started her career at Manajans/J.T. Thomson before moving to Güzel Sanatlar/Saatchi & Saatchi. Burcu then joined TBWA\Istanbul in 2002 where she started in account management before climbing the ranks to CEO ten years later . Since then, Burcu has played a large role […]
Jury Category: Best of Europe Round 2
Chris Cashen
Chris leads the strategic practice for GroupM in Ireland covering Mindshare, Essence Mediacom and Wavemaker. Chris began his career at AFA O’Meara (a full service agency) and has over 15 years of experience in creative, full-service, and media agencies. Chris also sits on the Adnet Zero council, fronting media’s response to reducing emissions in the […]
Odile Breffa
Odile grew up in the middle of the marble atelier of her dad, learning how to design and sell the work. Then started a career managing artists, developing their PR and founded an art studio in Berlin. Later on, Odile discovered a new interest: observing and understanding people’s behaviour. After studying sociology and ethnography, she […]
Serhii Kostia
Serhii Kostia is the Regional Marketing Manager for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Asia at Bolt, where he oversees marketing operations across 12 countries. With over a decade of experience in marketing and advertising, Serhii has built a robust career specializing in analytics, strategy, marketing effectiveness, brand awareness, communication, crisis communication, and employer branding. […]
Ivo Altanov
Managing Director – Noble Graphics Ivo Altanov is acting as Partner and Managing Director in Noble Graphics – one of the premier strategic and creative ad agencies in Bulgaria for more than 15 years. Under his management, the company became one of the most recognized agencies on the market – winning 9 times the Agency […]
Nicky Doran
Nicky has spent his 30+ years career working in Brand, Organisation Culture and Marketing Strategy in its broadest sense. Linking culture and brand to all marketing disciplines that effect customer and organisation people touch-points, to achieve key success indicators. He worked in Retail Financial Services, Energy, Wealth Management Sectors and is currently a freelance Brand […]
Malou Buné
In the past ten years Malou Buné has been working at McDonald’s in the Netherlands. Her responsibilities have been across all parts of the business, starting with managing McDonald’s Family Business and piloting new ways of GenZ-marketing. Soon Malou started overseeing Brand Affinity platforms such as the Summer platform and the award winning December Gift […]
Elena Bakum-Ramola
Chief Creative Practice, Publicis Groupe Ukraine Has 28 years of experience in marketing and communication with 60+ product categories, local and international brands, both in Ukraine and abroad. Joint Publicis Group Ukraine in 2001 to launch creative agency of D’Arcy further renamed to Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the only agency always in TOP of […]
Sophia Goerner
Sophia Goerner is the European Strategy Director at Innocean Worldwide Europe, a role she has excelled in since 2016. She heads a dynamic team of female strategists, driving innovation and excellence in strategic communications across Europe. Sophia has collaborated with over 15 car brands throughout her 20-year career, making her a distinguished expert in the […]
Olya Dyachuk
Olya is a Marketing leader and Digital expert with over 16 years of experience across a range of industries. She started in Russia, working in the emerging advertising marketplace, and helping iconic brands to capitalise on the opportunities digital brings. In her global agency roles, she supported Bacardi and McDonald’s with media excellence and digital […]