Preparations for this year’s edition of this year’s MARKETING EDGE annual National Marketing Summit & Brands & Advertising Excellence Awards are now in top gear as the publication’s board has announced jurors for the forthcoming event.

The Jury will be chaired by Lanre Adisa, one of Nigeria’s most celebrated advertising practitioners and CEO of Noah’s Ark, with members cutting across the various sectors of the Integrated Marketing Communications industry such as PR, Experiential, Advertising, Digital, and Outdoor, among others.

Members of the jury panel included Femi Adelusi, CEO BrandEye; Kehinde Salami, CEO Ideas House; Bukola Akingbade, CEO, Neukleos; David Okeme, Chief Commercial Officer, RemitaNet; and Chuddy Oduenyi, Managing Director, Compact Communications.

Others are Tokunbo Modupe, CEO TPT International, Emmanuel Oriakhi, Marketing Director Nigerian Breweries as well as Jude Odia, Managing Director/CEO, Media Perspective and Sinmisola Hughes-Obisesan, Creative Director, Leo Burnett.

A statement by the organisers stressed that the decision to adopt the jury format was one of the many innovations introduced into this year’s National Marketing Summit & Brands & Advertising Awards to strengthen its equity rating, promote transparency in its judging process as well as enhance competitiveness of the award show.

It said the theme for this year’s summit holding on Thursday June 6, 2019 at Balmoral Event Centre, Ikeja, Lagos is, “Storytelling in Contemporary Brand Building: Convergence of Creativity and Technology.”

Credits: The Independent