2022 Jury

Advertising
Advertising Co-Chairs

Alexis Bronstorph
Chief Creative Officer
No Fixed Address inc.

Alexis is co-Chief Creative Officer at TAXI, but started her career in advertising at 9 years old, when she did voiceover work for a radio commercial. She was hooked immediately. Since then, Alexis has worked on numerous international award-winning campaigns, creating beautiful, disruptive, and effective work for world class brands across all disciplines. Alexis’ approach to problem solving is rooted in strategy and innovation, aiming to create work that gets noticed, talked about, and shared on your favorite social media platform (take your pick). Most recently, Alexis was named to Adweek’s Creative 100 list for 2021.

Zak Mroueh
Chief Creative Officer & Founder
Zulu Alpha Kilo

During his career, Zak has chaired the Marketing Awards a record three times in three different decades. He has also sat on the jury multiple times, losing many hair follicles along the way. Over the past 13 years, he’s been busy building Zulu Alpha Kilo into a globally awarded 130-person independent. Headquartered in Toronto, his eponymous shop (ZAK = Zulu Alpha Kilo in the NATO phonetic alphabet) was recognized as strategy’s design agency of the year in 2018. Zulu has been awarded strategy Agency of the Year medals in equal measure for its digital and advertising work, winning Silver AOY in 2021. In 2016, Zulu garnered international headlines when it won Ad Age’s Small Agency of the Year top honours, the first time a non-U.S. shop had ever won. A year later, Zulu repeated as Ad Age’s International Small Agency of the Year and was recognized again this past year. In 2018, Zak was featured as one of the Top 100 Innovators in Forbes magazine. Prior to founding Zulu, he was a partner and CCO of Taxi Canada and helped lead the agency to a record four strategy agency of the year titles in row. Zak has judged every major awards show numerous times, including Cannes, One Show and D&AD. As Marketing celebrates its 100th year, he’s looking forward to once again co-chairing and celebrating the best work in Canada. In fact, he’s our residential archivist and still has every Marketing awards annual dating back to 1987.

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Public Service Advertising
Public Service Advertising Co-Chairs

Jenny Glover
Executive Creative Director
Juniper Park\TBWA

In 1996 Jenny completed her law degree and to the delight of her parents, got a job as a lowly paid copywriter.

After spending 20 years working in South Africa she moved to Toronto and is currently peddling her particular brand of darkness as Executive Creative Director at Juniper Park\TBWA.

Jenny cofounded Open Chair, the South African industry gender equity initiative and has presented festival master classes on her award-winning Mercedes-Benz campaigns.

She has won golds across all the major international award shows, including nabbing a coveted Grand Prix. She has also been fortunate enough to act as both jury president and judge on numerous occasions at both local and international festivals.

Her finest achievements are daughters, Grace (9) and Ivy (7), who help her maintain her incredibly chic under-eye rings.

Krista Webster
President & CEO
Veritas Communications

Krista Webster is the President & CEO of Veritas Communications and Vice-Chair of a cluster of Stagwell Global (formerly known as MDC Partners) agencies spanning from advertising, shopper marketing to digital and PR. 

Collectively, Krista brings more than 20 years of global agency public relations, social media, and influencer marketing experience, working with blue-chip clients in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. A self-professed change agent, Webster is always looking for ways to push the envelope creatively and strategically, consistently striving to innovate ahead of the curve. In early 2019, Webster expanded the Veritas family to include performance-driven influencer co-creation and digital content hub, Meat & Produce (M&P), to strategically bring influencers more fully to the table and fill a digital and e-comms gap she identified in the market. 

Credited with managing 50+ million in client portfolios on both sides of the North American border by her late twenties with particular expertise in consumer marketing and pharma, Webster attributes her accelerated success to a strong focus on the integration of PR, digital advocacy, and influencer marketing levers with other below and above the line channels.   She believes wholeheartedly that the best ideas are media agnostic born from a unifying insight. The channels you employ – earned, owned, or paid – are secondary to the power of an idea that truly transcends and breaks through.

