The Grand Indies, Worldwide Partners (WPI) annual creative awards competition for its member agencies, has unveiled names of the international advertising and marketing leaders who will sit on the 2025 global jury.
The jury will begin their decision process on February 24, deciding which entries will win in their respective vertical categories, and which work will be awarded Best of Show, not only winning top honors for the year but also receiving two all-expenses paid trips to attend the Worldwide Partners NEXT Global Summit in Chicago to accept their trophy in person.
The 2025 Grand Indies Jury members include:
- Justin Bajan - Co-Founder | Familiar Creatures
- Doug Baxter - Founder & Managing Partner | Agency Futures
- Ian Beacraft - CEO | Signal and Cipher
- Robin Bonn - CEO | Co:definery
- Debbie Bough - Joint Managing Director | TMW Business
- Marcus Brown - CEO | The Great Pitch Company
- Peter Cowie - Founder | From Good to Great
- John Deschner - Strategy | Maximum Effort
- Jérôme Gonfond - CEO | STRIKE
- Arnar Halldórsson - Creative Director & Managing Partner | Brandenburg
- Christy Hiler - CEO | Cornett
- Nancy Hill - Former 4As President
- Rob Hirst-Hermans - Founder & Creative Director | The Room Service
- Meg Kinney - Strategy Executive | Bad Babysitter
- Mary Maddever - Editorial Director | Brunico
- Katie Miller - President | ARGONAUT
- Miguel Nunes - Creative Partner | Look Mom No Agency
- Jake Otley - Managing Director | Little Black Book Online
- Sarah Parkes - Managing Partner | Talon
- Andrew Pearson - SVP Creative Strategy | Grand Visual
- Dr. Rebecca Swift - Senior Vice President, Creative | Getty Images
- Doug Zanger - Founder | Indie Agency News, Former Editor | Adweek, The Drum
The Grand Indies is an annual global competition designed to recognize creativity, innovation, and effectiveness of WPI Partner campaigns. Award categories reflecting the core industry verticals in which WPI agency’s clients compete: B2C, B2B, Travel & Tourism, Healthcare, Social Good, and Tech Innovation. A new Outdoor category has been added this year sponsored by Talon. This category celebrates creativity experienced out of home via billboards, posters, experiential or other OOH activations.
Finalists for the Grand Indies will be announced on April 8, 2025. Trophies are given out at the Awards Ceremony on May 6, 2025 and winners be announced publicly shortly after. Good luck to all of the Worldwide Partners agencies submitting work and thank you to the jury members lending their time and expertise to celebrate the work of indies around the globe.