Judges Category: Judges

Anna Soliman has spent the past 20 years working where technology, marketing, and creativity meet. In her role at Meta, she focuses on building partnerships that deliver real business results for clients, strengthen media performance, and push creative thinking forward, often experimenting with emerging technologies and AI-enabled solutions.

She has been recognised by Campaign Asia as both a Game Changer and Woman Leading Change of the Year. Alongside her professional work, Anna founded Pass Her The Mic, an initiative dedicated to training and elevating women speakers across tech, marketing, and advertising.

Hailing from Malaysia, Annie started out studying law but quickly realized she had a greater love for marketing than for courtroom drama. She’s been in the advertising game for over 15 years, kicking off her career with Saatchi & Saatchi and collecting some impressive stamps on her agency passport from the likes of BBDO, JWT, and VMLY&R.

Spending almost half her career in China, she had the chance to play a role in growing some of the world’s biggest brands, like Burger King, Puma, PepsiCo, and Danone.

Now based in Shanghai, Annie’s living her best life working for one of the world’s most loved brands, The LEGO Group.

As the Head of the LEGO Agency for China and APAC, she oversees creative and business development across the regions but more importantly, has the privilege of helping spread its message of play to kids everywhere. She describes this as her dream job, where every day feels like a playdate filled with fun, creativity, and of course, learning.

Ayesha Huda is currently the Chief Marketing Officer for Mars Petcare IN, managing the portfolio of Brands incl. Pedigree, Whiskas, Sheeba & more.

Ayesha has 15 years + of experience in Consumer Marketing across FMCG & Consumer Tech having worked across leading brands such as Amazon Prime Video, Surf Excel, Pond’s, Dove & Instagram. Her work includes managing P&L, innovation, communication, go-to-market for national brands. She has delivered several business growing, award-winning campaigns (Effie’s, Abby’s and Kyoorius). At her recent stint in Prime Video, Ayesha led the team that created winning campaigns for content across languages (Hindi, Regional & English) and genres, including recent Panchayat, Mirzapur S3, Farzi, Made in Heaven S2 and Citadel to name a few.

Prior to Consumer Tech, Ayesha worked at Hindustan Unilever, playing an instrumental role in crafting the launch of Surf Excel Matic Liquids, driving premiumisation for the Laundry category. She also worked in the Skin Care Team on Pond’s to drive penetration. Ayesha is obsessed with bringing customer insights alive to solve business needs with a width of experience in market development categories.

Ayesha is a graduate of Indian School of Business, specializing in marketing and strategy. She is also an obsessed pet parent to adopted cocker spaniel, Coco and Freagle, Kylie.

Deepa is a seasoned professional with over three decades of leadership experience in communication, sustainability, culture & change management.

She has leadership experience in Hospitality (The Park Hotels), Aviation (SpiceJet), Telecom (Airtel), Consumer Healthcare (GSK) & FMCG (Unilever). She has significant experience in global M&As (GSK-Novartis; GSK-Pfizer, GSK-Unilever) and with Hindustan Unilever Limited, she was a part of the Integration/ M&A team, supporting the largest M&A in Food in India.

Currently, an independent consultant and mentor, she divides her time between Women’s Entrepreneurship Platform (Niti Ayog) ; Ladies who Lead, India’s premier Leadership & Networking platform for women professionals, redefining leadership and creating future leaders through networking, continuous learning; Talentnomics, reimagining leadership for modern workplaces through talent development for women leaders ; GWPR, a platform for open exchange of ideas for Communication professionals, providing them support, inspiration. Through this work, Deepa mentors future business leaders in mid-size corporates, start-up founders / young entrepreneurs and Comms professionals on business development, personal branding and communication.

Deepa has received many industry Awards including – Lifetime Achievement -2022 (e4M) and Top Comms. professionals in India (Reputation Today – 2017, 2020) . She has also served in the Jury of Sabre (Holmes Report / Provoke); PR Week Asia (HK); AMEC (Barcelona), Haymarket Campaign Asia Agency of the Year Award (HK) & Women leading Change Awards 2019 / 2021 / 2022(Singapore) . She has also delivered Key notes at AMEC Global Summit (Bangkok), ET Strategic Summit, Praxis, e4m, PR moment. Sabre Awards. She sometimes writes for Brand Equity (The Economic Times); Reputation Today; e4m. She is one of the 46 people featured in the book “Surge”, which documents the story of India’s leading communication professionals.

Deepa loves to write, read, travel & cook. She is married with a son. Her purpose is to “open doors” to new ideas, new connections, and new learning.

