The Clio Awards Announces 2025 Jury Chairs

It only takes a single person to come up with an idea. But for an idea to become a great one, it needs the help of many. Legendary ideas are fed by many perspectives, touched by many hands and shaped by many minds. CCO’s, clients, sr. art directors, jr. copywriters, finance guys, HR people, partners, friends, people for all corners of the world and all walks of life. Clio wants to celebrate every single person that was part of a winning idea - it doesn’t matter the place, the race or the background. Everyone deserves to be celebrated, because ideas are made by many.

Carlos Andres Rodriguez, global creative director, MullenLowe Global said, “Anyone who works as a creative has seen incredible ideas that never go anywhere. Great ideas are nothing without a group of passionate people who are willing to do anything to make them happen. When you get into the back stories of how the best ideas are made you realize how difficult it really is and that it takes so many hearts, and minds and hands to get it done. The work awarded at the Clios acknowledges not only the greatness of the work but all the people who kept pushing to make something worthy of our creative industry.”  

Clio Awards Jury Chairs

The 2025 jury will convene at the Hotel das Cataratas in Iguassu Falls Brazil for deliberations that will determine which entries set a high bar for creativity and will earn the coveted Grand, Gold, Silver and Bronze Clio statues. Each jury is tasked with evaluating the execution of submissions within their medium based solely on the creativity of the work. 

The elite-level industry leaders – hand selected for their blend of culture, identity, perspective and experience – who will lead jury deliberations are:

• Audio & Audio Craft: Sandra Bold, CCO, VML Netherlands 
• Brand: Xanthe Wells, VP of Global Creative, Pinterest
• Branded Entertainment & Content: Pelle Sjoenell, Worldwide CCO, Droga5
• Creative Business Transformation, Commerce & Effectiveness: Tiffany Rolfe, Global Chair/Global Chief Creative Officer, R/GA
• Design:  Andrés Ordóñez, Global CCO, FCB Global
• Digital/Mobile & Experience/Activation: Yasuharu Sasaki, Global CCO, Dentsu
• Direct: Aaron Starkman, Global CCO, Rethink
• Film: Joe Sciarrotta, Deputy CCO, WW, Ogilvy
• Film Craft: Animation & VFX: Lily LI, Managing Director, The Mill Shanghai
• Film Craft: Copywriting:  Fernando Pellizzaro, Founder & Executive Creative Director, AKQA Bloom
• Film Craft: Direction & Cinematography Jury: Diego de la Maza, EVP, Head of Production, Deutsch LA
• Film Craft: Editing: Alejandro Noriega Maldonado, Executive Producer, Founder, Rebeca
• Film Craft: Music & Sound Design: Sander van Maarschalkerweerd, Founder & CEO, Sizzer
• Film Craft: Production Design: Shereen Mostafa, Head of Production, Publicis Groupe Middle East
• Media: Cavel Khan, Chief Growth Officer, Group Black
• Print & Out of Home: Marco Venturelli, CEO/CCO, Publicis Conseil & Publicis Groupe France
• Public Relations: Marie-Claire Maalouf, CCO, Edelman EMEA 
• Social Media: Joanna Monteiro, Co-CCO, Africa Creative 

The 66th annual Clio Award winners will be honoured on May 13th 2025 at Cipriani 25 Broadway in New York City. For more detailed information, submission deadlines and to enter work, visit here.