The Kyoorius Shadow Juror Program
As our contribution to helping talented young professionals, and finding the next creative leaders, Kyoorius has launched the ‘Kyoorius Shadow Juror Program.’ Under this program, each juror nominates one young professional as a 'Shadow Juror’. The ‘Shadow Jurors’ will be able to watch the entire jury deliberations, but will not be able to comment or interrupt the proceedings.
What started off as a torrid love affair with advertising is now a full blown marriage. With just over a decade in the business, Adarsh is still as starry eyed about the industry as he was when he started.
Shadowing Senthil Kumar, Ashish Pathak won the Cannes Young Lions competition in 2003, and the first Indian at the Cannes Lions Roger Hatchuel Academy. Since then, he has won more than 40 creative awards, including at D&AD and Cannes.
Shadowing Robert Godinho, Gayatri Sethi works towards growing domestic clients with the new MediaMonks offering and helping with expanding the organisation in India to cater to production and advertising requirements.
‘Juneston’ as a name only exists on documents that still need KYC updation. Near and dear ones call and know him as ‘June’. He has been around the industry for over 14 years, and doesn’t see himself moving out anytime soon.
Shadowing Pallavi Chakravarti, Neeraj Kanitkar currently serves as a Senior Creative at Taproot Dentsu. He has created insightful campaigns for brands such as Airtel, American Tourister, Disney India, Mumbai Mirror, Uber, and many more.
Shadowing Sneha Iype Varma, Ramya Rao is blessed with a natural ability to multitask and organise. Producing comes naturally to Ramya, and she has worked with reputed ad production houses in her over 15 year career.
Shadowing Merlee Cruz-Jayme, Sanket Audhi has led digital creative work for brands like Swiggy, Airtel, Twitter, Flipkart, Fastrack, Wildcraft, Google and more. Work that’s helped him win several accolades and awards in the last 3 years.
Shadowing Malvika Mehra, Sneha Iyer is a multidisciplinary Creative Lead at Kulture Shop and believes that design can be used for good to uplift society and the artist community. She has worked with several artists and brands.
Shadowing Harshad Rajadhyaksha, Tanuja Bhat is at heart, an experience-collector. She stumbled into advertising, and has spent several years learning, unlearning and relearning across categories.
Shadowing Lizi Hamer, Alessia Ferrier has had an insatiable curiosity of the world, that has taken her across agencies from Italy to Argentina, and then to Australia, before joining the dream team at Octagon.
“The latter half of Han & Becks” is what the Bio section of Becky’s LinkedIn profile says. Becky joined Ogilvy UK in July 2018, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising from the University for The Creative Arts.
Hannah Bituin is a junior Art Director who started her career in advertising in 2017. Her experience involved creating ideas at JWT Philippines and London, VCCP, and Leo Burnett. She’s currently making great work at Ogilvy London.
Shadowing Chockalingam S, Krishnan KN joined advertising after dabbling in a career as a CA. From learning to walk the office dog to writing a client's 20th wedding anniversary letter, he's done it all in his little stint in the mad ad-world.
Shadowing Srividya Sankaran, Priyanka Joshi has helped create work that has been awarded at Cannes Lions, One Show, Kyoorius and DMA International ECHO, to name a few. She has also been part of the "See It, Be It” programme.
Shadowing Ajay Gahlaut, Ranadeep Dasgupta currently serves as Executive Creative Director at Publicis, Delhi. He has previously worked with agencies such as 82point5, Ogilvy India, Rediffusion Y&R and Bates India.
Shadowing Josy Paul, Shruthi Subramaniam currently serves as Senior Creative Director at BBDO India. She has previously worked with agencies such as Famous Innovations, Metal Communications and McCann Worldgroup.
12 years since he started off in advertising, Sourabh Dubey is now a Creative Director at DDB Mudra, Mumbai. He began his journey as an intern at McCann, followed by stints at Scarecrow, JWT and Leo Burnett.
Shadowing Shagun Seda, Venkatesh Harinathan currently serves as Manager - Creative Marketing for the Film and Series Marketing Team at Netflix, India. He has over 10+ years of content, marketing and entrepreneurial experience.
Shadowing Laura Jordan Bambach, Angela Harding has, in her years as a creative, worked on everything from high fashion to false teeth, creating fully integrated campaigns for Hugo Boss, Lacoste, GSK, M&S, Pringles, and more.
Shadowing Gautam Reghunath, Binaifer Dulani is a Creative Director at Dentsu Webchutney, and part of the leadership at Indian Creative Women. She has shaped the narrative for brands such as Google India, Uber, Flipkart, Hotstar and more.
Shadowing Rajiv Rao, Harshad Salian currently serves as an ACD at Ogilvy Bangalore. He has been in this industry for the past 11 years and has worked with many major brands like Vodafone, Bingo, Magnum Ice Creams, Amazon, etc.
Shadowing Anusheela Saha, Moumita Pal is a lockdown 2020 mother, a pineapple-on-pizza hater, a die-hard biryani lover, and one of the youngest Creative Directors at FCB Ulka. She never wears a cookie-cutter attitude.
Shadowing Aditya Kanthy, Rahul Arcot prefers to be called ‘Arcot’, so that 7 other people in the room don’t look up, every time someone calls out his name. Arcot has spent over a decade in advertising, and a quarter of it, at DDB.
Shadowing Ashish Khazanchi, Ricardo Vaz says he is a copywriter, though the official title may have changed over the years to an ACD. The formats definitely have changed. But luckily for him, the process is still the same.
Shadowing Deepa Geethakrishnan, Shyam Nair has, for the last 10 years, wrangled with the same question over and over again, what is advertising? He’s tried to answer it on TV, in print, on digital and through technology.
Shadowing Tripti Lochan, Stuti Trikha is a passionate and quick-witted creative, who loves to innovate, as much as she loves to ideate. Her mantra - Observation is the difference between a good and a great creative.