Monika Nikolova

A brand builder at heart, Monika brings a vast FMCG experience spanning global, regional, and local roles to the Effie Europe judging panel. At Heinz, she specializes in scaling strategic and cultural brand platforms across markets — turning locally resonant ideas into powerful, multi-market forces. Monika is a firm believer that great marketing starts with […]

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Lily Rose

Lily is Chief Operating Officer at the Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC), where she leads strategy, enabling operations and campaigns to help visually impaired children and young people live their life without limits. She is also a Trustee of Arthritis UK.   She brings over a decade of senior leadership experience in the charity […]

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Linda Bradley

Linda Bradley is Head of Planning, Insights and Media at Diageo Ireland since January 2024. Linda’s 20-year marketing career has involved three major multi-national companies (Danone, GlaxoSmithKline, Diageo) in Ireland and the UK, working on market leading brands such as Guinness, Rockshore, Carlsberg, Actimel, Ribena, Panadol and Corsodyl. Driven by a love for identifying compelling […]

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Lisa Lugo

Lisa Lugo is SVP of Marketing & Creative Solutions for Live Nation’s Brand Partnerships Division. She has built the UK integrated marketing practice from the ground up, building a new team across brand solutions, creative + design, research + fan insights, and strategy. Lisa has instigated and launched initiatives that promote Live Nation as a forward-thinking strategic partner and marketplace leader year-round, […]

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Ljiljana Ivošević

As Strategy Director at Omnicom Media Croatia, she brings extensive experience in advertising in the Croatian market, working across a wide range of brands and categories. With a background in sociology, she is particularly interested in how social change shapes consumer behaviour—and how it continuously reshapes the way brands need to show up in media […]

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Lotte Jones

Lotte Jones is the Deputy Head of Planning at VCCP London. She focuses on partnering with brands to ensure creative work populates culture while delivering rigorous business and real-world impact. A champion for work that works, Lotte joined the 2025 Effie Europe conference as a Gold winner for O2’s “Daisy vs Scammers,” and is looking […]

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Lucas Conte

Luca is specialized in brand and customer-experience strategy. He worked as a strategic planner for 23 years across Europe and Asia. In his role of Chief Strategy Officer at Serviceplan, he is helping brands to grow by elevating cultural relevance and putting consumer sentiments at the core of every experience, working on clients such as Lufthansa, BMW, Telefonica […]

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Lucía Angulo Pascual

With more than 25 years of experience, Lucía began her professional career at Canal+, joining Shackleton in 2004, where she held various positions of responsibility over 19 years. In addition, she became a partner of the agency in 2008, a role she maintained until its sale. After the acquisition of Shackleton by Accenture in 2019, […]

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Luka Bajs

Luka oversees creative talent and ambitious clients at SHIFT Ljubljana as the agencies’ Executive Creative Director. He has been in the storytelling business from age 7, when he wrote his first story about a dog detective, and has been in the advertising business for over a decade. As a true crime enthusiast, he loves solving […]

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Maciej Reszczyński

Senior Marketing Director with 15 years of experience spanning local, regional, and global leadership roles across marketing, brand, category management, and commercial functions at industry leaders such as Procter & Gamble and Visa. His career has been shaped by living and working across the UK, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary, and Mexico. A multiple time Effie juror […]

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