Juries

The ARF hand selects top researchers, marketers, creatives and consumer insights experts to serve on the Category Jury and prestigious Grand Ogilvy Award Jury.

Scoring is completed in three main rounds — a preliminary round of scoring by the Category Jury to determine the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners, followed by two Grand Jury meetings to select the Grand Ogilvy Award Winner.

2025 Grand Jury

Kerry Benson
Kantar
Co-Chair

Rachel Pool
Ogilvy
Co-Chair

Eric Beane
VML

Samantha Cescau
Leo Burnett

Tina DeSarno MarketCast

Lindsay Franke
Ipsos NA

Colleen Funkey
Grey Zebra

Ed Gunn
Mischief

Helen Lin
Publicis

Scott McDonald, Ph.D.
ARF

Abby Mehta
Bank of America

Ariane Pol
Google

Maria Vallis
Hypothesis

Colleen Funkey
Grey Zebra

Ed Gunn
Mischief

Alissa Coronna
Leo Burnett

Nihan Brunton
Meta

Landi Day
FCB

Piper Dolan
Team Lewis

Cecile Nathan-Tilloy
EdelmanDXI

Justin Evans
Samsung Ads

Esteban Ribero
TikTok

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2025 CATEGORY JURY

Tracy Adams, Ph.D.
ARF

Alex Ain
Hawk Partners

Alexa Blechman
A&E Networks

Sophia Cherian
Optum

Margo Chorazy
Spotify

Kelcey Curtis
VML

Eldaa Daily
Dynata

Thiago da Silva
KINESSO

Anna Estlund
Pernod Ricard

Moffat Frazier
Horizon Media

Deepak Garg
ARF

Kat Gates
Google

Talley Hultgren
Chemistry

Renuka Iyer
Microsoft

Mandy Jelinek
Best Buy

Tim Kibbey
Kantar

Bertha Lee
IW Group

Michael Lichter
Dotdash Meredith

Jay Mattlin
ARF

Vita Molis
NAMER, Linkedin

Keith Mounsey iHeartMedia

Carolyn Murphy
Springboards.ai

Annemarie Norris
Leo Burnett

Mi hui Pak
ARF

Cyndi Pierre
Estée Lauder NA

Jillian Rice
Ipsos

David Ryan
Instapanel

Reggie Shah
Audacy

Brandon Shockley
Vanguard Group

Dave Smith
Ipsos

Earl Taylor
MSI

Takeshi Tawarada
Snap

Liz Wessen
Marketcast

Uri Weg
Pinterest

Tim Woo
RPA

Monica Wood
Herbalife

Samantha Zhang
ARF

Samantha Zhang
ARF

Hillary Haley, Ph.D.
RPA

Kevin Hack
ESPN

Priya Karnik Mone
Boehringer Ingelheim

Amber Lewis
Bristol Myer Squibb

Arica McKinnon
Nielsen

Angie Liang
Robinhood

Karen Montecuollo
A+E Networks

Rose Murphy
General Motors

Japna Kaur
605

Adam Khan
Capital One

Siani Kiyonaga
Toyota Motor Corporation

Michael Lancor
P&G

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Jennifer Lee
Herbalife

Anastasia Leng
CreativeX

Charolette Lipman
DirectTV

Faon Mahunik
Havas Media NA

Ariane Pol
Google

Tomomi Mimura
Unilever

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John Nuding
Publicis Media

Marjorie Reedy
Merck & Co

Kyle Papanikolas McDonald’s

Nikkia Reveillac
Netflix

Ken Roberts
Forethought Research

William Roberts-Foster
NBCUniversal

Cat Navarro-Harkin
Leo Burnett Chicago

Julia Oswald
Burger King

Mi hui Pak
ARF

Carrie Patterson Reed

Jennifer Pelino
Sports Innovation Lab

Adriana Waterston
Horowitz Associates

Karan Virani
Yelp

Nicole Whitlow
Whirlpool

Jaclyn Williams
TikTok

Lisa Zielinski
Ipsos

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