CLIO Awards Announces Complete Juries for Television/Cinema/Digital, Design, and Radio Categories for the 50th Anniversary

CLIO Awards Announces Complete Juries for Television/Cinema/Digital, Design, and Radio Categories for the 50th Anniversary

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NEW YORK, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The CLIO Awards, one of the world's most recognized international advertising and design competitions honoring creative excellence and innovation in the industry, today announced the complete juries for the Television/Cinema/Digital, Design, and Radio categories. All awards will be presented during the 50th Anniversary CLIO Awards Festival at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, May 12 - 14, 2009.

"The creative industry has long acknowledged that the CLIO Awards provide one of the best-judged advertising competitions in the world," said Wayne Youkhana, director of the CLIO Awards. "We achieve this goal year after year by appointing top creative leaders who all share a profound understanding of the rapidly-evolving dynamics of each medium within their respective fields, and who continue to inspire change, celebrate ideas and challenge others to create higher levels of work."

The 2009 CLIO Awards Television/Cinema/Digital Jury is as follows:
-- Mark Tutssel (Executive Chairman), Worldwide Chief Creative Officer,
Leo Burnett Worldwide, Chicago
-- Sophie Anduze, Creative Director, BETC Euro RSCG, Paris
-- Fernando Bellotti, President, Leo Burnett Argentina, Buenos Aires
-- Eugene Cheong, Creative President, Ogilvy Singapore
-- Ravi Deshpande, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, Contract
Advertising, Mumbai
-- Yuya Furukawa, Executive Creative Director, Dentsu Inc., Tokyo
-- Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer, DDB Germany, Berlin
-- Janet Kestin, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy Toronto
-- Joyce King-Thomas, Executive Vice President/Chief Creative Officer,
McCann Erickson New York
-- Richard Maddocks, Executive Creative Director, Clemenger BBDO, Sydney
-- Paul Shearer, Executive Creative Director, Arnold London
-- Paul Silburn, Creative Partner, Saatchi & Saatchi, London
-- Jureeporn Thaidumrong, Founder and Creative Chairwoman, Jeh United,
Bangkok
-- Sean Thompson, Creative Director, 180 Amsterdam
-- Sergio Valente, President/Chief Executive Officer, DDB Brazil, Sao
Paulo

The 2009 CLIO Awards Design Jury is as follows:
-- Stefan Sagmeister (Executive Chairman), President, Sagmeister, Inc.,
New York
-- Moira Cullen, Senior Director Global Design, The Hershey Company,
Hershey, PA
-- Harry Pearce, Partner, Pentagram Design Limited, London
-- Jan Wilker, Co-founder/Designer, karlssonwilker, New York
-- Stanley Wong, Creative Director, 84000 Communications, Hong Kong

The 2009 CLIO Awards Radio Jury is as follows:
-- Warren Brown (Executive Chairman), Executive Creative Director, BMF,
Sydney
-- Mike Barnwell, Executive Creative Director, Grey, Johannesburg
-- Tim Craig, Managing Director, Radioville, London
-- Sal DeVito, Executive Creative Director, DeVito Verdi, New York
-- Dave Ferrer, Executive Creative Director, JWT, Manila
-- Oliver Handlos, Creative Director, Scholz & Friends, Berlin
-- Tony Hertz, President/Creative Director, Hertz:Radio, London
-- Christina Knight, Creative Director, OgilvyOne, Stockholm
-- Senthil Kumar, Executive Creative Director, JWT India, Chennai
-- Steve McKenzie, Executive Creative Director, Publicis Mojo, Auckland
-- Terry O'Reilly, Writer/Director, Pirate, Toronto
-- Chuck Rachford, Vice President/Creative Director, DDB Chicago
-- Paul Reardon, Senior Copywriter, ClemengerBBDO, Melbourne
-- Rodrigo Ruiz, Creative Director, Y&R Argentina, Buenos Aires

The final entry submission deadline for the Strategic Communications/Public Relations category for all work appearing between January 1, 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 is Friday, April 10.

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About The CLIO Awards

The CLIO Awards is one of the world's most recognized awards competition for advertising, design and interactive. Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, CLIO's iconic statute is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry's creative accomplishments. The CLIO Awards are produced by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company.

About The Nielsen Company

The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek). The privately held company is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA. For more information, please visit www.nielsen.com.

CLIO Awards Media Contact:

Lauren Bobrowich, Coburn Communication
212.536.9838
Lauren.Bobrowich@coburnww.com

Source: The Nielsen Company

CONTACT: Lauren Bobrowich of Coburn Communication, +1-212-536-9838, or
Lauren.Bobrowich@coburnww.com

Web Site: http://www.clio50.com/
http://www.clioawards.com/
http://www.nielsen.com/

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