Seasoned marketer with 20 years of marketing and more than a decade of product development and senior management experience.

CXO level roles for more than 8 years.

Chief Marketing Officer/Chief Customer Officer, across
1. Personal Care, Food and Financial services.
2. 12 countries and living in 4 of them in the last decade.
3. Teams of more than 50 to 100+ marketing and product development professionals.

Chief Customer Officer at Income Insurance, from Mar’22 – current, and Chief Marketing Officer, Kraft Heinz, Asia, based on out of China from Dec 2019 to Mar’22.

Developed and launched more than 50+ products over the last decade across personal care (Vaseline Men face care, face wash and body lotions), food (Soy Sauces, Chili Sauces, Sardines, Canned Meat, Baby food) and insurance (life, personal accident, travel).

Led or influenced the development of more than 200+ marketing campaigns, spanning Indonesia, China, India, Singapore, Thailand, South Africa and other Asian markets.

Currently sits on the board of World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), APAC; MMA APAC and AAMS Singapore.

Extensive experience in effectiveness awards judging including Jury Chair duties for WARC Global Strategy, 2021; WARC Asian Strategy, 2022; Effie APAC, 2022; Effie Singapore, 2023 to 2025; MMA Global Smarties, 2025 and MMA APAC Smarties, 2024

As the Head of Brand, Marketing and Communications for EY Asia-Pacific, Evonne is responsible for internal and external campaigns across Asia-Pacific, including brand, GTM and internal campaigns, aimed at demand generation for EY services and employer brand/people engagement.

She has more than 25 years of marketing and communications experience across professional services, financial services and technology multinational brands from North America (New York and San Francisco) and Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong). Brands she has worked with either in-house or agency (Ogilvy), include: HSBC, Clifford Chance, Intel, Google, Dell, Deloitte, Wells Fargo and many more.

Jacqueline Choi is Chief Officer, Marketing at Prudential plc, driving global marketing strategies and initiatives to deliver business value. Formerly Head of Marketing for Prudential Hong Kong, she led branding, advertising, partnerships, and customer engagement. A seasoned strategist, Jacqueline excels in brand storytelling and data-driven growth. Her career spans retail banking with leading international banks in Hong Kong. Key achievements include launching innovative credit cards, creating engagement programs for Prudential’s 175th Anniversary, developing a global communication framework to enhance customer centricity, and leveraging AI to improve marketing efficiency at the group level.

Joan is a seasoned brand and performance marketer with two decades of experience in financial services and partnering with retail, hospitality, airlines and other commerce players. At Mastercard, she leads the Asia Pacific Marketing Services business, driving growth and profitability through experience-led, data-driven, and technology-enabled marketing solutions. She also oversees the commercialisation of Mastercard’s Consumer Acquisition & Engagement portfolio—including Marketing Services, Offers, Rewards, and Personalization.

Madhavi Lall has been the head HR at Deutsche Bank India since May 2015 and has more than 30 years of work experience primarily in Human Resources. She has also worked with companies like Accenture, Standard Charted Bank, ABN Amro bank, Colgate Palmolive and HCL Hewlett- Packard & GlaxoSmithKline.

She is graduate in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s college and MBA in HR and systems from XLRI Jamshedpur. She has also completed a Leadership management course from the University of Oxford.

Madhavi was conferred the “Women Leadership Award” by the jury and Council of Board Members of the Institute of Public Enterprises-BFSI in 2010. She has been conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by XLRI in 2016. Madhavi is a member of the CII National Committee on Leadership and HR and was Chairperson – CII Indian Women Network (IWN) – Western Region 2020-21. She is also a founding member of the HR Committee for FICCI. She is on the list of top 50 HR Influencers for 2020 and top 50 HR Thought Leaders for 2022 in ETHR World list. Recently, Madhavi has received HR Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 by People in Business India LLP. She is passionate about Diversity and Inclusion and was part of the alumni team that encouraged XLRI to launch the Centre of Gender Equality and Inclusion.

Megha is a Culture leader in Asia Pacific region. She leads Community & Culture strategy for a leading Global commercial real estate solutions organization.

Her 17+ years of industry experience ranges from Sales, HR, and DE&I. Her work initiated a positive chain reaction in Fortune 500 organizations by designing their first-ever Inclusive People & Culture strategy and creating business value.

She mentors and advocates for under-represented talent, communities and diverse suppliers with a vision of an equal world. She has recently been recognized as one of the India’s ‘Top 25 DE&I leaders in 2025’ and on her mission to provide equal employment opportunities.