Webster’s awards and accolades are a testament to her success, hard work and dedication. In addition to her numerous accomplishments, Webster has been named as one of PR Week’s Top 40 Under 40 & Top Women In PR, PRovoke’s Innovator 25 in 2017, and Adweek Brand Star in 2018.  In 2021, she was selected as a PR jury at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

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Craft
Craft Co-Chairs

Tyson Kuteyi
Producer, Mixer, Songwriter
Grayson Music Group

Tyson Kuteyi is a quattro-threat Producer, Engineer, Voice Director and Composer at Grayson Music, one of Toronto's leading music and sound studios. Splitting his time between both Nashville and Toronto, Tyson has directed and composed on award-winning projects such as Rowan's Law, CAMH, Ford Canada, DoorDash and more of note.

With the help of his infectious personality, talent and 20+ years experience and expertise under his belt, Tyson has built an impressive body of work with recording artists across Canada and the US and with a multitude of brands.  

Since joining Grayson in 2018, his passion for music, creative problem solving and love for people has made Tyson a key addition to Grayson. Tyson continues to push boundaries in music and sound both locally and south of the border.

Steve Mykolyn
Partner
Castor Design

Living the dream.

Steve Mykolyn is the former CCO of TAXI, an advertising agency of some note. Currently, Steve is a partner in Castor, a Canadian design firm. You can buy their stuff here: castordesign.ca.

Steve also has a passion for books and film, especially when it comes to the craft involved. In 1997, he wrote and directed 'El Dia La Noche Y Los Muertos', an award-winning documentary about Mexico's Day of the Dead festival. He finally finished that project 30 years later with 'Songs for a Funeral', a limited edition collaboration in 2018. He's been called a world-class procrastinator, among other things.

In 2008, he represented Canada as co-curator of the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for Architecture.

He is a past board member of both The One Show and the D&AD. He has some awards. And for some unexplained reason, he continues to host the Agency of the Year Awards, most recently in 2021.

Now he lives in the middle of nowhere with an advertising legend and a lifetime of accumulated crap.

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Design
Design Co-Chairs

Mo Bofill
Partner, Creative Director, Design
One Twenty Three West

Mo is a Partner and Creative Director at 123w – one of Canada’s leading agencies based out of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. Born and raised in the Philippines, and growing up in Toronto, she brings a diverse point of view that mixes her passion for design, creativity and business strategy to Canadian design and advertising.

She believes in building brands through a human experience: How we can bring humanity in to how we work together, how we approach work, and how we communicate as brands. How we can design something that has a direct impact on our everyday experience. How we use creativity to not only build business, but to use creativity to appeal to the best in us all.

Outside of driving business growth for her clients, her work has also been awarded and recognized internationally by D&AD, How Design Awards, Cannes Lions, Luerzer’s Archive, Communication Arts, The Advertising Design Club of Canada, Applied Arts, Marketing Magazine, among others.

With over a decade of experience, Mo has helped transform some of Canada’s most iconic brands from the ground up: Bell, President’s Choice, Loblaws, Home Hardware, Winners, Shoppers, and Koodo to name a few. She has also helped transform global brands like KFC, Coca-Cola, Corona, Audi, Subaru, Mitsubishi and helped them become relevant brands to Canadians.

A strong believer in mentorship, she mentors at the Miami Ad School Toronto, The Remix Project and theRGD (Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario). Most recently she also joined the Board of Directors of the ADCCs (Advertising & Design Club of Canada).

She is a relentless optimist. She cares deeply about her work and the people she surrounds herself with.

Claire Dawson
Co-Founder, Creative Director
Underline Studio

Claire Dawson is Creative Director and Co-Founder of Underline Studio. Claire’s work has been widely published and honoured with awards from the most distinguished national and international competitions, among them D&AD, the New York Type Directors Club, the One Show, the Advertising & Design Club of Canada, the New York Society of Publication Designers, the National Magazine Awards, Graphis and Communication Arts. She has given numerous lectures on design topics, curated panels for Canada’s largest design conference, Design Thinkers and served as a judge for many North American creative awards competitions. She is currently President of the Board of the Advertising and Design Club of Canada.

