Jury members

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Category:
Fashion

CS Igor Todorovic

Editor-in-chief of Fashion TV SEE (South East Europe) and creative director of Pink Media Group, Igor is responsible for developing and executing the broadcast grids for FTV, as well as building the Pink Media Group brand in his markets. He began his career in fashion design, which he studied in Rome, and was fashion editor for Cosmopolitan magazine. In 2007 he was awarded the Pantene Beauty Award for the best fashion journalist in Serbia. Today, Igor continues to pursue his passion through his Belgrade atelier, where he designs custom-made shoes and dresses.



US Jeff Perkins

Jeff Perkins leads the GM Advanced Design Studio in the U.K. He manages a small team of designers working on future concept cars, as well as on developing overall design strategy. Previously, Jeff was the Design Director for North American interior design. He calls car interiors "the next battleground in designing cars."


By his own admission, Jeff is even more into bicycling than cars.  He loves the freedom and efficiency bicycles offer and admits to designing bicycle prototypes while pursuing car design in school. Despite that passion for bicycles, Jeff said, "I love working on cars. I love the passion around cars. It expresses who you are. Cars keep me going – I couldn't work on anything else." He attended Detroit's Center for Creative Studies, where he majored in Industrial Design.


 



Category:
Photography

DE Kerstin Zu Pan

From her Berlin studio, Kerstin has made a name for herself in the competitive world of photography through vibrant, complex and sometimes humorous images in fine art, fashion, portraits and advertising. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Cosmopolitan, and her clients have ranged from Maybelline to Samsung. Clayton Maxwell in photography magazine Eyemazing called her work “expressive, ebullient and strange”. She originally studied design and paints in her free time.


 



DE Marc Kempe

Marc Kempe has been Director of Communications at Chevrolet Europe since March 2009. He is responsible for all of Chevrolet Communications activities and strategies across Europe. Before assuming his current position, he held various Communications positions within the General Motors organization in Germany and Switzerland and, most recently worked as Director of Communications for GM Central and Eastern Europe based in Hungary. Marc is a passionate amateur actor and long-distance runner.


 



Category:
Video

FR Samuel Prat

Samuel Prat is the official face of the annual Off-Courts Festival, and enjoys working with artists and filmmakers from around the world. The well-regarded short film festival takes place in Trouville-sur-mer (France) during the famed Deauville American Film Festival, which is held in the neighboring town.



Category:
Music

DE Sven Schäferkord

Senior Director Brand Partnership G/S/A, and Managing Director OCEAN artist&brand GmbH, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH, Sven has been working in the entertainment industry for ten years. He began with Bertelsmann Music Group, moving from video production into business development and brand partnership. His current role focuses on exploring creative opportunities between leading consumer, gaming and entertainment brands and music. Sven enjoys working with the two distinct worlds of entertainment and business – and building on the momentum of the rapidly-changing music industry.



IT Tiberio Timperi

Acclaimed broadcast journalist, television presenter, actor and author, Tiberio Timperi is a recognized face of the Italian entertainment industry. He began his career in radio, becoming the voice of “Hit Parade”’ before moving onto much-anticipated TV and radio programs on Rai 1 and Rai 2. Apart from holding positions at Mediaset, Tg4 and Studio Aperto, he has acted in “Le faremo tanto male” (1998), the short movie “Toilette” (1999) and TV series “Ricominciare” (2000), “Amiche” (2004), “Incantesimo” (2005) and in one episode of “La Squadra”. In 2004, he wrote “Ci avete fatto caso?” and co-authored “Amarsi sempre! Sposarsi?”  with lawyer Maria Pia Sabatini in 2008. 



US Wayne Brannon

Wayne D. Brannon has been the head of Chevrolet Europe since January 2006. In his capacity as President and Managing Director of Chevrolet Europe, he leads a pan-European organization responsible for marketing a range of small to medium-sized Chevrolet passenger cars. Prior to this appointment, Brannon was responsible for Sales & Marketing at GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East. Brannon began his career with GM at the Cadillac Motor Car Division in 1973 while he was a co-op student attending General Motors Institute.


Brannon previously served as Vice President of General Motors Overseas Distribution Corporation, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Corporate Council on Africa, and Board Director of the African Business Roundtable.

 



Category:
Visual arts

GB Will Hudson

Will Hudson is founder and director of It's Nice That, a London based studio focused on championing creativity. Will has been responsible for curating online content, co-editing printed publications and events, and art directing commercial work for brands of all sizes. It's Nice That launched in Will's final year of study at the University of Brighton, where he graduated in 2007 with a degree in Graphic Design. It's Nice That was nominated for Designs of the Year in 2010. Will also received the Adobe Future Creative Bursary from D&AD in 2009. This year Will was selected as one of the Say100 Voices that Matter in 2011.



