Cannes Lions Awarding Jurors 2024

Mike is a Partner and Chief Creative Officer at Rethink Toronto. Rethink is a global creative agency with offices in Toronto, New York, Montreal, and Vancouver. In 2023, Mike helped lead Rethink to the #2 Independent Agency of the Year at Cannes Lions, and Ad Age’s Creative Agency of the Year two of the last three years. In 2024, he helped Rethink land the #1 independent agency spot in both the WARC World Creative Rankings and The Drum Global Creative rankings.
Mike’s work has been recognized over 100 times at Cannes Lions – most recently for campaigns like Penguin’s Unburnable Book, Decathlon’s Ability Signs and multiple campaigns for Heinz, including Draw Ketchup, Pour Perfectly, Heinz Puzzle, Hot Dog Pact, and Ketchup Fraud. In 2020, Ad Age named Mike Creative Director of the Year – the first Canadian ever to earn the accolade. He holds two Guinness World Records and has had work featured in Time Magazine, CNN, The Tonight Show, and twice on Jimmy Kimmel on the same night.
Outside of Rethink, Mike is a passionate advocate for the next generation of creative talent – and sits as Creative Chair at Miami Ad School.

Isabelle is a Creative Director and previous Art Director, a big picture thinker, mentor and leader who has worked in Montreal and New York for the past two decades. She likes to take on new challenges and has a particular passion for brand building and brand identities. Infusing soul, character and timelessness to brands in complex markets is one of her greatest assets. A multi-award-winning designer her talents have been put to the test for clients like: FILA, The North Face, Sonos, MasterClass, Noom and many more.

Jane Motz Hayes is convinced that at the heart of every problem lies a design solution.
Armed with two decades of experience in film/television, start-ups, and agencies, she now leads a global team of CX creatives at Havas Health & You. As Chief Creative and Design Officer, Jane’s passion for the nexus of design, technology, and storytelling makes her a driving force behind elegant and innovative customer experiences for clients.
As a leader, Jane focuses on empowering teams to grow alongside the business by nurturing talent. In addition to mentoring young creatives as a LIA Creative LIAisons Coach in 2023, Jane also guest lectures at the University of Toronto iSchool and previously taught accessibility and inclusive design to graduate students.
She has had the honour of serving on award show juries at the Clio Health Awards, London International Awards (Health & Wellness), and the Canadian Screen Awards (Genies) for short film & documentary.
Jane lives in Toronto with her husband and children. On weekends, you’ll find her watching basketball or F1, listening to Drake, and digging in her garden — just not all at the same time.

Stephanie is the Chief Design Officer at Zulu Alpha Kilo. Her expertise in leveraging the power of design to solve for real human needs led to Fast Company’s 3-Part Series, Project Junior, where she re-envisioned the future of fertility. Her work has been recognized at every major award show including Cannes, D&AD, The One Show, AIGA and Type Directors Club of New York. Stephanie championed the development of the world’s first encyclopedia for Microaggressions: The Micropedia, which was awarded at Cannes. She’s an active contributor for thought leadership on topics like designing for social impact, inclusive design, behavior change and designing for women. Stephanie believes in inspiring others with her passion for the industry and has spoken at Cannes Lions See it. Be it Toronto; has sat on the Young Lions Design jury; and has been a National YoungArts mentor at The National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists, where mentees go on to be eligible for the U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts program.

British-born, Toronto-based production executive Andrea Ogunbadejo is on a mission to revolutionize production by ensuring it plays a key role in the creative and strategic process, emphasizing the importance of “the how.”

She has worked at agencies in London, New York and Toronto, most recently as the Head of Production at Eleven in the US, where she oversaw production strategy for brands like Samsung and Kraken Rum, as well as VaynerMedia London, where she established and led the agency production and in-house content studio department for such major accounts as TikTok, Kraft Heinz, Durex, 7UP, UNICEF and Shell.

Andrea currently serves as both VP Production for Cossette, and Managing Director for Magic Circle Workshop, a full-service production company in Toronto within the Plus Company network.