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Multicultural
Multicultural Co-Chairs

Gavin Barrett
Founding Partner & Chief Creative Officer
Barrett and Welsh

Owner, Founding Partner, Chief Creative Officer of award-winning Toronto branding and advertising agency, and B Corp, Barrett and Welsh. 
Co-founder of People of Colour in Advertising and Marketing (POCAM) and the Multicultural Marketing Alliance of Canada. 

Jury chair, Marketing’s inaugural multicultural awards. Provider of colour at Strategy, Applied Arts and many other fine awards juries.
 
Has created campaigns for audiences in Canada, India, Greater China, SE Asia, Korea, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, USA and the UK.

His first jobs: door-to-door market researcher, poet, pharmaceutical sales manager (not a euphemism) and musical production manager. None of them paid well so he went on to a career as an entrepreneur, writer, designer, art director and creative director.

In pursuit of big ideas he has: nibbled on pigs' ears (not on a live pig at the time); gone elephant-back in the Thai jungle (no elephants were hurt); gambled in a Macau casino (was utterly destroyed).

He has created advertising for: mums, businesswomen, unclejis and auntyjis, male tailors of the Muslim faith, tea drinkers, Scotch drinkers, men who smoke Virginia Slims, people trapped in planes, commuters, voters-on-fences, car mechanics and wedding planners.

His work has been brought to life on screen and page by Deepa Mehta, David Carson, Bruno Barbey and Louis Ng.

His ads: have run in 35 countries, helped elect prime ministers, attracted the ire of the lawyers for Dolly the cloned sheep, drawn an angry crowd in Lagos, are studied in business texts in Canada and India and were criticized by a fictional character in a John Irving novel.

His poems: can be found in Understan (Mawenzi House 2020), his new book, in Penguin’s anthology of 14 contemporary Indian poets, Reasons for Belonging and many other fine literary journals.

In his journeys he has collected: a BA (econ.), an MA (eng. lit), and 200+ awards for his work, and a fair bit of grey in his hair. 

He cannot: sing.

Loretta Lam
Chief Strategist
Focus Communications Inc.

Loretta Lam is founder and Chief Strategist of Focus Communications Inc. www.focuscomms.com

Established in 1994, the award-winning agency offers strategic counsel and marketing communication services, 360 multicultural marketing, and diversity and cultural training to client corporations in North America and Asia. 

Loretta is a frequent speaker and article contributor on 360 multicultural marketing, brand communications, and diversity and inclusion strategies. With over two decades of professional experience in marketing communications, she has formerly held management and consultant positions at leading multinational firms Hill & Knowlton Canada and Ogilvy Asia.

Some of her award-winning client projects include: Integrated multicultural marketing and branding for Clover Leaf, Alzheimer Society and TD Bank Group, and establishing the PepsiCo North American Asian Advisory Council; conducting CEO media tours for Sun Life and General Motors; branding and national launch for ORBIS and Bell; media and B2B relations programs for Ernst & Young Management Consultants in Canada and the U.S.A.

In 1995, when she was president of Chinese Canadian Advertising Marketing Media Association, she instigated a series of initiatives to convince the mainstream industry associations, media and corporate marketers about the burgeoning potential of diversity marketing, which led to the emergence of the annual multicultural marketing report and award events.

Loretta’s affiliations include: Board Governor of York University; Diversity & Inclusion Advisor for the International Association of Business Communicators and Canadian Marketing Association; Advisor, TRIEC Professional Immigrant Networks; Senior Advisor, North American Association of Asian Professionals; Founding Director and Past President of Multicultural Marketing Alliance of Canada.

Loretta has been invited to numerous industry awards judge panels, including the Blue Ribbon Judge Panel of the IABC global Gold Quill Communications Awards, and speaking at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, CIBC World Markets’ Conference on Retail Marketing, and Marketing Magazine’s Multicultural Conference.

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