Bogdan Nitu, Managing Partner and Head of Strategy at agency Webstyler from Romania, has been selected as the member of the Golden Drum Multi Channel Jury 2015 and will join Geoffrey Hantson, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder, Happiness, Belgium, selected as the President of the 22nd Golden Drum Festival Multi Channel Jury, this October in Portorož, Slovenia, along nine other ten top level professionals from the advertising industry who will be judging this year’s entries from 37 countries of New Europe.
Bogdan Nitu co-founded WEBSTYLER in 2000, the most awarded digital agency in Romania, this year celebrating its 15 years history. 
The agency won over 60 awards at the most relevant and international & local advertising festivals among which are the Grand Prix Awards at Golden Drum and Eurobest.
Under his leadership WEBSTYLER has been named Agency of the Decade and six times Agency of the Year in Romania. Together with his team he worked for some of the most renowned international & local brands like Telekom, OMV-Petrom, ING, Coca-Cola, Nokia, Timisoreana, Unilever, NN, Altex and Kinder. Starting 2014 he is a lecturer for the digital module of the IAA School in Bucharest.
Members of the Multi Channel Jury 2015 are: • Geoffrey Hantson, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder, Happiness, Belgium, Multi Channel Jury President • Simon Bleil, Creative Director/Co-Founder, GREAT, Austria • Pia Grahn, CEO Nordics, Grayling, Sweden • Radouane Hadj Moussa, Creative Director, DDB Prague, Czech Republic • Marsel Levi, Creative Director, Noble Graphics, Bulgaria • Bogdan Nitu, Managing Partner and Head of Strategy, Webstyler, Romania • Can Pehlivanli, Creative Director, Y&R Istanbul, Turkey • Jason Romeyko, Global Chief Creative Officer, GSK & Deutsche Telekom, Saatchi & Saatchi S.A., Switzerland • Toni Tomašek, Creative Director, Publicis Groupe Slovenia, Slovenia • Andrew Ushakov, Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett Moscow, Russia • Ricardo Wolff, Creative Director, DDB Berlin, Germany.
"I’m very honoured and flattered to be selected as this year’s President of the Golden Drum Multi Channel Jury. I’m very curious to see the works and I very much look forward to the constructive chats and discussions with my fellow jury members. My approach will be quite simple: let’s call the bad bad. Let’s call the good good. And let’s call the average bad. That will give a clear first selection. Afterwards I think we should always be focussed on the positive. Let’s put our energy in talking about how good an idea is and why it deserves metal." – Geoffrey Hantson, Multi Channel Jury President 2015
The Golden Drum Competition invites best creative, advertising, digital, PR and media agencies, advertisers, production and media companies from 37 countries of New Europe, to enter their creative work before the entry deadline 21 August 2015 and compete for the prestigious Golden Drum Awards. Online system is now open for entry and delegate registration!
Multi Channel Jury President, Geoffrey Hantson, Chief Creative Officer, Co-founder, Happiness, Belgium, 42, is the Chief Creative Officer of Happiness (Brussels, Saigon, Anywhere) and part of the global creative council of the FCB network. Geoffrey took his first steps as a creative director at Duval Guillaume in 2006. In 2010 Geoffrey was named ‘creative of the year’ and both in 2012, 2013 and 2014 Duval Guillaume was named ‘creative agency of the year’ in Belgium.
In the last 3 years only he gathered 27 Cannes Lions – of which 11 gold – and his agency was named agency of the year in the Media category. Also at the Eurobest festival he won an astonishing 42 awards, including 3 Grand Prix and 9 gold, in the last 3 years. In 2012 Business Insider named Geoffrey ‘one of the 25 most creative people in advertising’ (globally). In 2013 he even made it to the top of that list (nr 1), calling his work ‘amongst the best advertising ever seen’. Geoffrey believes in the power of creativity and humanity. And in Happiness, that fuels both.
Simon Bleil, Creative Director and Co-Founder, GREAT, Austria
His campaigns for clients such as Siemens, Holsten Beer, Saturn, Bank Austria, Bipa, Austrian Airlines, Robinson Club, Wien Tourismus and Römerquelle, have been winning national and international Award Shows like Cannes Lions, ADC Germany, New York Festival and Creative Club Austria where he has been regularly judging since 2010.
Pia Grahn, CEO Nordics, Grayling, Sweden
Pia Grahn is the Nordic CEO for Grayling, an international PR-agency network, and she has been in several juries, both in Sweden and Finland (where she is originally from), as well as Cannes Lions, The Clio Awards, The Epica Awards and The New York Advertising Festival.
Radouane Hadj Moussa, Creative Director, DDB Prague, Czech Republic
The creative awards Radouane Hadj Moussa is most proud of are: Golden Drum, Eurobest, Golden Hammer, Golden Apple, EFFIE, Louskáček Awards (Czech ADC Award Show). In 2006 he was awarded as the Best Of Best – as the best Art Director in the Czech advertising industry.
Marsel Levi, Creative Director, Noble Graphics, Bulgaria
Marsel Levi has been recognized for his work to be creative (FAAA, Golden Drum, Epica) as well effective (Effie). He works with agency of the year of 2014 (FAAA).
Bogdan Nitu, Managing Partner and Head of Strategy, Webstyler, Romania
Bogdan Nitu has together with Felix Tatru founded the award winning web agency, Webstyler, which was named Web Agency of the Year at the Internetics Festival in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Among his most recent awards are Clio, Effie Romania, Eurobest, Golden Drum, European Excellence Awards, Internetics and Digital Communication Awards.
Can Pehlivanli, Executive Creative Director, Y&R Istanbul, Turkey
In his career Can Pehlivanli was awarded with many trophies in various competitions such as Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, Golden Drum, Epica, NYF, Eurobest and also in local award shows Crystal Apple, Kırmızı Festival and A Awards. Two of his campaigns became the cover of Lurzer’s Archive one after the other.
Jason Romeyko, Global Chief Creative Officer, GSK & Deutsche Telekom, Saatchi & Saatchi S.A., Switzerland
Jason Romeyko has been distinguished with various Gold, Silver and Bronze awards at Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Meribel, Golden Drum, ADC, CCA, ADCI, Epica, Clio, and other shows around Europe. Amongst his favourite work is Internet hit “Angry Birds Live” and Katy Perry’s “Firework” campaign and music video, which picked up MTV Video Music Awards’ coveted “Video Of The Year”.
Toni Tomašek, Creative Director, Publicis Groupe Slovenia, Slovenia
Toni is one of the internationally most experienced Creative Directors in the Adriatic Region being 20 years in advertising. He won the first and the second Cannes Lions (Gold Media and Bronze Cyber) in ex-Yu region and is still the only one in Slovenia and also the first regional Cannes finalist for Integrated Campaign.
Andrew Ushakov, Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett Moscow, Russia
Andrew joined the advertising community 16 years ago and now works as the Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett Group Russia. He has been appointed a member of jury for Clio, Cristal Festival, KIAF, Golden Hammer, Red Apple, White Square, ADC*UA, Idea!, Popok, ADC*E and other.
Ricardo Wolff, Creative Director, DDB Berlin, Germany
Ricardo has recently returned to DDB Berlin to lead the Volkswagen International account as Creative Director. His work has been recognized over 100 times by major industry festivals like the Cannes Lions, One Show, D&AD, Clio, and ADC. He was nominated the world’s 13th best copywriter by the Big Won Report.
