Cameroonian Adman Kimani Becomes EXP Nigeria
New MD
News
C
ameroonian adman and former
Managing Director of Ogilvy
Ghana, Mr. Gil Kemani has been
appointed as the new Managing
Director of EXP Marketing Nigeria
Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading
ex p e r i e nt i a l m a r ket i n g a ge n c y.
Kimani replaced Mr. Wole Olagundoye
who recently quite the firm.
Kimani will be bring his wealth of
marketing communication experience
to EXP Marketing Nigeria to further
drive and boost its equity as well as
positioning as a leading industry player
i n A f r i c a ’ s l a r g e s t e c o n o m y.
Despite the current economic
challenges facing the country, analysts,
however projected that 2016 will be a
busy and highly competitive year in the
experiential marketing sector.
Source: brandarena.blogspot.
com.ng
New York Festival: Babaeko Joins Grand Jury to
Select Final Winners
T
he organizers of the New York
Advertising Festival has selected
Steve Babaeko, Chief Executive
Officer/ Chief Creativity Officer, X3M Ideas,
Lagos, Nigeria as part of Grand Jury to select
this year’s International
Advertising Awards for
Mobile at the prestigious
New York Festival.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose
Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City.
A cocktail reception in the Ertegun Atrium
will be followed by the awards ceremony in
Rose Theater while a celebratory after-party
Other international advertising
practitioners that will function
in same capacity as Babaeko at
the festival include Gian
Lanfranco, Creative Director at
McCann, USA, who is on board
to j u d ge t h i s ye a r ’s
International Advertising
Awards for Integrated / Mixed
Media; Shaun O’Neill, National
Business Development
Manager at MediaWorks, New
Zealand, a part of the Grand
Jury 2016 for Radio and Kostas
Verveniotis, Strategic Planning
Director at The Newton
Laboratory, Greece, is part of
Grand Jury to select this year’s
International Advertising
Awards for Public & Media
Relations.
Babaeko was recently
announced having
functioned creditably as a
member of the 2016
online judging panel for
the awards described as
t h e Wo r l d ’s B e st
Advertising and Creative
Communications Awards
.
Steve will therefore
attend the 2016 Festival
which holds on May 19th
and feature creative panel
sessions, a cocktail
reception, the awards
ceremony, and an afterparty.
“New York Festivals will
welcome award winners,
jury members and guests from around the
globe to this day long series of events
honoring the World’s Best Advertising” said
a statement by the organizers.
As part of the events, four creative panel
sessions will take place during the day at the
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, located at
1871 Broadway while the gala will hold at
on the global space, therefore the call to be:
first part online jury to shortlist the entries
and next to be part of the Grand Jury that
will select the final winners in our respective
categories of this global Advertising Festival
- New York Festival. I am really
delighted”.
will be held at Parkview Lounge, on the 4th
floor of Time Warner Center, to toast all the
winners of the World’s Best Advertising.
Commenting on the development, Babaeko
says, “We are delighted for the honour and
global acknowledgement. We sit here doing
our thing but technology has made it
possible for our footprints to be noticeable
Steve Babaeko, CEO, X3M Ideas
at the centre and others ready
for the NYF Grand Jury
responsibilities
Others include Martin Cerri,
Group Creative Director at Walton Isaacson,
USA is on board to judge this year’s
International Advertising Awards for Print
and Lingxiao Tan, Senior Designer at Red
Peak, USA, he is part of the 2016 Grand Jury
for Package Design while Jason Kwak, Film
Director at Panda Productions, Korea was
also added to the Grand Jury 2016 for Film
Craft.
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