WARC Awards for Asian Strategy: 2022 Judges

JURY CHAIR
Chief Marketing Officer, NTUC Income
Dhiren has recently joined NTUC Income as their CMO. His remit is overseeing segment, product, social/digital, activation, PR/Comms marketing and sustainability as tools to drive business growth, in the short and long term. He was previously the CMO, Asia for Kraft Heinz, managing a $1B portfolio across China, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Malaysia and other SEA markets.

President Director/CEO, Danone
Connie is a seasoned CEO with a proven track record in complex business turnarounds, accelerations, and greenfield start-ups. She currently leads a 1.6bn euro business for Danone Indonesia across three categories with 15,000 employees and 28 factories. Recently she won Best CEO 2021 and Most Extraordinary Women Business Leader 2022 Awards.

Impactful Brand Experience Leader, Colgate-Palmolive
Bea serves as Impactful Brand Experience Leader at Colgate-Palmolive Philippines, leading digital transformation, customer experience engagement and integrated media strategy. Prior to Colgate-Palmolive she was Chief Strategy Officer at Dentsu Philippines, leading the network's strategy and digital transformation initiatives across seven agencies.

Former Chairman & CEO, BBDO Asia
Jean-Paul is British/Colombian, was raised in Latin America and was educated between the US and England. He began his career at JWT London in 1998 and joined BBDO in 2004. He was Chairman and CEO of BBDO Asia from 2015 to 2022 and currently lives in Singapore with his family.

Head of Strategy, FRED & FARID Shanghai; Managing Partner, FLAWED
Karen is an aspiring and experienced strategy lead at FRED & FARID Shanghai, and has previously provided integrated marketing strategies for established Chinese and global brands. In the future, she will continue gathering the multi-disciplinary strategic minds to cultivate FLAWED, the new advisory force driven by strategy and empowered by creativity.

Director - New Customer Acquisition APAC, foodpanda
Jan currently leads the New Customer Acquisition team in APAC for foodpanda including ATL, BTL and Performance functions to drive growth in the region. With his profound knowledge of consumer insights, strategy and digital capabilities, Jan has developed and implemented campaigns for world leading brands across various industries and regions.

Vice President, Client Partner, APAC & Managing Director, Singapore, Essence
Matt is the key performance marketing lead for the agency’s Google media business in APAC. His work has resulted in media performance that has exceeded targets, as well as helped develop and test Google’s products to be rolled out to advertisers worldwide. Leading Essence in Singapore, Matt is responsible for driving continued client-centric innovation in data, analytics and technology, as well as business growth and company culture for the agency in the market.

Market Development Advisor – Global Environmental Products, Shell HK Limited
Currently the Market Development Advisor at Shell, Astor is a result driven and seasoned brand and digital marketing professional, with extensive B2B/B2C experience that spans across local, regional and global levels. Astor is passionate in leading brands to win through premiumisation and innovation and regards herself as an uncompromised brand guardian.

Group Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Rakuten Group, Inc.
Naho joined Rakuten in 2003 and currently serves as Managing Executive Officer and CMO of the Rakuten Group and Rakuten Mobile. She has served in key senior positions in marketing, UI/UX, business strategy and more for Rakuten Ichiba, the largest online shopping platform in Japan.

National Head of Strategy, DDB Mudra
Anand is the National Head of Strategy at DDB Mudra. In a career spanning over 18 years, Anand has worked as a Marketer with Reckitt before moving to Advertising and leading the strategy product for Ogilvy and Taproot Dentsu.

Chief Marketing Officer, FWD Life Insurance Philippines
Roche leads a group of creative marketers whose mission is to change the way people feel about insurance. She spearheaded the launch of the brand in the Philippines in 2014 and played a large role in growing the company from 31st to 5th place in Total Premium Income after just seven full years.

Consumer Marketing Director, APAC, Meta
Michelle is the Consumer Marketing Director for APAC at Meta. She leads efforts on building awareness and understanding of Meta’s positive contribution through product and programme awareness in APAC to build positive brand reputation. Michelle has 20 years of experience in brand and product marketing, e-commerce and customer experience.