Jeremy Craigen is first executive judge for Ad Stars Awards

“I attended Ad Stars for the first time last year shortly after I joined Innocean. I was due to only stay for one night but ended up staying three nights. It was a lot of fun,” says Craigen. “I think it is one of the most interesting award shows in the world because anyone can enter their work – even people who do not work in advertising. It is also free to enter most categories, which makes it accessible to all types of agencies and creative businesses. For this reason I am excited to be joining the festival as an executive judge this year.”

Craigen joined Innocean as its CCO in August 2015, following many award-winning years working at DDB, where he was global ECD for Volkswagen. He first joined BNP DDB Needham in 1990 after beginning his career at Ted Bates, later becoming ECD of DDB London in 2003. As ECD, he led the agency to be named the ‘Most Awarded Agency in the World’ by the Gunn Report twice.

Entries to the Ad Stars Awards 2016 are now open. To enter, submit work before Sunday 15 May 2016 to www.adstars.org/Member/signin.asp.