Your Creative Auditors

Bobby Pawar
Chairman & CCO,
Havas Group India

Bobby Pawar is allergic to math, but his numbers aren’t half bad. He is a 2-time copywriter of the year. He’s among the most awarded creatives from India. He was Campaign Asia’s Creative Person of the Year (2011) for India and South Asia. And is consistently ranked amongst the most influential and creative people in India. Prior to joining Havas Group, spent five and half years at Publicis. His mandate was to turn the agency. Well, during his stint Publicis created some of the country’s most talked about and effective campaigns. And he helped grow the agency’s fortunes significantly.

Juliana Paracenciao
Global Creative Director,
Ogilvy UK

Juliana Paracencio is a Brazilian-born, international creative with experience in three different continents. She's worked her way across the globe from Brazil to Germany to the Middle East to Spain to the UK, making stops at Leo Burnett in São Paulo and Frankfurt, Y&R in Berlin, Jung von Matt in Hamburg, Ogilvy in Dubai, and Publicis in Madrid. Since March 2020, she is the Global Creative Director at Ogilvy UK in London, working on the full Unilever portfolio, with a particular focus on the global Dove brand. Idea-led creative at heart, Juliana is also obsessed with craft.

Valerie Madon
CCO - Asia,
VMLY&R

Valerie’s love for painting since 5 spawned a career of more than 20 years across brand-building and integrated creative solutions for major brands such a Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, Singapore Airlines, HSBC, Burger King, VISA, Singapore Tourism Board, Changi Airport, Central Provident Fund, Shell, GSK, Cycle & Carriage, Friesland Campina and many others. In 2010, Valerie was made the first female chairperson in the history of the Creative Circle Awards Singapore and went on to judge at Spikes Asia 2011, Cannes Lions 2011, 2014 and 2019, D&AD 2012 and 2015, Clio 2013 and 2019, One Show 2015 and 2017 and London International Awards 2013.

Malvika Mehra
Independent Brand Strategy & Creative Director

In a career spanning nearly 3 decades, Malvika has successfully partnered with clients in building famous brands across agencies like Ogilvy, Grey, Dentsu and her independent venture Tomorrow Creative Lab. Malvika stands bang in the middle of a left brain and right brain thinker. Armed with a degree in Applied Art and a keen sense of aesthetics & design, along with a strategic bent of mind that likes to mine ideas from real insights, she has built winning brands across categories in her career as the creative head across the top agencies in India.

PG Aditiya
Ex - CCO,
Dentsu Webchutney

PG Aditiya is the Ex - CCO of Dentsu Webchutney. His biggest campaigns include The Unfiltered History Tour with VICE, Voice of Hunger with Swiggy and Hagglebot with Flipkart. Since 2019, his teams have helped score the highest tally for India at Cannes Lions & Spikes Asia, The One Show, winning the Kyoorius Black Elephant two years in a row, the Contagious Pioneer List, and as a personal achievement- the title of "Creative Person of the year" by Campaign.

Santosh Padhi
Co-Founder & Ex - CCO,
Taproot Dentsu

Popularly known as 'Paddy', Santosh Padhi started his advertising career 25 yearse back. An art graduate from Mumbai, he started his carrier with DDB (Mudra), then a good fruitful 10-year stint at Leo Burnett, where he was an Executive Creative Director and the National Head of Art. He founded Taproot in 2009 and after 12 wonderful years of creative success, he decided to detach from the agency and Denstu group few months ago. Paddy has deservedly served as a jury member and jury president at numerous international award shows across the globe including Cannes Lions, Clio, D&AD, OneShow, New York Festival, London International Awards, Dubai Lynx, Adfest Pattaya, AdStar Busan, ADC, ANDY etc.