5 Gerety Awards Grand Jury members for 2025 from the African continent

The African continent has five jury members represented on the Gerety Awards Grand Jury for 2025 - two from SA, and one each from Nigeria, Kenya and the Côte D'Ivoire (Image supplied)

Andrea Quaye, marketing director at Heineken, and Vuyo Henda, chief marketing officer at Spur Corp, represent the continent from South Africa.

Nwakaego Boyo, founder, ex-producer & CEO Temple Productions, represents Nigeria, Oriane (Abouattier) Canfrin, head of marketing and communications at Ecobank, represents Côte D'Ivoire and Waithera Kabiru, Africa Digital Hub—lead Diageo, Kenya.

The five will join respected and influential leaders from the advertising and marketing industry from around the globe on the Grand Jury.

Exceptional jury members

Named for Frances Gerety, the copywriter who in 1948 coined the slogan A diamond is forever the Awards jury is made up of women only from different parts of the world.

“Gerety assembles an exceptional group of global judges to evaluate work from a powerful and unique perspective,” states co-founder Lucía Ongay.

“Our criteria are clear: we prioritise the originality of creative ideas and the excellence of their execution. We are eager to recognise the best campaigns out there and are already curious to find out what the jury will select.”

In 2025, the Gerety Awards will host judging sessions in 15 locations.

The judges for the executive jury will be announced in the new year. More than 45 countries will be represented in the Gerety Awards jury in this edition.

Additionally, each executive jury session will select the Agency of the Year from their region within the entrants of the Agency of the year category.
The 2025 Gerety Awards will open for submissions and announce the full jury in January.

The Gerety 2025 Grand Jury

Anu Igoni, ECD & partner, Bob the Robot, Finland
Nwakaego Boyo, founder, ex-producer & CEO, Temple Productions, Nigeria
Paula Gaviria, founder and CEO, marketing & Innovation, Colombia
Kelly Pon, CCO, BBH, China
Hope Nardini, global ECD, Grey, US
Ute Poprawe, non-executive chairwoman, DDB, Frankfurt Germany
Andrea Quaye, marketing director, Heineken, South Africa
Karen Ovseyevitz, president, Latina America Porter Novelli, Mexico
Jin Yang, creative partner, Leo Burnett, Taiwan
Tiffany Rolf, chair & global CCO, RGA, US
Ioana Zamfir, CCO, MRM, Romania
Menaka Menon, president & managing partner, growth & strategy DDB Mudra Group, India
Kavi Rajapaksha, CMO, Sunshine Consumer Ltd, Sri Lanka
Diana Triana, CCO, Dentsu Creative, Colombia
Atiya Zaidi, CCO/CEO, BBDO, Pakistan
Marilou Aubin, partner & ECD, lg2, Canada
Stefania Siani, CEO & COO, Serviceplan, Italy
Kristin Cohen, global head of product, DDB Worldwide, US
Anke Herbener, founder & CEO, Digital Changers, Germany
Kopal Naithani, founder/ director,r Superfly Films, India
Tan Tze Kiat, CEO, BBDO Asia, China
Cecilie Oberg, senior creative, Accenture Song, Denmark
Nayla Tueni, CEO & editor-in chief, An-Nahar and Annahar Arabi at Annahar Media Group, Lebanon
Luciana Olivares, CEO & founder, Boost Brand Accelerator, Peru
Alina Mirzaeva, founder and CEO, Synthesis, Uzbekistan
Carolina Carmona, marketing manager, Falabella, Colombia
Lali Koehler, global president, Craft Worldwide, US
Simone Tam, group CEO Dentsu, Hong Kong
Jolene Dsouza, group strategy director, Special Group, New Zealand
Suzzane Zhang VP, MW advisory, APAC & head of strategy McCann Worldgroup, China
SooHee Yang, CCO, Publicis Groupe, South Korea
Gry Sætre, founder & executive producer, Tangrystan, Norway
Vuyo Henda, chief marketing officer, Spur Corp, South Africa
Jo-ann Robertson, CEO global markets, Ketchum, UK
Helena Henneveld, luxury senior brand manager Tequila| Northern Europe, Diageo, Netherlands
Klaartje Galle, CCO, VML, Belgium
Waithera Kabiru, Africa Digital Hub - lead, Diageo, Kenya
Elina Kettunen, senior creative / copywriter, N2 Creative, Finland
Suzanne Powers, founder & CEO, Powers Creativity, US
Maria Lashari, founder + creative director, 1000WORLDS, Sweden
Oriane (Abouattier) Canfrin, head of marketing and communications, Ecobank, Côte D'Ivoire
Yuliya Tushina, managing director, GForce Grey, Kazakhstan
Tammy Sheu, CEO, BNBALOON, Taiwan
Maja Sand-Grimnitz, member board of directors, Asetek, Denmark
Rifah Qadri, executive director marketing, easypaisa, Pakistan
Kimberly Paige, EVP, chief marketing officer, Paramount, US

Download the 2025 entry kit at here.