Ad Age Awards Judges

David Droga is Founder and Creative Chairman at Droga5, a creative and strategic agency headquartered in New York with an office in London. Founded in 2006, Droga5 has been named Agency of the Year 10 times, most recently at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the second year in a row. It is the only agency to appear on the Advertising Age A-List over six consecutive years and one of the only agencies to be named one of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies.

Prior to founding Droga5, David was the first-ever Worldwide Chief Creative Officer of the Publicis Network. He was also Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi London, Regional Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Asia and Partner and Executive Creative Director of OMON Sydney.

To date, he is the most awarded creative at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity and the youngest person ever inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of the Fame. He is also a laureate of the Asian Media and Marketing Hall of Fame, the AdNews Hall of Fame, the AWARD Hall of Fame and the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement. Most recently, Adweek named David one of the top 100 most influential leaders in marketing, media and technology for the second year in a row.

David sits on several boards, including the New Museum, William Morris Endeavor, The NY Public Theatre and the Facebook Creative Council. Beyond his family and advertising, David’s favorite topics are the arts, all sports, the environment and anything Australian.

In 1995, Gerry joined BBDO/NY and quickly rose to creative director. His Snickers work was named Campaign of the Year by Adweek and AdAge. In 1997, BBDO was named Agency of the Year at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.

In 1998, Gerry joined Goodby, Silverstein and Partners. AdAge named Goodby Agency of the Year in both 1999 and 2000.

Gerry was named one of the Most Influential People in the Internet Economy by Industry Standard Magazine.

In 2001, Gerry returned to BBDO as their youngest Executive Creative Director. AdAge’s Creativity magazine named BBDO/NY Agency of the Year in 2001.

In 2004, Lee Clow asked Gerry to run TBWA/Chiat/Day/NY.

In 2006, AdAge/Creativity named Gerry one of the 50 “biggest and best thinkers and doers from 20 years of advertising and consumer culture”. He has made their annual Creativity 50 list in 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2015.

In 2007, AdAge named TBWA/NY the Most Awarded Agency in the World and Gerry Most Awarded Creative Director.

In 2008, Gerry was named Chief Creative Officer of Saatchi & Saatchi NY. AdAge named Saatchi NY the 3rd Most Awarded Agency in the World and Gerry the 3rd Most Awarded Creative Director.

In 2010, Gerry launched his own agency, Barton F. Graf.

Barton was named Top Agency To Watch by AdAge in 2011 and made AdAge & Creativity's A-Lists in 2012, 2013, and 2014, 2015 and 2016.

In 2014, Barton was named Mid-Size Agency of the Year by the 4A’s.

Fast Company named Barton the 5th Most Innovative Advertising Agency and Gerry one of the “100 Most Creative People In Business”.

Forbes named Barton one of the 14 Most Influential Agencies in America. Business Insider named Gerry "The Most Creative Man In Advertising".

Gerry lives in Manhattan with his wife, three kids.

Margaret leads the integrated creative team in MullenLowe’s LA office on Acura, Patrón, Knorr, TRESemmé and California Avocados. She and the team put Acura back in the Super Bowl this year with a Van Halen–fueled spot for the NSX supercar. They also created a safety spot called “The Test,” which the One Show named the “Best Automobile Television Advertising” in the world. On Knorr, Margaret and her MullenLowe LA comrades created “Love at First Taste,” the most-watched ad on YouTube in May, with 60 million views to date. Her teams created innovative and scrappy projects for the California Avocados, including a series of recipe videos that mixed Super Bowl–advertised products like Skittles and Budweiser with avocados in a project called #BigGameAdd. Prior to joining MullenLowe in 2014, Margaret was at Saatchi & Saatchi, where she led teams on all creative aspects of the Toyota brand, including enterprise, social, digital, mobile, film, content, search and experiential. Her work for Toyota included their “Let’s Go Places” tagline, Super Bowl campaigns, “100 Cars for Good,” the Camry “Thrill Ride” roller coaster, “Ideas for Good,” partnering with Google on the first social car configurator and leading the event in which a Toyota Tundra pulled the Space Shuttle Endeavour through Los Angeles, raising $500,000 for the California Science Center. Margaret began her career at TBWA\Chiat\Day, where she started as a switchboard operator and went on to become creative assistant to the legendary Lee Clow before moving into the creative group in her own right. She was part of the team on Apple’s “Think Different” campaign, launched Nissan’s “Innovation for All” campaign and created the first-ever iAd on iPhone, which introduced the Nissan Leaf. Steve Jobs unveiled the electric car and the platform at Macworld, and it remains one of Apple’s best and most innovative mobile ads to this day. One of Margaret’s proudest achievements was her work with Pedigree — she introduced their “Dogs Rule” campaign to the world and launched the Pedigree Adoption Drive, a global initiative that has raised millions of dollars for shelters in need. Margaret has been named an Adweek Creative 100 and one of Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative Women in Advertising. She’s won multiple Cannes Lions, Effies, CA Awards, D&AD Awards, One Show Pencils, OBIE Awards (twice Best of Show), Webby Awards, Best of Show from the Art Directors Club of New York, AICP Awards and the $100,000 Grand Kelly, which she donated to the Pedigree Adoption Foundation. Her favorite days are spent hanging with her awesome family in Hermosa Beach, California.