2011 National Jury Toggle

Photography
Bernhard Buchegger
Austria

Visual arts
Christian Gschier
Austria

Fashion
Christine Reiler
Austria

Music
Doris Springenfels
Austria

Music
Elisabeth Wildling
Austria

Music
Georg Mittermayr
Austria

Music
Hubert Sielecki
Austria

Visual arts
Iris Leisenz
Austria

Visual arts
Jörg Vogeltanz
Austria

Fashion
Liane Seitz
Austria

Fashion
Melanie Winkler
Austria

Visual arts
Norbert Swoboda
Austria

Photography
Peter Pozdnik
Austria

Photography
Rainer Zendron
Austria

Photography
Thomas Smetana
Austria

Fashion
Wally Salner
Austria


Alex Lecler
Belgium


Guy Loubry
Belgium


Bojidar Ionov
Bulgaria


Peter Dobrev
Bulgaria


Ana Lendvaj
Croatia


Mara Bratoš
Croatia


Mare Milin
Croatia


Zoran Mrvoš
Croatia


Demos Natar
Cyprus


Karel Beneš
Czech Republic


Lubica Pavlovicova
Czech Republic


Peter Paliatka
Czech Republic


Radek Laube
Czech Republic


Robert Vano
Czech Republic


Roman Klco
Czech Republic


Sona Karbusicka
Czech Republic


Tomas Vrabec
Czech Republic


Zbysek Pechrt
Czech Republic


Mike Kuhlmey
Germany


Ivo Briedis
Latvia


Adina Buzatu
Romania


Ailin Ibraim
Romania


Leonard Nica
Romania


Alenka Birk
Slovenia


Aleš Čakš
Slovenia


Aljoša Bagola
Slovenia

Fashion
Jelena Proković
Slovenia


Nada Matičič
Slovenia


Nina Jagodic
Slovenia


Jonas Ahnve
Sweden


Alain Vogeli
Switzerland


Alain Vogeli
Switzerland


Danielle Wannaz
Switzerland


Kathy Arpin
Switzerland


Lillo Giunta
Switzerland


Luc Debraine
Switzerland


David Wilson
United Kingdom


Fred Butler
United Kingdom


Ian Cook
United Kingdom


Jane Stockdale
United Kingdom

Visual arts
Will Hudson
United Kingdom

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Category:
Visual arts

CH Alain Menu

The Swiss born racing driver Alain Menu was one of the most successful touring car drivers of the 1990s, winning the prestigious British Touring Car Championship twice (the only driver during the series' 1991-2000 Super Touring era to do so). He currently races for Chevrolet in the World Touring Car Championship. If he is not driving he likes skiing.



GB Jeff Perkins

Jeff Perkins leads the GM Advanced Design Studio in the U.K. He leads a small team of designers working on future concept cars as well as on developing overall design strategy. Previously, Jeff was the Design Director for North American interior design. He calls car interiors "the next battleground in designing cars."

By his own admission, Jeff is even more into bicycling than cars. He loves the freedom and efficiency bicycles offer and admits to designing bicycle prototypes while pursuing car design in school.

Despite that passion for bicycles, Jeff said, "I love working on cars. I love the passion around cars. It expresses who you are. Cars keep me going – I couldn't work on anything else." He attended Detroit's Center for Creative Studies, where he majored in Industrial Design.



Category:
Music

DE Leander Bauer

Leander Bauer grew up surrounded by music, from an early stage in his life, through his family and music teachers at school.

In 2009, he scooped up the first prize in Music in the YCC competition, beating off many contenders for the coveted position in the European final. He is the first student to win the contest and now take part as a jury member.

He has one year of studies left in music production at the University of Popular Music Baden-Württemberg (Popakademie). Leander already has an impressive list of people he has worked with, including coveted artists such as: Chris Barron – Spin Doctors, Charlie Grant, Mel C and Simply Red. He has also composed music for several prestigious companies such as Deutsche Post, Danone and Coca-Cola. His latest album release made it to number 7 in the German album charts.



Category:
Fashion

GB Leanne Aspinall

As an Online Marketing Executive, Leanne is a key person for a wide variety of activities at Lipsy, a high street fashion label distributed across Europe and in the U.S with newly opened stores in New York and L.A.

She has been heavily involved in Lipsy's first celebrity clothing line, the Pixie Lott Collection. Leanne was an integral part of the design meetings as well as the photo shoots with Pixie Lott and the Lipsy design team. She works closely alongside the design & PR team to deliver the right brand messaging to Lipsy's fashion conscious customer base.

Before joining Lipsy, she worked for Agent Provocateur and for the U.K.'s largest fragrance and beauty distributor, Per Scent, where Leanne worked on luxury brands such as Christian Dior, Chanel & Dolce & Gabbana. Throughout her career in fashion, she has worked in conjunction with magazine, catwalk and celebrity fashion stylists assisting and providing further input on several photo shoots.



GB Marc Kempe

Marc Kempe has been Director of Communications at Chevrolet Europe since March 2009. He is responsible for all of Chevrolet Communications activities and strategies across Europe. Before assuming his current position, he held various Communications positions within the General Motors organization in Germany and Switzerland and, most recently worked as Director of Communications for GM Central and Eastern Europe based in Hungary. Marc is a passionate amateur actor and long-distance runner.



