Kristin Faucher is the Head of Brand Strategy and Advertising: Card, Travel, Commerce, JP Morgan Chase. Kristin has the privilege of working on beloved card brands Chase Freedom and Chase Sapphire, Chase Travel, and Chase Media Solutions. She has developed ground breaking campaigns for Chase Freedom with Kevin Hart, Chase Sapphire featuring Michael B. Jordan, and branded experience design for premium customer moments like F1, Miami Art Week and Sundance. 

Kristin joined Chase in 2018 to lead initiatives for digital innovation, and development of the in-airport experience and marketing for Sapphire Lounge by the Club now open in multiple locations, including the award-winning flagship location at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.  

Prior to joining the firm, Kristin spent her career at top-tier marketing and product agencies, most recently serving as Managing Director of Huge. While focused primarily on retail and e-commerce, she led campaigns and developed experiences cross industry for notable brands like Apple, Target, Gucci, Aveda, P&G, and Vanguard. 

Kristin graduated with a degrees in Marketing and Theater from Tulane University in New Orleans. She lives with her husband, Peter and two sons on the Upper West Side of New York City.

Over the last 25 years, Dave has worked in creatively-led companies in more than a dozen different countries. From holding companies and studios to tech companies and start-ups, also founding his own business, Special Group, in Australia.

He co-founded Google's Partner Innovation team, in 19 markets in Asia Pacific - a team of creatives, software engineers, producers and business partners helping to make Google technology accessible, useful and exciting for the 4.8 billion users across APAC.

Throughout his career he has been lucky enough to be recognised at the highest levels in creative industry award shows, is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and has, more recently, launched a host of innovation projects at I/O, The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Mobile World Congress, Berlin Open Air Tech Festival and the UNESCO world summit on language technology.

In his current role, he leads the creative agenda in  the 25+ companies in the Publicis Groupe stable across Australia and New Zealand, and sits on their regional board.

Juliana is a creative leader based in New York with roots in California, Canada and - if you join her in the way-way back machine - even India and Nepal. She’s currently heading up Creative at 72andSunny New York, after making a mark at storied New York agencies BBDO and Droga5.

Blending innovative thinking with meaningful storytelling, Juliana aims for work that moves people and business at the same time. A simple recipe that’s led to award winning work among a long list of brands that includes Starbucks, GE, AT&T, Prudential, Pinterest, Blue Apron, Chase, and the global platform “We Got You Baby,” for Huggies. Her work has earned recognition from creativity and effectiveness awards shows including Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, AICP, ADC, Effie, NY Festival, CICLOPE, and the Webby’s, among others.

Growing up as a consummate outsider was a boon. No better way to develop an almost bottomless empathy and a lens on the world that’s inherently open minded. Both of which are essentials in creativity that hits the mark.

Now, Manhattan is home with a furry roommate named Bean.

After 17 years of leading creative teams across Europe, Asia, and North America, I’m now Chief Creative Officer at LePub Milan, where I lead a multidisciplinary team working across global and local clients. I’m drawn to ideas with real momentum, ideas that behave less like campaigns and more like culture.

My time in the U.S. sharpened that belief. At McCann New York, I helped lead Mastercard North America and created “True Name,” the inclusive product for the transgender community that earned Mastercard its first Cannes Grand Prix and a D&AD Black Pencil. At VML New York, I contributed to Under Armour’s “Metasneaker,” the first wearable built for gamers across platforms.

Earlier at Energy BBDO Chicago, I led global work for SC Johnson and created “Prescribed to Death,” an opioid-awareness memorial later shown at the White House.

My path started in Europe and expanded through a decade in the U.S. and eight years in Singapore, where I earned the country’s first Innovation Lion and learned to see creativity as a tool for changing the world and culture. Since then, I’ve partnered with many Fortune 100 brands, from L’Oréal and Nestlé to IKEA, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Colgate, Mastercard, and Under Armour.

In my career I’ve collected honors such as multiple Cannes Lions, a D&AD Black Pencil, and jury seats at Cannes Lions, Clios and The One Show, but what keeps me going is simple: I believe the best ideas don’t just communicate; they change something.

Tanja is the Global Marketing Director at Essity and passionate about growing businesses by building brands with a purpose that are worthy being invited into culture. She believes in brand bravery, championing change and creative effectiveness. Her brands Libresse and Bodyform (#4 periodcare brand in the world) are part of the advertising archives of the MOMA (NYC), the Louvre (Paris) and have received 400+ awards, including Cannes Lion Grands Prix' and D&AD black pencil of the decade. In her current role, she disrupted the periodcare category with taboo-breaking campaigns #BloodNormal, Viva La Vulva, #WombStories #Periodsomnia, #NeverJustaPeriod which tackled toxic stereotypes around periods, vaginas and women’s bodies to create a new normal. Libresse/Bodyform are not only the fastest growing brand globally but also among the top5 most creative brands in the world (WARC). In the last 20 years, she’s lived across 3 continents, worked across a broad range of brands in regional and global roles always having innovation and sustainability but above all the consumer in mind.

