Gerety Grand Jury Insights Panel

Nicola oversees consumer trends, innovation, and interviews with industry thought leaders from across the creative industries for all areas of the business. She is focused on growing the reach, relevance, and reputation of Creativebrief and BITE.

Ioana is leading Mastercard’s regional campaigns leveraging the company’s vision of a world beyond cash, financial education and inclusion and interconnectivity. She is also coordinating the communication of projects through which the company is actively involved in the community, such as those supporting major healthcare system initiatives, financial education in schools in Romania and women entrepreneurs.

During her 15-year career, Karolina has helped grow brands such as Deutsche Telekom, Coca-Cola, and McDonald’s at Ogilvy, Y&R and DDB. In 2022, she joined VMLY&R Budapest as ECD. Her work has been highly awarded and she was the second person to represent Hungary in a Cannes Lions awarding jury. She believes there is nothing more powerful in the world than a story well told.

Roisin Keown is one of Ireland’s most awarded creatives. In 2019 she founded her own creative-led agency The Brill Building, where she serves as CEO and Executive Creative Director. She also serves as Creative Producer of The Paddy Irishman Project, the fine art photography and videography project about Irish identity which launched in New York in 2023. In 2023, The Brill Building won Ireland's first Gerety award for The First Poster To Catch Lung Cancer for The Marie Keating Foundation.

Dagmara Witek-Kuśmider is an award-winning Chief Creative Director at Publicis Worldwide Poland. She is a Vice President of Foundation K.I.D.S. Children Hospitals’ Innovators Club, author of award-winning campaigns, a member of communication and tech jury boards of KTR festival, Young Talents festival and Hospitals of The Future contest and has been creating communications for large brands for 20 years.