Category:
Visual arts

IT Marcello Lotti

Marcello Lotti began his career as a successful motor sport driver before becoming a team manager and participating in very famous racing tour such as the FIA Touring Car World Cup or the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2000, he became a promoter and now works for the FIA World Touring Car Championship.



Category:
Photography

GR Nicos Markompotsaris

Nicos Markompotsaris is a freelance photographer currently focusing on automotive, yacht and travel shoots. He works for well-known publications such as Car Magazine.

Nicos is originally Greek, but was brought up in Germany where he started to study photography. He then moved back to Greece to continue his studies further in this field and is now based in Athens.

After his studies Nicos started off as a fashion, portrait and advertising photographer for several lifestyle magazines, such as Fit for Fun. He has an immense passion for his work and, having worked with various magazines on international shoots, he has acquired vast expertise, experience and knowledge in photography.



Category:
Video

GB Pasa Mustafa

Pasa Mustafa heads up a team responsible for developing and producing web originals and Digital IP for the prestigious Endemol Productions - today represented in 26 countries. For nearly eight years, he has been running digital across the biggest TV brands, all the way to developing, funding and producing successful and award winning web originals, such as the global reality show The Gap Year and International hit drama Cell and Kirill for MSN. Most recently, Pasa has been involved in producing social games and iPhone applications.



SI Vesna Milek

Vesna Milek is a columnist, publicist and one of the most renowned journalists in Slovenia. She has many a feather in her cap, having written for some of the biggest papers in the country and is famed for her extended interviews with various international actors and artists, mostly from the film and music world, for a prestigious Saturday supplement of DELO, Slovenia's most widely read newspaper.

She has also written two novels; Kalipso (2001) and If (2005), both Slovenian bestsellers.

In 12 years, she has published more than 400 exclusive interviews.

Milek recently published a book of her best interviews; amongst her interviewees are Paulo Coelho, Steve Buscemi, Philippe Starck and Damien Hirst just to name a few...



Category:
Fashion

GB Vikki Barker

Vikki Barker graduated from Kingston University in 2003, with a degree in Fashion Design.

She previously lived and worked in Milan for Italian fashion design house and manufacturer Moschino working on the Cheap and Chic range. Vikki then moved on to the youth market and started working for the Tammy Girl clothing line.

Vikki has been at Lipsy for five years, where she is now a senior designer and in charge of designing all evening woven dresses and Lipsy's premium VIP range.



CH Wayne D. Brannon

Wayne D. Brannon has been the head of Chevrolet Europe since January 2006. In his capacity as President and Managing Director of Chevrolet Europe, he leads a pan-European organization responsible for marketing a range of small to medium-sized Chevrolet passenger cars. Prior to this appointment, Brannon was responsible for Sales & Marketing at GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East.

Brannon began his career with GM at the Cadillac Motor Car Division in 1973 while he was a co-op student attending General Motors Institute.

Brannon previously served as Vice President of General Motors Overseas Distribution Corporation, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Corporate Council on Africa, and Board Director of the African Business Roundtable.



Category:
Visual arts

DE Wolfgang Buchwieser

In 2005, Wolfgang Buchwieser joined one of the biggest snowboard companies, Ride Snowboards - a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of snowboards, clothing, and related accessories. Wolfgang is the European Sales and Marketing Manager for RIDE Snowboards, LINE Skis, FULL TILT Ski boots, ADIO Footwear and PLANET EARTH Clothing, with the mission to create and enforce sales and marketing plans Europe-wide.

Wolfgang also previously worked for the renowned Oakley Apparel & Footwear brand as a Brand and Key Account Manager.



2010 National Jury Toggle

Fashion
Eleni Stasinopoulou
Greece

Photography
Epaminondas Koutsoukis
Greece

Visual arts
Konstantinos Spaliaras
Greece

Fashion
András Tóth
Hungary

Visual arts
David Barath
Hungary

Video
Zsolt Czakó
Hungary

Fashion
Igor Todorovic
Serbia

Fashion
Ivana Bajic
Serbia

Fashion
Jasmina Pantelic
Serbia

Photography
Jelena Djokic
Serbia

Photography
Marko Sovilj
Serbia

Photography
Milos Nadazin
Serbia

Photography
Misa Obradovic
Serbia

Photography
Nebojsa Babic
Serbia

Fashion
Petar Janosevic
Serbia

Fashion
Predrag Vukasinovic
Serbia

Fashion
Sonja Kovacs
Serbia

Fashion
Verica Rakocevic
Serbia

Photography
Vladimir Tatarevic
Serbia

Fashion
Zvonko Markovic
Serbia

Fashion
Arpin Käthy
Switzerland

Visual arts
Vögeli Alain
Switzerland

Video
Dan’l Hewitt
United Kingdom

Visual arts
Ian Cook
United Kingdom


Katie Chutzpah
United Kingdom

Photography
Richard Gunn
United Kingdom

Video
Sheherzad Kaleem
United Kingdom