From LinkedIn to Fujitsu: meet the jury for The Drum Awards for B2B 2020

Venner is the former chief marketing officer of DirectAsia and Hiscox global brand director. In these roles she was responsible for driving the effectiveness of marketing across the Hiscox Group and DirectAsia, specifically in the key markets of UK, US, France, Germany, Thailand Singapore. Previous to her time at Hiscox, she was at Coca-Cola for nine years working across a number of brands including MyCoke, Schweppes, Powerade and Oasis, and on both British and European projects. She led projects including the launch of the UK loyalty programme, consumer activation of the 2008 Olympics, and a pan-European promotion with iTunes.

In her current role, Schröder-Schönberg is committed to making the DHL Global Partner Program a key platform for the company’s 360-degree marketing and communications activities. She leads the global sponsoring team in group brand marketing, with five team members leveraging the partner portfolio to emotionalize and profile the DHL brand while differentiating from competitors. Today the portfolio encompasses 14 world-class partnerships ranging from motorsports and traditional sports, to esports, music, arts, and fashion. Christine is a delegate in the S20 association of German sports sponsors.

Lauersdorf leads marketing for EmblemHealth, one of the largest non-profit health insurers in the United States. Her natural curiosity has led her from one challenge to the next—whether it was building brands for companies like Visa, TD Ameritrade, Walgreens, John Deere, Kimberly-Clark, and Time Warner Cable, or building a health care advertising agency from the ground up. No matter the challenge, Kim is driven to connect people to meaningful experiences that better their lives.

Pelusi is the director of global sales operations at Tripadvisor, based in London. She has spent the majority of her career working in digital and started agency side at Dentsu's iProspect - where she managed search, social and programmatic. Pelusi then transitioned over to Publicis Media's agency brand, Spark Foundry, where she worked in a content and digital media capacity.

Montrose is the creative director at Octopus Group, an independent B2B marketing agency based in London, and the winners of last year’s B2B Grand Prix for Hectare Agritech’s ‘Tudder’ campaign, better known as ‘Tinder for Cows’. He started his career over 18 years ago on consumer music magazines, directing photo shoots with the likes of the Arctic Monkeys, Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers, eventually moving into digital and integrated marketing. His experience covers both traditional and digital creative in ATL and BTL comms, through rebrands and UXD. He has worked with clients including easyJet, Sage, Taylor Wimpey, Vodafone, Tesco and Google. Montrose is also an ambassador for the Creative Mentor Network, a charity supporting diversity and inclusion in the creative industries.

Gustavson is Adobe’s chief creative director and leads Adobe Studio as well as their experience media team. He leads a team of creative directors, art directors, designers, writers, producers, editors, and media planners and strategist who drive creative strategy, media strategy, editorial, and production for enterprise marketing campaigns and experiences at Adobe. Gustavson also frequently speaks and writes on becoming a design-led business as well as the solution to content velocity.

Foster leads a global team of award-winning art directors in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong that conceptualise and execute shoots in collaboration with photographers and videographers across Europe, America and Asia. As part of his role, Foster works with the creative leadership team to set the creative content strategy for Getty Images and iStock. Prior to this role, he worked as an art director for eight years and won numerous awards including those from the Art Director’s Club of New York, Communication Arts and Photo District News (PDN).

Garden is super predator. Not the one kicking Arnie all over the jungle, but one multitalented in the world of video, a producer-director-editor (’predator’, get it?). Leading the US video team at Stein IAS for eight years has given Daisy plenty of experience in B2B content creation. She leads the US video team on anything involving a camera including photography (Daisy’s first passion behind the lens). She has a broad range of B2B brand creative experience that includes leading content creation for Western Union (Edge), Merck (Bravecto), Republic Services, Trelleborg, Tedx, IQVIA, Elanco and Covance.

Gupta helps organizations drive revenue while delivering value to their most strategic clients. As a strategic, award-winning marketer, she has a record of delivering high-impact goal-oriented marketing campaigns from strategy to execution with a strong focus on customer marketing. Anamika is passionate about sharing knowledge and developing skills of fellow marketers. Recently she was felicitated as an honoree in Dallas Business Journal’s (DBJ) 13th Annual Women in Business Awards program, 2020.

Balster leads a world-class marketing organisation focused on demand generation, thought leadership, customer advocacy, and developing the Workfront brand in EMEA. She is a respected marketing, leadership and work management thought-leader who has been featured in The Telegraph, City AM, The Drum, Marketing Magazine, B2B Marketing, and Management Today. Balster is also a regular speaker at industry events including Festival of Marketing, B2B Ignite, Marketing Week Live, SalesHacker, Saastock and Leap Europe. She brings with her 15 years of marketing and leadership experience. Prior to Workfront, Balster led the EMEA marketing teams at Epicor Software and IHS Markit.

Mumtaz is the global brand director for Western Union. Her responsibilities include brand strategy and visual identity. Before this, she worked at various advertising agencies as a planner on FMCG, charity and tech/service brands. Mumtaz is passionate about infusing the brand across the customer journey and developing brand tools that empower and instill a sense of ownership for everyone across the organization, be it corporate, C2B or B2B. She’s worked in Pakistan, US and the UK, and identifies as a global citizen.

As a marketing communications professional for over 18 years, Taylor has held senior roles across a variety of industries including finance, insurance, telecommunications, retail, logistics, IT, sports and property. She have worked both in-house and on the strategic creative agency side. Nikki has deep knowledge in brand, PR, customer experience and marketing.

As the chief creative officer of Doremus, Hirsch brings an unwavering belief that good creative can help businesses engage, stand out and be catalysts for change. Whether working with established brands or start-ups, Paul has helped craft strategies and content that’s been shared, reposted and garnered millions of views around the world. For these efforts, his work has been featured in national press; been turned into a book; and earned trophies of all shapes and colors from Cannes, The One Show, The Effies, and D&AD.