With a film school background followed by a career in independent feature films, shorts, and scripted TV, Andrea specializes in telling compelling stories, where she aims to bring together content, marketing and entertainment.

Andrea is also a fierce advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as sustainability in the creative space. She has been featured in Adweek, Campaign, Shoots, AgencySpy, and Shots, and served as the US Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair for Eleven and the EMEA DEI lead at VaynerMedia London.

A strategic planner by trade with extensive experience in agency management, Shelley is driven by a fascination with motivating people, whether customers in their relationship with brands, or clients and employees in their relationships with agencies.
Shelley joined FCB in 2015, and under her leadership, FCB has become a strategic powerhouse, with 6 of the country’s top 10 strategists on the team, the first Gold Cannes Lion in Strategy, and most importantly, ideas that build brands and drive business results for our clients.
Shelley’s 33-year advertising career began in market research where she learned to dig for insights. She later moved on to Strategic Planning at creative shops Roche Macaulay & Partners, zig and CP+B. Shelley joined FCB from BBDO, where she led the strategy discipline for Canada. Over her career, Shelley has crafted the strategies behind award winning campaigns for such brands as IKEA, the Bank of Montreal, Canadian Down Syndrome Society, Unilever, Molson and BMW among others.
Shelley has served as Strategy Chair of the Miami Ad School, Toronto, and Chair of the Strategy Awards and a Global Effie judge. She has won over 50 Cannes Lions, so far.
She and her husband of 31 years have 3 children: a welder, a hockey player and a scholar. Fair warning: Shelley’s hot pickled peppers are not to be trifled with.

Rafik leads the strategy teams at Dentsu Creative Canada. Throughout his career, he has held strategic roles in brand, customer engagement, digital and social change across APAC and North America. This cross-discipline path has shaped his holistic, media-neutral approach to communications and its impact on brands and organizations.

In the last few years, he has applied his approach to local and international brands such as Intel, Subway, SkipExpressLane, VW, Audi, McDonald’s, SingTel, Unilever, Amnesty International and WWF. He has an uncanny ability to get to the heart of a client’s issue, to reframe it as an opportunity in an instant, and to inspire refreshing ideas around him.

Erin is the Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of Angry Butterfly in Toronto.
She feels incredibly lucky to work alongside so many talented, curious, and kind people every day, and the last few years helping build an agency have been the most fulfilling and challenging of her 20-year career.

Her work has been awarded by every major national and international show for both creativity and effectiveness – traits she firmly believes go hand in hand. She has had the privilege of judging top shows like Clios, LIA, the One Show, among others, and being chosen to represent Canada as a juror at Cannes marks a career pinnacle realized.

As a working parent of 3 young kids, she would trade it all for one good night of sleep.

With over 20 years of experience in advertising, Marty combines outstanding creativity with superior knowledge of the industry and constantly pushes the boundaries of creativity by bringing together art and science to inform work that will drive human impact and behaviour change.
Marty serves as the CCO of TANK Worldwide, where his creative vision since joining in 2015 has helped TANK become a global leader in the health and wellness space today with offices in New York, Toronto, London, and Montréal. TANK has become one of WPP’s fastest growing agencies, driven by Marty’s creative teams that are reinventing the role of health/wellness agencies by crafting ambitious, impactful stories.
His work has spanned the globe and won numerous awards along the way across Cannes, the LIA’s, The One Show, The Webby Awards, Lisbon Health Awards, New York Festivals, the Anthem Awards, Epica Awards, Applied Arts, the Rx Awards, and Communication Arts.
Marty has sat on multiple juries including the LIA’s inaugural pharma jury, The One Show, The Webby Awards, Clio Health, New York Festivals Health, the Lisbon Health Awards, the Anthem Awards, the Global Awards, the Marketing Awards, the MM+M Awards and the Rx Awards. His passion for all forms of artistic expression makes him a unique creator who stands out for his ability to solve a problem by turning an idea into a beautiful piece of work that can positively impact human lives.