Since joining VML in 2010, Allison has been a major force, producing some of the agency’s most innovative and awarded work — helping win over 81 Cannes Lions and being listed in Ad Age’s top 100 most creative and influential people (right alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson).

Allison has a passion for creating work that makes brands famous. As chief creative officer, she's helped Wendy's become one of the most famous brands on the internet and overtake Burger King as the No. 2 fast food chain. Allison led the 2023 "Keep It Smart" campaign for Smartwater featuring Zendaya, which landed the brand on Ad Age's "20 Brands Catching Gen Z's Attention Right Now." In 2021, after Apple announced it would start using its own chips, she led the Intel campaign that rage-baited the internet by partnering with the famous "Mac Guy,” Justin Long, to do an honest comparison of PCs versus Macs, which generated 2.7 billion earned impressions in just 12 hours. In 2018, she led the first all-female creative and production teams to create Bumble’s inaugural Super Bowl spot featuring tennis star Serena Williams. It was the No. 1 most engaged with Super Bowl commercial on social media during the game and landed at No. 2 on Oprah’s list of Best Super Bowl Commercials that year.

In 2017, she gave recording artist Jack White a gift that he claimed "was one of the best gifts he's ever received."

Allison loves advertising that doesn't feel like advertising. She's helped develop two patent-pending products — a scenic viewer that helps colorblind people see fall foliage and a wearable device that measures laughter and excitement. She's also helped produce live shows for four major recording artists, create three full-length films, develop a book that revolutionized voice banking, and create a special coding font for low-vision developers.

She balances her professional life with being a mom of two young boys and is an avid tennis player and equestrian.

Suzanne is the Founder and Co-CEO of All&, a company dedicated to propelling business through the power of brand. TBWA to Crispin Porter to McCann, Suzanne is known to drive strategic and creative transformation.  She’s a recognized industry talent advocate, powerful leader, and maker of some of the best work on the world across sectors, geographies and organizations. While leading the transformation of McCann Worldgroup as Global CSO, CPO, and President, her teams swept numerous “Agency of the Year” accolades from Cannes, the Effies, WARC, Clio, One Show and beyond.

Suzanne was named "2019 Chief Strategy Officer of the Year" and the She Runs It “Change-Maker” award. In addition to running her company, Suzanne is currently a Board Member for the Clios, and VYTAL, a Gen Z start-up; and serves as the non-exec chair of The Talent Business. She is a frequent keynote speaker and moderator, and awards Jury Chair.

With an overall industry experience of 14 years, spanning Middle East & North Africa, Asia-Pacific and India, Nayaab has been responsible for campaigns across brands like Mastercard, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, HSBC, Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Emirates, and more. She has served as a jury member across festivals and has received around 150 honors and accolades at Cannes, D&AD, One Show, and Loeries among others. Which helped her rank as one of the Top 15 Creative Directors globally in 2016.

Her overarching philosophy is to create beautifully simple and witty work, which helps businesses get fame and well, more business.
 

As Chief Creative Officer of BBH USA, Erica Roberts leads all creative strategy and execution for the agency’s clients including Samsung, Google, Mattel’s Barbie, Netflix, Martell U.S. and Brighthouse Financial; and is additionally on the BBH Global Board. A 15-year Publicis Groupe veteran, she has helped strengthen the Power of One model by bringing media, experience design, strategy, data and PR together with creative to deliver some of the most talked about and recognized work in the industry. Most recently, Erica was CCO, Publicis New York; and prior to that, she was Executive Creative Director for PSOne, the bespoke Publicis Groupe solution for The J.M. Smucker Company, where she created game changing work including “Jif vs. Gif,” which was cited as the “best peanut butter campaign of all time” by Campaign US, and the Lil Jif Project’s #JifRapChallenge, which was recognized by Adweek as one of the five “Best Ads of 2021.”

Roberts is a renowned creative leader within the industry, having been named to Adweek’s Creative 100 list as an Agency Leader to Watch, in addition to Campaign US’s 40 Over 40. She has led award-winning, business-transforming work across nearly every category, from CPG to QSR, financial services and retail. Erica lives in New York City with her husband and son. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, second only to Scrabble and Scrabble-related trash talk.

