Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Jury for Effies Awards Sri Lanka 2021

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Effie Sri Lanka Awards has announced its 2021 jury line up. Organised by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing the Effies Awards are open to all agencies and brands that strive to be recognised for their most effective marketing efforts. This year’s awards programme is special in it being a bumper year where more than two years’ worth of marketing campaigns (from January 2019 to March 2021) will be considered for awards versus the usual one-year awards period.

The independen­t jury comprises of leading client marketers, agency strategist­s and creative leads, digital marketing and media front runners and research experts led by the head of Jury, Gamika De Silva (Seylan Bank PLC Assistant General Manager- Marketing and Sales), the organisers said in a media release.

Members of the jury are - Gamika De Silva (Head of Jury) -

Assistant General

Manager/ Head of

Marketing and

Sales, Seylan Bank

PLC; Nushad Perera

– Director Ten

Holdings; Tharanga

Gunasekera - Head of Marketing & Communicat­ions,

HSBC; Janmesh

Paul Anthony -

General Manager /

Head of Marketing - Ceylon Biscuits Ltd; Makshoodh Meerasaibu – Director/Founder; Himalee Madurasing­he - Director/ Head of Kantar Sri Lanka; Danny Searle - Ex- Chief Creative officer and Vice Chairman of BBDO Asia; Mallika Shankarnar­ayan – CEO StratUp Pte Ltd; Gian De Rose – AVP Marketing, HSBC; Crystal Nathan - Chief Insights Officer/ Executive Director, PepperCube Consultant­s; Sumudu Thanthirig­oda – CEO, Keells Food Products PLC; Bakmee Perera - Director Communicat­ions Planning & Media Strategy, Dentsu Grant Group; Laksiri Wickramage - Deputy Chairman /CEO, Power House Ltd (Derana); Prof. Ravi Dissanayak­e - Professor at University of Kelaniya; Prasanga Jayathunga - CEO/ Director Third Shift Media Pvt Ltd; Mohenesh Chamith Buthgumwa - Vice President, Isobar Sri Lanka; Brandon Ingram - Senior Creative Director, Wunderman Thompson Sri Lanka; Dilshara Jayamanna - Chief Creative Officer, MullenLowe Group Sri Lanka; Lauren Chang - Associate Partner, Quantum Consumer Solutions; Sapna Seneviratn­e - General Manager, Leo Burnett; Asiri Abeyratne - Consultant / Brand Strategist, Seylan Bank; Yauwanan Wigneswara­n - Director - Emerging Markets & Exports (Indian Sub- Continent) and Food Services (Sri Lanka), Fonterra Brands Sri Lanka; Jude Martino - Head of Beverages, Ceylon Cold Stores, Vice President at JKH; Manindri Bandaranay­ake - Chief Brand Marketing Officer, Janashakth­i Group; Dr. Dinesh Hamangoda - General Manager Sales, Hemas Consumer Brands; Ravi de Coonghe - Head of Sales & Marketing, Prima Ceylon (Private) Ltd; Shaminda Perera - Head of Marketing, Reckitt Sri Lanka; Sudeeptha Seneviratn­e - Head of Brands, Rocell; Aravinda Lokuge - Consultant / Presenter, Voice of Asia Network; Shehan Samarasinh­a - Chief Strategy Officer - Triad Pvt Ltd; Dilini Jayasuriya - Executive Director, Breakthrou­gh Business Intelligen­ce; Subodha Pilimatala­wwe - CEO/Founder, Seven Media Group; Namalie Herath - CEO, Wavemaker; and Rajiv Menon - CEO – Ogilvy

The independen­t jury comprises of leading client marketers, agency strategist­s and creative leads, digital marketing and media front runners and research experts led by the head of Jury, Gamika De Silva

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