YDA JURY 2018: Jimmy Lam


Jimmy Lam
Group Chief Creative Officer
LEO Digital Network
Shanghai, China

Born and graduated in Hong Kong with a Communication Degree, Jimmy has been working with international and mainland Chinese ad agencies, rising through the ranks from Copywriter to Executive Creative Director, Chairman and CCO. In between he took four years sabbatical to get his fix as TV commercial film director.

Jimmy was the first Hong Kong native to judge the Cannes Film Lions in 1994. Two years on the role, he was jury president of China Great Wall Advertising Creative Festival. In 2015, Jimmy was invited to be Direct Lions jury. In 2016, he was Jury President of the Brand Entertainment & Brand Content categories Crystal International Business in 2015.

He joined LEO Digital Network as Chief Creative Officer on 2016.

Ali Brown

Partner / Executive Producer
PRETTYBIRD
Los Angeles, USA

Ali Ali

Film Director
Good People
Cairo, Egypt

Adrian Bosich

Managing Partner
Creative co-founder
AIRBAG Melbourne, Australia

Janette de Villiers

Executive Producer and Founder
Groundglass
Cape Town, South Africa

Rafael Donato

Creative VP
DAVID
São Paulo, Brazil

Rudi Haller

Vice President
CFP-E
Zürich, Switzerland

Hanna Maria Heidrich

Director
Berlin, Germany
 

Judy Hill

Executive Producer
Nexus Studios
London, UK

Mette Jermiin

MD / Executive Producer
Bacon
Copenhagen, Denmark

Luli Krämer

MD / Executive Producer
Agosto
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jimmy Lam

Group Chief Creative Officer
LEO Digital Network
Shanghai, China

Heather Link

Executive Producer
Missing Link
London, UK

Bettina Olf

Chief Creative Officer
Geometry Global
Hamburg, Germany

Petra Ondrejková

Founder and Executive Producer
Amazing Production
Prague, Czech Republic

Timo Mitsuaki Otsuki

Executive Producer
Connection
Tokyo, Japan

Guilherme Passos

Senior Executive Producer
Stink
São Paulo, Brazil

Tony Petersen

Member of the Board / President
PRODUZENTENALLIANZ / CFP-E
Hamburg, Germany

Elsa Rakotoson

CEO / Executive Producer
FRENZY
Paris, France

Rozanne Rocha-Gray

Executive Producer
ROMANCE
Cape Town, South Africa

Stephen Rogers

Creative Director
Rothco
Dublin, Ireland

Selena Schleh

Deputy Editor
Shots
London, UK

James Sorton

MD / Executive Producer
Pulse Films
London, UK

Lyndy Stout

Editor
1.4
London, UK

Laura Thoel

M D / Executive Producer
Sweetshop
Los Angeles, USA

Ferdinando Verderi

Founding Member/Creative Director
JOHANNES LEONARDO
New York, USA

Edie Weiss

Founder and CEO
Radke Film Group
Toronto, Canada

Zhu Jinjing

Managing Director / Chief Art Director
JQK Production
Beijing, China