Gabriel Schmitt is a culture-shaping creative executive with 20 years of advertising agency leadership in New York, Chicago, and São Paulo. His teams have been recognized by the industry’s most prestigious award shows including 2 Emmys, The Cannes Lions (Titanium GP, Titanium, 6 Grand Prix and 26 Gold – a total of 82 Lions to date), The One Show (44 Gold Pencils), D&AD (5 Yellow), Effies (1 Grand, 9 Gold), and many more.

Overseen by Gabriel, Grey launched AB InBev's biggest global campaign ever for Corona Cero, as the 1st beer brand to be a Worldwide Olympic partner, with the multi-faceted ‘For Every Golden Moment’ campaign. Reaching over 4.1B impressions, the speed of turnaround took the campaign beyond digital memes into OOH billboards creating an indelible link between the brand and this beautiful sporting feat.

Appointed Global Chief Creative Officer at Grey in March 2023, his leadership continues to drive Famously Effective work and substantial business performance for blue-chip clients including Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company, Haleon, Volvo, LG Electronics, Red Bull, and Sky Bet.

Before joining Grey, Gabriel served as Co-Chief Creative Officer of FCB NY, where he led the agency's creative resurgence on the heels of campaigns including "Whopper Detour," "Michelob Ultra Courtside," "Contract for Change," "McEnroe vs McEnroe," "Dreamcaster," helping FCB earn Cannes' NA Network of the Year accolades for five consecutive years.

Gabriel is proudly left-handed, and currently living in New York City with his wife Ana and Nico, their little baby with the cutest laughter they’ve ever seen.

Dörte studied Visual Communications and started her career as an Art Director before switching to Copywriting.

After working in several agencies, she joined Jung von Matt, becoming a Creative Director after only three years.

2000, she founded her own company MARIA.

Dörte returned 2002 to Jung von Matt to set the agency JvM/Spree in Berlin with two partners, becoming a shareholder. After that, she launched the first international branch, JvM/9 and several other companies (JvM/Pulse, JvM/Fleet, JvM/Elbe, JvM/SAGA and JvM Hamburg). She has worked for all big clients including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Sixt, Zalando, Netto, Edeka, BVG, OTTO, Douglas, WWF, Beiersdorf, DocMorris, and many more. In 2024, she was appointed Non-executive Chairwoman of Jung von Matt, also a first in the history of the agency.

With over 600 awards, including several Grand Prixs, Dörte is one of the most awarded German creatives, first female President of Germany’s Art Directors Club and an Advisory Board Member of the D&AD and New York Festival.

She was awarded Germany’s Agency Head of the Year 2018, served 2019 besides other juries as Chairwoman and Jury President of the ADC*E Festival.

Dörte is extremely passionate about her work. She loves to travel and to meet people, more than that, though, her husband Tobias Ahrens, their son Bela, and Tyson - the family dog.

Nearly 30 years working in creatively lead advertising agencies. Founder of 2 creative boutiques, as well as creative leadership roles at a UK and global level. Most recently Global CCO and Chairwoman at Saatchi and Saatchi before joining Edelman earlier this year. Experience across all sectors including Automotive, FMCG, Finance, Telecoms and Retail on Brands like Toyota, P&G, Visa,Telekom, Walmart, HSBC and Nivea. Have been president of many juries at Cannes ,most recently Film President ’25,and D&AD, as well as being the president of D&AD in 2020.

Passionate About.
Creativity being the superpower of the future, and it’s ability to unlock business problems. Being a creative Partner for clients. Collaborating with multi-disciplinary and diverse talent.

Other.
A football fan [Liverpool ]. An Art fan . A keen renovator of houses. Lives in Battersea with Husband David ,son Otto and Dino the Irish Terrier.

Kwame is a Creative executive and entrepreneur with a passion for storytelling, design, innovation and impact. He is Co-Founder at Kin, a creative company designed to advance social change through culture for brands including Delta Air Lines, Mailchimp, Chobani and Ben & Jerry's.

Kwame currently serves as the D&AD President for 2024 / 2025.

His prior agency experience includes tenure at Sid Lee, Anomaly, Saatchi & Saatchi, TBWA\Media Arts Lab and Y&RVML on global brands including Procter & Gamble, Uniqlo, Apple, Nike, Facebook, Spotify, Adidas, Stella Artois, Captain Morgan, American Express, General Mills, Renaissance Hotels and Toyota.

He has brand side experience at Chobani where he was responsible for building and leading an in-house creative discipline that generated demand and grew the brand through design, advertising, digital innovation, partnerships and experiential.